Task Dimensions:

• Maintains accurate and up to date transportation files, for example:

  • Maintaining bus drivers’ and spare drivers’ record books.
  • Entering bus drivers’ additional time forms, absentee forms, extra-curricular bus trips, spare drivers pay and entering absences in AESOP and SAP as per payroll deadlines.
  • Maintaining substitute bus driver roster, constrained by route systems and collective agreement provisions.
  • Maintaining up to date national safety code files.

• Provides efficient bus dispatch services, for example:

  • Answering incoming calls from drivers on the mobile radio, assesses urgency of requests and explains operation and emergency procedures.
  • Responding to public inquiries and requests for information from parents, students, public and teachers.
  • Responding to bus stop requests, using software provided and communicating policies relevant to their request.
  • Dealing with parents, students, principals, teachers, etc in a professional, confidential manner at all times.
  • Maintaining back road closures plans and updates SSRCE website.
  • Preparing pre-primary & primary packages.
  • Explaining departmental policies and procedures as necessary.
  • Scheduling extra-curricular trips, following related procedures and contacting spare drivers as needed.
  • Liaising with school administration to ensure extra-curricular forms are completed timely and accurately.
  • Maintaining substitute bus driver spare roster and rotation list for extra-curricular trips.
  • Professionally communicating school closure announcements, late routes, route alternations via email to school administrators and the media and other driver broadcasts that effect schools and students.
  • Maintaining and updating Transportation’s Facebook page with relevant information.
  • Ensuring regular school bus driver absences are covered as required in AESOP, disseminating regular driver route sheets to spare drivers, notifying the Transportation Department of spare coverage.

• Provides administrative support for the computerized bus routes, for example:
  • Assisting Transportation Analyst with school bus route sheet updates.
  • Gathering student location, bus loading and related route information.
  • Conducting database searches, prepares routing reports as required.
  • Maintaining and updating student transportation information and generating reports as required.
  • Composing routine correspondence and drafting correspondence for signature.
  • Providing clerical support to the Transportation Department.
  • Assisting with meeting and in-service/workshop preparation, including memos, lists of participants, photocopying of materials, preparing agendas, picking up and preparation of food, ordering food, etc.

Compliance:

• Complies with the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Background/Security Checks:

The South Shore Regional Centre for Education requires all newly hired employees to provide a satisfactory Criminal Record / Vulnerable Sector Check and a Nova Scotia Child Abuse Register Check. We will accept checks completed within the last 3 months.

Regional Office based positions require travel and candidates may be required to provide a valid driver's license. Some school based positions also require travel and candidates may be required to provide a valid driver's license.

Thank you for your interest in the South Shore Regional Centre for Education, however, only those shortlisted for an interview will be contacted.