Attendance and Security Coordinator

Attendance and Security Coordinator is responsible for overseeing and enforcing attendance policy, monitoring school wide attendance data, and working with individual students and their families regarding attendance issues. The Coordinator provides direction in ensuring a safe and secure learning and work environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors to the school campus, while also providing input in regard to safeguarding the security of company assets.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Assists as directed with the daily arrival and dismissal of students, including parent pick-up.
• Coordinates the planning, development, implementation, and maintenance of school attendance and truancy plans.
• Assists the Principal with safety procedures and drills, according to school policies and procedures.
• Manages the collection, storage, and discard of confiscated items from students as directed, according to school policies and procedures.
• Provides assistance as directed with the training and assignment of contracted uniformed police and security officers, as needed and according to school policies and procedures.
• Intervenes in altercations between students, staff or the public, as needed, to maintain safety and security.
• Assist the staff, police, and emergency personnel in handling emergencies or disruptive situations.
• Reports and documents incidents as directed by school Principals and the Security
• Patrols parking lots and school grounds locations as directed
• Assists in conducting required sanitation, safety, and facility readiness, as directed and according to school policies and procedures.
• Provides assistance in training school staff, as requested, in crisis prevention and other approved school policies and procedures utilized to address and control student violence and aggression.
• Gathers and reviews attendance data to identify students who are excessively truant.
• Assesses students with excessive absences to determine the underlying cause of ongoing absences.
• Makes home visits to follow-up with chronically absent students.
• Communicates with parents, and assist them in ensuring that their child is attending school regularly and increase parent/guardian awareness of attendance laws and the consequences of non-compliance.
• Collaborates with school staff to develop incentive for students who are truant and develops individualized plans to improve attendance.
• Conducts parent conference to address student’s truancy issues.
• Meets and leads Weekly Attendance Staff meetings with Principal, Family Support Specialists & other pertinent school staff to discuss,
  1. Reason for consecutive absence
  2. Barriers that need to be addressed
  3. Next steps – RTI discussions where necessary
• Print and mail attendance letters and ensure all efforts are documented correctly in STARS and in MIS before withdrawing.
• Monitor and analyze school attendance and retention performance and report data trends to administration.
• Follow up with students within 30 days to 120 days of withdrawal to reengage and evaluate re-enrollment.
• Assist school administration in all school operation duties regarding student attendance and truancy.
• Assists in ensuring that the campus is cleaned to school standards and guidelines.
• Assists in conducting required sanitation and safety surveys according school policies and procedures.
• Efficiently manages and distributes bus passes

Job Requirements: 

• Bachelors Degree preferred.
• Three (3) years of work experience in a school setting or related human service area, i.e., community mental health, social service agency, etc. School Social Work experience preferred.  
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated computer literacy skills, and word processing abilities. 
• Bilingual in local area languages and Customer Service experience are preferred.