Job Goal:The Palmer Public Schools Family and School Engagement Liaison will increase parent and family involvement. Their primary role is to establish effective communication between home and school and improve community outreach and training opportunities for families that will impact student academic performance.
Salary:Commensurate with experience
Work Year:Part-time
Supervision:Reports to the building Principals under the Direction of the Director of Student Services
Education, Work Experience, and Licensure and/or Skills: Associates Degree or equivalent experience preferred. Prior experience or equivalent training in a school, early education, or community agency setting is highly desired. Ability to communicate verbally and in writing in English and in a second language. (Spanish, Arabic, or other prevalent language preferred).
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Welcome new families to the schools and be available to them as a resource. Contact parents and families through phone calls, home visits, and meetings at school or district offices to encourage participation in school and/or district activities and events. Collaborate with building principals or other personnel to develop district activities and workshops to improve family engagement. Establish a family resource center in the district and/or page on the district website. Be available to explain services/programs/resources that are in the schools and the community that can benefit parents, guardians, caregivers, and their student(s). Attend meetings (both informational and training) with district personnel and work with them to ensure federal compliance with the Family Involvement Policy under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Be present and assist in annual Open Houses and other school and community events. Assist with conducting workshops and presentations for families and school staff on the importance of family engagement and being engaged in school. Work to implement and strengthen family-school communication, particularly related to navigating the school system, district policies and procedures, events, and opportunities for family involvement. Build and foster trust between families and schools. Assist administration in building capacity to establish and maintain consistent, effective, and timely communication with families in a variety of ways in language and terms that they can understand to have active and meaningful participation in their student's education. Work with the building Principals and staff to establish a school climate in which families and students feel safe, welcomed, respected, and free to voice their opinions and concerns. Develop a positive working relationship with the other school support service personnel to assist with identifying problems, sharing information, and designing student and family programs. Utilize technology to inform, engage, educate, and empower families to be a part of the school culture and participate in school activities and events. Assist and support after-school and summer enrichment programs. Other duties assigned.
ADA and Minimum Qualifications to Perform Essential Job Functions:
Physical Requirements: Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, adding machines, etc. Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, and pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Light work usually requires walking or standing to a significant degree. Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things. Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments or directions to others. Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, newsletters, schedules, manuals, invoices, requisitions, menus, recipes, journals, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, procedures, charts, surveys, articles, bid specifications, brochures, news releases, handbooks, budgets, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence. Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including medical, legal, accounting and marketing terminology. Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of algebra and geometry. Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape. Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment. Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination. Interpersonal: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations. Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone.
| Location | Palmer, MA |