Contracted for 185 days. Salary commensurate with Rank and Experience. Benefits include state retirement and state sponsored health insurance plus additional optional benefits.

Applications will be reviewed upon receipt and interviews may be conducted on a rolling basis. Applications will be accepted until a candidate has successfully fulfilled all pre-employment requirements and the vacancy is officially filled.

BASIC FUNCTION

Provides leadership, supervision and direction to the district’s programs and activities related to pupil personnel services. Administers state and district policies related to membership, attendance of students in the district and maintains a census of all school age children in Dawson Springs; provides advice and direction to Principals and other district staff related to pupil personnel and student attendance. The job is highly visible in the district and community, with much contact with community leaders and agencies. Coordinates and implements the development of programs and procedures for inter-agency and intro-agency involvement.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintains knowledge of current laws, regulations, school board policies and procedures, as well as emerging trends and current research in pupil attendance to increase school attendance and Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) funding.
• Enforces the compulsory attendance and immunization laws and regulation, and enforces an accurate system of attendance accounting for all children enrolled in the District.
• Interprets student-related regulations established by the State Department of Labor.
• Maintains an efficient system of transfer of pupil records, intra-district and inter-district, and their storage; including an orderly procedure for granting of hardship and voluntary transfers.
• Maintains an accurate system of accounting for tuition pupils, including forms, transfers between systems and membership information, and maintains pupil census directed by statute.
• Coordinates the district’s pupil personnel activities with court and community agencies.
• Participates in all region and state meetings regarding Pupil Personnel.
• Processes all requests for out-of-district applications, student transfers, administrative overrides, special programs, and racial classification, per Board of Education policy.
• Works with all cases concerning legal custody, guardianship, resident certificates, and racial classification.
• Provides leadership in the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of:
• District-wide workshops and departmental in-service.
• Statistical Reports
• Court case review/case management
• District and school based attendance audits
• Technology in pupil accounting
• Visits the homes of students to confer with parents and participates in individual or group counseling sessions.
• Identifies indigent pupils throughout the district and provides for the needed service required.
• Serves as liaison between the school and the parent, court, police authorities, community agencies and the local and state boards of education.
• Works with school administrators and coordinators in identifying and counseling potential dropouts, truants, and those students in need of social service.
• Supervises school census and enforces compulsory attendance laws for private and parochial schools within the district.
• Confers regularly with the registrar of student personnel services regarding attendance matters.
• Reviews the student personnel file before any investigation or action, and confers with other members of the district who may be involved.
• Provides a written monthly attendance report at all regular school board meetings; will attend board meetings as requested by Superintendent of Schools.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Superintendent of Schools. 

MINIMUM QUALFICATIONS

• Master’s degree with Kentucky certification in administration and/or supervision endorsed for Director of Pupil Personnel.
• Three (3) years successful supervisory and administrative experience in pupil personnel services or the equivalent.
• Knowledge of state statutes and regulations related to pupil personnel services.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated ability to prepare easily understood reports
• Demonstrated ability to train and provide work direction to others
• Demonstrated ability to work in computer applications and Infinite Campus 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing. The work requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations. The work at times requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching with the ability to lift, carry, push or pull light weights. The work requires driving automotive equipment.

This position will also include duties related to Federal and State Reporting, Safe School Reporting, Infinite Campus Operations, Alternative Programs Coordinator, New Employee Orientation and Training, FRAM Coordinator, Civil Rights Data Reporting, and other dutes as assigned by the Superintendent.

FOR THIS TYPE OF EMPLOYMENT, STATE LAW REQUIRES A NATIONAL (FBI) AND STATE (KSP) FINGERPRINT SUPPORTED CRIMINAL HISTORY BACKGROUND CHECK PLUS A LETTER FROM THE CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES STATING THE EMPLOYEE IS CLEAR TO HIRE BASED ON NO FINDINGS OF SUBSTANTIATED CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT FOUND THROUGH A BACKGROUND CHECK OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT (CAN) RECORDS MAINTAINED BY THE CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES AS A CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT. KRS 160.380

As a condition of initial employment, all employees shall pass a medical examination. The medical examination shall be reported on the form required by Kentucky Administrative Regulation available at the Board of Education office. The examination shall be provided by a licensed physician, physician assistant (PA), or Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. Each medical examination shall include a risk assessment for tuberculosis as required by Kentucky Administrative Regulation. Individuals identified by that assessment as being at high risk for TB shall be required to undergo a tuberculin skin test. 702 KAR 001:160

All applicants being considered for employment shall be required to submit to a urinalysis test for the detection of illegal use of drugs and alcohol. An applicant refusing to complete any part of the drug testing procedure will not be considered a valid candidate for employment with the District, and such will be considered as a withdrawal of the individual’s application for employment. If substance screening shows a confirmed positive result for which there is no current physician’s prescription, a second confirming test may be requested by the HRC. If the first or any requested second confirming test is positive, any current job offer will be revoked. The applicant will not be permitted to reapply for employment with the District for at least twelve (12) months and not until the applicant shows proof of successful completion of a drug rehabilitation program or proof that the applicant is no longer engaging in illegal drug use. DSISD School Policy 03.23251

As a condition of initial employment, all employees shall complete training for the use of physical restraint and seclusion in school districts. 704 KAR 7:160