School Operations & Truancy Associate

Job Description

The School Operations & Truancy Associate is part of the school operations team and focuses on school funding, compliance and attendance.

Required Certificates and Licenses: None

Residency Requirements: Must reside in the state of Washington

The School Operations & Truancy Associate  is part of the school operations team and focuses on school funding, compliance and attendance.

K12, a Stride Company, believes in Education for ANY ONE. We provide families an online option for a high-quality, personalized education experience. Students can thrive, find their passion, and learn in an environment that encourages discovery at their own pace. In support of this, we are committed to creating and maintaining a culture of inclusion and diversity where our employees are passionate about serving students and families, treat one another and customers with respect, challenge each other to innovate and always strive to do better.

Passionate Educators are needed at the Stride K12 partner school, Washington Virtual Academy (WAVA). We want you to be a part of our talented team!

The mission of Washington Virtual Academy (WAVA) is to provide an exemplary individualized and engaging educational experience for students by incorporating school and community/family partnerships coupled with a rigorous curriculum along with a data-driven and student-centered instructional model. Student success will be measured by valid and reliable assessment data, parent and student satisfaction and continued institutional growth within the academic community. Join us!

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
•Provide troubleshooting on systems used for operational management of schools;•Assist in continued operations process improvements;

•Ensure reports and data requests within the individual’s assigned areas are resolved in a timely manner;

•Participate in responsibilities related to school and corporate compliancy requirements;•Assist to ensure student funding data is accurate;

•Participate in funding maximization projects;

•Assist in operational data analysis and report compilation;

•Help create, maintain, and disseminate operational information;

•Proactively seeks out opportunities to provide operational support that contributes to providing excellent service to the schools and their clients.

•Proactively works with families and students to address potential school attendance barriers.

•Works with teachers to monitor student adherence to the school’s attendance policies and e-mails, calls and sends auto-dial notices to targeted student population;

•Recommends families to the grade-level principal for truancy meetings as necessary;•Attends truancy meetings with school administrators;

•Ensures state compliancy guidelines are met for student attendance;•Ensure school policy and state requirements are met with regard to all withdrawals;

•Produces attendance/truancy reports for the school, county and state;

•Works with counselors and other support staff to assist students in situations where referrals to service agencies are necessary;

•Works with families and teachers to develop action plans to improve truancy levels;

•Works with Director, Parental Involvement, Manager of Special Programs, Head of School, and local board to develop improved procedures that address attendance;

•Works with families and community support staff to prevent/deter juvenile delinquency;

•Develops and implements educational workshops related to truancy law for school staff and families;

•Assists staff on projects regarding student attendance/truancy.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Advanced Microsoft Office 365; Web proficiency
Virtual school operations experience
Understanding of public school laws and regulations
Excel skills
Excellent time-management skills
Ability to track record of timely successful task/project completion
Ability to clear required background check
Equivalent combination of education and experience

Certificates and Licenses: None required.

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Knowledge of state school attendance laws, and other pertinent laws regarding K-12 education;
Knowledge of specific court procedures regarding truancy
Familiarity with online learning environment
Strong organizational and time management skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel; Web proficiency with ability to effectively perform In

Ability to travel 25% of time for meetings, professional development, et