Parent Engagement Liaison

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Full‑time position. Monday – Friday. This position provides support to various school sites within the Inland Empire and High Desert regions. The position may require travel between locations.

This position is funded through the California Community Schools Partnership Program (CCSPP) Grant.

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The Parent Engagement Liaison serves as the school liaison between parents, teachers, and school employees. The parent liaison implements and manages school‑wide parenting initiatives and activities to empower parents to become positive active participants in the education of their children in alignment with the school goals. Supports the principal and school leadership in documentation of parental involvement. This position reports to the principal or designee.

• Serve as the liaison between parents, teachers, and school employees.
• Consult, support, and coordinate with school employees and leadership to establish and maintain ongoing parent activities that support academic achievement and school‑wide goals at home and at school.
• Provide coordination, technical assistance, and support to build capacity in planning and implementing effective parent and family involvement activities to improve student academic achievement and school performance.
• Promote strategies to support successful school and family interactions.
• Promote teamwork by sharing knowledge, cooperating with others, participating in meetings and work groups, and supporting school goals and objectives.
• Promote the importance of communication between teachers and parents on an ongoing basis through parent‑teacher conferences, progress reports, volunteer opportunities in a language families can understand.
• Promote and support parent attendance and participation in school‑wide events such as Open House, Back‑to‑School Night, PAC/Parent Advisory Committee meetings, ELAC/English Learner Advisory Committee meetings, and other events.
• Provide excellent customer service by establishing positive relations with school personnel, external organizations, and others; respond to phone calls, e‑mails, letters, and other communications.
• Assist parents of children served by the school in understanding academic standards and how to monitor their child’s progress and work with educators to improve achievement.
• Coordinate parenting sessions, meetings, and activities.
• Coordinate and implement outreach to parents of students.
• Provide information to families regarding public and private resources available.
• Recruit, coordinate and manage parent and community involvement in programs, advisory committees, school events and support.
• Perform administrative duties, responsibilities and activities that may be assigned or changed from time to time.

• Strong writing, oral communication, public speaking, and presentation skills.
• Ability to build and maintain rapport with culturally diverse populations.
• Strong follow‑through skills.
• Coordination, organizing, planning skills.
• Interpersonal and persuasion skills.
• Ability to work harmoniously as part of a team.
• Ability to multi‑task and prioritize tasks based on urgency.
• Ability to learn new skills quickly with minimal guidance.
• Ability to collaborate and work with community representatives and varied stakeholders.
• Self‑sufficient and focused on excellent customer service.

• 2 years’ experience in Family and School Relations, Community Outreach, or Community Relations.
• Bachelor’s degree or 2 years equivalent experience in Community Outreach or Community Relations.
• Some evening student recruitment and/or evening meetings; occasionally working on Saturday and/or…