Bilingual Community School Coordinator

ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW

A Community School is a public school that acts as the hub of a neighborhood. Community Schools provide strategic support and area-specific services for students and families with the goal of eliminating barriers to learning and success. Educators, community organizations and families work together to provide students with strong academic, enrichment, health and social services, as well as opportunities to pursue their talents.

Southeast CDC partners with five Baltimore City Schools as the non-profit partner agency.

The Community School Coordinator develops and manages a menu of services for children and families that build on existing strengths and address challenges that impact student and family success. Successful Coordinators come from a variety of backgrounds but share qualities: connectors, energetic relationship-builders, persistent problem-solvers, flexible with changing needs and priorities, and responsive to stakeholder feedback.

• Create strong relationships with school staff, families, and community partners to build and promote the Community School strategy and Southeast CDC’s work in the school and community.
• Create, grow, manage, and publicize a schedule of programs, activities and volunteer programs offered at the school. This may include student enrichment, family engagement, food distribution, support for high attendance, and other social supports. Align partner activities with the Implementation Plan.
• Conduct daily outreach to families to encourage school attendance and prevent chronic absence.
• Grow parent engagement by planning school events and family communication. Involve families, including those who are immigrants, or who have children with disabilities.
• Participate actively in school teams/committees such as the School Family Council, and internal attendance, wellness, and family engagement teams.
• Promote and refer families to Southeast CDC’s case management, housing counseling, and affordable home ownership services.

• Identify and understand the strengths and priorities of the school community, as well as barriers and areas of need.
• Organize collection and distribution of uniforms, school supplies, coats, food, and other support for families facing hardship. Find trends and set up strong systems and communication in the school to address needs.
• Coordinate logistics for special programs such as vision and dental screening programs.
• Work with supervisor to raise funds for school priorities. Manage grants, donations and document expenditures to support specific projects.
• Manage efforts to maintain and improve the school gardens and playgrounds, including coordinating all volunteer projects.
• Conduct a Needs and Assets Assessment (every 2 years) and write a three-year Implementation Plan that outlines a range of activities with performance measures.
• Collect, track and report data in these areas: school attendance, volunteers, partnerships, funds and in-kind donations, family engagement and food distributions.

The Community School Coordinator maintains an on-site presence at the school as an employee of Southeast CDC. This role is managed by Southeast CDC’s Community School supervisor, accountable to the school Principal, and subject to Southeast CDC’s employment policy as well as Baltimore City Schools policies for operating within a school. Regular professional development is required and meetings are held at the Southeast CDC main office.

Access to a vehicle is desired. Southeast CDC reimburses employees for mileage at the standard IRS rate, provides a laptop and reimburses for the use of personal cell phones at $25 per month.

Southeast CDC has a COVID policy that regulates quarantine/testing in the case of exposure, symptoms, or a positive test. All Southeast CDC employees and new hires are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. All vaccinated employees are required to show proof of vaccination to include the date(s) and type…