Community School Absenteeism Coordinator

The VISTA, serving as the Community School Absenteeism Coordinator, will focus on: decreasing
chronic absenteeism and increasing daily attendance rate in all five community schools by
collaboratively addressing the barriers which lead to student and family disengagement.
The specific duties of the position include:
● Engage and support each Community School to evaluate barriers to student attendance
through conducting a needs assessment utilizing multiple methods of outreach to school
personnel, students and families.
● Work in partnership with the district, the community, families, and agencies to assess
assets and needs, ensure efficient coordination of student and family support services.
● Engage and support Community School Coordinators and Parent Liaisons at Community
Schools to design and implement a comprehensive system of programs and services for
students and families based on the school needs assessment.
● Engage and support school administrators to strengthen and maintain a shared
leadership system through the Community Schools Advisory Board, which includes
multiple stakeholders.
● Engage and support the Community Schools Advisory Board to develop a strategic action
plan, aligned to the assessed assets and needs, that effectively leverages school, district
and grant resources to achieve measurable goals that directly increase access,
opportunity and outcomes for students.
● Engage and support each Community School to implement school-level, multi-tiered
positive attendance systems that improve and maintain student attendance and
engagement.
● Assist in the preparation and maintenance of a variety of narrative and statistical
reports, records, and files related to the effectiveness of assigned activities and
personnel related to community schools.