Attendance Specialist

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

• Covers school-wide attendance efforts and absenteeism prevention programming with a two-fold focus: educating families on the importance of attendance with a focus on prevention and intervening to fix the underlying issues that lead to absenteeism;
• Works with teachers to monitor student adherence to the school’s attendance policies;
• 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.
• Ability to pass required background check.

Qualifications

• 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.).

Skills

• Ability to travel 20% of the time.

Benefits

Stride, Inc. offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.

Pay

$17.22 - $22/hour

Schedule

This is a home-based position but may require one or more days a week in the office as determined by the supervisor.