El Monte City School District Position Description Position: School and Community Liaison Position Number: Department/Site: School Site FLSA: non-exempt Reports to/Evaluated by: Site Supervisor Salary Grade: 10 Summary Coordinates parent involvement and participation in school site activities and services and provides parent-to-parent support for families with school-aged children at home, hospital, or other locale. Assists parents in understanding school programs, objectives, and procedures. Distinguishing Career Features The School and Community Liaison provides communications, instructional assistance, and referral support to parents, families, and students including those qualifying for home schooling. School and Community Liaisons and other positions such as those connected with parent education and early intervention are part of special funded programs combining education support and social services. Advancement potential exists to positions of higher skill level based on need and compliance with the job qualifications. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Provides parent-to-parent support through personal contacts and within the home and/or other locations away from school sites. Receives referrals and responds to requests for resource information and parent support. Collects and provides parents and students with school work and returns completed assignments and quizzes to teachers. Assists teachers in establishing home-school participation, by implementing parent education and orientation, assisting parents with up-to-date awareness of school curricula and activities, providing awareness to additional school and community programs for qualified parents and families, and by encouraging committee involvement. Assists parents with recruitment of new students. Serves in the capacity of introducing the concept of schooling, translation, and support for families new to administrative processes. Assists with enlisting parent volunteers (including interpreters) to help with home school needs. Assembles small groups of parents for helping each other and for developing home school networks. May locate and orient volunteer parents. Assists in the development and presentation of parent workshops for families on topics of interest to families. Participates in public awareness activities at the District or during community events (health fairs, etc.) which may include evening and weekend hours. Maintains logs of parent contacts, learning materials distributed, support groups, parent workshops, etc. Maintains activity log and travel expenses. Assists with parents and students training that enhances the self-identity, self-esteem, awareness and pride among pupils by accomplishing the same with parents. Promotes the values of education and encourages attendance, participation and achievement. Performs clerical work such as attendance verification, correspondence, scheduling events and arranging rooms, filing, etc. Translates English to Spanish and vice versa. May provide support to events such as but not limited to, standardized testing, by distributing, collecting, and counting documents. Attends community-based programs and events to keep up-to-date with trends and be more familiar with other resources. May arrange for transportation for attendees. Performs other duties as assigned that support the overall objective of the position. Qualifications Knowledge and Skills The position requires basic knowledge of the principles and practices of age appropriate child development and guidance applicable for an educational setting. Requires basic knowledge of the subjects taught in the District schools, including arithmetic, grammar, spelling, language and reading, with sufficient competency to assist students with individual studies. Requires knowledge of basic clerical and record keeping processes. Requires knowledge of and skill at using personal computers, audiovisual, and other equipment to support learning, record information, and send communications. Requires sufficient human relation skills to work productively and cooperatively with teachers, students, and parents in informal settings, exercise patience when conveying information, and demonstrate sensitivity to the special needs of students. May require knowledge of and competency in a second language. Abilities Requires the ability to assist teaching staff and program coordinators with implementation of instructional goals and activities. Requires the ability to interact with teachers, parents, and specialists in order to carry out assigned duties. Requires the ability to administer assignments and tests, and perform general clerical tasks. Requires the ability to make informal presentations to individual and small groups of students and assist with demonstrations of assigned subject matter to classroom sized groups. Requires the ability to relate positively to students in a learning environment in a way that builds confidence, social skills, positive behaviors, and recognizes socioeconomic and cultural differences. Physical Abilities Requires the ability to perform indoors in a home, hospital, or other non-school site environment engaged in work of primarily a sedentary nature. Requires near visual acuity to read and write printed materials and computer screens. Requires hearing and speech ability for ordinary and telephonic conversation, to speak to groups, and to hear sound prompts from equipment. Requires ambulatory ability to move about office, classroom, and school grounds, to tutor, assist with presentations, and reach work materials. Requires sufficient manual and finger dexterity to demonstrate teaching aids, to point out important words/figures to parents and students, and to operate personal computers. Education and Experience The position typically requires the equivalent of a high school diploma and one year of experience working with students in an instructional or social service setting. Licenses and Certificates Requires a valid driver’s license. Working Conditions Work is performed indoors with some, yet infrequent exposure to health and safety considerations.