LEAD LINKAGE COORDINATOR (1 VACANCY)
Reports To: Director of Teaching & Learning and Building Administrator
Fund: Cuyahoga County/Closing the Achievement GAP
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor''s degree in diversity, urban studies, education, social work and/or 5-7years related experience working in multi-ethnic/culturally diverse environments.
- Ability to work with students, families and the community-at-large.
- Prior successful experience working in an urban educational environment with at-risk students.
- Excellent organization, written and oral communication and customer service skills.
- Self motivated and able to multi-task as a self starter.
- Has proven experience in motivating students to reach academic and social goals.
- Ability to coordinate resources for other adults within the program.
- Ability to organize and implement program requirements.
- Self motivated and able to multi-task with minimal supervision.
- Computer literate and able to learn how to navigate the District''s student databases.
Job Description/Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the state resources and the designated high school and middle school staff.
- Ensure that the grant''s scope of work is executed.
- Motivate eligible students to participate in the program activities.
- Facilitate the implementation of the program.
- Collect necessary data to monitor and increase, where necessary, the level of participation of the targeted students and their parents.
- Provide truancy and behavioral intervention supports
- Monitor students attendance, behavior and academics and intervenes when necessary in order to keep students on track for promotion and ultimately Graduation.
Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
- Organize a one-day mandatory workshop for parents and students.
- Establish Graduation Action Success Teams.
- Develop a school/community compact composed of leaders who pledge to work with the targeted student group.
- Establish student led focus groups.
- Provide unique staff development sessions that provide cultural competency skills to enable teachers and school staff to reach students academically.
- Organize and/or sustain after school activities utilizing school and/or existing community programs. These programs may be academic, recreational or court related diversionary programs.
- Make home visits.
- Involve local businesses, corporations and organizations to organize shadowing, internships, and field trip experiences to broaden the students'' view of what is possible in their future.
- Establish a parent focus group to build relationships with students to further academic success.
- Provide summer transition, academic and character building experiences. This may include overnight trips on a college campus and other exposure trips.
- Establish and sustain a viable mentoring program to include all targeted student participants.
Terms of Employment: Salary:
2026-2027 school year $61,000.00
Possess the physical and mental attributes required to perform all essential functions.