Culture Liaison

About the role

The Culture Liaison supports the Dean of Culture in maintaining a safe, positive, structured, and student-centered school culture. This role plays an important role in both positive culture-building and behavior correction.

Responsibilities

• School Culture and Climate Support: Implement schoolwide culture systems and expectations; reinforce school values, routines, and procedures throughout the school day; promote a positive school culture by recognizing scholars who demonstrate respect, empathy, community, integrity, perseverance, and excellence; support schoolwide incentives, celebrations, assemblies, and culture-building activities; help identify culture trends and communicate those trends to the Dean of Culture; help ensure a calm, safe, and respectful campus environment.
• Behavioral Health & Restorative Justice: Oversee the school’s approach to discipline, ensuring that redirection, reflection, and restorative conversations are applied consistently across the campus; supervise the documentation of major behavior incidents and interventions, ensuring high-quality follow-through on re-entry plans and restorative practices; act as the primary point of escalation for significant behavior concerns or safety issues communicated by the Culture Liaison; lead high-level communication with families regarding behavioral trends and serious disciplinary concerns.
• Student Support and Relationship Building: Build positive relationships with scholars across grade levels; serve as a trusted adult who supports scholars in making safe and respectful choices; check in with scholars who need additional culture or behavior support; encourage scholars to take responsibility for their actions and repair harm when needed; support the standards for a calm, safe, and respectful campus environment during high-traffic periods like nutrition, lunch, and transitions; support students in meeting schoolwide expectations for behavior, attendance, uniform, and participation.
• Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with the Dean of Culture to ensure alignment with schoolwide culture systems; communicate with teachers regarding scholar behavior, resets, and return-to-class expectations; collaborate with administrators, counselors, operations staff, instructional assistants, and other support staff as needed; share timely updates with the Dean of Culture about major incidents, repeated behavior concerns, or safety issues; maintain professional and student-centered communication with scholars, families, and staff; attend culture meetings, student support meetings, or leadership meetings as requested.

Qualifications

• An earned High School Diploma or the equivalent, and Two years of college (48 unites), or Associate’s Degree or higher, or Passed the California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST)
• Demonstrated excellence in writing, editing, and verbal communication
• Strong leadership, team management, and project execution skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally
• Proficient use of Google-based applications
• Tuberculosis (TB) clearance
• Background check clearance
• Commitment to educational equity and ICEF’s mission

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher
• At least 2 years of experience in a public charter school, charter management organization or public school district
• Proficiency in using school-based information systems and applications
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) a plus

Benefits

Full-time employees of ICEF Public Schools are entitled to Medical, Life Insurance, Dental and Vision plans, and various retirement programs offered by ICEF Public Schools.