Attendance Coordinator - Queens Campus

Description

ABOUT THE POSITION:
The UD Team Attendance Coordinator will analyze student attendance and take both preventative actions as well as make interventions to increase daily student attendance.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION:
Urban Dove Team Charter School (UD Team) is a distinctive network of sports-based high schools catering to over-aged, under-credited youth. We fuse a robust academic curriculum with sports-based youth development, ensuring our graduates receive a diploma, a stepping stone for higher education, and essential job skills.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyze school wide data on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
• In collaboration with the Family Engagement Coordinator, engage and provide support to families and students that need assistance with getting their children to school
• Conduct daily outreach via phone calls and home visits
• Schedule parent meetings
• Lead Attendance Task Force
• Collaborate with homeroom teams to increase student attendance
• Assist in compiling student records (birth certificates, transfers, immunizations) for meeting state requirements
• Maintain a variety of attendance records, schedules, and files for the purpose of documenting and/or providing reliable information
• Perform enrollment and un-enrollment activities
• Consult and collaborate with teachers regarding student behavior plans, goals, and objectives
• Prepare a variety of reports
• Respond to inquiries from a variety of individuals
• Investigate students who leave the district without verification
• Make referrals to outside prevention agencies
• Follow up with families of students who have been expelled and assist with finding new placement as needed
• Maintain and update the LTA list
• Serve as a mentor for a small group of students
• Work evenings and weekends as needed
• Must have valid driver’s license and be willing to drive on occasion

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Experience in schools preferred
• Transfer School experience a plus
• Demonstrated ability to “multi-task” and deliver high quality work
• Desire to devise programming to address the unique needs of our population
• Commitment to the UD Team mission and core values of Teamwork, Leadership, and Communication
• Commitment to the use of restorative practices and a strength-based, youth development approach to student issues
• Ability to function well as part of a team and work independently
• Must be team-oriented, with a strong work ethic, excellent communication skills, a passion for serving at-risk youth, and a sense of humor

OUR MISSION:
Urban Dove energizes, educates, and empowers young people through our network of UD Team Charter Schools serving over-age/under-credited high school students. UD Team's innovative model uses sports, teams, restorative practices and mentoring to create a culture of high expectations and shared responsibility. By instilling our core values of Teamwork, Leadership and Communication, we develop our students into confident young adults ready to reach their full potential.

OUR VISION:
Urban Dove envisions a world where all children receive the high-quality education and support they need and deserve. Through education, they will acquire the critical skills needed to develop into economically, socially, and emotionally independent adults who are empowered to create a more just and equitable society for future generations.

EEOC:
Urban Dove provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Salary : $43,680 - $47,840