Community School Coordinator

Children's Institute; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Health insurance

Retirement plan (403b)

Tuition reimbursement

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

Job summary

Children's Institute seeks a Community School Coordinator to lead school teams in designing and overseeing comprehensive community school programs. You will collaborate with school leaders to implement preventions, interventions, and enrichment activities aligned with the annual plan.

You will coordinate with the FET/clinical teams on referrals, manage partnerships, monitor grants, and ensure program outcomes are tracked and reported.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in education, social work, public health, or related field.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Proficiency with data systems and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Leads a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team to assess culture and climate and creates a yearly implementation plan.
• Ensures compliance with billing requirements and tracks program evaluation data.
• Facilitates evaluation and gap analyses and needs assessments onsite.
• Oversees linkage of students needing support and timely interventions and monitors progress.
• Ensures high-quality functioning of health, dental, mental health, and dual-generational services.
• Collaborates with clinical teams to triage mental health referrals.
• Supports attendance initiatives and multi-tiered interventions.
• Builds relationships with admin, staff, partners, and community to address needs.

Skills

Spanish & English bilingual

Communication skills

Microsoft Office 365

Education

Bachelor’s degree in education, social work, public health, or related field

Master’s degree in education, social work, public health, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office 365

Job description

Community School Coordinators are dedicated to leading school teams in the pursuit of education and care. The Community School Coordinators collaborate closely with members of the school leadership team and are responsible for the design, implementation, and oversight of a set of programmatic preventions, interventions and enrichment activities designed to support the holistic development of students and caregivers as determined by the annual Community School plan. Works closely with the Principal/Designee to co-design, develop and oversee all Community School programming at the school site.

DUTIES

Summary

Community School Coordinators are dedicated to leading school teams in the pursuit of education and care. The Community School Coordinators collaborate closely with members of the school leadership team and are responsible for the design, implementation, and oversight of a set of programmatic preventions, interventions and enrichment activities designed to support the holistic development of students and caregivers as determined by the annual Community School plan. Works closely with the Principal/Designee to co-design, develop and oversee all Community School programming at the school site.

Essential Duties

• Leads a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team to assess the culture and climate needs of the school community and creates a responsive, culturally relevant annual implementation plan.
• Ensures compliance with DMH billing requirements and activities provided, within CII’s documentation standards and input of evaluation data used to measure ongoing program effectiveness of services and program outcome measures.
• Facilitates evaluation and program improvement gap analyses and needs assessment activities onsite frequently.
• Supports and participates in the Coordination of Services Team (COST) to oversee the linkage of students requiring support, timely implementation of interventions, the progress monitoring of students receiving interventions, and the evaluation of intervention effectiveness
• Assures the high-quality functioning of other Community School programming including health, dental, mental health, and dual generational support services.
• Collaborates and communicates with CII’s FET and/or clinical team to ensure receiving and triaging of mental health referrals and/or urgent needs, as needed.
• Supports attendance initiatives, as indicated for school absenteeism and additional PBIS initiatives, as well as a multi-tiered intervention framework.
• Establishes strong, productive, and trusting relationships with the administrative team, school personnel, partnership organizations, students, and community to seek input on needs and address barriers to learning and social-emotional needs/ services.
• Manages day-to-day operations of the Community Schools model, including managing partnerships, site plans, and coordinating resources.
• Leads a committee of stakeholders (advisory councils) who meet a minimum of six times a year to provide input on the work. Communicates through use of social media, fliers, stakeholder presentations etc. to ensure that stakeholders are aware of the assorted opportunities.
• Forms partnerships with agencies in the community that enrich the school environment and will provide services for children and families: mental health, before, during and after school enrichment, summer camps, arts, sports, adult programs, medical, mentoring, as needed.
• Monitors Community School’s budgets and collaborates with the partnership manager and if at a grant-funded school, collaborates with the school’s operations and finance manager as well as grant accountants to review quarterly fiscal reports on funds spent and the impact of programs.
• Reviews and monitors progress on grant goals and metrics on a quarterly basis by analyzing data, impact, and providing recommendations on partnership expansion
• Collaborates with the grants team to ensure the timely submission of all required reports and supporting materials.
• Performs all other duties as necessary for the good of the agency as requested by the direct supervisor.

Additional Duties

• Other duties and special projects as assigned.

Activities

• Continuously monitor grant implementation pursuant to grant requirements (e.g. responsible for hiring, administering program activities on time, and tracking/achieving performance metrics).
• Come to check-ins prepared to discuss progress and any roadblocks or challenges
• Interface and enter data into the PowerSchool system in addition to CII’s Salesforce causing double logging
• Attend bi-weekly Professional Development meetings to review budgets, grant bench-markers and apply data entry supports for required logs
• Connection with leads at respective schools to discuss Chronic Absenteeism and Homeless/Foster Care to be more aligned with our Chronic Absenteeism work.

Data

• Collect and analyze all relevant data, requesting support from Data Analytics when necessary, immediately notifying Development if a performance metric established in the grant application will not be met.
• Update Grant Tracker prior to check-ins with progress-to-date.

Expenditures

• Monitor grant expenditures to ensure grant spending is on-track with budget (to date and projected in the future). If there is a variance beyond 10% for any line item, inform Development immediately to discuss whether a budget modification is necessary.
• Responsible for making all purchases, or making sure other purchasers accurately tag expenses to the grant resource code.
• Monthly, pull Workday report of grant expenditure progress and audit for accuracy, including whether projected spending is on track to meet grant budget thresholds. If changes are required, inform Grant Accounting and provide them with the information needed to adjust.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in education, social work, public health, or related field required.
• Master’s degree in education, social work, public health, or related field preferred.

Other Qualifications

• Possesses a valid driver's license and state-required auto insurance.
• Requires some travel to sites.
• Bilingual Spanish & English speaking preferred.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to handle confidential information.
• Maintains patient privacy, including protecting the confidentiality, safeguarding the integrity and availability, and limiting the use and disclosure of patient Protected Health Information (PHI) to authorized individuals and entities.
• Participates in, conducts, and sustains performance quality improvement activities according to designated role and responsibilities.
• Sensitivity to service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Punctual and dependable attendance.

Certificates, Licences, Registrations

• None required

Computer Skills

• Must have advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 (i.e., Word, Excel, Teams, etc.).

Vision Requirements

• No special vision requirements

Noise Level

• Moderate noise

Required Training

• New Hire Orientation
• AB-1825: Sexual Harassment Prevention training
• Mandated Reporter

Compensation

$70,304.00 USD - $78,936.00 USD

In accordance with California law, the expected pay range for this position is included in this posting. The actual compensation will be determined based on factors permitted by law. New hires will be offered a salary at the starting point of the range to maintain internal inequity and allow opportunity for future salary growth. CII salaries are determined based on comprehensive internal and external market analysis, as well as the skills, education, and experience relevant to each position.

Benefits

• Generous paid PTO, plus 10 paid holidays and CII is closed between Christmas and New Year
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible employees and qualified dependents
• 403b Retirement Plan with employer contribution for eligible employees
• Up to $4,500 in tuition reimbursement per calendar year
• Eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Employer paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary Supplemental Insurance
• Opportunity for growth & advancement
• Professional development & continued training
• Team building & bonding through company sponsored events & activities

Contingencies

• Influenza immunization or declination
• COVID-19, MMR and Tdap immunizations
• Education verification
• Reference check
• Background fingerprint clearance (FBI, DOJ, CACI) conducted by the California Department of Social Services
• Drug and alcohol screening
• Tuberculosis screening