Student Relations Support - Los Angels, Ca

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.

• ?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
• Perform other related duties as assigned
• Adhere to attendance policies
• Research the enrollment status of students leaving our school at outside schools and update codes as needed.

Minimum Ohysical Requirements:

• Mental Demands: Ability to process a large volume of electronic and manual data
• 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. Exerts up to 10 lbs. of force occasionally (almost all office jobs)
• Frequent multi-tasking, changing of task priorities, repetitious exacting work required
• Field work is required and includes visiting homes, schools, and community agencies
• Working in a noisy, distracting environment with frequent deadline pressures

 

Minimum Qualifications, Job Experience, KNowledge, Skills and Abilities:

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

 

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