Student Services Coordinators are part of the student services team at Briya Public Charter School — a leading two-generation education program serving immigrant parents and their young children. Briya is a Tier One Public Charter School, consistently achieving the highest educational outcomes through its innovative, family-centric programming.

At Briya, adults acquire English, digital literacy, and parenting skills, with some continuing to the school’s workforce development programs. At the same time, their young children attend Briya’s high-quality early childhood program.

Briya has a strategic partnership with Mary’s Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center, further strengthening student families with comprehensive medical, dental, and social services.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Student Support (75%)

• Provide support to families with social service needs (in conjunction with the education team and other staff members as appropriate).
• Problem-specific case management and direct assistance with the obstacles families face in accessing health care, public benefits, employment, education, housing, social services and legal services.
• Support families facing crisis situations such as domestic violence and homelessness.
• Provision of services in natural settings such as home, school, court, or other social services agencies as needed.
• Appropriate documentation of referrals and outcomes, including maintaining monthly statistics and providing reports as needed.
• Report incidents of child abuse and neglect and participate as an active member of the intervention team to assist families.
• Refer adult students and families to services at Mary’s Center and outside agencies. Serve as the liaison for students and service providers.
• Coordinate mental health services, including individual and group support for students, through Briya’s partnership with Mary’s Center.
• Develop ongoing relationships with Mary’s Center departments and community partners.
• Provide follow-up on referrals to Mary’s Center and other partner organizations.
• Assist with student orientation tours of Mary’s Center.
• Share referral opportunities with students and staff.
• Keep community resources folder updated with correct contact information.
• Document all contacts, referrals and other information on a timely basis.

Student Events/Activities (25%):

• Serve on the Site-Based Coordination Team to build community among staff, plan site meetings and events, identify and support families of concern and facilitate collaboration across departments.
• Collaborate with the Student Services team and other staff to plan and implement special events, including resource fairs and presentations by guest speakers.
• Collaborate with teachers to share resources with adult students through a variety of communication channels.
• Support the preparation and facilitation of Student Council meetings and provide ongoing leadership support for site-based representatives.
• Support and participate in family field trips.
• Coordinate and distribute donations from Mary’s Center and the community.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Student Services Director.

Qualifications:

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, education, special education, or its equivalent. Related experience without a formal degree will be considered.
• At least two years of experience working in social services or education with immigrant communities
• Excellent communication skills in English and Spanish. Other languages (Amharic, Tigrinya, French, and/or Arabic) also highly valued, but Spanish is required.
• Excellent interpersonal, problem-solving, analytical, and organizational skills

Reasoning Ability – Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out highly-complex, multi-step instructions and make appropriate independent decisions as necessary.

Physical Demands – Regularly required sitting; frequently required to reach with hands and arms, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk or hear; must be able to lift objects up to twenty-five (25) pounds. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment – Mostly in a typical office setting with quiet to moderate noise level.

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Please apply at: https://recruiting.ultipro.com/MAR1048MARY/JobBoard/88f33d62-f5a4-4f55-b429-d203a9b78da7/Opportunity/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=ec7e04c5-a50c-4b7b-996e-0b65ea719696

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $40,000.00 - $50,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work setting:

• In-person

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Social Services or Education: 1 year (Required)

Language:

• Spanish (Required)

Work Location: In person