Bilingual SIS Coordinator - IDEA Edgecliff (Immediate Opening)

IDEA Public Schools; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Comprehensive benefits package

Tuition reimbursement

Paid family leave

Mental/Behavioral health support

Dental and vision plans

Disability and life insurance

Vacation time

Referral bonuses

Professional development

Relocation allowance

Job summary

IDEA Public Schools is seeking a SIS coordinator to drive attendance accuracy, enrollment targets, and data integrity across campuses. You will manage attendance processes, enrollments, and records while collaborating with students, parents, and staff to meet organizational goals.

The role emphasizes data quality, timely reporting, and compliance with attendance procedures, with benefits and a performance bonus potential as part of the compensation package.

Qualifications

• HS diploma or GED required; Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Experience with student information/records, data entry, support, systems management/entry
• Experience in PowerSchool preferred
• Bilingual required

Responsibilities

• Owns the attendance process for College Prep students and coordinates with students, staff, and parents to ensure daily attendance.
• Communicates attendance reporting to staff (Chronic absenteeism, progress towards goals).
• Documents attendance changes and corrects data within 24 hours; ensures attendance submissions on time.
• Ensures paper rosters are signed and dated and aligns with official attendance taking times.
• Maintains all enrollment and PEIMS deadlines and coordinates with PEIMS Data Quality Team to ensure data quality.
• Supports campus operations tasks and liaises with key stakeholders to bind processes to the SIS.

Skills

Bilingual

Records management

Data entry

Education

HS diploma or GED

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Tools

PowerSchool

Job description

Description

Role Mission:

The mission for the Student Information Systems (SIS) coordinator is to achieve 97.5% average daily attendance, 100% enrollment, maintain 100% data accuracy and 100% compliance with IDEA’s attendance procedures. The SIS coordinator organizes all of the campus operation tasks with key stakeholders and executes campus operation processes that bind to our student information system.

What We Offer

Compensation:

• Compensation for this role is set at an hourly rate ranging between $20.74 for 0 years of experience and $25.93
• This role is also eligible for a performance bonus based on team performance and goal attainment.

Other Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children. Some of the special benefits we offer at IDEA include:

• Paid Family Leave: Eligible staff may receive up to 8 weeks of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child, based on their tenure with the organization and caregiver designation.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Staff members may apply for up to 50% of tuition paid toward a qualifying degree program, up to $5,250 maximum per year subject to manager discretion and budget availability.
• Employer-Paid Mental/Behavioral Health: 5 face-to-face counseling sessions within a year, unlimited 24/7 telephonic counseling, and other work-life services available at no cost.

Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, generous vacation time, referral bonuses and professional development. IDEA may offer a relocation allowance to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.

What You Bring -- Competencies:

• Mission Focus – focuses on IDEA’s core purpose of getting all students into college
• Record of Results – holds high expectations for self and others to achieve and surpass intended goals
• Problem Solving – able to synthesize, analyze, and prioritize data and opportunities to develop strategies for achieving quantifiable goals
• Communication – effectively conveys information using a variety of channels and techniques
• Continuous Improvement – proactively identifies opportunities to improve and consistently reflects on past actions to guide future decisions,

Qualifications:

• Education: HS diploma or GED required; Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Experience: Experience with records or student information, data entry, support, systems management/entry required
• Experience in Powerschool preferred
• Bilingual: Required

What You’ll Do – Accountabilities:

97.50% ADA for Academy & College Prep

• Owns the attendance process for College Prep students
• Works with students, staff and parents to ensure students attend school every day
• Communicates attendance reporting to staff, including: Chronic absenteeism, Daily Progress towards Goals
• Documents all attendance changes and corrects attendance data within 24 hours
• Ensure teacher attendance submission is in line with official attendance taking time
• Ensures all paper rosters are signed and dated (if applicable)
• Ensures all attendance report submissions are submitted on time

100% Projected Enrollment for Academy & College Prep

• Paper attendance and student enrollment reconciliation processes solidified two weeks prior to school
• Enrollment goal is consistently hit every week after the first week of school

100% of Student Records received by the First Week of School (FWOS)

• Student records are requested timely from other districts
• All records requests fulfilled within 10 days
• All PEIMS deadlines are met based on the SIS operating calendar
• Increase awareness and provide consistent communication with all key stakeholders (PEIMS Data Quality Team – including Academic Counselor, ELL Coordinator, 504 Coordinator, and Cafeteria Manager)
• Increase awareness with key stakeholders (including ELL Coordinator, 504 Coordinator, HQ SPED Clerk and SPED teachers)
• 25% of cumulative folders completed by September, 50% by October, and 75% by November
• Grade Verification, Re-registration, End of Year tasks, PET/PID, School and Section Enrollment Audits, Transcripts are completed timely and accurately

100% of Existing Students Registered by May 1

• Works closely with parents and business partners to ensure that parents are able to re-register through appropriate channels
• Campus safe and operational one week before the first day of school
• Create paper rosters for the official attendance taking period (OATP)
• Verify enrollment numbers prior to the daily enrollment call
• If enrollment numbers are not met, create a plan to address the gap

We look for Team and Family who embody the following values and characteristics:

• Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes
• We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students

About IDEA Public Schools

At IDEA Public Schools, we believeeach and everychild can go to college.Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to a multi-state network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools.

IDEA Public Schools boasts national rankings on The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report’s top highschoolslists. IDEA serves over 80,000 college-bound students in 143 schools across Texas, Florida, Ohio, and is on-track to maintain its legacy of sending 100% of its graduates to college.

When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.

At IDEA the Staff Culture and Belonging Team uses our Core Values to promote human connection and a culture of integrity, respect, and belonging for all Team and Family members. Learn more about our Commitment to Core Values here: https://ideapublicschools.org/our-story/#core-values