Equity and Engagement Partner

SUMMARY

Serves as an Equity and Engagement liaison between students, staff, and families and school or district to help drive the vision for a culturally inclusive community and identity safe environment that allows all students and families to see themselves in each school as thriving members.

Relay the needs of one to the other. Support stakeholders on how to address equity issues within the school and district.

Serve as a school-based intermediary contact for concerns and comments made by families and community members. Expand opportunities for continued learning, voluntary community service, and civic participation.

Develop community collaborations; promote sharing of power with families as decision-makers; and help families understand the educational system so they can become better advocates for their children’s education.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES : To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Tasks Descriptions

1. Collaborate with district departments to support strategic projects and engagement opportunities aligned to the district equity objectives.

Collaborate and support the Instructional Coaches, Instructional Coordinators, and site coordinators to align and address specific learning goals and district initiatives.

Assist department Directors with establishing and maintaining meaningful partnerships that provide access and voice to all community constituents, especially those historically underrepresented.

Assist administrators and equity teams with planning site-based professional development, identifying opportunity gaps, and recommending possible solutions to address such gaps.

2. Support in the creation of a process for identifying professional learning t needs for students, staff, and families on best practices in parent / family advocating.

Assist with the development and facilitation of professional learning workshops, classes, and activities determined by needs analysis.

Create opportunities for multilingual parents / families, families of students with disabilities, or who are underrepresented because of socio economics and / or racial barriers to participate in education initiatives and enrichment opportunities.

Monitor and ensure that professional learning complies with local, state, and federal regulations and policies.

3. Develop and initiate collaborations between schools, the district, and community organizations to facilitate the use of community resources by parents / families as needed.

Collaborate with district departments to ensure an updated contact list of school and community partnerships is maintained.

Support the Equity and Engagement department with ongoing professional learning and in the support of family outreach liaisons.

4. Evaluate district engagement programs by conducting surveys to assess the needs of families at their local school and / or district;

review annual reports to evaluate the effectiveness of their parental / familial involvement programs; develop, analyze, and distribute the results of parent surveys to the school’s leadership team and / or district level staff.

5. Facilitates public relations by serving as the point of contact and a liaison between the schools, parents, the district communications team, and community.

6. Support the Department of Equity and Engagement in monitoring school efforts to engage students / staff / families. Monitor and evaluate student, staff, and family engagement efforts at the district level.

Develop a system to maintain records of engagement for students, staff, and family activities, reports, surveys, funding, annual program evaluations, and communications to parents in collaboration with communications and the Department of

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education.

7. Perform other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE :

• Bachelor’s degree with a major in a related trade or field or four (4) years of specific related experience may be substituted for this educational requirement.
• Three (3) years of successful classroom teaching or related experience.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience working with community and / or family / parent groups (in addition to the above if experience if used in lieu of a degree).
• Bilingual Spanish is strongly preferred.
• Master’s degree preferred.

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS or CERTIFICATIONS :

Criminal background check required for hire.

SALARY INFORMATION :

The salary listed is for full time positions (1.0 FTE). This salary will be adjusted, as needed, based upon the FTE. Administrative employees' salary will be commensurate on the employees’ education and / or work experience.

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BENEFITS INFORMATION :

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is committed to providing an environment that promotes a healthy employee population able to serve our students at the highest level.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as other programs for benefit eligible employees.

The employee assistance program, voluntary life insurance through PERA, and 401(k), 403(b) & 457(b) plans are available to all employees regardless of hours worked and are available immediately (upon hire date).