The Community Schools Liaison (CSL) Coordinator is a high-energy multi-tasker with dynamic leadership ability who builds coalitions and partnerships. The CS Liaison works to build social capital by fostering person-to-person and people-to-place relationships, developing the skill and will of parents and community leaders to take on leadership roles within schools and in their community, and encouraging civic engagement to build neighborhoods where the stakeholders want to invest their time and resources to transform their communities.
The CS Liaison will be flexible and a self-starter, working with a network of engaged and empowered stakeholders in the MSA Communities. They will make connections with residents to broaden and deepen the community network, support local advocacy, and develop leaders who will carry out the work.
This position reports directly to the school site Principal and the Chief External Officer (CXO).
Key Functions Of The Job

• The CS Liaison is responsible for outreach functions including volunteer engagement, community partnerships, communications and outreach, and community mobilization that lead to stronger engagement and partnerships within the Magnolia School Communities.
• The position will be responsible for developing the plan to accomplish broader community awareness and engagement, as well as execution on those strategies.
• The position requires active participation in community engagement events, marketing, communications, public speaking, writing skills, events management, and the ability to manage and cultivate volunteer leadership.
• CS Liaison will play an active role in recruiting families to strengthen student enrollment at each MSA school site.

Parent and Student Liaison
The CS Liaison will perform general parent and student liaison duties, which may include:

• Coordinate, schedule, and track school’s home visit program
• Support parent activities/volunteering through an active involvement with parents/parent organizations
• Prepare school’s daily announcements
• Promote the Parent Task Force (PTF), Parent College, and other engagement activities through ongoing outreach
• Support Associated Student Body (ASB) and attend ASB meetings and provide guidance as needed

Enrollment
The CS Liaison will perform general enrolment duties, which may include:

• Support and manage year-long enrollment campaigns including: working with community partners, forming street teams, mass mailing, email campaigns, ads on local publications
• Managing the family-led events, including Parent Task Force (PTF) meeting coordination, parent and student recruitment, activities/initiatives, schedule yearly open houses dates, and finally, manage the parent referral program

Outreach Duties
The CS Liaison will perform general outreach duties, which may include:

• Managing the creation and execution of an overall plan for community outreach and engagement by establishing lines of communication with key community leaders, stakeholders, local nonprofit organizations, businesses, and leadership organizations
• Outreach and follow-up with school’s guest speakers/special guests- including local elected officials, professors, and other pertinent stakeholders, neighbors, community organizations/entities
• Coordinating and executing key community engagement events such as: Magnolia Community Festivals, Multi-Cultural food festivals, family engagement activities, school beautification, and community volunteer recognition events
• Networking and collaborating with local organizations and community leaders

Communications/Media
The CS Liaison will perform general communications and media duties, which may include:

• Compose and distribute school’s weekly newsletter (ex. Flash Fridays) in languages that reflect the school community
• Maintain and regularly update school’s social media platforms and website (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
• Regularly update school’s activity calendar
• Compose and disseminate school-related communication to staff, students, teachers, parents and community stakeholders (re: school events, field trips, announcements and emergencies, etc.)
• Perform other communications duties as needed (i.e. take pictures during events, media release forms, etc.)
• Support media coverage efforts by the Outreach and Communications Department

Meeting Coordination
The CS Liaison will perform general meeting coordination duties, which may include:

• Organize and follow-up with school meetings which may include:
• Staff meetings, Admin meetings, Committee meetings (ELAC, SSC, Title I, and LCAP), Staff Professional Development meetings, Back to School Night, Parent Orientation, 2nd Cup of Coffee with the Principal, Parent Breakfasts, etc.
• Prepare and post meeting agendas and disseminate minutes to stakeholders

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work with and motivate staff, parents, and other CSL staff members.
• The desire to build internal and external relationships.
• Be a self-starter who is goal driven to initiate home visits and advocacy calls.
• Be organized and exhibit follow through on tasks and goals.
• Organizing and advocacy knowledge and experience in key functional areas such as, conducting organizing campaigns, managing parent databases and parent relations/communications. Strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and succinctly both orally and in writing, in formal and informal settings, with an emphasis on oral communications
• Additional duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in nonprofit preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to develop effective relationship with management, school leadership, parents, students, and teachers.
• Demonstrated comfort interacting with all levels of staff within and outside the organization from individual parents through senior executives.

LEVEL OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Preferred: Bilingual, English and Spanish
PROFESSIONAL LEVEL

• 2-8 years of experience
• May have supervisory or team leader experience
• Professional-level resumes are usually two pages in length