Specialist - At Risk Students

Position Information

• Date Posted: 12/11/2025
• Position Type:
  Professional/ Specialist - At-Risk Students
• Location:
  
  J H Hines Elementary
• Wage/Hour Status:
  Exempt / At-Will
• Reports To:
  
  Principal
• Pay Grade/Days: 102 / 207 Days
• Dept./School:
  Campus
• Date Revised:
  July 2020

Plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive program of guidance to school assigned, including counseling services. Recognize and work with at risk, grade level, drop out, and/or drop out recovery population. Provide a proactive developmental guidance program to encourage all students to maximize personal growth and development.

Education/Certification
:
Master’s degree in Education Administration Preferred

Special Knowledge/Skills
:

• Knowledge of counseling procedures, student appraisal, and career development
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to instruct students and manage their behavior
• Knowledge of District, State, (TEA), and Federal policy and procedures
• Knowledge of At Risk, PEIMS, and graduation requirements
• Knowledge of resources available for At Risk students and ability to facilitate those
• Ability to interact calmly and professionally with those in at risk and/or crisis situations
• Ability to maintain accurate and complete records as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulations
• Ability to adhere to and enforce school rules, administrative regulations, and board policy

Experience
:
Three years teaching experience

• Work closely, acting as liaison, with principals, counselors, teachers, registrars, attendance, truancy, community education, probation officers, court system, students, parents, and special programs in an effort to identify, track, prevent, recover, or discourage potential dropouts, students who are at risk of failing, or students wishing to maintain and/or accelerate their education toward continuation and/or completion.
• Develop long‑and short‑range plans with individual students and school personnel which are student/situation specific and designed to address academic, personal, and attendance needs in order to encourage maximum academic achievement and reduce dropout potential and/or rates.
• Meet with parents, students, and staff (individually or collectively) in session/conferences to collaborate, plan, record, and implement, long‑and short‑term instructional/personal goals, behavior plans, options, objectives, and strategies designed to encourage, maintain, recover and/or accelerate academic achievement.
• Monitor long‑and short‑range individualized, teacher, student, staff, credit (promotion/graduation) directed plans for instructional programs, educational options, student needs, and school data/records.
• Coordinate academic achievement by way of traditional and/or nontraditional educational options by providing academic achievement direction, options, assistance, and documentation to students, parents, schools, district, and community.
• Coordinate appropriate compensatory, intensive, remediation, or accelerated instructional services for students/staff.
• Provide behavior support and work with teachers to develop, implement, and monitor Behavior Intervention Plans in an effort to maintain classroom management in an effort to meet the needs of all students, including the at‑risk/struggling learner.
• Serve as a resource/contact person for the district, students, and staff in order to promote and coordinate academic achievement, dropout prevention and recovery by providing access, coordination, and linkage to in‑school, district wide, and outside community resources in order to assist and encourage students and their families to participate more fully and successfully while in school, upon a return to school, and/or when pursuing nontraditional continuation/completion.
• Schedule, attend parent/teacher/principal/counselor conferences in order to follow student academic progress, discipline, absences, parent concerns, staff requests, and probationary terms.
• Evaluate, record, and monitor student performance, attendance, and discipline (every 3 weeks) in order to share, modify, and update strategies/files/data as needed for…