Community School Coordinator

REDWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT

COMMUNITY SCOOL COORDINATOR

RCSD takes pride in our dedicated workforce and strong connection with our students, families, and community. Our highly dedicated and skilled team of professionals provides a safe and supportive, inspirational and rigorous, joyful and inclusive environment for all learners. We are looking to build our workforce with a staff who share this vision and want to instill passion in learning emphasizing student strengths and gifts for all learners: all abilities, all ethnicities and cultural identities, LGBTQ+ youth, and multilingual learners.

The Program Specialist will provide coordination, consultation, and program development for special education students in the district's Special Education Program. The Special Education Program Specialist is directly responsible to the Director of Special Education.

Redwood City School District, through its partnership has engaged in a multi-year effort to evolve selected campuses into Community Schools. Community Schools are

educational institutions that combine the rigorous academics of a quality school with a

wide range of vital in-house services, supports, and opportunities to promote children’s

learning and development. Community Schools rely on partnerships, shared leadership

and integrated service delivery to meet its purpose of supporting the academic

development of students by focusing and addressing the barriers to learning.The Redwood City Community Schools operate under of the following overarching

Goals

• Ensure that all students are prepared to be successful in high school and beyond.
• Ensure safe, healthy and respectful environment for students, staff and community.
• Ensure that all schools are places where children grow intellectually, socially,
  
  

physically, and emotionally.

• Work with our community to engage, support and take collective responsibility for our children and our schools.
  
  

The Community School Coordinator is charged with continuously evolving and

implementing Community School strategies. With support from the district and school

administration, the Community School Coordinator leads, coordinates and oversees

programs and activities on the school campus that support students and their families’

emotional, social and health needs. The Community School Coordinator also

participates in city and county efforts to share and promote the value and benefits of

Community Schools. Initiatives and programs to be orchestrated include, but are not

limited to, family support, after school programs, health insurance enrollment, health

education and access to health services, mental health services, family engagement,

prevention and early intervention, adult education and academic supports.

The Community School Coordinator reports to the Director of School-Community

Partnerships and Principals.

Job Duties

• Orchestrate supplemental student and family activities, including but not limited to
  
  

family support services, health, wellness education and access and mental health

services – child and family, extended day learning opportunities and other services.

• Oversee, manage and integrate and align all extended day learning opportunities
  
  

with the school goals and following grant guidelines and agreements with partners.

• Develop and sustain partnerships with city and county services and non-profit
  
  

agencies to provide supports and opportunities to students and families that meet

their dynamic needs as well as fulfill organizations’ missions.

• Establish protocols to manage and maintain quality partnerships, including, but not
  
  

limited to – development of MOUs, facilitation of regular meetings, planning

sessions, joint work plans and conflict resolution processes.

• Work collaboratively with school administrators to integrate and align non-academic
  
  

services with school priorities and increase accessibility of school campuses to

parents, community members and students. Identify and initiate problem-solving

measures among partners.

• Support the development of youth leadership, parent engagement and family
  
  

support throughout all Community School efforts; institutionalize decision-making

roles for parents and students within the Community School.

• Supervise, support and provide programmatic direction to partner organizations
  
  

personnel according to agreements and MOUs.

• Work collaboratively with school administrators, teachers, parents and youth to
  
  

identify needs and to develop programming that is community responsive.

• Serve on the school site council, ELAC, School Leadership and other meetings
• Design, develop and coordinate special projects.
• Assist with resource development (including grant proposal and report writing).
• Assist with program evaluation (including design, data collection, analysis and
  
  

report writing).

• Develop and maintain office, financial, and computer management systems.
• Participate in county/city professional development and planning efforts,
  
  

administrative team meetings and city, county and/or school district initiatives.

• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Experience/Skills

• Experience in management/administration in a non-profit and/or human services and
  
  

collaborative setting.

• Supervision and co-supervision of diversely skilled workforce.
• A high degree of cultural awareness and competency in cross-cultural practice with
  
  

children and families.

• Experience in collaborative meeting facilitation, problem solving and teambuilding.
• Knowledge and appreciation of the challenges faced by educators.
• Experience in school-based service delivery.
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills.
• Ability to use creativity in addressing needs and challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with data collection and evaluation of programs
• Ability to negotiate and mediate to attain win-win situations.
• Comfortable using computer as tool to communicate, research, monitor programs.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish
• Fund development experience.
  
  

EDUCATION

• Bachelor degree required.
• Masters degree strongly preferred in Education, Public Administration, Social Work,
  
  

Youth Development or related field.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

The Redwood City School District (RCSD) is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. RCSD makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

The Redwood City School District seeks to employ individuals who represent the rich diversity of cultures, language groups, and abilities of its surrounding communities.