Attendance Registrar

About the role

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

Responsibilities

• Coordinates school-wide attendance efforts 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;
• Emails, calls and sends auto-dial notices to targeted student 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 met regarding all attendance withdrawals;
• Produces attendance/truancy reports for the school, county and state, as required;
• Works with the Student Support Team to assist students 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 School and 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 projects regarding student attendance/truancy.

Requirements

• A High School Diploma or General Equivalency Degree (GED) Certificate AND Two (2) years of truancy experience OR Equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge of state school attendance laws, and other pertinent laws regarding K-12 education;
• Knowledge of state specific court procedures regarding truancy;
• 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.

Qualifications

• Three (3) years of experience working with families in similar capacity, enrollment or truancy;
• Post-secondary degree especially in Education, Counseling, Human Services or related field of study.

Skills

• Passionate Educators are needed at the Stride K12 partner school, Indiana Digital Learning School (INDLS).

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 when determining a 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.

Pay

Hourly Rate: $17

Schedule

This is an in-office position, at 8707 W US Hwy 36, Modoc In 47358