Location:
TBD Process for Applying:
Online Application
Updated:
Resume
2 Letters of Professional Reference (within the last year)
Copy of Certification or Proof of Credentials
Summary
A management level staff member who: removes barriers to proper school attendance for the youth of the East Baton Rouge Parish School System and thereafter monitors proper school adjustment and attendance; serves as a link between families, the community and the assigned school of students; offers professional services to schools in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assists community agencies in diagnosing, prescribing, and implementing effective programs designed to meet the needs of each youth.
• Creates an awareness of the problems that adversely affect proper school attendance.
• Renders consultative service to other school personnel, parents, and the community relative to the problems affecting attendance and adjustments.
• Supervises, develops, and interprets research data on the attendance and adjustment of youth.
• Enforces the Louisiana Compulsory School Attendance Law.
• Refers truant children to the appropriate governmental agencies.
• Initiates and supervises a positive attendance program in the schools.
• Prepares reports as indicated by the State Supervisor of Child Welfare & Attendance, School Superintendent, Associate Superintendent of Instructional Support Services, Director of Federal Programs and Director of Child Welfare & Attendance.
• Provides the Associate Superintendent of Instructional Support Services and/or the Director of Child Welfare & Attendance with reports and information that will enable him to evaluate any program under the supervision of the Supervisors of Child Welfare and Attendance.
• Monitors and assists school personnel and/or principals to ascertain if students are in properly assigned attendance zone.
• Develops positive relations between the school and community.
• Conducts expulsion hearings.
• Approves/denies extenuating circumstances for students who do not meet attendance requirements.
• Reviews attendance record keeping of teachers.
• Conducts home visits as needed.
• Carries out assigned projects and/or duties as assigned by the Associate Superintendent of Instructional Support Services and/or the Director of Child Welfare & Attendance.
• Completes any other duties assigned by Director of Child Welfare and Attendance.

QUALIFICATIONS
Must possess a master’s degree, certification in Child Welfare & Attendance or meet the requirements for Educational Leadership Licensure endorsement according to Bulletin 746. Experience as a school administrator preferred.

The East Baton Rouge Parish School System and all of its entities (including Career and Technical Education Programs) does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, national origin, disability or gender in its educational programs and activities (including employment and application for employment), and it is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of gender by Title IX (20 USC 168) and on the basis of disability by Section 504 (42 USC 794). The Title IX Coordinator is Andrew Davis, Director of Risk Management (ADavis6@ebrschools.org), - phone (225)929-8705. The Section 504 Coordinator is Danielle Staten, 504 Coordinator (dstaten@ebrschools.org ) – phone (225)929-8621.