What are the responsibilities and job description for the Shelter Liaison position at Sharon Public Schools?
Sharon Public Schools is looking for a part-time (20-hour/week) liaison to support new families residing in our local shelter. This is a grant funded position.
REPORTS TO : Superintendent of Schools and Director of DEI
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Serve as a liaison between SPS and Homeless Shelter management and caseworkers.
- Communicate with students, parents, teachers and administrators.
- Facilitate communication between families and schools.
- Facilitate new enrollment.
- Update schools on all new enrollments and unenrollments.
- Facilitate the transfer of educational records.
- Maintain an updated list of students.
- Facilitate transportation for large school events. ( ie. open houses, chorus concerts, homecoming, etc)
- Collaborate with nursing and the EL department to ensure all student needs are being met.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Excellent written and oral communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to effectively communicate with a diverse population including multilingual families
- Proactive problem solver.
- Able to adapt to sudden work assignment changes in response to immediate school/district needs.
- Ability to work occasional nights and weekends..
- Ability to multitask and work in a fast paced environment.
- Experience using work processing, spreadsheets and web-based applications.
- Work independently and in a team environment.
- Multilingual language skills strongly preferred (Spanish, Haitian Creole, Portuguese)
