Global Student Support Center Parent Liaison

Global Student Support Center Parent Liaison

This role serves to enhance communication and understanding between families who speak a language other than English, the school, and the district, clarifying and expanding information regarding school and/or district expectations, assisting families with requests and concerns, supporting district student enrollment and EL services enrollment, and interacting with schools throughout the Chatham County School system in compliance with Title III.

• Enhance communication and understanding between families who speak another language other than English, the school, and the district.
• Clarify and expand information to families who speak another language other than English regarding school and/or district expectations.
• Assist with families’ requests and/or concerns.
• Assist families with district student enrollment and screening for EL services.
• Interact with and support schools throughout the Chatham County School system in compliance with Title III, as indicated by the Title III/EL Program Facilitator.

• Assist families who speak another language other than English in locating community resources to promote parent effectiveness and student achievement.
• Assist families with student enrollment.
• Screen students for EL services.
• Assist with the organization and implementation of events and activities to enhance parent involvement.
• Convey parents’ questions and concerns to appropriate school/district staff to support student success, and further facilitate communication with parents.
• Organize student compliance folders, provide required information to accountability, and assist with additional office needs such as compiling compliance evidence and providing required information to accountability.
• Provide interpretation and translation services as requested, following the guidelines of Federal Programs.

• Collaborate with other personnel to identify EL parents’ issues and concerns.
• Participate in required in-service activities for maintaining and enhancing work-related skills.

• Hold a high school diploma; two years of college-level education preferred.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing with parents, schools, community and district office personnel in both Spanish and English.
• Demonstrate the ability to fluently speak, read and write in the second language predominant in the community.
• Provide evidence of successful experiences in working with parents/families and community members.
• Demonstrate the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with parents, teachers, students, administrators, community leaders, agency representatives, and others.
• Demonstrate the ability and organizational skills needed to develop and compile records, reports and presentations using a variety of technology skills.

• Considerable knowledge of both Spanish and English languages.
• Skill in translating spoken words from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English at a normal speaking rate.
• Ability to translate verbal messages to written documents and written documents to verbal messages in both Spanish and English.
• Ability to adapt language based on the level of the student and parent.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments.

• Physical Requirements: Must be able to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Due to amount of time spent standing and/or walking, physical requirements are consistent with Light Work.
• Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak in Spanish and English to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments and/or directions.
• Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence in English and Spanish. Requires the ability to prepare routine and technical documents and to write, using standard conventions, in English and Spanish.
• Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply rational systems to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions in English and Spanish. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in standard English and Spanish.
• Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of algebra,…