Job Description

Fleming County Schools


Job Description


Updated January 2024

Class Code: 0080

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position Title: Director of Pupil Personnel

Responsible to: Superintendent

Basic Function: To ensure that every student gains full advantage from his/her


educational opportunities as a result of good attendance behavior. To provide leadership and supervision in the planning, implementation and evaluation of pupil personnel and pupil attendance services. To administer the enrollment registration attendance system, accounting and census functions of the district, communicate and enforce Kentucky laws and regulations related to enrollment and truancy.

Performance Responsibilities:

1. Maintains a professional awareness of current laws and regulations regarding child welfare and attendance by having a working knowledge of state law, Board policy, and administrative regulations.
2. Identify all school-age children who are unable to participate in the regular school program because of mental, physical, or emotional handicaps so that they are properly exempted and participate in educational programs appropriate to their needs.
3. Work closely with teachers, school nurses, attendance clerks, guidance counselors, and principals regarding students who are absent or tardy too frequently and who have not responded to the corrective efforts made by the building principal.
4. Compile monthly and annual district-wide attendance reports from all schools and provides direction for teacher whose registers are in questionable order.
5. Conduct such auditing of enrollment, attendance, and transfer records, in the various schools as necessary to assure compliance with applicable laws and sound principles of accounting for student personnel.
6. Participate in individual or group information sessions or mentoring, sessions whenever requested by a member of the administration or the student personnel team.
7. Participate in case conferences.
8. Visit any student who appears to have exceptional problems, which interfere with school attendance.
9. Coordinate driver license monitoring with high school personnel to ensure implementation of the No Pass No Drive Law.
10. Work with school counselors to individualize the student's program in terms of need and to identify and counsel potential dropouts and to conduct exit interviews.
11. Be available to administrators, teachers, students, and parents on an individual and/or group basis, to explain attendance laws and policies and to encourage regular attendance.
12. Serve as liaison between the schools, the district and the parents, the courts, community agencies and police authorities.
13. Maintain the district records of attendance and student accounting, including projection of future enrollments, transfer of students, and determination of tuition-paying status. Assists in implementation and enforcement of school district boundaries.
14. Plan and supervise the process of conducting annual school census, and works with private and parochial schools in checking whereabouts of students reported in the census but not enrolled in the schools.
15. Collaborate with Chief Informational Officer with Infinite Campus student tracking services.
16. Create a data dashboard of student attendance to gain an understanding of attendance issues and truancy.
17. Create a data dashboard of student eligibility for all sports.
18. Support athletic scheduling, attend athletic activities, ensure athletic tryouts are ethical and fair, mediate player/coach/parent disputes, and other duties as directed by supervisors.
19. Demonstrate regular attendance and punctuality. Adhere to the appropriate code of ethics.
20. Perform other duties as assigned by the superintendent.

Qualifications:

Rank I and DPP certification with a minimum of three years of teaching experience. Knowledge of the community and experience in collaborating with a variety of community partners.

Terms of Employment:

Salary and work year to be established by the board of education.

Evaluation:

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of board policy for the evaluation of certified personnel. Fleming County Schools

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