Special Education - Georgetown, Georgia

Job Description

Job Description

The Student Success Mentor will meet with students at least twice per week, monitor grades, academic engagement, classroom and school behavior and meet with administration and/or teachers regarding the students' needs and successes. The mentor will be responsible for positive encouragement between the student, administrators and home regarding his/her school success.

• Serve as the primary Check & Connect interventionist for identified students.
• Provide individualized mentoring, progress monitoring, advocacy, and family engagement.
• Conduct regular student check-ins to build trusting and supportive relationships.
• Monitor student attendance, behavior, discipline, academic performance, and school engagement.
• Work with students to establish goals and develop strategies for improving academic and behavioral outcomes.
• Identify barriers that may interfere with student attendance, achievement, behavior, or school connectedness.
• Collaborate with families, teachers, counselors, administrators, and special education staff to address student needs.
• Provide ongoing encouragement, problem-solving support, and accountability for students.
• Help students strengthen self-advocacy, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Connect students and families with appropriate school and community resources and services.
• Promote positive relationships and communication between the student, home, and school.
• Recognize and reinforce student progress, accomplishments, and positive behaviors.
• Support interventions designed to improve educational outcomes and reduce disciplinary removals from the instructional setting.
• Maintain appropriate documentation of student contacts, interventions, progress, and outcomes.

Qualifications  Required:  

• High school diploma or GED required; associate's or bachelor's degree in education, counseling, social work, psychology, or a related field preferred.
• Experience working with school-age children or adolescents in an educational, mentoring, youth development, or community setting.
• Ability to build positive, supportive, and trusting relationships with students.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills when working with students, parents/guardians, teachers, and administrators.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle student information professionally.
• Dependable, organized, and able to maintain accurate records of student contacts, progress, concerns, and interventions.
• Ability to monitor student grades, attendance, academic engagement, and behavior and communicate concerns appropriately.
• Ability to collaborate with teachers and administrators to identify student needs and celebrate student successes.
• Demonstrates patience, consistency, professionalism, and a positive attitude.
• Ability to encourage students to set academic, behavioral, attendance, and personal goals and monitor progress toward those goals.

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