Title: Homeless Family Advocate

Compensation: $25 per hour

Hours: 20 hours per week

Days: 177 day contract Aug -May

Reports to: Educational Services Coordinator

Position Summary: The Homeless Family Advocate works with homeless families to understand and remove barriers to students’ academic success.

*This position is grant funded, Therefore, the position duration is for only two school years.

Essential Duties:

• Ensures homeless families and students receive educational services for which they are eligible.
• Assists homeless families in connecting with community resources such as food, clothing, counseling, and housing.
• Reviews homeless students’ attendance and grades and intervenes as necessary.
• Collaborates with district Homeless Liaison regarding homeless families and their needs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• College degree in education, counseling, or social work
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Specific ability-based competencies required to satisfactorily perform the functions of the job include: attention to detail; communicating effectively with people of varied cultural and educational backgrounds; establishing and maintaining constructive relationships; and maintaining confidentiality.

Length of Contract One hundred seventy seven (177) contract days.

Evaluation  Performance of this job will be evaluated by the Educational Services Coordinator.

Education and/or Experience College degree in Education, Counseling or Social Work.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable

accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the

essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk,sit, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and depth perception.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an

employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable

accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the

essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works inside. The noise

level in the work environment is quiet to loud depending upon the activity in the particular

part of the day and location.

The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the

Americans with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individual currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.