FLACS III - Family and Community Liaison 26-27

About the role

Family Life Academy Charter School (commonly called FLACS) is a nonprofit network of high-performing charter schools in the South Bronx. Family Life Academy Charter Schools, together with the Latino Pastoral Action Center and parents, create the conditions for self-empowerment for all its K-12 students to excel academically, take responsibility for their own learning, and affirm human values, today, in college, and beyond. We are guided by this mission and through it, we have revolutionized education for students from K-12.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a first point of contact for parents with concerns and issues (for example, school policies or facilities issues) and serve as a liaison between parents and other staff members in addressing these concerns and issues.
• Increase involvement of current families in the school by working closely with the school, parent and community organizations.
• Conduct outreach to current parents to engage them in their children’s education through phone calls, messages on ParentSquare and emails.
• Convene at minimum once monthly parent meetings, workshops and/or events around topics of key concerns to parents.
• Support the Parent Association in holding their monthly meetings and other PA hosted events.
• Attend the student lottery and support the registration of students after the lottery.
• Attend special community, city, and/or state events as requested by the principal or network leadership.
• Maintain ongoing contact with community organizations including .
• Organize back-to-school night, parent workshops, and other events to increase parental and community involvement and create a welcoming school environment to parents.
• Translate school-based written communications into Spanish and provide oral translation at school-based parent workshops and meetings.
• Use ParentSquare to communicate with current FLACS families, including for personal outreach and for whole-school and group posts.
• Support the principal in other areas where communication with parents is essential, i.e. bussing, food, health, sports, school trips, etc. to ensure the safety and welfare of the students.

Qualifications

• An Associate’s degree (or equivalent); Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Two years of experience in community work in an area related to the duties described above.
• Proficiency in Spanish is required.
• DASA trained or completed training within the first month of the school year.

Pay

$45,000 salary range