Attendance and Truancy Coordinator

Attendance and Truancy Coordinator is responsible for overseeing and enforcing attendance policy, monitoring school wide attendance data, and working with individual students and their families regarding attendance issues. The Coordinator assesses student’s attendance behaviors to develop and implement prevention/intervention strategies; provides case management and monitors student progress.

• Coordinates the planning, development, implementation, and maintenance of school attendance and truancy plans.
• Gathers and reviews attendance data to identify students who are excessively truant.
• Assesses students with excessive absences to determine the underlying cause of ongoing absences.
• Makes home visits to follow-up with chronically absent students.
• Communicates with parents, and assist them in ensuring that their child is attending school regularly and increase parent/guardian awareness of attendance laws and the consequences of non-compliance.
• Collaborates with school staff to develop incentive for students who are truant and develops individualized plans to improve attendance.
• Conducts parent conference to address student’s truancy issues.
• Meets and leads Weekly Attendance Staff meetings with Principal, Family Support Specialists & other pertinent school staff to discuss,
  • Reason for consecutive absence
  • Barriers that need to be addressed
  • Next steps – RTI discussions where necessary
• Print and mail attendance letters and ensure all efforts are documented correctly in STARS and in MIS before withdrawing.
• Monitor and analyze school attendance and retention performance and report data trends to administration.
• Follow up with students within 30 days to 120 days of withdrawal to reengage and evaluate re-enrollment.
• Assist school administration in all school operation duties regarding student attendance and truancy.

• Bachelor's Degree in social work, education, law enforcement or a related human services field.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated computer literacy skills, and word processing abilities.
• Five (5) years of successful experience in public schools preferred.
• Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies and procedures related to attendance and welfare and school administration.
• Bilingual in local area languages and Customer Service experience are preferred.