**This positions requires Spanish/English biliteracy.
Our Mission:
At Thurgood Marshall Academic High, students gain the skills they need to go on to lead healthy, productive, and choice-filled lives and graduate with a plan for how they will achieve their goals.
Our Vision:
Thurgood Marshall Academic High School is a multiculturally and multilingually diverse community of scholars that focuses primarily on ensuring our students graduate with the skills necessary to identify and define their goals, plan for post-secondary success, and achieve in college and career.
At TMAHS, students and staff hold themselves and each other to high expectations. We utilize project-based learning to explore and create relevant, real-world experiences that challenge our students to think creatively and critically. We nurture safe, supportive, and joyful classrooms that are rooted in antiracism and rigor. Our students and staff feel a strong sense of self, of belonging, and of purpose and strive for excellence.
TMAHS is a community school that authentically partners with students, families, and the larger San Francisco community. Our students are empowered to learn and grow through meaningful field trips, work-based learning, wrap around services, and out of school time programming.
Our Guiding Principles:
- We support the whole person
- We implement experiential learning
- We embrace and celebrate our community’s cultural diversity and shared experience
- We are rooted in strong collaboration
- We integrate language, literacy and content
The Role:
The Family Partnerships Coordinator serves as the primary bridge between families and the school community. This position is responsible for building strong relationships with families, coordinating family engagement efforts, supporting attendance improvement initiatives, assisting with student enrollment and transitions, and ensuring families have meaningful opportunities to participate in school life.
The Family Partnerships Coordinator works closely with students, families, counselors, administrators, teachers, and community partners to strengthen family-school partnerships and help create the conditions for student success.
**This is a school year position.
Key ResponsibilitiesFamily Engagement & Leadership
- Build strong relationships with students, families, and caregivers.
- Serve as a welcoming and accessible point of contact for families.
- Conduct outreach through phone calls, text messages, meetings, and home visits.
- Recruit and support family leaders.
- Reestablish and facilitate family leadership groups, including PTO, ELAC, and AAPAC.
- Plan family meetings, workshops, education nights, and engagement events.
- Increase family participation in school events, celebrations, exhibitions, and decision-making processes.
- Support schoolwide efforts to strengthen belonging, engagement, and school pride.
Communication & Outreach
- Coordinate multilingual communication with families.
- Develop and distribute family newsletters and outreach materials.
- Ensure families receive timely information about school programs, opportunities, deadlines, and events.
- Provide interpretation and translation support for Spanish-speaking families.
- Support family-facing communications, presentations, and outreach campaigns.
Attendance & Student Success
- Conduct attendance outreach and support families in addressing attendance barriers.
- Review attendance data and follow up with families regarding unexcused absences, particularly for students experiencing chronic absenteeism.
- Help families understand attendance policies, graduation requirements, and pathways to student success.
- Collaborate with counselors, deans, teachers, and administrators to improve attendance and engagement.
- Use a strengths-based approach that emphasizes care, relationship-building, and problem-solving.
Counseling & Student Support Collaboration
- Serve as a member of the Coordinated Care Team.
- Attend Student Success Meetings and Counseling Team meetings as assigned.
- Support counselors and administrators with family outreach and communication.
- Provide interpretation support during SSTs, family conferences, and student support meetings.
- Assist with scheduling meetings involving students, families, community partners, and support providers.
Enrollment & Transitions
- Support student recruitment, enrollment, intake, and onboarding efforts.
- Serve as an ambassador for Marshall through school tours, information sessions, family meetings, and community events.
- Conduct home visits and family meetings to support student transitions, enrollment, and re-engagement.
- Partner with feeder schools, community organizations, and alternative education programs to support enrollment and retention.
Community Schools Collaboration
- Collaborate closely with counselors, administrators, the Wellness Center, Good Samaritan Family Resource Center, and community partners.
- Refer families to appropriate school-based and community resources when needed.
- Maintain documentation and reporting related to family engagement, attendance, and grant-funded initiatives.
- Participate in Community Schools planning and implementation efforts.
- Support an equitable, welcoming, and inclusive environment for all families
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a connector, organizer, and advocate who is equally comfortable facilitating a family workshop, organizing a PTO meeting, conducting a home visit, supporting a student success meeting, or helping a family navigate the transition to high school.
They believe that strong family partnerships are essential to student success and are committed to ensuring every family feels welcomed, informed, valued, and connected to the Marshall community.
Minimum Qualifications: Four (4) years of college-level coursework. (30 semester units or 45 quarter units equal one year); and Two (2) years of verifiable experience (one year = 285 hours) of paid or volunteer work in the community with culturally, ethnically and socio-economically diverse population of parents of public-school students. Such experience should include programing or activities planning and coordination and parent education.
Pay: $31.57 - $38.73 per hour
Benefits:
- 403(b)
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
