Migrant Advocate Recruiter

Title: Migrant Advocate/Recruiter

 

Qualifications: High school diploma or its recognized equivalent. Fluency in Spanish is preferred.

 

Job Function: Identify, recruit and enroll eligible migrant students and to serve as an advocate for the family to assist in reducing barriers that will ensure migrant students receive a quality education.

 

Reports To: Director of Federal Programs.

 

Performance Standards:

1. Abide by procedures and practices contained in state and federal regulations and other directives issued by the Kentucky Department of Education.
2. Communicate between home and school, continually striving to maintain positive communication.

3. Provide or facilitate supplemental services to migrant children and their families as necessary to enable migrant children receive a quality education.
4. Ensure communication is available to families in their native language.
5. Encourage family engagement through attendance at parent-teacher conferences, family nights and/or the Parent Advisory Council.
6. Meet and maintain contact with each student's classroom teacher(s) to determine levels of academic proficiency and how the migrant program can assist the child to achieve.

7. Meet with each student to determine if he/she is performing well academically and is adjusting to teachers, peers, and school.
8. Monitor grades, academic achievement, attendance, and behavior.
   9. Make home visits to: meet with parents/guardians; assess the home environment; determine needs of other children who may reside in the home; and seek the involvement of parents/guardians in their child's education through modeling, coaching, and placement of educational or training materials in the home.

 

 

Migrant Advocate/Recruiter

10. Make other home visits and/or parent contacts as needed.

1. Continually seek and participate in appropriate professional development and training opportunities at the local, regional and state levels to enhance existing skills and to learn new skills for the job.
2. Collaborate with school and community resources for health, social, and other identified needs through appropriate referral and follow-up, including transportation if needed.
3. Work with community based agencies, local farmers, grocery stores, health department, and community action to recruit eligible families and children to the program.
4. Compile and maintain data for completing a needs assessment of the program and for all reports needed at the local, regional and state levels.
5. Plan and conduct a summer school experience that meets the academic needs of each student and encourage children to participate in any additional summer enrichment activities.
6. Conduct personal interviews with the parents of potential migratory students to identify, recruit and enroll all eligible students in the district under the ages 3 - 21 that haven't graduated from high school or received a GED.
7. Perform related duties and assume other responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor or superintendent.