SY2024-2025 Family Engagement Manager

NOTICE: All Ingenuity Prep employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before their start date. All persons offered a position will be required to provide valid proof of vaccination prior to starting employment or must be approved for a medical or religious exemption.

Ingenuity Prep prepares students in Ward 8 to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civic leaders. Our innovative instructional model promotes small-group learning for students, collaborative teaching teams, and robust coaching and professional development opportunities for staff.

We are looking for a passionate person, who’s willing to support family involvement through community and school engagement, while facilitating the implementation of best practices for family engagement. 

To ensure success as the Ingenuity Prep Family Engagement Manager, you will report to the Director of Family and Community Engagement (DFCE). The Family Engagement Manager position exists to function as part of the network of assistance for students and families in early childhood, elementary, and middle school academies. This position will help coordinate communications and activities among the staff, families, and community. 

WHAT WE’RE ABOUT

• Mission: We’re closing the opportunity gap. Students and families in Southeast D.C. have too few options for high-quality elementary, middle, and high schools.  Ingenuity Prep aspires to right this systemic injustice, providing an exemplary educational option for Southeast D.C.’s students and families.
• Model: We pair high expectations with high support. Too often, our students are underestimated.  At Ingenuity Prep, an innovative teacher development model, paired with best-in-class training from strong instructional leaders, allows us to grow great teachers who, ultimately, lead high-expectation and high-support classrooms.
• Results: Our students are defying expectations. Ingenuity Prep’s students outperform their neighborhood peers on rigorous, national, college-track assessments.  Already out-performing many of their more privileged peers around the city, in the coming years, Ingenuity Prep’s students will provide an expectation-defying and achievement-gap-closing proof point — showing what our kids are capable of when we provide the right opportunities, expectations, and support.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

The core responsibilities of the Family Engagement Manager role at Ingenuity Prep include:

Attendance Coordination and Management:

• Create and implement attendance programming and interventions that move student data concerning truancy and chronic absenteeism
• Regularly communicates with school principals, families, and teachers regarding matters related to student attendance and welfare. 
• Gather and report on attendance data
• Coordinate home visits
• Ensure student attendance meetings occur as required 
• Facilitate training of school personnel in matters related to student attendance and welfare 
• In partnership with the Attendance Team:
• Develop and maintain a backup table in Infinite Campus, by creating monitoring tools, and developing a strategy for the year with developing supporting dashboards, and tools. 
• Provide oversight of the CFSA Educational Neglect submission process
• Periodically review Qlik to ensure timely and accurate submission. 
• Prepare attendance and student reports, as requested. 

Family Engagement:

• Plans, coordinates, and provides activities and programs related to family engagement that are aligned with the school's strategic plan, including: 
• Provide resources to families to promote the emotional, physical, and academic success of students
• Develop and facilitate the implementation of best practices for family engagement
• Collaborates with Family PRIDE Academy and Family Engagement Leads to develop family activities to increase student and family engagement/achievement
• Oversee the maintenance of family engagement surveys and data
• Provides training to parent liaisons on building parent capacity to increase student achievement, 
• Maintain a professional awareness of federal and state regulations regarding McKinney-Vento (MKV) to ensure MKV students and families needs are identified, and steps are taken to meet those needs through school resources and community agencies

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

Ingenuity Prep Family Engagement Manager might be the right fit for you if:

• Have the desire to engage with students, families, and school community in fun and interactive ways
• Can work effectively with multiple stakeholders, including Ingenuity Prep’s families; you consistently treat others with dignity and respect
• You are flexible and persistent; you have a strong ability to identify and solve challenging problems. 
• Ability to express facts and ideas clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
• Excellent skills in planning, organization, and leadership; ability to prioritize tasks and responsibilities
• You are meticulously detail-oriented, are driven to meet deadlines, and have used that skill set to plan or support the planning of events 
• You will thrive in a fast-paced, high-performing, but sometimes unpredictable environment
• You have superior initiative - you take instruction well, but do not wait for it
• You prioritize your own continuous learning and desire feedback 
• You are proficient with MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint or Google Suite alternatives

Travel Requirement: This role does require, at times, traveling and visiting student residences and centralized community locations regarding attendance throughout the Washington, DC, area. Interested candidates should have consistent and reliable transportation of their own to fulfill the assigned duties of the role. 

MORE ABOUT US

Ingenuity Prep offers among the strongest compensation and benefits packages of any public charter school in Washington, D.C. Our compensation and benefits package includes:

• Salary starting at $65,000 with increasing commensurate with experience.
• 100% of medical and dental premiums for employees paid for by Ingenuity Prep, along with 100% of dependent premiums.
• 100% of employee’s short­ and long-term disability and life insurance plans paid for by Ingenuity Prep.
• A minimum of two weeks maternity/paternity leave at 100% pay for all staff -- regardless of gender. Over time, that increases to as much as six weeks -- all at 100% pay.
• A 100% match -- up to 3% -- on your 401K retirement plan.
• A 100% Ingenuity Prep-paid cell phone plan. You can even bring your current number into our plan.
• MacBook Air computer for professional and personal use.

Ingenuity Prep does not make hiring decisions on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, disability, veteran status, religion, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.