Community School Site Coordinator (Chula Vista, CA)

Position Summary

The ENLACES Project is a federally funded Full-Service Community School (FSCS) implementation grant. The Community School Site Coordinator leads the development, coordination, implementation, and oversight of all activities within their respective school site. The Community School Site Coordinator provides leadership support for the Project Director and will serve as the liaison between the principal, school staff, project staff, partners, and parents. They, in partnership with the principal and school staff, will ensure that the necessary scheduling, logistics and infrastructure support is provided to the project, communicating with a broad array of stakeholders, facilitating linkages for case-specific needs, and developing and maintaining the structures and processes to enhance and sustain on- and off-site services and supports. They will lead student and family recruitment efforts, work with service providers on participant retention, and collaborate with all stakeholders to ensure program equity, quality, and consistency. The Community School Site Coordinator is supported by a team, comprised of university, school, and community agencies working together to develop efficient and effective service linkages that align the agency partnerships needed to support the goals of the FSCS project, including working with service providers, school, and project staff to collect reporting and evaluation data.

Essential Functions:

• Works closely with the building principal, ENLACES Project Director, and partners to develop the community school plan, along with goals and associated performance metrics, needed to support the successful implementation of the Community School model.
• Ensures that the community resources serving the school are optimized, well-coordinated, and advance the goals for the school and the neighborhood. This includes extended learning partners, health care service providers, mental health services, recreation, arts, adult learning, youth development.
• Serves as a member of the school leadership team and ENLACES Project Management Team ensuring consistency in process and alignment with goals of the Community Schools initiative.
• With support of Project Director, maintains agreements for all partners and programs and routinely assesses outcomes against established objectives and performance commitments.
• Facilitates school-based meetings to ensure ongoing synergistic, coordinated, and integrated programming working seamlessly with the school staff.
• Develops a case management process ensuring that the necessary case management support for students and families is in place to support linkage, referral, and progress monitoring with outside agencies.
• Assists Project Director with the development of quarterly reports as well as Annual Performance Reports due to the US Department of Education.
• Prepares reports and presentations for FSCS, partners, and others as requested.
• Facilitates implementation of protocols for results-focused communications and relationship building with site-based partners, stakeholders, and volunteers, including regular participation in community groups and/or committees.
• Serves as key information contact for the after-school schedule; communicates and coordinates full slate of activities; acts as key community contact person for school and their assigned school staff.
• Together with school staff, works with parents and community members to identify progress and barriers to service access or quality, and follow up as required.
• Facilitates communication between external agencies and school staff regarding student and family services provisions and progress.

Supervisory Responsibilities: N/A

Requirements:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution aligned with early childhood education, teacher education, bilingual education, educational administration, social work, school counseling, school psychology, or related field required.
• Advanced degree from a regionally accredited institution aligned with early childhood education, teacher education, bilingual education, educational administration, social work, school counseling, school psychology, or related fields a plus.
• 3-5 years of prior experience/responsibilities of providing program management and coordination to initiatives/projects/processes with abilities to work independently to ensure project tasks implementation and completion.
• Supervisory experience ensuring responsibilities and tasks are completed with attention to excellent customer service.
• Excellent customer service skills, with the ability to assess needs, troubleshoot problems, develop solutions, and manage expectations.
• Ability to coordinate, balance and manage multiple projects and competing priorities and accomplish deadlines; and be energetic and committed to achieving results.
• Familiar with and advances a trauma informed perspective in approaching services planning, implementation and in facilitating linkages to address student and family needs. Strengths in trust building, empowerment, collaboration, and community engagement.
• Proven competency in people management, team building and community building.
• Strong speaking and writing skills, and an excellent listener who communicates well with diverse populations.
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality with sensitive information.
• Schedule flexibility is required for late afternoon, evening, and weekend events when they occur.

Competencies/Technical/Functional Skills:

• Ability to participate as an active team member of the team and organization and work toward a common goal. Contributes fully to the team effort and plays an integral part in the smooth running of teams without necessarily taking the lead. Demonstrates an ability to participate as an active team member working toward common goals.
• Actively seeks opportunities to influence, build effective relationships and gain alignment with peers, functional partners and/or external partners to accomplish business objectives.
• Accepts personal accountability, proactively seeks resolution for personal limitations head-on; and supports honesty and respect towards others, the company and oneself.
• Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting-edge programs/processes. Ability to generate and/or recognize imaginative or creative solutions that generate successful outcomes.
• Working knowledge, principles, and practices of office management/systems within a higher education environment, preferred. Demonstrates an understanding of underlying organizational issues.
• Work independently and foster a cooperative spirit within a large and/or small team of diverse cultures, while working in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects, deadlines, and frequently changing priorities.
• Ability to drive towards achieving measurable and challenging goals to support organizational success. Demonstrates the ability to focus on achieving results consistent with the organization’s objectives.
• Demonstrates an understanding of underlying organizational issues.
• Anticipates and takes steps to prevent counter-productive confrontations. Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner.
• Intermediate use of computers and Microsoft Office Suite Applications such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook.

Location: Chula Vista Elementary School District

Travel: Occasional travel to partner organizations sites supporting the Community School Site

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Candidate receiving offers will be offered a salary/pay rate commensurate with experience that vary based on a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies. Absent exceptional circumstances, candidates will be offered a salary within this range for this position. The minimum salary will be offered based on the minimum exemption threshold based on state of residency. Base pay is one component of National University’s total rewards package, as we are dedicated to supporting the needs of the “whole you” with our holistic approach to employee benefits by offering comprehensive well-being benefits for you and your family. For full details about our benefit plan offerings, please visit benefits.nu.edu. For Part-time benefits, please click here.

Compensation Range:

Annual Salary: $71,360.00 - $84,500.00

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