Greenwood School District 50 Position Description
Position
Title: Director of Student Support Services
Department: Administration
Reports To: Assistant Superintendent for Administration
SUMMARY:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. Other duties may be assigned.
Attendance/Truancy
- Assure
compliance with federal, state, and local laws and policies concerning
student attendance.
- Monitor
and reconcile PowerSchool 45th,
90th, 135th, and 180th day data
extraction for compliance with the federal Uniform Management Information
Reporting System.
- Consult
and coordinate with school personnel regarding referral of students to
Family Court or other courts having jurisdiction over juveniles; or the
Department of Social Services.
- Gather
information from schools; complete and submit Truancy and Contempt
Petitions to the Solicitor’s Office.
- Serve as
the District Attendance Officer in Family Court.
- Reconcile
Department of Juvenile Justice payment claim with POWERSCHOOL enrollment
data for Business Office to ensure proper reimbursement for our students
residing in Department of Juvenile Justice facilities.
- Receive,
compile, and send to schools Department of Social Services forms for
students receiving Family Independence services.
- Attend
State Department of Education Attendance and Truancy meetings and training
sessions.
Student
Support Services
- Provide
programmatic support to the Student Services Facilitators to ensure all
appropriate resources are utilized to help students remove barriers to
school attendance; resolve personal, emotional, and social problems that
interfere with their ability to attend school regularly, not drop out, and
complete graduation requirements.
- Establish
and maintain effective liaison with various offices and agencies within
the community that may provide specialized or professional help to
students and their parents.
- Consult
and collaborate with school personnel and community agency personnel in
establishing and planning for respective roles in improving the quality of
student outcome and developing solutions.
- Provide and/or
coordinate in-services and community presentations to keep Student
Services Facilitators informed of community resources.
- Serve as
District representative in community meetings and advisory boards, as
assigned.
Dropout Coordinator
- Assure district submits all
completed dropout data required
the State Department of Education.
- Assist schools with student dropout
issues and compilation of dropout data.
- Attend
State Department of Education Dropout meetings and training sessions.
McKinney
– Vento Homeless Assistance
- Serve as
the district homeless liaison.
- Work with
community agencies and schools to ensure that homeless child and youth are
identified, enrolled, and receive equitable access to education and
support services.
- Review
and revise district policies to meet federal guidelines.
- Disseminate
public notice of the educational rights of homeless children and
youth.
- Provide
in-services to school personnel and community agencies as federally
mandated.
- Compile
and maintain data for required annual reports to the State Department of
Education.
- Compile
grant data and submit the end-of-year report and the Education for
Homeless Children and Youth Data Collection Form in a timely manner.
- Assure appropriate
expenditure of funds.
- Submit
budget reports to the State Department of Education for reimbursement
- Represent
the school district on the GAMES (Greenwood,
Abbeville, McCormick, Edgefield, Saluda)
Homeless Coalition.
- Work
closely with the Bowers-Rodgers Home for Neglected and Abused Children and
with MEG’S House, the local domestic violence shelter.
- Confer
with the Greenwood
emergency shelters to compile and maintain required State Department of
Education funding documentation forms.
- Confer
with POWERSCHOOL/Attendance clerks to assure proper coding in the school
management system.
- Provide
required documentation to the district Business Office for proper
disbursement of funding received for students who temporarily reside in
emergency shelters.
- Submit grant proposals for funding
through the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.
- Assure
compliance with all federal regulations of the grant.
- Attend
State Department of Education McKinney-Vento Homeless meetings and
training sessions.
Medical
Homebound Instruction
- Assure
compliance with federal, state and school district laws and mandates
concerning medical homebound.
- Assist
schools and families with medical homebound issues and concerns.
- Assist
schools in securing homebound teachers.
- Reconcile
physician ordered medical homebound days with days of instruction received
to assure student has received appropriate services.
- Assure
homebound correctly entered in PowerSchool data
system for funding reimbursement purposes.
- Process
paperwork for homebound teacher payroll and travel reimbursement, submit
to Business Office for payment.
- Complete
reimbursement forms for agencies/institutions that provide residential
placement for District 50 students.
- Attend
State Department of Education Medical Homebound meetings and training
sessions.
Safe & Drug Free
Coordinator
- Responsible for the federally funded
grant that provides funds for implementing proven effective programs and
curricula in the areas of drug and violence prevention.
- Develop, submit, and monitor the
Safe and Drug Free grant.
- Gather, organize and submit to the
State Department of Education yearly data.
- Assure appropriate expenditure of
funds.
- Submit budget reports to the State
Department of Education for reimbursement.
- Attend
State Department of Education Safe and Drug Free meetings and training
sessions.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Supervises
assigned staff and program areas.
Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the
organization's policies and applicable
laws.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this
job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty
satisfactorily. The requirements listed
below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities
to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
Masters Degree in social
work. Certification as Social Worker
III. At least three years of successful
experience in social work.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret scientific and technical journals,
financial reports, and legal documents.
Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to
prescribed style and format. Ability to effectively present information to
administrators, top management, public groups/community, and Board of
Education.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:
Ability to apply concepts such as
fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
REASONING ABILITY:
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES:
Ability to develop effective
working relationships with students, staff and the school community. Ability to communicate clearly and concisely,
both orally and in writing. Ability to
perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and the Board of
Education policies.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are
representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform
the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of
this job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to
walk, talk or hear. The employee must be
able to meet deadlines with severe time constraints and interact with the
public and staff in addition to meeting multiple demands from several
people. The employee is required to work
irregular or extended work hours.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here
are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the
essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work
environment is usually quiet.
The information contained in this job description is for compliance
with the American with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list
of the duties performed for this position.
Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding
this position and additional duties may be assigned.