Student Retention Support

ALTA VISTA INNOVATION HIGH SCHOOL

Full Time, Monday - Friday; 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

This position will support 3 of our school sites in the Los Angeles area. 

HELP US CHANGE LIVES

We live by the motto that “There is a Student in Front of Everything We Do” and we are very passionate about it.  Do you have a passion to work with students? If so, then this is an exciting opportunity for you! You’ll have the opportunity to work with a diverse group of students supporting their growth and development. Remember the person who made a difference in your life? Now it’s your turn.

Learn more about us at https://learn4life.org/

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

The Student Retention Support will perform a variety of duties and responsibilities involved in student attendance and readmission, and book retrieval. This position will interact with students, families, school personnel, community agencies and law enforcement.

RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES: This list is illustrative only and is not intended to be a comprehensive list of tasks performed by this classification. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

• Investigate student absences and withdrawals and encourage school readmission
• Contact parents/legal guardian and students to obtain information concerning reasons for pupil absences from school
• Make home visits to follow up on attendance problems and to observe home situations that may interfere with attendance
• Participate in Attendance Intervention Meetings (AIM) and Student Retention Meetings (SRM)
• Secure and track return of school books
• Collaborate with school personnel to investigate and address student retention
• Develop, establish and coordinate community resource contacts
• Provide weekly progress reports to supervisor regarding student and asset retrieval along with comprehensive report tracking all contact with current or former students
• Answer inquiries from students, parents/legal guardian regarding attendance records and school re-admittance
• Document student attendance progress in the student database
• Apply and provide information, forms and necessary documents regarding school policy and procedures
• Work with local law enforcement for student retention
• Type and prepare a wide variety of documents including letters, reports
• Compile and analyze information
• Perform a wide variety of general clerical and administrative work including the maintenance of accurate and detailed reports, verifying accuracy of information, and research
• Participate in staff meetings and trainings
• Administrative duties, responsibilities, and activities may be assigned or changed from time to time
• Adhere to attendance policies
• Research the enrollment status of students leaving our school at outside schools and update codes as needed

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, ETC:

• Modern office methods, practices, procedures
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Good English usage, spelling, grammar and punctuation.
• Data analysis, entry and work processing methods, techniques, and programs
• Unders