
Attendance Specialist, Foothill High School 47-25-26 at Tustin Unified School District
About the Employer
The mission of the Tustin Unified School District, a learning community rich in heritage and committed to a tradition of excellence, is to ensure that each student optimizes individual achievement through an educational system characterized by challenging and exciting curricula and inspiring personalized instruction, in partnership with our dynamic and involved communities.
Job Description / Essential Elements:
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DEFINITION:
The Attendance Specialist, under the supervision of the school administrator, manages the high
school attendance office; oversees and trains clerical staff and students assigned. Responsible
for effective operations including records and reports of all attendance; communications with
administrators, teachers, parents, law enforcement and other public agencies regarding absences,
truancies, related laws, and other matters of student attendance.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
• Maintains accurate records and lists of student attendance; enters or scans attendance,
enrollment, truancies, and change of status data into computer.
• Performs a variety of specialized and clerical duties related to the attendance function at an
assigned school site involving period-by-period attendance; prepares a variety of lists, forms,
notices and correspondence related to attendance matters.
• Maintains records and accounting for “Limited Independent Study Program” (LISP) and
home teaching.
• Prepares reports of Average Daily Attendance (ADA) and various other reports.
• Identifies and reports “no-show” students at the beginning of each school year.
• Communicates with administrators, parents, students, and teachers regarding attendance and
truancies.
• Oversees students in a variety of clerical duties.
• Performs related tasks as required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Knowledge of:
• Attendance laws, codes, rules and procedures.
• Operation of standard business equipment including computers and computer program
relative to the position.
• Record-keeping techniques.
• Health regulations and safe working methods and procedures.
• Proper lifting techniques.
• District policies, rules and regulations.
Ability to:
• Type at a net corrected speed of 45 words per minute.
• Train and provide work direction and guidance to student aides and others as assigned.
• Observe health and safety regulations
• Work cooperatively with others.
• Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
Education/Training/Required Certification:
• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Four years increasingly responsible experience involving maintaining student attendance
records and statistics.
• College-level training in personnel administration, accounting, management, or related
subjects desirable.
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 the job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger,
handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and talk and/or hear. The employee frequently is
required to walk or sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; reach with hands and
arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee may occasionally lift and or move up to 50 pounds. Work conditions may include
exposure to fumes, dust, odors, cleaning agents and chemicals. Specific vision abilities required
by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and the ability to
adjust focus.
Requirements / Qualifications
*Only Edjoin online applications are accepted for this position.
Requirements / Qualifications
*Only Edjoin online applications are accepted for this position.