Attendance Specialist

Job Title:
Attendance Specialist

Job Title:
Attendance Specialist

Director of Teaching and Learning, Building Administrators

Nonexempt

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Experience working with school-age children, families, and/or student support services.
• Strong communication, organizational, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to establish effective relationships with students, families, school personnel, and community agencies.
• Ability to maintain accurate and confidential student records.
• Ability to analyze and use student attendance and other relevant data to guide interventions.
• Ability to work independently while functioning effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team.

• Bachelors in Social Work, Education or related field a preference.
• Experience with attendance intervention, truancy prevention, chronic absenteeism, or student engagement.
• Experience working within an MTSS framework.
• Experience conducting family outreach or home visits.
• Experience with case management or community resource coordination.
• Knowledge of school attendance laws, district attendance procedures, and intervention practices.
• Experience with grant-funded programs and performance reporting.

The Attendance Specialist is responsible for implementing a comprehensive, data-driven attendance intervention program designed to improve student attendance, reduce chronic absenteeism and truancy, prevent disengagement from school, and promote equitable access to educational opportunities.

The Attendance Specialist will identify students at risk for chronic absenteeism, truancy, and academic disengagement; monitor attendance patterns; communicate with students and families; conduct home visits; develop individualized attendance improvement plans; coordinate interventions and referrals; and collaborate with administrators, teachers, counselors, social workers, support staff, families, and community agencies.

The Attendance Specialist will utilize the district's Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework to ensure that students receive interventions matched to their level of need. The position will provide targeted Tier 2 interventions and intensive Tier 3 supports for students with significant or persistent attendance concerns.

• Monitor daily attendance reports to identify unexplained absences, emerging attendance concerns, truancy patterns, and students at risk for chronic absenteeism.
• Review attendance data regularly to identify trends and students requiring intervention.
• Analyze attendance by individual student, grade level, and student subgroup to identify areas of concern.
• Identify students experiencing academic, behavioral, social-emotional, family, transportation, housing, health, or other barriers affecting school attendance.
• Collaborate with school teams to identify students requiring Tier 2 or Tier 3 attendance interventions.
• Maintain accurate and confidential records of attendance concerns, interventions, contacts, referrals, and student progress.

• Establish positive relationships with students and families to understand and address barriers to regular school attendance.
• Contact parents/guardians regarding unexplained or excessive absences.
• Conduct attendance conferences with students and families.
• Conduct home visits for students with persistent attendance concerns when appropriate.
• Provide families with information regarding available school, district, and community resources.
• Strengthen family-school partnerships through consistent communication, outreach, and problem-solving.
• Support families experiencing transportation challenges, housing instability, family crises, health concerns, or other barriers that may affect attendance.

• Develop individualized attendance improvement plans based on student needs and documented barriers.
• Provide regular attendance check-ins and progress monitoring for students receiving interventions.
• Provide or coordinate mentoring and student engagement supports.
• Coordinate referrals to counseling, social work, transportation assistance, community agencies, and other appropriate services.

• Participate in and contribute to MTSS meetings and attendance review processes.
• Provide staff with information and resources related to attendance interventions and prevention strategies.
• Support the implementation of universal…