Attendance Tracker

Job Summary

Attendance Trackers work with students, families, educators, and other staff members to maintain attendance, support student responsibility in a way that will increase student success. Attendance, physical presence, and timeliness are required and are essential functions of this position.

Essential Functions

• Identify student with excessive absences by generating a weekly "hotsheet".
• Monitor student attendance daily to promote regular attendance habits.
• Establish positive and open communication between the school and parent/guardian of students.
• Recognize student improvement through appropriate and administrator approved activities.
• Interface with administrators, counselors, social workers, psychologists, teachers and other staff to increase communication and identification of potential attendance issues.
• Contact parent/guardian of students with attendance issues.
• Attend team meetings and present communications and success.
• Track contact information, attendance interventions, and progress toward goals.
• Establish and maintain a contract system with students.
• Establish incentive programs with students to meet attendance goals.

Non-Essential Functions

• Other duties as assigned

Required Education and Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent computer skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work well with students, parents, and other adults.
• Ability to develop positive personal relationships with students to build a foundation of trust.

Assigned Decision Making

Decide the best way to track and positively interact with students and parent to promote regular school attendance.

Interactions with Others

Positive interaction with students, teachers, social workers, psychologists, support personnel and administrators.

Working Environment

• Work setting is mainly in the classroom.
• May be asked to work inside and outside the building to accomplish assigned tasks.
• Working conditions can be in hot and cold weather.
• May experience stress from disruptive students and/or groups of students.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to speak and/or hear.
• Frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• Occasionally required to use hands to handle or feel and must occasionally climb or balance.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Must be able to sit/stand for long periods of time.