Parent Liaison

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Bilingual English/Spanish or Bilingual English/Nepali preferred
• Effective communication skills

Job Description / Responsibilities

The Parent Liaison position is designed to offer information and support to District #200 families as follows:

• Build and maintain rapport with families
• Address parents' questions and concerns in person and on the phone
• Assist parents with student registration
• Work with families whose students are chronically truant to increase student attendance
• Maintain clear, well organized and comprehensive written records
• Solicit and record feedback from parents during parent activities and student presentations
• Keep a file of parent activities, parent communication, and parent feedback with copies sent to the ELL and Title I Departments
• Provide parents with community resource information/activities and refer families to these services when appropriate
• Promote literacy and mathematical thinking
• Interpret at conferences or meetings between teachers and parents
• Attend all Parent Liaison Professional Development Trainings
• Develop a resource book of free family activities in the Wheaton–Warrenville Community
• Implement and update a resource library for parents
• Survey parents about needs at school and home
• Organize informative workshops for parents regarding social issues and their child's education
• Create opportunities in which parents can volunteer at the school
• Participate in School PTO and Parent Advisory Committee meetings and activities

Essential Functions

• Must be able to perform duties as noted above
• Must be able to provide own transportation for travel within and outside of District
• Part-time, approximately fifteen hours a week for the school year
• Limited evening or weekend hours