Family Services Liaison II, Merced/Itinerant, Special Education

Under general direction of the Principal, serve as a liaison between parents and schools by facilitating parent-school communication, encourage parents as active partners in their children’s education, provide parents with information and assistance needed to support their children at home to ensure academic success. Identify educational, health, and social service needs of families and children and wrap-around programs. Plan and implement parent activities including parent education, parent committees, and facilitate parent participation in all aspects of the program. Conduct outreach and recruitment activities for enrollment. Provide oral interpretation and written translations from the English language to a designated target language and from a designated target language to the English language. Make regular home visits. Prepare and maintain detailed records and maintain confidentiality of all information acquired. The Merced County Office of Education assists Merced County’s 20 school districts through support and oversight of curriculum and instruction, alternative education, business services, early education, technology, migrant education, special education, and teacher credentialing. MCOE is led by the elected Merced County Superintendent of Schools and governed by the Merced County Board of Education. While serving as a focal point to facilitate local school/government/community partnerships, MCOE is responsible for the fiscal oversight of each school district in Merced County, hears appeals for student expulsion hearings and interdistrict transfers and operates Green Meadows Outdoor School. 1. COMPLETE online application 2. Resume (MUST ATTACH) 3. HS Diploma/Equivalent 4. Bilingual and bi-literate proficiency in Spanish (MUST MARK IN APP) 5. EXPERIENCE: 1 year of experience translating and interpreting between English and Spanish with a high level of proficiency and providing direct services to families in an agency or organization that provides education, health, or social services

Salary : $23 - $26