Responsibilities

• Initiate and develop a marketing plan for the school newsletter and brochures.
• Establish formal/informal partnerships with community and corporate agencies.
• Initiate community outreach using appropriate cultural and linguistic strategies.
• Coordinate events and celebrations including culturally diverse activities that affirm the international heritage of all students and their families.
• Develop strategies to ensure parent and family involvement in the school.
• Assist in the coordination of parent/community advocacy and support for the school.
• Make phone contact with students' parents/guardians.
• Identify resources collaborators/speakers to facilitate dialogues and presentations for the student body.
• Initiate and develop corporate partnerships that will provide additional financial and programmatic resources for the school.

Requirements

• Education: High School Diploma or GED
• Forty-eight (48) Credit Hours of College Coursework or an Associate's Degree, or a passing score on one of the two following Formalized Standardized Assessments: ParaPro Assessment (http://www.ets.org/parapro/ ) or WorkKeys Certificate of Proficiency for Teacher Assistants (http://www.act.org/workkeys/profcert/index.html ).
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong communication skills
• Demonstrated success in establishing community partnerships and networks
• Experience working with young people
• Demonstrated experience working with community-based organizations, particularly those that work with migrants and immigrant families
• Sensitivity to student cultural and special needs
• Ability to work as a member of a team.
• Current authorization to work in the United States - Candidates must have such authorization by their first day of employment

Preferred

• Associate's degree.
• Computer literacy.
• Proven experience in fundraising, grant writing, and report writing of projects.
• Proven managerial expertise in an urban setting.
• Experience working in urban schools.
• BPS values linguistic diversity and believes that candidates who speak another language bring added value to the classroom, school, and district culture and diversity. BPS is particularly interested in candidates who are fluent in one of BPS' official languages: Spanish, Creole (Cape Verdean), Creole (Haitian), Chinese, Vietnamese, Portuguese, & Somali.