Position Title:

Family Engagement Coordinator, Liberty Partnership Program (Part-Time)

Department/School:

Liberty Partnership Program

Salary/Pay Rate:

$25/hour

Job Summary:

The Marist Liberty Partnerships Program (LPP) is a dropout prevention and college access program for underrepresented school students in grades 5-12 in the Poughkeepsie School District. The Family Engagement Coordinator is responsible for fostering strong partnerships between the Marist LPP staff, school district staff, and the families of students enrolled in the Marist Liberty Partnerships Program. This role focuses on promoting family involvement in educational activities, addressing concerns, and ensuring effective communication between the school and the home and serves as the primary liaison between families, school, and LPP staff.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associate's degree in Human Services, Psychology, Social Work, or related fields of study
• 1 - 3 years of relevant work experience 

Essential Functions:

• Conduct outreach to engage parents/guardians in their children’s education
• Develop and implement a communication system for LPP students’ parents/ guardians (i.e. send correspondences to students and parents/guardians and compose newsletters)
• Develop, implement, and supervise Marist LPP activities and initiatives that foster parent/guardian and student participation and engagement, including the Marist LPP After-School Programs
• Help educate parents/guardians and students on relevant issues and meet with school officials to address parent/guardian concerns and create programs to tackle these issues
• Assist with data collection, data entry, and data analysis for reporting purposes
• Perform other related duties as assigned by supervisor.
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Education, Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, or related fields of study
• Bilingual Spanish skills preferred 

Required Application Documents:

Resume, Cover Letter, & Contact Information of 3 Professional References 

About the Department/School:

Liberty Partnerships Program is a New York State grant-funded program that offers comprehensive pre-collegiate/dropout prevention programs and services to youth in grades 5-12 in the City of Poughkeepsie.

About Marist College:

Located on the banks of the historic Hudson River and at its Florence, Italy campus, Marist College is a comprehensive, independent institution grounded in the liberal arts. Its mission is to “help students develop the intellect, character, and skills required for enlightened, ethical, and productive lives in the global community of the 21st century.” Marist educates approximately 5,000 traditional-age undergraduate students and 1,200 adult and graduate students in 53 undergraduate majors and numerous graduate programs, including fully online MBA, MPA, MS, and MA degrees, and also Doctor of Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant programs. Marist is consistently ranked among the best colleges and universities in America by The Princeton Review (Colleges That Create Futures and The Best 386 Colleges), U.S. News & World Report (3rd Most Innovative School/North), Kiplinger’s Personal Finance (“Best College Values”), and others. Marist’s study abroad program is ranked #1 in the nation by the U.S. State Department’s “Open Doors Report” and has also received the Senator Paul Simon Award for First Year Abroad programs in Italy and Ireland. Marist’s Joint Study partnership with IBM, which began in 1988, has brought the College the kind of world-class technology platform typically found at leading research institutions. To learn more, please visit https://www.marist.edu/about 

Type of Position:

Part-time

Classification:

Administrative (Hourly)

Months per Year:

12

Work Schedule:

Monday-Friday 1:00pm-5:00pm

Hours per Week:

20

Location:

Marist College Main Campus

Number of Position Openings:

Equal Employment Statement:

Marist College is committed to creating a diverse workforce on our campus by ensuring that barriers to equal employment opportunity and upward mobility do not exist here. To this end, the College will strive to achieve the full and fair participation of minorities, women, people with disabilities, and any other protected groups found to be under represented.

Equal opportunity means employment, development, and promotion of individuals without consideration of race, color, disability, religion, age, sex, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, or veteran status unless there is a bona fide occupational requirement which excludes persons in one of these protected groups. The College will review its employment policies and procedures to ensure that barriers which may unnecessarily exclude protected groups are identified and eliminated. The College will also explore alternative approaches if any policy or practice is found to have a negative impact on protected groups.

Marist's policy of non-discrimination includes not only employment practices but also extends to all services and programs provided by the College. It shall be considered a violation of College policy for any member of the community to discriminate against any individual or group with respect to employment or attendance at Marist College on the basis of race, color, disability, religion, age, sex, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other condition established by law.