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Home And School Truancy Specialist

Esperanza Cyber Charter School (ECCS), located in North Philadelphia, is currently accepting applications for a Home and School Truancy Specialist position. The Home and School Truancy Specialist plays a crucial role in supporting student attendance and welfare by working closely with students, parents, school personnel, and community agencies. The specialist addresses attendance issues, conducts home visits, and coordinates with various agencies to ensure students attend school regularly and receive the support they need.

Esperanza Cyber Charter School (ECCS) prepares students in grades 1 through twelve to meet the challenges of living creatively and productively in an increasingly technologically sophisticated and interconnected world. ECCS will provide students with an academically rigorous yet flexible online learning program that tailors learning experiences to each child through curriculum choices, virtual tutoring, and counseling. ECCS targets underserved and at-risk students who have not always found success in traditional schools. ECCS places students on a pathway to post-secondary success.

Benefits include professional development, training for the cyber environment, paid time off, 403b contribution matching, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life and disability insurance, flexible spending account, and tuition reimbursement.

Qualifications include a masters degree required, 2-4 years of experience in an education setting required, experience working with students and parents in a related position. Bilingual (Spanish and English fluency) preferred. Demonstrated leadership skills.

Responsibilities include investigating non-attendance to ensure the legality of absence excuses, enforcing district rules and regulations related to school attendance areas, conducting home visits, communicating with families and students about truancy-related issues, engaging students and families who have identified barriers to attendance, discipline, and corrective actions, monitoring student attendance records and identifying patterns of absenteeism, ensuring compliance with state and local attendance laws and regulations, including taking legal action when necessary, developing and implementing intervention plans to support students who are frequently absent, collaborating with school staff, parents, community organizations, and law enforcement to address truancy issues, maintaining detailed records of interventions and outcomes related to truancy cases, documenting all communications and actions taken, educating students, parents, and the community about the importance of regular school attendance and the consequences of truancy, supporting preventive measures such as attendance incentives, mentoring programs, and peer support groups, managing and working with school security software (Gaggle and GoGuardian) to promptly address student safety and behaviors, conducting home visits to address attendance issues and support student welfare, acting as a liaison between the school and community agencies, such as public and private welfare, psychiatric, and law enforcement agencies, supporting and managing AIC meetings and providing ongoing support to students, being a member of the attendance committee, responsible for managing referrals to school support, communicating with families and students who are on their 3-6 day absence (the next day), supporting in the SAP program to assist our students who need help, supporting in implementing and managing ProjectGo, supporting students and families experiencing homelessness (McKinney Vento) and support these families via ECYEH resources and ARP funds, attending workshops and professional development sessions on climate and behavior-enhancing programs and initiatives, becoming certified when necessary, helping with duties of the attendance team when necessary, performing other duties as directed by school, supervisor or district administration.

Physical requirements include ability to sit for extended periods while working, constant hand, finger, and arm use, and excellent eye-hand coordination, ability to hear clearly and speak intelligibly, to occasionally function in activities involving walking, bending, squatting, reaching, and climbing stairs, to occasionally stand for extended periods, ability to see and perform visual activities such as closing paperwork, using a computer monitor, reading, and writing, ability to lift and/or move up to 30 lbs, ability to come onsite for all required days.

Disclaimer: This Job Description is designed to reflect job duties accurately. However, it may not be all-inclusive, and other job-related duties may be required. Reasonable accommodations will be made as required by local, state, or federal laws that do not cause undue hardship.

Nondiscrimination: ECCS provides all persons equal access to all employment categories, regardless of race, color, age, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin or handicap/disability, gender identity, or genetic information.