Employment Opportunities
Work in a Christ-centered environment where you can thrive professionally and spiritually as part of a team committed to knowing God and making Him known.
A Substitute Teacher must be a born-again Christian, committed to living a biblical lifestyle and called by God to teach at Harvest School. This substitute position will, when called upon, teach, plan, direct, and coordinate student activities at the elementary level: academic, social, physical, and spiritual wholeness, with compassion, encouragement, and leadership. A Substitute Teacher must be dependable, friendly, enthusiastic, creative, and organized, with the ability to relate well with children, parents, school staff, and volunteers. They teach with integrity, honesty, and knowledge that promotes Harvest’s culture, values, and mission.
Read More. . .Requirements:
- Maintain a positive Christian atmosphere in the classroom.
- Demonstrate a Christ-like and positive professional attitude toward students; treat students with respect, remain objective when dealing with student problems, grading, etc.
- Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons and projects; communicate those objectives to students.
- Prepare materials and classroom activities to encourage student participation, using various teaching and motivation techniques.
- Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
- Facilitate student learning by supplementing regular curriculum materials with a variety of instructional materials and activities, such as media, field trips, related non-curricular materials, and activities, etc.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs, abilities, personalities and interests.
- Develop techniques to help students improve their academic, physical, and spiritual learning potential.
- Organize classroom efficiently to meet the educational and physical needs of students.
- Attend to student needs by walking around the classroom and responding to raised hands.
- Provides additional time beyond the regular daily schedule for students in need of assistance.
- Encourage and build mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among students, faculty, and parents.
- Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health in an objective and consistent manner through quizzes, tests, projects, reporting grades, physical fitness performance, etc.
- Maintain thorough student records to document attendance, participation, or progress, ensuring confidentiality of all records.
- Provide students positive feedback to encourage and help them develop an appreciation for academic achievement, physical education, and spiritual growth.
- Reinforce and reward appropriate social and academic behavior in the classroom.
- Prepare students for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Establish and enforce behavior rules and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible, always placing students’ health and safety first.
- Implement consistent and early behavior problem intervention by walking around the classroom, interacting with students, redirecting student attention to tasks, consistently applying student management plan, informing/involving parents in discipline/discipleship process, and carefully following Administrative Discipline Process.
- Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
- Communicate with parents, volunteers, and other external sources, by communicating in person, in writing, by telephone or e-mail, and represent Harvest in a positive manner.
- Provide general supervision of all students throughout the school, such as hallways, courtyard, cafeteria, lunch area, playground, off-campus field trips, etc.
- Develop constructive and cooperative working relationships with staff and maintain them over time.
- Maintain a professional behavior in accordance with the Teacher Manual and Harvest Christian Fellowship Employee Manual, and a wiliness to follow school’s policies and procedures.
- Accept change in a positive Christ-like and professional manner, such as implementing new programs and policies, a willingness to accept decisions made by others, etc.
- Accepts evaluation and redirection and makes necessary changes or adjustments.
- Remains current in the educational field through course work, in-service activities, professional literature, conferences, workshops, etc.
- Physical requirements, with or without accommodation, include: prolonged periods of sitting, standing, walking, handling materials, keyboard typing, hand motion, foot motion, looking at a computer screen
- Duties are not exhaustive and are subject to change at any time.
Harvest is recruiting for a full time Senior Computer Technician. Interested candidates can submit a completed application to the Church Office. The recruitment for this position will remain open until the position is filled.
The Senior Computer Technician provides technical assistance, training and/or support in the use of IT hardware and/or software to users. This position supports organizational needs in the maintenance and operation of an extensive computer system; provides technical support for operating system software, central computer operations, data communications software and distributed processing systems. The Senior Computer Technician position differs from the Computer Technician in that the senior level has Project Management responsibility from inception to completion, and may supervise Computer Technicians and Help Desk personnel. He/She serves with integrity, honesty and knowledge that promotes the culture and values of Harvest Christian Fellowship.
Read More. . .Requirements:
- Troubleshoot and coordinate resolution to desktop communication problems and remote system connections.
- Monitor trouble call/resolution information; follow-up on and/or report aged calls to ensure timely response.
- Troubleshoot software and/or equipment errors and coach users in correcting reported problems.
- Inform and train users in equipment/software operation.
- Prepare and maintain technical documentation and procedures.
- Install, configure and test hardware and/or software.
- Carry out security administration by maintaining tables and adding/purging/migrating users.
- Coordinate equipment deliveries, software licensing compliance and inventory/asset control.
- Perform preventative maintenance and repair hardware.
- Analyze and make recommendations on response time, training design, user support needs or customer satisfaction.
- Develop and conduct training in operation and use of hardware and software.
- Consult with users on re-engineering business processes and the use of technology, products and services.
- Prepare reports or proposals for service.
- Research, evaluate and test hardware and software products and systems solutions.
- May also supervise Computer Technicians and Help Desk personnel.
- Provide information to supervisors, staff and outside contacts by telephone, in written form, email and/or in person.
- Keep up-to-date with new technology and equipment.
- Develop constructive / cooperative working relationships with others and maintain them over time.
- Represent Harvest favorably to the staff, public and other external sources.
- Duties are not exhaustive and are subject to change at any time.