Community School Directors support the Flint Center for Educational Excellence’s (the Center) mission of building a community that works for all Flint kids by creating high-performing Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) partnerships that ensure Flint kids, their families, and communities thrive. Community School Directors operate at the site level as counterparts to School Principals, serving as strategic thought partners and leaders responsible for coordinating and aligning resources within FSCS sites to achieve educational goals.
Focusing primarily on strategies that address attendance, behavior, grade-level proficiency, and youth and family partnership, Community School Directors will ensure schools become places where Flint kids thrive by strategically partnering, mobilizing, navigating, and interconnecting multiple systems to achieve success. With support from Implementation and Partnership Consultants, Community School Directors will lead dynamic teams that facilitate attendance interventions, coordinate expanded learning opportunities, manage data-driven interventions, and ensure a welcoming and inclusive culture for Flint kids and their families. The Community School Director will oversee all community education and afterschool intervention strategies pursued by the Flint Center at the school site, reporting to the Director of Thrive Afterschool.
Expected work hours are Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. with additional hours as needed.
Site Leadership & Strategic Planning
• Coordinate with School Principals to develop and implement a broad-based, stakeholder-engaged process to craft and execute a strategic plan for the FSCS site
• Manage and monitor the effectiveness of site-based staff in support of FSCS strategy and special projects
• Facilitate communication with families and community stakeholders to create and maintain a partnership between home, school, and community
• Collect, review, and analyze student data to develop new strategies and continuously improve services
• Ensure all site-based activities remain in compliance with state and federal school-aged childcare regulations
• Connect students to prevention, early intervention, and intensive service programs, including case management and referral services to outside agencies
• Communicate relevant data, concerns, co-developed solutions, and outcomes to various community stakeholders
• Recruit, train, and coordinate all site-based volunteers, instructors, and vendors
• Strengthen relationships between schools and families through programs
• Facilitate meetings and workshops for families, school staff, community members, and the Flint Center to promote a positive school culture
Program Oversight
• Develop, monitor, and execute site-related budgets, program plans, and schedules
• Ensure all child safety protocols are followed, including regularly updated emergency forms; Emergency Action Plan; and attention to special circumstances, such as health concerns, food allergy plans, and custody arrangements
• Ensure compliance with all applicable rules and regulations from the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and adhere to partnering districts’ policies and procedures, as well as procedures outlined in the licensed Before/Afterschool Program Handbook
• Collaborate with the Expanded Learning Coordinator to develop and execute (culturally- and developmentally- appropriate) data-driven strategies that address the desires and demonstrated needs of Flint kids, including improvement of academic performance, attendance, social-emotional regulation, promotion rates, and graduation rates
• Collaborate with Flint Center staff and site teachers to align expanded learning opportunities with in-school-time lesson plans and activities
• Manage vendors to ensure the highest quality service to Flint Kids and families
• Communicate with school administrators, staff, and other organizations to coordinate site activities, resolve issues, and share information
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the systematic evaluation of the FSCS strategy, including activity and event effectiveness
Strategic Integration
• Participate in faculty, grade-level, and attendance team meetings, parent-teacher conferences, in-service trainings, and regular meetings with school principals
• Contribute to family-facing activities in collaboration with school staff
• Coordinate with the Research & Evaluation Manager to execute a community needs assessment to determine the resources and services needed at sites
Other Duties
• Regular local and regional travel may be required.
