SY26-27 Springfield Honors Academy Family and Community Coordinator

Springfield Honors Academy Family and Community Coordinator

Start Date: Immediate

Salary Range: $24.51-$31.87 commensurate with experience

Position Responsibilities:

The Family and Community Coordinator reports directly to the building Principal. The

Coordinator is to support Springfield Honors Academy in addressing attendance at all levels (including in the prevention and intervention for chronic students), and supports school Administration with making connections and communications with our families. The Coordinator will communicate with parents/guardians by phone, mail, or in

person to address student attendance. The Coordinator will also respond to

phone calls or other referrals or may go on location to intervene to support the

student’s return to school. The Coordinator will also support the Early College Program at SHA.

Attendance Support

• Along with Assistant Principal and Clerk, conducts follow-up and reports to staff on student attendance, absenteeism, and tardiness
• Works with data coordinator to compile aggregate attendance data to identify chronically absent students and assists with attendance processes and prioritizing cases
• Identifies students’ needs and assists school personnel in making the connections with the services needed, including with Counselors to contact social service providers when necessary
• Works directly with parents to identify and assist with student needs
• Serves as a Level 3 partner with STAT (Student Teacher Assistance Team) and supports the engagement of families
• Maintains accurate logs of phone calls, letters home, home visits
• Documents all efforts in Power School

Early College Program Support

• Commute with students to courses
• Ensure students are maintaining their attendance in a course
• Supporting students with academic habits and meeting deadlines

Family Communication and Liaison

• Supports school Administration with making connections and communications with families, including the Parent Guardian Action Council (PGAC),
• Assisting at meetings and events by fostering family relationships with the school.
• Assists the school with the implementation of Student-Led conferences twice a year (October and March) by scheduling and assigning appointments.
• Works closely with the ACT and Finish Line lead educators in carrying out necessary communications with families, to help keep students on track for success.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university preferred
• 2-3 years of relevant experience required
• Experience with Microsoft programs such as Excel and Powerpoint.
• Experience as an active anti-racist or advocate for equity preferred
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred

If you meet some of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply or to reach out for more information. We know that historically marginalized groups – including people of color, women, people from working class backgrounds, and people who identify as LGBTQ – are less likely to apply unless and until they meet every requirement for a job. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

We encourage you to reach out to dcooper@springfieldhonorsacademy.org if you have questions about the role or your qualifications. We are happy to help you feel ready to apply!

About the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership

While Massachusetts is consistently ranked as one of the top states for education results in the country, we have one of the highest and most persistent opportunity gaps. The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) - established in 2015 as a collaboration between Springfield Public Schools (SPS), the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and the Springfield Education Association (SEA) – seeks to improve the longitudinal life outcomes of the more than 5,000 students in our eleven middle and high schools.

As a “zone” of schools within the city of Springfield, SEZP’s approach draws on a deep and embedded partnership with the school district and local teachers’ union, while harnessing the flexibility and innovation found in autonomous school models. As a result, each school within SEZP is accorded significant school-based autonomies - in curriculum, talent, calendar, schedule, and budget – while being held accountable for realizing achievement gains for historically marginalized students. In all of our work, SEZP is in pursuit of equity and anti-racism – acknowledging the systemic oppression our students and families encounter daily and working to disrupt these provision gaps urgently and courageously.

NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, age, disability or military service or marital status. The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in admission to, access or treatment in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, disability or homelessness.

NOTICE OF SEX NONDISCRIMINATION

Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination, including sex-based harassment, in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and its regulations, including in admission and employment.

Inquiries about Title IX may be referred to the Springfield Public Schools’ Title IX Coordinator, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights at https://ocrcas.ed.gov/contact-ocr, or both.

The Springfield Public Schools Title IX Coordinator is Jeremy Saint Laurent, Chief Legal Counsel of Legal Services, 1550 Main Street, Springfield, MA 01103, 413-787-7100 ext. 55325, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com.

Springfield Public School’s sex nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedures can be located on the Springfield Public Schools website, www.springfieldpublicschools.com/non-discrimination

To report information about conduct that may constitute sex discrimination or make a complaint of sex discrimination under Title IX, please refer to titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com