Bilingual Community School Family Outreach Liaison

Terms of Employment: 10-MONTH

Exemption Status: NON-EXEMPT

Grant Funded

AFSCME SALARY SCALE UA Grade 8-9

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EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE

•    High school diploma or general educational degree (GED) required; associate degree preferred.

•    At least two years of experience working in family support, community outreach, or a similar role, preferred.

•    Experience coordinating and/or managing programs in an educational, non-profit, and/or human services setting, preferred.

•    Experience in an educational setting and/or interpreting language for minority families, preferred.

QUALIFICATIONS

•    Fluency in English and Spanish – reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

•    Ability to assist families, staff, administrators, and the community of English learners.

•    Knowledge of community resources and services available to families. 

•    Understands and respects the different economic, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds of families.

•    Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with diverse populations.

•    Ability to work collaboratively with families, school staff, and community stakeholders. 

•    Proficiency in digital communication tools (i.e., Microsoft Office 365) and platforms to engage families and the community.

•    Demonstrates attention to detail, accuracy, and thoroughness; applies feedback to improve performance; monitors own work to ensure quality.

•    Strong written and verbal communication skills; writes clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and grammar; able to read and interpret written information.

•    Follows Standard Operating Procedures; prioritizes and plans work activities; completes tasks correctly and on time.

•    Ability to work flexible hours to support evening and weekend family engagement events and activities, as needed.

•    Maintains confidentiality with student, family, and school information.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS  
•    Works with the Community School Coordinator to assist multi-language learners (MLL) in accessing school and community resources, including educational support, healthcare, nutrition programs, and social services.
•     Assists the Community School Coordinator as a point of contact for families, providing timely and relevant information about school initiatives, resources, and opportunities for involvement.
•    Serve as a liaison for multilingual learner students to remove barriers to promote student achievement.  
•    Assist multi-language learner students and families by providing wrap-around services and activities, including referrals to agency/organization programs in coordination with the school-based and district Community School Coordinators.
•    Collaborate with Community School Coordinator, program personnel, school staff, and parents/families to develop and complete annual Community Schools program needs assessment activities. 
•    Develop programs for multi-language learner families to (1) help their children improve their academic achievement and (2) become active participants in the education of their children through meetings and workshops with families.
•    Facilitates the collaboration of community resources and promotes family and individual connections for immigrant families with the Charles County community.
•    Disseminate Community Schools' needs assessment data to establish the need to serve multilingual learner students and families. 
•    Represents international families with various community agencies.  
•    Attends Community Schools steering committee meetings and other school-based or community meetings as needed.  
•    Coordinates with the Judy Center Instructional Specialist to ensure that multi-language learners (MLL) families receive information in their native language. 
•    Assist multi-language learner families with the school registration process in coordination with the International Registration Coordinator.
•    Attend professional development opportunities to increase multi-language learner (MLL) family engagement capacity.
•    Other duties as assigned under the supervision of the Community School District Liaison.

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS & PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
The environmental factors and/or physical requirements of this position include the following: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations; and the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-50 pounds. Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand, and finger dexterity, including the ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard. The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear.

Charles County Public Schools reserves the right to re-advertise and modify the content of vacancy announcements at any time; however, this may be the only notice for this position during the noted advertisement period.

The Charles County public school system does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or disability in its programs, activities, or employment practices. For inquiries, please contact Dr. Michael Blanchard, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 Coordinator (students) or Nikial M. Majors, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 Coordinator (employees/ adults), at Charles County Public Schools, Jesse L. Starkey Administration Building, P.O. Box 2770, La Plata, MD 20646; 301-932-6610/301-870-3814. For special accommodations, call 301-934-7230 or TDD 1-800-735-2258 two weeks prior to the event.