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Job title: Linkage Coordinator
Company: Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Job description: Position Type: Administration and Professionals
Date Posted: 2023-08-27
Location:Administration or As Assigned
INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT AND MISSION
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) serves approximately 37,000 students in 100+ schools. Over the past several years, the Greater Cleveland community has united behind the collective goal of ensuring every child in Cleveland attends a high-quality school and every neighborhood has a multitude of great schools from which families can choose. The Cleveland Plan defines CMSD?s approach to the reinvention of public education and holds our community accountable for the success of Cleveland?s schoolchildren. The Cleveland Plan is supported by Ohio House Bill 525, which provides much-needed flexibility and autonomy for the district and its schools. Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for
performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing his or her school as a high-quality, high-expectations academic center with a focus on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District has developed standards of excellence that the district applies to all parts of the organization inclusive of schools, principals, school leadership teams, networks, and central office. Alignment between Standards of Excellence (SoE) and the district?s Theory of Action helps ensure that principals are able to focus on scholar achievement and that central office supports are timely and effective.
Our Vision for Learning in a Post-Pandemic World:
In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we want each of our learners, both each of our scholars and each of their educators, to be individually and collectively presented with academically / intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their productive struggle and allow them authentic opportunities to demonstrate their work and their learning of academic content and transferable skills in a joyful and adventurous environment.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
Location: Administration or As Assigned
Reports to: Director, Diversity (Humanware)
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Salary Band: 12
Compensation: $45,900.00 - $64,260.00
Functions as a liaison/advocate between the principal, staff, and students while assisting the school's SST (Student Support Team). The Linkage Coordinator is an at-will employee whose primary responsibility is to serve as a student mentor, motivator, advocate, and life coach while providing the necessary links to resources, agencies, tutoring services, and community supports.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for written reports to the Diversity Director
- Ensures that the grant's scope of work is executed
- Motivates eligible students to participate and engage in school
- Provides truancy and behavioral intervention supports
- Monitors students' attendance, behavior, and academics and intervenes when necessary in order to keep students on track for promotion and, ultimately graduation
- Collects the necessary data in order to monitor progress
- Maintains open lines of communication with the parents of the targeted students
- Bachelor's degree in diversity, urban studies, education, or related field; or 5-7 years related experience working in multi-ethnic/culturally diverse environments
- A proven ability to build successful and effective relationships with individuals at all levels
- Demonstrated leadership ability to work collaboratively with students, administration, parents, and community on behalf of the targeted students
- Preferred candidate should be bilingual (Spanish)
- Prior successful experience working in an urban educational environment with at-risk student.
- Excellent organization, written and oral communication, and customer service skills
- Self-motivated and able to multi-task with minimal supervision
- Familiarity with group (team) processes, including a commitment to group guidance and group counseling
- Positive attitude, genuine desire, and passion to serve this community and its most at-risk students
- High moral character and ethical standards
- Must have a valid Ohio driver?s license
- Computer literate and able to learn how to navigate the district's student databases (SchoolNet, eSchool Plus)
- Expected moving, walking, and standing consistent with an office environment and occasionally lifting up to 15 pounds
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms
- The employee is frequently required to talk and/or hear.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to a normal office environment
- Local travel may be required for training/meetings