Student /Family Transitional Support and Dropout Prevention Specialist
- Employer
- Fayette County Public Schools
- Location
- Lexington, KY, US
- Salary
- Competitive
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- Job Category
- Administrator, Specialist / Coordinator
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Position Type:
Student Support - Salaried/STUDENT/FAMILY TRANSITIONAL SUPPORT AND DROPOUT PREVENTION SPECIALIST
Date Posted:
6/14/2022
Location:
SUCCESS ACADEMY
Date Available:
07/01/2022
Closing Date:
06/29/2022
TITLE: Student/Family Transitional Support and Dropout Prevention Specialist
REPORTS TO: Superintendent or Designee
SUPERVISES: N/A
JOB FUNCTION:
Primarily responsible for liaising support services to students and families transitioning into Fayette County Public Schools from internal and external alternative placement facilities, governmental agencies, and programs. Promotes a culture of diversity and inclusion embracing differences as a strategic opportunity for supporting the district's efforts to build a culture of equality embodiment for all students, families, employees and the community. Creates, supports, and develops community engagement and professional learning opportunities for assisting students who are a risk of dropping out of school. Provides social and emotional supports to students that ensure intentional focuses are on educational, job-related, college and career guidance to student- centered and project based learning environments in timely, appropriate, and collaborative manners.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
ABILITY TO:
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Application Procedure:
Apply online
Contact:
Janice Wyatt-Ross, janice.wyatt-ross@fayette.kyschools.us
Student Support - Salaried/STUDENT/FAMILY TRANSITIONAL SUPPORT AND DROPOUT PREVENTION SPECIALIST
Date Posted:
6/14/2022
Location:
SUCCESS ACADEMY
Date Available:
07/01/2022
Closing Date:
06/29/2022
TITLE: Student/Family Transitional Support and Dropout Prevention Specialist
REPORTS TO: Superintendent or Designee
SUPERVISES: N/A
JOB FUNCTION:
Primarily responsible for liaising support services to students and families transitioning into Fayette County Public Schools from internal and external alternative placement facilities, governmental agencies, and programs. Promotes a culture of diversity and inclusion embracing differences as a strategic opportunity for supporting the district's efforts to build a culture of equality embodiment for all students, families, employees and the community. Creates, supports, and develops community engagement and professional learning opportunities for assisting students who are a risk of dropping out of school. Provides social and emotional supports to students that ensure intentional focuses are on educational, job-related, college and career guidance to student- centered and project based learning environments in timely, appropriate, and collaborative manners.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assists the Equity Officer in planning and conducting internal and external public relations programs and strategies for ensuring that adequate student-centered learning environments and job-related placements are in place for students.
- Serves as the primary point of contact/liaison between schools, agencies, and students re-entering the district from alternative placements. Works collaboratively with external agencies, businesses, and organizations to support the needs of students transitioning and reintegrating the school district.
- Provides mentorship opportunities, life coaching strategies, and activities for identified students from high needs/asset areas of the district/schools to ensure wrap-around supports are in place in support of academic assistance, student work, and test preparations.
- Establishes a positive rapport and interfaces with parents/legal guardian, families, courts, social service and civic agencies, court designated workers, and case workers.
- Works collaboratively through a cross-functional team approach with offices/departments to ensure students transitioning from alternative placements receive the required legal assessments from a review committee (ARC); effectively communicate with students, parents, families, and school administrators of student needs.
- Collaborates with other offices/departments to ensure programs/activities are in place to educate parents/families of all students on career/college readiness topics including, but not limited to, high school academic offerings, career exploration, post-secondary application processes, post-secondary financial resources.
- Builds internal and external partnerships for establishing a database of businesses and agencies to create internships/apprenticeship opportunities that create career/job embedded learning and skills development for students returning and reintegrating to the community.
- Fosters comfortable atmospheres that facilitate open exchanges of information and dialogue for students and their families that create a positive transition and reintegration back to campus life by assisting them with recognizable feelings of anxiety and self-doubt for achieving success.
- Provides train-the-trainer capacity building learner opportunities for skills development in problem solving and conflict resolution that restore and sustain relationships between students-to-staff; staff-to-student; student-to-student; and, families to mitigate cultural bias and insensitivities.
- Plans and implement activities, projects, programs, and student-centered services designed to address, the social, emotional, and academic supports to educate Latinos boys and girls; and, boys and girls of color.
- Assists in the planning and coordination of districtwide programs, initiatives, and special projects, and community engagement events.
- Ensures high standards of excellence are maintained to prevent illegal, unethical, or improper conduct and to ensure the program remains in compliance with district policies and procedures.
- Promote and model a balanced lifestyle for students, emphasizing academic achievement, personal development, and involvement in extra and co-curricular learning.
- Adheres to school schedules and assists with ensuring that students are adequately and appropriately placed in schools and programs in a timely manner.
- Completes required reports and documentation in a timely manner, provides management with required reports and advises of any problematic situations.
- Commits to attend ongoing professional growth training and staff development courses for enhancing skills for executing job-related practices.
- Maintains confidential information related to FERPA and HIPPA appropriately and exercises good judgment when communicating with the public.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Maintains regular attendance.
KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
- Electronic media communications to include computerized text-editing, word-processing, marketing design and content development.
- Public school system operations, policies and programs.
- Ability to produce, analyze, interpret, and summarize data.
- Ability to interpret policy and procedures.
- Demonstrate effective organizational skills and project management
- Ability to evaluate programs and practices and develop short and long term plans.
- Interpersonal skills using tact, patience and courtesy.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with multiple audiences including faculty, staff, students, families, post-secondary institutions and business/industry professionals.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
ABILITY TO:
- Work flexible hours, including evenings, weekends, or beyond the regularly scheduled work day with little or no advance notice.
- Plan and organize work accordingly.
- Provide analytics to educational data and material and possess the ability to present it in easy-to-understand formats and metrics for general audience.
- Deal tactfully and effectively with FCPS personnel, external organizations and the general public by maintaining cooperative and effective working relationships with others.
- Maintain confidential information appropriately and exercise good judgment when communicating to the public.
- Proficiency in the use of personal computers and desktop publishing skills with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Work independently with little direction.
- Meet schedules and time lines.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's degree in counseling, social work, public administration, communications, business administration, public relations, or an education related field.
- A minimum of six years of professional experience in counseling, social work, public administration, communications, business administration, public relations, or an education related field (preferred).
WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Work is performed while standing, sitting and/or walking.
- Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing.
- Requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.
- Requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching.
- Requires the ability to lift, carry, push or pull light weights, up to 30 pounds.
Application Procedure:
Apply online
Contact:
Janice Wyatt-Ross, janice.wyatt-ross@fayette.kyschools.us
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