Description
A Community Education Outreach Specialist:
Actively engages parents from all grade levels to volunteer in the school;
• Provides oral and written translation in Spanish for families during their regularly scheduled
hours;
• Provides students and families with academic and non-academic resources and services;
• Identifies and performs needs assessments to homeless, foster care, and refugee students
and families to ensure they receive services;
• Directs families to community resources and social service agencies for support;
• Directs families to appropriate services provided by local, city, state, and county service
agencies;
• Coordinates with the Effective School Coach, teachers, Community Education
Department and District staff to provide family engagement opportunities, parent training
and student support services, including the school's Academic Parent-Teacher Teams;
• Organizes volunteers to academic activity packets;
• Organizes childcare and oral interpretation for parent meetings, and APPT;
Provides regularly scheduled parent connection/parent education meetings;
• Provides parents with coaching and mentoring as it relates to students' academic needs;
• Engages in professional development opportunities to continuously improve family
engagement in education practices;
• Maintains accurate files for annual Title I documentation, including Family Engagement,
services for Homeless Children & Youth (HCY) (McKinney-Vento), Foster Care Education
and program evaluation for other family engagement programs (e.g. Academic Parent
Teacher Teams (APIT), etc.)
• Maintains direct contact and close working relationships with other Community Education
and Outreach Specialists and Community Education staff to ensure communication,
collaboration, and shared services;
• Attends scheduled trainings (e.g., bi-weekly, monthly, etc.) provided by the Community
Education Director;
• Coordinates schools' parent engagement in Pre-K to Kindergarten transition and middle
school to high school & college transition activities; and,
• Performs related work as assigned.
Education and Experience:
High school diploma or GED, one year of post-high school training and three years of
experience; or an equivalent combination of directly-related education and experience.
Required Certifications/Licenses:
• Valid Arizona Class D Driver's License.
• Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card (IVP).