Bus Driver

Position Title: Bus Driver

Employee Type: Part Time/Regular

Supervisor Title: Transportation/Facilities Manager

Division: U.S. Programs & Advocacy

Save the Children

For over 100 years, Save the Children has been fighting for children's rights. The right to a healthy start in life. To have access to education. To be in a safe environment, protected from harm. We work in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach places – across more than 100 countries, including the U.S. No matter your role, when you join Save the Children, you’re creating positive, irreversible change for children and the future we all share.

The Role

The Bus Driver provides regular transportation services for Head Start / Early Head Start children while following the safest and most efficient routes, obeying all applicable laws, Head Start/Early Head Start regulations, and Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations, maintaining route schedules, and reporting all concerns to the supervisor and relevant family services staff. You will be responsible for regular bus maintenance, including vehicle fluid levels, essential maintenance paperwork, safety checklists, reporting damage/malfunctions to the supervisor, and participating in bus safety drills.

You will ensure internal and external vehicular cleanliness, recordkeeping, damage/malfunction reporting, safety equipment/seat belt maintenance, bus entry/exit monitoring, educational/social interaction with children, and communication with parents/families as needed. Additional responsibilities may include acting as a custodian, kitchen aide, and disability aide, and supporting program operations as necessary.

As a frontline representative of Save the Children, you will be required to ensure the safety and security of children and families and represent the agency's values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity, and Integrity.

As a Save the Children employee who will come into contact with children on a routine basis, you are expected to prevent child abuse in every situation by striving, through mental awareness, good practice, and training, to minimize risk to children. You must take positive steps to protect children who may be a subject of concern and report, respond to any instance of child abuse, and promote training and awareness around all child-safeguarding obligations. 

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

*not inclusive of all role responsibilities. May be subject to change

• Provide regular transportation services for Head Start children while following the safest and most efficient routes;
• Obey all applicable laws, Head Start/Early Head Start regulations, and Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations, maintaining route schedules, and reporting all concerns to supervisor and relevant family services staff;
• Provide regular bus maintenance, including vehicular fluid levels;
• Complete essential maintenance paperwork, safety checklist, and report damage/malfunctions to the transportation supervisor;
• Perform bus safety drills.
• Ensure internal and external vehicular cleanliness and that recordkeeping, damage/malfunction reporting, safety equipment/seat belt safety are maintained;
• Perform bus entry/exit monitoring;
• Ensure educational/social interaction with children and communication with parents/families as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a High School diploma or G.E.D.
• Must be a minimum of 21 years of age.
• Must have a valid Commercial Driver’s License, with a school bus & passenger endorsement in accordance with state laws, and a good driving record.
• Proven ability to follow directions and take initiative.

Additional Qualifications

Physical Requirements related to essential functions: Ability to perform medium to heavy physical work exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, up to 20 pounds frequently, and up to 5-10 pounds constantly, performing such activities as sitting, crawling, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, and grasping. This also includes some duties that require repetitive action and motion skills, keyboarding, and computer use.

Clear pre-employment background check requirements, including local, state, and national criminal records check, sex offender registries, employment, and education verifications (including child abuse registry check if required by state regulations), and pass all state and local health requirements required post-job offer and prior to employment.

This position may require the incumbent to operate a motor vehicle to fulfill certain essential functions of the job. The incumbent should maintain a valid driver’s license and remain in compliance with any Save the Children policies pertaining to the safe operation of motor vehicles.

Current and former Head Start/Early Head Start parents will receive preference for employment vacancies for which they are qualified.

Compensation

The base pay for this position starts at $16/hour. Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, experience, credentials, base salary of internal peers, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role.

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Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support, and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.

If you require disability assistance with the application or recruitment process, please submit a request to [email protected].