About Communities In Schools of North Carolina

At Communities In Schools, we are “all-in” for kids. It is our passion– it is our mission. As the State Office for North Carolina, we deliver CIS programs across the state and we collaborate with local affiliate organizations, to provide resources and create communities of caring adults who work hand-in-hand with educators to make sure young people have the tools they need to stay in school and achieve in life. Communities In Schools is the nation’s largest dropout prevention organization, serving 1.5 million students in 2,400 sites across the country. We achieve this mission by hiring bright, creative, and innovative team members who have a passion for what we do. At CISNC, we value relationships, collaboration, learning, integrity and commitment.

Position Overview:

Essential Competencies:

• Accountability & Dependability: takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of the work with attention to details, adapts to changing needs, conditions, situations and displays openness to different or new ways of doing things and sees multiple perspectives.
• Relationship Builder: build constructive working relationships characterized by teamwork, cooperation, mutual respect, and relating well to others. Initiative: self-motivated to resolve issues, problems or situations prioritizing responsibilities to achieve (results).
• Communication: actively listen and engage multiple audiences. facilitate groups, excellent oral and written skills to communicate with a variety of audiences (e.g., teachers, principals, students, volunteers, and parents) in an effective manner; ability to receive feedback.
• Analytical: examines data to grasp issues, draw conclusions and solve problems; technically proficient with data management
• Planning and Organizing: identifies a sequence of tasks and resources needed to achieve goals and prioritizes action steps, timelines, sees potential challenges and opportunities to ensure expected outcomes; evaluates proposed actions.

Essential Functions:

• Coordinate successful implementation of the Communities In Schools Model and quality and assurance standards
• Collaborate with school staff to assess, identify and prioritize student needs
• Coordinate and lead a School Support team, responsible for planning and managing all CIS operations at the school site
• Conduct an annual needs assessment using multiple sources of data, to be used as the foundation for the School Support Plan
• Develop comprehensive School Support Plan, noting interventions and supports using our model of Attendance, Behavior, Coursework + Parent/Family Engagement (ABC+P)
• Provide overall case management to identified students and deliver evidence-based interventions/research driven and supports, based on student and school needs
• Regularly and systematically collect, report, and interpret student data (weekly)
• Regularly, at least quarterly, monitor and adjust the progress toward meeting goals in the School Support Plan, and the progress of individual students, and adjust interventions and supports as needed
• Connect with parent or legal guardian of identified case managed students
• Provide timely reports with data and program information to direct supervisor

• Demonstrated passion and commitment to students, families and the community.
• Awareness and strong concern for the needs of children, youth and their families.
• Understanding of school cultures and trends.
• Ability to work across teams and with multiple supervisors, both on and off-site.
• Bachelor’s degree in education, social work, public administration, social services or related field is required.
• Certified/licensed professional preferred (i.e., teacher, social worker, counselor, mental health).
• 2 years of applicable work experience in the education, youth development and/or mental health field.
• Valid North Carolina driver’s license and insurance.
• Technologically proficient in all office technology systems including developing spread sheets, word processing, email, webinars, and Facetime.
• Previous experience in a student data or case management system highly preferred.