Job Description
Position Description
TITLE: Education Specialist
REPORTS TO: Senior Project Manager
LOCATION: Newport News
JOB SUMMARY: The Education Specialist will ensure that over time all children and youth residing in the community of service, during and after redevelopment have access to a cradle to career continuum of solutions, and are connected to those solutions that will foster their academic performance and college and career readiness. The Education Specialist will support implementation of selected initiatives and activities related to early learners, younger children (pre-school, ES), or older children and youth (MS and HS). The Education Specialist will also support Adult Education by partnering with the Economic Mobility staff. Specific job duties will include, but are not limited to:
- Coordinate supports for families and students to access and have success with high quality early childhood education resources
- Coordinate supports for families and students to access and have success with high quality school and out of school time resources
- Support student's transition to elementary school, from elementary school to middle school, from middle school to high school, and from high school into and through postsecondary education and into the workforce, including any comprehensive readiness assessment determined necessary.
- Support Parent and Family Engagement and supports, which may include supporting families at school or at home.
- Coordinate activities that support post-secondary and workforce readiness, which may include job training, internship opportunities and career counseling
- Coordinate community-based support for students who have attended the schools in the area served by the pipeline, or students who are members of the Greater Dunbar community, facilitating their continued connection to the community and success in post-secondary education and the workforce
- Ensure family and student access to social, health, nutrition and mental health services and supports.
- Write reports.
- Represent Urban Strategies at local meetings, take notes and write up reports to share learning and points of connection.
Job Tags
Internship, Local area,