Districtwide Director of Pupil Personnel- FTE

Districtwide Director of Pupil Personnel- 1.0 FTE

Fayette County Public Schools Pupil Personnel Services
- Lexington, Kentucky

Job : 5787723

Final date to receive applications: Jul 01, 2026 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Posted: Jun 17, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Jul 1, 2026

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description.

Director of Pupil Personnel

Job Class Code: 0080

Position Type:
Salaried

Job Type: Administrative
- Certified

Pay Grade:
Salary calculations are based on verified education and related experience levels

Administrative additive level: 9

Reports To:

Superintendent’s Designee

Supervises:
Assigned Staff

Work Calendar Name: 12 month salaried

Days in work calendar: 240

Provides leadership and supervision in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of pupil personnel and pupil attendance services. Administers the enrollment, registration, attendance system, accounting, and census functions of the district. Communicates and enforces Kentucky laws and regulations related to enrollment and truancy.

• Maintains knowledge of current laws, regulations, school board policies and procedures, as well as emerging trends and current research in pupil attendance to increase school attendance and Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) funding.
• Works with principals, teachers, pupils, parents, community agencies, social workers, attendance workers, and the court to implement a research based system of school level interventions to improve pupil attendance, and to provide attendance incentive programs.
• Coordinates and supervises the work of central office pupil attendance personnel.
• Coordinates and supports the work of secondary/elementary school attendance and registration personnel.
• Provides information to schools and parents regarding school enrollment requirements.
• Enforce the laws regarding compulsory attendance.
• Communicates with parents, pupils, various state and local agencies, and district leadership on procedures, policies, and laws relating to pupil attendance.
• Interacts with pupils and families on issues relating to enrollment, attendance, and truancy.
• Investigate the home conditions of habitual truants and acquaint the school with those conditions, while also acquainting the home with the work and advantages of the schools.
• Document the home conditions of students and the intervention strategies attempted during any action brought to enforce compulsory attendance.
• Coordinates driver license monitoring with high school personnel to ensure implementation of the No Pass No Drive law.
• Responsible for ensuring the process and procedure for all requests from parents or guardians to enroll their pupil in an out-of-area school in the district, per Board of Education Policy.
• Implements and monitors the school board tuition policy and provides an annual report to district leadership.
• Supports and monitors school board policy and procedures for approval of Home and Hospital instruction.
• Prepares, administers, monitors, amends, and keeps an accounting of the budget designated for Pupil Personnel.
• Attends to all record-keeping functions, correspondence, data requests, and any other requests related to the duties of the Pupil Personnel office.
• Establishes procedures for attendance accounting for (1) guardianship of pupils, (2) truancy referral, (3) foreign exchange pupils, (4) immigrant and migrant pupils, (5) homeless pupils, and any other pupil presenting for enrollment in the schools.
• Supervises attendance accounting in all schools, applying school board policies and procedures regarding guardianship of students, I-20 Foreign Exchange pupils, immigrant and migrant pupils, homeless pupils, and any other pupils presenting for enrollment in the schools.
• Maintains an integrated census…