Student Attendance Specialist

Job Description

Residency Requirements: Must reside in North Carolina

The Student Attendance Specialist ensures that school age children are attending school regularly by investigating causes of unexcused or excessive absences, communicating with families andassistingthem in problem-solving, issuing attendance-based warnings, and helping torepresentthe school if cases go to court.

K12, a Stride Company, believes in Education forANY ONE. Weprovidefamiliesan online option for a high-quality, personalized education experience. Students can thrive, find their passion, and learn in an environment that encourages discovery at their own pace.

Passionate Educators are needed at the Stride K12 partner school, North Carolina Virtual Academy (NCVA).We want you to be a part of our talented team!

The mission North Carolina Virtual Academy (NCVA) is to provide an exemplary individualized and engaging educational experience for students by incorporating school and community/family partnerships coupled with a rigorous curriculum along with a data-driven and student-centered instructional model. Student success will be measured by valid and reliable assessment data,parentand student satisfaction, and continued institutional growth within the academic community. Join us!

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonableaccommodationmay be made to enable individuals with disabilities to performtheessential duties.

• Coordinates school-wideattendanceefforts and absenteeism prevention programming with a two-fold focus
  1) educating families on the importance of attendance with a focus on prevention and
  2) intervening to fix the underlying issues that lead to absenteeism;

• Works with teachers tomonitorstudent adherence to the school's attendance policies;

• Emails,callsand sends auto-dial notices totargetedstudent population;

• Recommends families to the appropriate administrator for truancy intervention meetings as necessary;

• Attends truancy meetings with school administrators;

• Ensures state compliancy guidelines are met for student attendance,progress and system logins;

• Ensures school policy and state requirements are metregardingall attendance withdrawals;

• Produces attendance/truancy reports for the school,countyand state, as required;

• Works with the Student Support Team toassiststudents in situations where referral to service agencies are necessary;

• Works with families and teachers to develop individualized action plans to increase student attendance and engagement;

• Works with the Student Support Administrator, Head of Schooland local school board to develop improved procedures that address attendance;

• Works with families and student support staff to prevent juvenile delinquency;

• Develops and implements educational workshops related to absenteeism for school staff and families;

• Assists staff on projectsregardingstudent attendance/truancy.

MINIMUM

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• High School Diploma or General Equivalency Degree (GED) Certificate AND

• Two (2) years of truancy experience OR

• Equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Ability to pass required background check.

OTHER REQUIRED

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Knowledge of state school attendance laws, and other pertinent lawsregardingK-12 education;

• Knowledge of state specific court proceduresregardingtruancy;

• Familiarity with online learning environment;

• Strong organizational and time management skills;

• Strong written and verbal communication skills;

• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.);

• Ability to travel 20% of the time;

DESIRED

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Three (3) years of experience working with families in similar capacity,enrollmentor truancy

• Post-secondary degree especially in Education, Counseling, Human Servicesor related field of study.

Compensation & Benefits:Stride, Inc. considers a person's education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position's work location, expected quality and quantity of work,required travel (if any), external market and internal value whendetermininga new employee's salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position's level and expected contribution, and the employee's benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.

Work Environment: Thework environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This is a home-based position but may require one or more days a week in the office asdeterminedby the supervisor.

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position.

Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is "at-will" as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the "at-will" nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in…