Salary: $49,700/year
Position Objective
The Student Success Coordinator serves as an early educational intervention specialist for youth in foster care, taking a proactive approach to identifying educational barriers before they become long-term challenges. Through meaningful conversations, educational planning, and coordinated support, this position partners with youth, caregivers, case management teams, schools, and community providers to empower youth to better understand their educational journey, advocate for themselves, and make informed decisions about their future.
Essential Functions
Youth Engagement & Early Intervention
- Build trusting relationships with youth through strengths-based conversations that encourage confidence, self-advocacy, and active participation in planning for their educational future.
- Help youth explore educational interests, career pathways, post-secondary opportunities, and extracurricular involvement while preparing them to successfully navigate high school and adulthood.
Educational Advocacy & Case Coordination
- Review educational records, transcripts, and available documentation to identify potential concerns requiring follow-up.
- Assist youth, caregivers, and case management staff in understanding graduation requirements, credit recovery opportunities, educational accommodations, and available school-based supports.
- Coordinate timely follow-up with caregivers, case managers, schools, and community partners to remove barriers and ensure educational concerns are addressed.
- Provide guidance and consultation on educational concerns, including school performance, educational planning, GED options, post-secondary planning, and navigating school systems.
Partnership & Collaboration
- Serve as a trusted educational resource by building collaborative relationships with youth, caregivers, schools, case managers, and community partners to improve educational outcomes.
- Maintain proactive communication with youth, caregivers, schools, case managers, and multidisciplinary partners to ensure coordinated support and timely follow-up.
- Attend transition meetings and other multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate to support educational planning and successful outcomes.
- Collaborate closely with Youth Services team to identify trends, remove barriers, and strengthen educational support across the system of care.
Case Management & Documentation
- Independently prioritize workload, manage follow-up activities, and exercise sound judgment in responding to emerging educational needs.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and thorough documentation of all youth contacts, recommendations, follow-up activities, and outcomes.
- Assist in collecting and analyzing program data to evaluate educational outcomes and identify opportunities for program improvement.
- Maintain compliance with all applicable Florida Statutes, Administrative Code, DCF requirements, agency policies, and contractual expectations.
An essential function of all employees is to provide excellent customer service by being professional and respectful in all interactions each and every day. It is also expected that all employees are timely and responsive in their communication with others.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Builds genuine rapport with adolescents and creates trusting relationships.
- Is naturally curious and asks thoughtful questions that uncover underlying concerns.
- Communicates effectively with youth, caregivers, educators, and multidisciplinary partners while confidently navigating complex systems.
- Is highly organized, independently manages competing priorities, and demonstrates exceptional follow-through.
- Thinks critically, exercises sound judgment and proactively identifies solutions before challenges escalate.
- Maintains accurate documentation, professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality.
- Values collaboration while working independently with minimal supervision and demonstrates a commitment to equitable outcomes for all youth.
- Is proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and comfortable learning agency databases.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum of two years of professional experience supporting adolescents in educational, youth development, or child welfare settings. Experience within K-12 education, student services, school counseling, or educational nonprofits is strongly preferred.
Preferred
- Experience navigating Florida K-12 education systems
- Experience supporting students in foster care
- Knowledge of graduation requirements, credit recovery, school enrollment, ESE/504 plans, and educational rights of foster youth
Special Conditions
- Travel throughout the service area.
- Successful completion of all required background screenings, including FBI, FDLE, local law enforcement, employment verification, DMV, Social Security trace, and drug screening.
- Completion of required annual training hours.
PHYSICAL & MENTAL REQUIREMENTS: (N=Needed P=Preferred)
Analyzing (N), Bending-neck (P), Bending-waist (P), Calculations (N),
Carrying/Lifting (N), Climbing (P), Crawling/Crouching (P), Finger Movements (N), Handling Objects (N), Kneeling (P), Pushing/Pulling (P), Reaching (P), Reading & Comprehending (N), Reasoning (N), Sitting (P), Squatting (P), Standing (P), Twisting-neck (P), Twisting-waist (P), Walking (P), Writing (N)
POSITION STATUS: Exempt
Supervision level:
1 = general direction, 2 = direction, 3 = general supervision, 4 = supervision, 5 = close supervision
Supervised by: Assistant Director of Youth Services
For more information regarding our screening process please visit Clearinghouse.com .
Family Partnerships of Central Florida is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. These employers also maintain Drug-Free Workplaces. Requests for Auxiliary Aids for Hearing Impaired or Limited English Proficiency Candidates may be made with a minimum of five (5) days notice to C Hernandez at (321) 752-4650.
