Attendance and Truancy Coordinator

Primary Responsibilities

• Captures and reviews attendance data to identify students who are excessively truant.
• Assesses students with excessive absences to determine the underlying cause of ongoing absences.
• Makes home visits to follow-up with chronically absent students.
• Communicates with parents, and assists them in ensuring that their child is attending school regularly.
• Increase parent/guardian awareness of attendance laws and the consequences of non-compliance.
• Collaborates with school staff to develop incentives for students who are truant and develops individualized plans to improve attendance.
• Conducts parent conferences to address student’s truancy issues.
• Meets and leads Weekly Attendance Staff meetings with Principal, Family Support Specialists & other pertinent school staff to discuss:
• Reason for consecutive absence
• Barriers that need to be addressed
• Next steps – RTI discussions where necessary
• Prints and mails attendance letters and ensures all efforts are documented correctly in STARS and in MIS before withdrawing.
• Maintains and analyzes school attendance and retention performance and reports data trends to administration.
• Follows up with students within 30 days to 120 days of withdrawal to reengage and evaluate re-enrollment.
• Affords assistance to school administration in all school operation duties regarding student attendance and truancy.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in social work, education, law enforcement or a related human services field.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated computer literacy skills, and word processing abilities.
• Five (5) years of successful experience in public schools preferred.
• Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies and procedures related to attendance and welfare and school administration.
• Bilingual in local area languages and Customer Service experience are preferred.