Hawaii Baptist Academy

To apply, submit a Non-teaching application.

Job/Position Title: Groundskeeper
Office/Campus: Facilities/All Campuses
Reports to: Facilities Director
Status: 12 Months (Non-Exempt)

Primary Purpose:

Assist the Facilities Director with the maintenance of the school’s property and grounds.

Essential Duties/Functions:

• Maintains school ground lawns, hedges, trees, shrubbery, walks, medial strips, and other planted areas.
• Plants, water, trims, fertilize, mow, and clean property routinely.
• Operates light motorized or power equipment.
• Ensures that school grounds and equipment are properly secured.
• Moves and arranges furniture.

Other Duties/Functions:

• Ability to do custodial work and other duties as assigned.

Core Competencies Required Of All HBA Employees

An employee of HBA must demonstrate the following core competencies:

• Christ-like Conduct. Imitate the life of Jesus Christ and take on his behavior, mindset, choices, and character, and apply it to everyday life. Exhibit love, humility, compassion, and servanthood, and allow God the opportunity to work in us and to manifest His Glory within us.
• Passion for Our Calling. Respond to God’s passion in our hearts to complete the things He calls us to do. Acknowledge that passion encompasses more than the work, it taps into one’s whole life purpose. Reward of wages and prestige are peripheral to using the God-given gifts and talents to have an effect on the greater good and an impact beyond oneself. Yield passionately to God’s calling to live a life full of joy, satisfaction, and true fulfillment.
• Teamwork. Promotes teamwork through building consensus to develop mutual trust, respect, and commonality of goals. Supports team decisions, collaborates with others to develop team solutions, builds consensus, and resolves conflict.
• Customer Focus. Organizes and prioritizes resources to focus on and exceed customer expectations. Make it “easy to do business with” HBA. Demonstrate understanding, helpfulness, sensitivity, and a concern of the needs and feelings of external and internal customers.
• Effective Communication. Listens carefully to feedback and others’ views and asks clarifying questions to confirm understanding. Clearly states views and opinions. Actively takes responsibility to ensure there is mutual understanding in all viewpoints and communication.
• Effectively adapts oral and written communication to the needs and interests of the target audience. Openly shares information in a timely manner with others who need that
• Results Orientation. Can be counted on to achieve assigned or promised results in a timely manner by utilizing resources effectively. Clarifies expectations and measurements of performance. Seeks guidance or other resources needed. Takes personal ownership for results by holding self and others accountable for results. Shows strong desire and drive for success by identifying and overcoming obstacles. Demonstrates a sense of urgency and is persistent in using extra effort to achieve results. Focuses efforts on, and strives to attain, results that are important to the mission of HBA and specific department goals.
• Practical Thinking and Decision-Making. Identifies, defines, and focuses on specific problems or issues. Determines information needs; collects, analyzes, interprets, and develops it for use in making decisions. Makes timely and appropriate decisions driven by the information, the needs of the organization, and the need for innovation and creativity to accomplish assigned tasks.
• Continuous Improvement. Strives to continually improve one’s own job performance and to better the work environment, work quality, results, and how the work is done. Accepts both the need for and positive potential of change in the workplace. Willing to take managed risk to test approaches that may better satisfy a customer’s needs or to meet HBA’s needs and goals.
• Develops alternative and imaginative solutions and approaches to problems. Actively looks for opportunities to redesign and improve work methods and makes changes to improve operating efficiency and quality of output.
• Supporting and Leading Change. Participates in all aspects of both the organizational and process oriented change cycles to accomplish the goals set for their particular level of responsibility. Identifies, plans for, and leads change needed to support HBA’s mission and values.

Working Conditions:

• Equipment Use: Vacuum cleaner, shampoo machine, broom, dustpan. Power, hand and stationary equipment and Tools in the school’s inventory. School vehicles (i.e. trucks, cars, and golf cart)
• Work Hours: Various shifts from 7:00am – 9:00pm, Monday - Friday.
• Mental Demands: Analytical and critical thinking ability, able to read tape measurements, electrical meters and other measuring devices, attention to detail, concentration.
• Physical Demands: Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds unassisted. Safely move items heavier than 50 pounds using proper equipment. Must be willing to work from a ladder or scaffold.
• Work in attics and/or other close quarters.

Qualification Requirements:

• Spiritual: Must have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of their life and; demonstrate a living relationship with Jesus Christ as described in “The Baptist Faith and Message”, the tenets of the Southern Baptist denomination.
• Skills/Knowledge: Must be able to read, write and verbally communicate in English. Must be able to understand and obey all posted safety regulations, shop rules, and warnings. Must possess a current, valid state of Hawaii driver’s license.
• Education/Training: Must be able to read, write, and verbally communicate in English. Must be able to understand and obey all posted safety regulations, shop rules, and warnings. Must possess a current, valid state of Hawaii driver’s license. Commercial driver’s license qualified.
• Experience: Previous work experience in a variety of construction and/or maintenance environments preferred.

NOTE: The above job description reflects the general requirements necessary to describe the principle functions or responsibilities of the job identified and shall not be interpreted as a detailed description of all work requirements that may be inherent in the job, either at present or in the future.

To apply, submit a Non-Teaching Application.

Job/Position Title: ASEP Program Leader
Office/Campus: After School Enrichment Program
Reports to: ASEP Coordinator STATUS: 10 Months (Non-Exempt)

Primary Purpose
To provide a conducive and safe environment of child care for HBA elementary students during post school hours and holiday and summer periods.

Essential Duties/Functions:

• Plans, develops and implements various learning and play activities for assigned group of children.
• Assist students with homework problems.
• Supervise the activity of assigned children.
• Discipline children as necessary, using appropriate methods.
• Direct the efforts of the assigned junior leader or aide.
• Prepare and/or pick up snacks for assigned group.
• Attend staff meetings.
• Assist in daily clean up.

Other Duties/Functions:

• Other duties as assigned.

Working Conditions:

• Equipment Use: Sport and playground equipment, two-way radio, and first-aid kit.
• Work Hours: 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday - Friday. Other hours as needed during intersession and summer breaks.
• Mental Demands: Must be alert and aware of children’s safety, decision making analytical and critical thinking ability, attention to detail.
• Physical Demands: Working in the sun, monitoring the activity of numerous children at play.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Spiritual: Must have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of their life and; demonstrate a living relationship with Jesus Christ as described in “The Baptist Faith and Message”, the tenets of the Southern Baptist denomination.
• Skills/Knowledge: Enjoys working with children. Good verbal communication skills. Knowledge of appropriate multiple discipline methods. First aid and CPR certification.
• Education/Training: Graduation from high school.
• Experience: Nine months experience working with elementary age children in various settings

To apply, submit a Teaching Application.

Requirement: bachelor's degree.