Attendance Specialist

23-24 Attendance Specialist
 

About KIPP DC Public Schools

By 2025, KIPP DC will build upon two decades of proven results to develop into a more impactful, innovative, and inclusive school system that provides joyful, identity-affirming learning experiences so that all students and alumni achieve extraordinary outcomes.

Our work is grounded in a commitment to excellence, equity, and justice. We believe all students have the right to rigorous, relevant, and joyful learning experiences led by exceptionally talented and diverse educators who promote student achievement and a sense of belonging. We believe students and teachers best succeed when surrounded by an ecosystem of supports, including our central headquarters team that supports KIPP DC’s 20 schools, 7,300 students, and 1,300 teachers, leaders, and staff members dedicated to this mission.

Position Overview
At KIPP DC, we want to elevate the support we provide the families of the students that attend our schools. This position will contribute to the relationships we build with students’ families and help schools build and implement a pro-active, effective attendance system for all students.

The ideal candidate for this position will have experience in schools and school settings, as well as the ability to form deep relationships with school personnel and lead projects involving several different stakeholders. The person in this position will collaborate with building administrators and school based teams to establish data‐driven attendance systems, school-based attendance teams and school‐wide attendance campaigns.  The candidate will need to  build relationships and work with various internal departments to drive collaboration and project success; coordinate and integrate information about attendance throughout the network; and interact with and respond effectively to urgent requests from multiple internal and external stakeholders. The ideal candidate will also be technology savvy and able to work with large quantities of data.

This candidate needs to be flexible and to understand the needs of our families and our individual school campuses. This is a salaried, exempt position for Legacy College Preparatory and will report to the Managing Director of Strategic Initiatives. This position is currently designated to be part-time for the remainder of the 2023-24 school year. The scheduled hours will be 22 hours per week with two days on-site at Legacy College Preparatory and 1 day remote.   

Key Responsibilities

• Provide daily outreach to students with attendance issues
• Convene frequent family meetings to address attendance issues
• Create individual student support plans to get students to school
• Meet with individual students to create and monitor attendance plans
• Follow KIPP DC interventions especially the 5 and 10 calls made to families
• Log all attendance outreach in Deanslist
• Create weekly report of tasks completed 

• Monitor and support office managers as they implement attendance protocols including the taking of daily attendance, accounting for tardies, following up with families, and working with school staff
• Create and maintain system for checking and updating contact numbers
• Work with office managers to create and maintain system for gathering parent excuse notes
• Use email and Deanslist attendance reports to share ongoing attendance information with families

• Case manage and problem solve for a small subset of families and students who have not responded to interventions
• Facilitate meetings with school personnel including reimagining the data systems and reporting
• Create and maintain record tracking system for phone calls, text messages, postcards, family meetings so that all interventions are available in one place
• Identify families with more than one child and work with school staff to implement family-based interventions
• Identify and partner with community organizations to reduce absenteeism 

• Attend weekly grade-band meetings
• Attend and participate in KIPP DC attendance work meetings- present data and make decisions about protocols, data, data collection, appropriate interventions
• Attend school-based meetings at the request of the school leader
• Attend MHP meetings at the request of the Mental Health Leadership Team

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• Three to five years of related work experience required
• Master's degree preferred
• Previous exposure to or experience in the education sector preferred
• Experience providing training, facilitation and/or coaching adults preferred
• Specific experience in work with youth preferred
• Previous exposure to or experience with case management, counseling or social work services preferred
• Ability to create data management systems and data reporting systems
• Technological skills - creation of spreadsheets, powerpoints, knowledge of Excel, Google Docs including Google Sheets, ability to create and analyze surveys
• Strong communication skills
• Strong cultural competency skills, including the ability to communicate and work effectively and cultivate relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders
• A  belief that every child can succeed and that their family plays an integral part in that success
• Commitment to advancing KIPP DC’s anti-racist ambition through work with staff, students, and families

Compensation & Benefits
KIPP DC offers an extremely competitive compensation and benefits package:

• The anticipated starting salary for this position (full-time) is $65,105-$77,504. At KIPP DC we strive for clarity, equity, and to be highly competitive. When determining salaries we look at benchmarks in the education and non-profit sector.  
• KIPP DC offers a 403(b) retirement account with a 3% employer contribution and a 3% match with vesting after three years.
• Currently, individuals in this role have up to 15 paid time off days, up to 10 paid sick days, and 12 paid holidays. This is subject to change and your exact schedule will be shared in your offer letter.
• As a headquarters team that is focused on being responsive to our schools and meeting the needs of our students and families, we approach our work in a way that reflects these priorities. This position will generally work independently and not regularly interface with students, families, or  school teams.  This position will primarily work from our headquarters office to maintain a connection to their colleagues and foster a sense of cross-functional collaboration. Because of the nature of this position’s work, this will allow for hybrid work. This role will have approximately 30% flexibility to work remotely.

Equal Opportunity Employer
KIPP DC Public Schools does not discriminate against, or tolerate discrimination against, employees or applicants for employment on any legally-recognized basis or protected class including, but not limited to, actual or perceived race, color, national origin, immigration status (except as necessary to comply with federal, DC, state, or local law), religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity or expression), marital status (including domestic partnership status), genetic information, political affiliation, pregnancy, family responsibilities, personal appearance, veteran status, uniform service member status, status of being unemployed, status of victim a survivor of domestic violence, sexual offense or stalking, matriculation or any other protected class under federal, state, DC, or local law.

Click here or here to review KIPP DC’s non-discrimination policy and KIPP DC’s Title IX Coordinator’s contact information.

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