Job Summary

The JAG Multi-Year Specialist takes personal responsibility for ensuring that 35-60 high school students who are at risk of dropping out of school and/or failing to successfully transition into the workplace achieve expected outcomes, including graduation and placement into postsecondary education, the workforce and/or the military. To achieve the expected outcomes, the JAG Specialist will provide targeted youth with employability and life survival skills through classroom instruction based on JAG's high school competencies (37 to 81 depending on the number of years of enrollment in the Multi-Year Program), guidance/counseling, academic remediation, work-based learning experiences, summer activities, postsecondary, and career advisement and provides a twelve-month follow up period following graduation. This position is a full-time, year-round position dedicated 100 percent to the implementation of the JAG Model and responsible for delivering the JAG High School Curriculum. The Specialist is responsible for reinforcing the competency-based lessons during other periods of time in which students and graduates are engaged in the JAG Multi-Year Program.

Students in the Multi-Year Program, targeted for classroom participation, will be those deemed to have a high degree of difficulty in being promoted to the next grade, achieving a successful transition in high school, unclear about high school graduation, postsecondary planning, careers and/or making a successful transition from school to future opportunities.

VALID ALABAMA TEACHING CERTIFICATE REQUIRED

The goals are:

1. Assure students are moving through the system and are receiving support to graduate from high school and move into postsecondary education, employment and/or military post-graduation.
2. Create a sustainable system of supports throughout the local community for students through graduation and one year of follow-up services and targeted outcomes.
3. Assure high levels of accountability for student success and services provided to all students through the e-NDMS data management system.
4. To achieve expected state and national performance outcomes by providing students with the following opportunities: employability skills, guidance/counseling, academic remediation, career and postsecondary planning, and a twelve-month follow-up period.

Core Competencies

The Specialist should possess the following Core Competencies:

Leadership

• Set a positive example
• Coach others to create, enhance or maintain effective performance
• Build quality and consistent relationships with students, faculty and business leaders

Planning

• Demonstrates ability to plan and prioritize
• Assist the Teacher of Record in understanding the deficiencies of the students with regards to the JAG competencies.

Customer Focus

• Exhibits a genuine focus on at-risk youth
• Meets or exceeds customer expectations
• Uses e-NDMS daily to record student data and to be accountable for program outcomes
• Understands customer needs and priorities
• Provides timely service
• Resolves issues and conflicts with difficult customers or partners

Quality Orientation

• Uses and analyzes data to establish a course of action for continual performance improvement
• Eliminates duplicity
• Demonstrates a commitment to quality and consistently produces a high level of output
• Recognizes quality problems and takes appropriate action to improve quality outcomes
• Aims to get it right the first time
• Thoroughly completes tasks with quality and attention to detail
• Regularly checks and follows Operating Standards/Processes and Procedures
• Meets established department productivity standards without reducing quality

Time Management

• Meets established deadlines
• Coordinates work activities to maximize efficiency and effectiveness
• Keeps socializing from interfering with own and other team members performance
• Works overtime as needed
• Manages time off effectively
• Demonstrates good attendance practices, reports to work on time, is punctual when returning from breaks
• Adapts to changing priorities

Accountability

• Assumes responsibility for tasks
• Takes initiative to seek new assignments when primary job is completed
• Regularly meets established deadlines
• Demonstrates company attendance policy and practices

Innovation

• Establishes a process for engaging community leaders and businesses in local activities and providing opportunities for students.
• Utilizes PBL best practices to fully engage all students in the program
• Recommends solutions for continual program and/or organizational improvement
• Volunteers new ideas, actions to achieve goals, and time and effort needed to achieve results.

Continuous Improvement

• Eliminates barriers in the flow of new ideas
• Demonstrates a willingness to change, i.e. use new tools and techniques
• Contributes suggestions to do things more effectively and efficiently
• Participates in continuous improvement initiatives
• Participates in Professional Development

Oral Communication

• Actively participates in conversations
• Adapts own style to suit different circumstances
• Encourages contributions from all meeting participants
• Ensures appropriate people are informed of progress or critical information
• Uses appropriate medium to deliver information or respond to requests
• Demonstrates cultural sensitivity
• Effective within and across work groups
• Reinforces company messages including strategy, values and behavior

Knowledgeable

• Demonstrates appropriate skills for the JAG Multi-Year Specialist position
• Keeps up to date with developments in technical, professional field
• Learns new tasks well by listening, questioning and trying the new task
• Works to expand job knowledge and skills
• Is aware of key stages in the business process and how each function contributes and establishes a cost-effective program
• Understands the commercial pressures for increasing productivity and continuous improvement

Teamwork

• Promotes and maintains positive work environment to promote team member confidence
• Treats team members with respect
• Works productively with others and builds on ideas to achieve organizational and individual objectives
• Implements agreed upon initiatives
• Participates constructively in team meetings
• Seeks out new challenges for team members

Primary Job Responsibilities

1. Establishes a positive and on-going supportive relationship with students, families, principals, administrators and school faculty to support students in the JAG Multi-Year Program.
2. Collaborates with school counselors, advisors, community resources, and teachers to support and reinforce the curriculum and to consistently build support for academic success, career exploration, goal setting, leadership development, college planning, personal counseling, either directly or through linkages in the community to assist in overcoming barriers to graduation and/or success in the workplace.
3. Analyzes student data and barriers and confers with the JAG advisory committee (or School Success Team) to identify and develop a pool of qualified students in need of intensive academic support such as tutoring, extended learning, mentoring, and counseling. Students with multiple barriers to success will be candidates for the program.
4. Delivers the curriculum for the targeted 35-60 students in grades 9-12; ensures they receive competency in the 37 core competencies through classroom instruction and Project Based Learning, and as many of the 87 total high school competencies during their high school participation in the JAG program.
5. Administers testing including JAG pre-/post-tests to students in the classroom and documents results in the data management system (e-NDMS).
6. Monitors basic skills improvement (