Student Resource Center Support - District

About the role

Lewiston Public Schools has created a student resource center to support students experiencing homelessness, providing access to resources and services to enhance their academic performance, well-being, and overall growth. This support position serves PreK-12 students and families out of the primary location, LPS Student Resource Center, and helps students make connections within the community and access school.

Responsibilities

• Assists in matters related to student resources coordination
• Organize and distribute resources, including food, clothing, and hygiene supplies, ensuring availability and accessibility for students
• Maintain records of services provided, track resource usage, and gather data to report on the center's impact
• Promote the center's services to students and families, ensuring they are aware of available resources and support
• Provides oversight of the Student Resource Center, a safe place for homeless youth to find support and address their immediate needs
• Supports the dissemination of information and resources to students/families as appropriate
• Collaborates with team members to gather data and evidence necessary to support grant applications and/or reports
• Participates in the development of community programs responsive to community needs
• Assists with supervision of college work-study students, volunteers, and service-learning
• Attends community meetings to acquire resources, provide reports, and strengthen community capacity
• Engages directly with homeless youth to understand and address their needs
• Identifies and helps remove obstacles to education to help youth achieve graduation
• Serves as LHS McKinney POC
• Supports donation management: Seeks donations, picks up donations, sorts donations, stocks the food pantry, shares donations to other schools in need
• Responds to questions regarding donations and students in need from school staff and community members

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred
• Three or more years of directly related field experience preferred
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general counseling periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of staff/administration and the general public
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plan and solid geometry and trigonometry
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations

Skills

• Exhibits enthusiasm for aspirations-related work
• Strong interpersonal and consensus building skills
• Ability to work with Microsoft Office
• Comfortable working with groups of teens or individually
• Ability to multi-task and to prioritize assigned tasks
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Able to collect, analyze and utilize data in making programming decisions
• Ability to use appropriate language and accompanying techniques with adolescents on one to one bases as well as in groups
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with students, peers and parents
• Skilled in oral and written communication

Pay

Salary Range: $19.59/hour - $24.35/hour