Student retention support

Job Details:

Job Location: Port Hueneme [105] - Oxnard, CA

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

Salary Range: $23.69 - $33.99 Hourly

Job Shift: Any

Job Category: Classified

Schedule: Full Time, Monday - Friday; 8 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

This position provides support to various school sites within the region, including Santa Paula. The role may require travel between locations to meet site-specific needs.

Help Us Change Lives

We live by the motto that “There is a Student in Front of Everything We Do” and we are very passionate about it. Do you have a passion to work with students? If so, then this is an exciting opportunity for you! You’ll have the opportunity to work with a diverse group of students supporting their growth and development. Remember the person who made a difference in your life? Now it’s your turn. Learn more about us at learn4life.org.

How You Will Make an Impact

The Student Retention Support will perform a variety of duties and responsibilities involved in student attendance and readmission, and book retrieval. This position will interact with students, families, school personnel, community agencies and law enforcement.

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Investigate student absences and withdrawals and encourage school readmission.
• Contact parents/legal guardian and students to obtain information concerning reasons for pupil absences from school.
• Make home visits to follow up on attendance problems and to observe home situations that may interfere with attendance.
• Participate in Attendance Intervention Meetings (AIM) and Student Retention Meetings (SRM).
• Secure and track return of school books.
• Collaborate with school personnel to investigate and address student retention.
• Develop, establish and coordinate community resource contacts.
• Provide weekly progress reports to supervisor regarding student and asset retrieval along with comprehensive report tracking all contact with current or former students.
• Answer inquiries from students, parents/legal guardian regarding attendance records and school re-admittance.
• Document student attendance progress in the student database.
• Apply and provide information, forms and necessary documents regarding school policy and procedures.
• Work with local law enforcement for student retention.
• Type and prepare a wide variety of documents including letters, reports.
• Compile and analyze information.
• Perform a wide variety of general clerical and administrative work including the maintenance of accurate and detailed reports, verifying accuracy of information, and research.
• Participate in staff meetings and trainings.
• Administrative duties, responsibilities, and activities may be assigned or changed from time to time.
• Adhere to attendance policies.
• Research the enrollment status of students leaving our school at outside schools and update codes as needed.

Qualifications:

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Licenses, Certifications, etc:

• Modern office methods, practices, procedures.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Good English usage, spelling, grammar and punctuation.
• Data analysis, entry and work processing methods, techniques, and programs.
• Understanding of ADA and attendance accounting procedures.
• Telephone techniques and etiquette.
• Interpersonal skills using tact, patience and courtesy.
• Record keeping practices.

Ability to:

• Learn, interpret, apply and communicate school rules, regulations, and policies.
• Work effectively in the absence of supervision.
• Perform data entry and data compilation from a variety of sources.
• Perform work with speed and accuracy.
• Understand and carry out oral and written directions.
• Strong organizational and planning skills; Meet schedules and timelines.
• Work cooperatively with others (parents/legal guardians, students, and school officials).
• Ability to handle multiple competing assignments and projects.
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.

Minimum Qualifications:

• One year experience in a public school environment or public social services background.
• Community or school relations work experience, including working with courts and law enforcement.
• Proficient in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Email).
• High School Diploma or GED equivalent; college coursework or CASCWA training a plus.

Travel:

Ability to travel up to 40% (to include student homes).

Physical Requirements:

• Mental Demands: high workflow management, high project coordination.
• Finger Dexterity: using primarily just the fingers to make small movements such as typing, picking up small objects, or pinching fingers together.
• Talking: especially where one must convey detailed or important instructions or ideas accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Average Hearing: able to hear average or normal conversations and receive ordinary information.
• Average Visual Abilities: ordinary acuity necessary to prepare or inspect documents or operate machinery.
• Physical Strength: sedentary work. Sitting most of the time, and occasionally exerts up to 10 lbs. of force (almost all office jobs).
• Frequent multi-tasking, changing of task priorities, repetitious exacting work required.
• Working in a noisy, distracting environment with frequent deadline pressures.