Classroom Teaching Aide

Utah Community Action
Salt Lake City, UT

🌟 Jumpstart Your Career in Early Childhood Education! 🌟
Now Hiring: Pre-School Classroom Teaching Aide (Full-Time)
📍 Salt Lake City, Utah

Are you passionate about making a difference in young children's lives? Ready to step into a meaningful, hands-on role where every day brings something new? Join our Head Start team as a Pre-School Classroom Teaching Aide and help shape the future, one child at a time!

👶 What You'll Do

As a Classroom Teaching Aide, you'll be at the heart of our early learning program, working with children ages 3 to 5 in a supportive, team-oriented environment. You'll:

  • Help create a safe, engaging, and nurturing classroom

  • Support daily learning activities and child development

  • Collaborate with experienced educators

  • Rotate through different classrooms, gaining exposure to a variety of teaching styles and approaches (a fantastic learning opportunity!)

💰 Compensation & Incredible Benefits

Start your journey with a competitive wage of $18.80/hour, plus a benefits package designed to support your health, future, and well-being:

✅ Health, dental & vision insurance
✅ HSA (with up to $2,500 employer match!)
✅ 401(k) with 5% match
✅ Life, accident, short- & long-term disability insurance
11 paid holidays + up to 192 hours of PTO annually
✅ Paid time off between Christmas & New Year's 🎄
✅ 🧘 1 hour of paid self-care every week

🎓 Grow Your Career (We Invest in YOU!)

We don't just offer a job-we offer a career path.

  • 📚 We cover your tuition and enroll you in our Child Development Associate (CDA) program

  • 🏫 Friday classes help you build real-world skills

  • 🚀 After earning your CDA, you'll be eligible to apply for an Assistant Teacher role

  • (Note: Some travel may be required for CDA completion.)

What You'll Need
  • High School Diploma

  • Willingness to enroll in our CDA program upon hire (completed within 1 year)

  • Ability to follow directions and communicate in English

🚀 Ready to Apply?

We respect your time-our application is quick, easy, and mobile-friendly (takes just 3 minutes!).

If you're ready to grow, learn, and make a difference, apply today. We can't wait to meet you!


The Agency is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all persons. It is dedicated to the following practices: To recruit, employ, train, and promote persons for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age (40 and over), national origin, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth or pregnancy-related conditions, veteran, genetic information, military service, immunity status or other protected-group status and to base decisions regarding applicants and employees on an individual's job-related qualifications and other relevant and lawful factors.

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