ENLACES Community School Site Coordinator

National University•National City, CA

10h•Onsite

About The Position

The ENLACES Project is a federally funded Full-Service Community School (FSCS) implementation grant. The Community School Site Coordinator leads the development, coordination, implementation, and oversight of all activities within their respective school site. The Community School Site Coordinator provides leadership support for the Project Director and will serve as the liaison between the principal, school staff, project staff, partners, and parents. They, in partnership with the principal and school staff, will ensure that the necessary scheduling, logistics and infrastructure support is provided to the project, communicating with a broad array of stakeholders, facilitating linkages for case-specific needs, and developing and maintaining the structures and processes to enhance and sustain on- and off-site services and supports. They will lead student and family recruitment efforts, work with service providers on participant retention, and collaborate with all stakeholders to ensure program equity, quality, and consistency. The Community School Site Coordinator is supported by a team, comprised of university, school, and community agencies working together to develop efficient and effective service linkages that align the agency partnerships needed to support the goals of the FSCS project, including working with service providers, school, and project staff to collect reporting and evaluation data.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution aligned with early childhood education, teacher education, bilingual education, educational administration, social work, school counseling, school psychology, or related field required.
3-5 years of prior experience/responsibilities of providing program management and coordination to initiatives/projects/processes with abilities to work independently to ensure project tasks implementation and completion.
Supervisory experience ensuring responsibilities and tasks are completed with attention to excellent customer service.
Excellent customer service skills, with the ability to assess needs, troubleshoot problems, develop solutions, and manage expectations.
Ability to coordinate, balance and manage multiple projects and competing priorities and accomplish deadlines; and be energetic and committed to achieving results.
Familiar with and advances a trauma informed perspective in approaching services planning, implementation and in facilitating linkages to address student and family needs.
Strengths in trust building, empowerment, collaboration, and community engagement.
Proven competency in people management, team building and community building.
Strong speaking and writing skills, and an excellent listener who communicates well with diverse populations.
Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality with sensitive information.
Intermediate use of computers and Microsoft Office Suite Applications such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree from a regionally accredited institution aligned with early childhood education, teacher education, bilingual education, educational administration, social work, school counseling, school psychology, or related fields a plus.
Working knowledge, principles, and practices of office management/systems within a higher education environment, preferred.

Responsibilities

Works closely with the building principal, ENLACES Project Director, and partners to develop the community school plan, along with goals and associated performance metrics, needed to support the successful implementation of the Community School model.
Ensures that the community resources serving the school are optimized, well-coordinated, and advance the goals for the school and the neighborhood. This includes extended learning partners, health care service providers, mental health services, recreation, arts, adult learning, youth development.
Serves as a member of the school leadership team and ENLACES Project Management Team ensuring consistency in process and alignment with goals of the Community Schools initiative.
With support of Project Director, maintains agreements for all partners and programs and routinely assesses outcomes against established objectives and performance commitments.
Facilitates school-based meetings to ensure ongoing synergistic, coordinated, and integrated programming working seamlessly with the school staff.
Develops a case management process ensuring that the necessary case management support for students and families is in place to support linkage, referral, and progress monitoring with outside agencies.
Assists Project Director with the development of quarterly reports as well as Annual Performance Reports due to the US Department of Education.
Prepares reports and presentations for FSCS, partners, and others as requested.
Facilitates implementation of protocols for results-focused communications and relationship building with site-based partners, stakeholders, and volunteers, including regular participation in community groups and/or committees.
Serves as key information contact for the after-school schedule; communicates and coordinates full slate of activities; acts as key community contact person for school and their assigned school staff.
Together with school staff, works with parents and community members to identify progress and barriers to service access or quality, and follow up as required.
Facilitates communication between external agencies and school staff regarding student and family services provisions and progress.