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Student /Family Transitional Support and Dropout Prevention Specialist

Employer
Fayette County Public Schools
Location
Lexington, KY, US
Salary
Competitive

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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:
  • 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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