Attendance Specialist (ERSEA) at Wu Yee Children's Services

About the Employer

Wu Yee means "Protector of Children" Founded in 1977 by social workers and parents concerned about the challenges facing by new immigrants in Chinatown, Wu Yee Children’s Services (Wu Yee) has grown to a city-scale agency serving diverse families throughout San Francisco, and is now the city’s largest provider of Early Head Start. We provide Head Start and Early Head Start programs at our 12 child development centers (CDCs) and through Family Child Care (FCC) homes. Our Home Based services assist pregnant mothers and families with infants. We also provide families with free personal assistance to find the child care that best fits their needs through our Resource and Referral services. The Joy Lok Family Resource Center serves as a hub for families, offering educational playgroups, a toy lending library, parenting workshops, social support networks and public benefits assistance. Wu Yee promotes high-quality care and education for young children by providing support, training and professional development stipends for child care providers. Though the Family Child Care Quality Network (FCCQN) we create opportunities for providers to increase the quality of family child care homes. Our Food Program provides food reimbursements and technical assistance to help family child care providers serve nutritious meals.

Job Summary

Job Summary

This position is part of the Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment and Attendance (ERSEA) Head Start/Early Head Start team, within the Child Development Program at Wu Yee Children’s Services. Primary duties consists of reviewing, tracking and coding attendance for the Head Start/ Early Head Start Center based program options and the Early Head Start Family Child Care Program option. Duties also entail preparation of reports on attendance and daily communication with center staff for tracking attendance. This is a full-time position, M-F, 8:00am-4:30pm or 8:30am-5:00pm. Primary Responsibilities Include: Review Absence Request Form from 12 centers daily Assign absence code and document code on Absence Request Form daily Enter absence code in M-Sign (electronic attendance data tracking system) daily Review Family Child Care attendance sheets and enter absence information into Child Plus data base system weekly. Review M-Sign to identify the unspecified absences daily. Follow up with center staff after 3 days to reconcile unspecified absences. File and maintain attendance documents according to agency recordkeeping system. Generate monthly attendance reports for informing ERSEA Manager, Policy Council and other parties as directed by supervisor. Generate monthly reports from COCOA data base for individual centers and collective agency. Generate reports for individualized center attendance meetings as needed. Assist in providing guidance to staff on federal Head Start regulations, and California Department of Education attendance policies and procedures as needed. Assist in maintaining a complete and accurate enrollment database using ChildPlus.net Participate in year-round program recruitment efforts as directed by supervisor. Participate in staff and team meetings Other duties as assigned Knowledge/Experience/Skills Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Business Administration required. Minimum of 2 years data entry e

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