[Hiring] Truancy Liaison @Stride, Inc.

Role Description

The Truancy Liaison ensures students are attending school regularly by investigating causes of unexcused or excessive absences, communicating with families, and assisting them in problem-solving, issuing attendance-based warnings, and helping to represent the school if cases go to court.

• Coordinates school-wide attendance efforts and absenteeism prevention programming with a two-fold focus:
  • Educating families on the importance of attendance with a focus on prevention.
  • Intervening to fix the underlying issues that lead to absenteeism.
• Monitors student adherence to the school’s attendance policies, including student information systems, state systems, and company systems daily.
• For lower-level truancy concerns:
  • Emails, calls, and sends auto-dial notices to target student population.
• For escalated truancy concerns:
  • Holds meetings with student and family to address concerns, identify barriers, and provide back-on-track planning.
• For final level truancy concerns:
  • Meetings are held with students, family, and support.
  • Offers restoration to students, including truancy agreements and courses.
  • Meeting covers state law concerns, as the next step will have the student go to court.
• Works with county court systems, understanding requirements to process juvenile court petitions.
• Collaborates with authorizer to ensure best practices, final level truancy concerns, training, etc.
• Ensures state compliance guidelines are met for student attendance and progress.
• Produces attendance/truancy reports for the school, county, and state. Must have Excel fluency.
• Works with the Student Support Team to assist students in situations where referral to service agencies are necessary.
• Works with families and teachers to develop individualized action plans to increase student attendance and engagement.
• Works with the Executive Director, manager, etc. to develop improved procedures that address attendance.
• Works with families and student support staff to prevent juvenile delinquency.
• Develops and implements educational workshops related to absenteeism for school staff and families.
• Assists staff on projects regarding student attendance/truancy.
• Ensures school policy and state requirements are met regarding all attendance withdrawals.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or specialized related training.
• One to two years of truancy experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to pass required background check.

Requirements

• Knowledge of state school attendance laws, and other pertinent laws regarding K-12 education.
• Knowledge of state specific court procedures regarding truancy.
• Familiarity with online learning environment.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.).
• Ability to travel 20% of the time.

Desired Qualifications

• Three (3) years of experience working with families in a similar capacity, enrollment, or truancy.
• Post-secondary degree especially in Education, Counseling, Human Services or related field of study.

Benefits

Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.

Work Environment

This is a home-based position.