Role Mission: The role of the Registrar is to maintain student data and records at the campus level in order to ensure compliance with district and state reportable data audits. The Registrar organizes all of the campus operation tasks with key stakeholders and executes campus operation processes that bind to our student information system as well as processing data related to student enrollment, transfers and withdrawals.
This position reports to the Manager of Information Systems Management (MISM), who will serve as the direct manager, and the Director of Compliance. The school principal will serve as the dotted line manager for the registrar. The registrar is expected to partner with the school principal.
What We Offer
Compensation:
- Compensation for this role is set at an hourly rate ranging between $18.49 for 0 years of experience and $23.11.
- This role is also eligible for a performance bonus based on team performance and goal
attainment.
Other Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children. Some of the special benefits we offer at IDEA include:
- Paid Family Leave: Eligible staff may receive up to 8 weeks of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child, based on their tenure with the organization and caregiver designation.
- Tuition Reimbursement: Staff members may apply for up to 50% of tuition paid toward a qualifying degree program, up to $5,250 maximum per year subject to manager discretion and budget availability.
- Employer-Paid Mental/Behavioral Health: 5 face-to-face counseling sessions within a year, unlimited 24/7 telephonic counseling, and other work-life services available at no cost.
Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, generous vacation time, referral bonuses and professional development. IDEA may offer a relocation allowance to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.
What You Bring -- Competencies:
- Mission Focus – focuses on IDEA’s core purpose of getting all students into college
- Record of Results – holds high expectations for self and others to achieve and surpass intended
goals
- Problem Solving – able to synthesize, analyze, and prioritize data and opportunities to develop strategies for achieving quantifiable goals
- Communication – effectively conveys information using a variety of channels and techniques
- Continuous Improvement – proactively identifies opportunities to improve and consistently reflects on past actions to guide future decisions,
Qualifications:
- Education: HS diploma or GED required, Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Experience: Experience with records or student information, data entry, support, systems management/entry required
- Experience with FOCUS preferred
What You’ll Do – Accountabilities:
Compliance and state reportable data entry
- Builds out the school’s master schedule on Focus and ensures that all required data entry
- Maintains the state/district student database system with proper coding/master scheduling to effectively monitor and update information for the funding county cycles (FTE) that create school budgets
- Ensures that all coding is entered into the student information system accurately and in a timely
manner to maximize funding
- Partners and consults with the correct stakeholders to ensure student schedules are correct
- Reviews all state reportable data and conducts any necessary data clean up to ensure
- Ensures that the school’s master schedule is complete at least two weeks prior to the start of school; ensures that student schedules and rosters are finalized and printed by the first day of school.
- Ensure compliance (to state and company requirements) reporting and record keeping
Enrollment and attendance
- Paper attendance and student enrollment reconciliation processes solidified two weeks prior to
school
- Student registration verification is accurately completed by deadline
- Supports campus operations team in meeting enrollment goals by first week of school
- Ensures teachers enter daily attendance by the designated time; maintains accurate attendance
records in Focus; reports to school administration any gaps in attendance processes
- Owns the attendance process for Academy and College Prep students; communicates
attendance reporting to appropriate staff
- Documents all attendance changes and corrects attendance data by end of day
- Ensures all paper rosters are signed and dated
- Ensures all attendance report submissions are on time
Student Records
- Student records are requested from other districts within five days of the student’s enrollment
- All records requests from other schools/districts will be fulfilled within 5 days
- Upon receiving student records, ensures review of student records to ensure current information, accuracy, and completeness with the state/district regulations and guidelines that all required data is entered into Focus.
- Maintains all student records, attendance, grades, and student data and reviews student records to ensure current information, accuracy, and completeness with the state/district regulations and compliance guidelines.
- All FOCUS deadlines are met based on the Florida Registrar operating calendar
- Increase awareness and provide consistent communication with all key stakeholders
(FOCUS Data Quality Team – including Academic Counselor, ELL Coordinator, 504 Coordinator, and Cafeteria Manager)
- Increase awareness with key stakeholders (including ELL Coordinator, 504 Coordinator, HQ SPED Clerk and SPED teachers)
- Grade Verification, Re-registration, End of Year tasks, School and Section Enrollment Audits, Transcripts are completed timely and accurately
- Assists in clerical and administrative functions to ensure the smooth operation of the school
- Maintains student transcripts and ensures their accuracy
100% of Beginning of Year Systems and Processes are ready for FDOS (First Day of School)
- Works closely with parents and business partners to ensure that parents are able to re-register through appropriate channels
- Campus is operational one week before the first day of school
- Verify enrollment numbers prior to the daily enrollment call
- Ensures that all attendance, data entry, grade collection and data collecting processes are in place and shared with all stakeholders by the first day of school
- Conducts professional development with teachers and staff at the beginning of the year (BOY) training week on how to appropriately take attendance and enter data into Focus as well as how substitutes should collect attendance data
We look for Team and Family who embody the following values and characteristics:
- Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are
capable of getting to and through college
- Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
- Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and
improve quickly
- Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and
change
- Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
- Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes
- We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students
About IDEA Public Schools
At IDEA Public Schools, we believe each and every child can go to college. Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to a multi-state network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools.
IDEA Public Schools boasts national rankings on The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report’s top high schools lists. IDEA serves over 80,000 college-bound students in 143 schools across Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Ohio, and is on-track to maintain its legacy of sending 100% of its graduates to college.
When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.
At IDEA the Staff Culture and Belonging Team uses our Core Values to promote human connection and a culture of integrity, respect, and belonging for all Team and Family members. Learn more about our Commitment to Core Values here: https://ideapublicschools.org/our-story/#core-values
To Apply
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IDEA Public Schools in Florida intends to promote and establish a Drug-Free Workplace Program to maximize safety and productivity in the workplace, enhance our competitive position in the marketplace, without experiencing the costs, delays, and tragedies associated with accidents that result from drug or alcohol abuse by employees. A Drug-Free Workplace means that of our employees must remain Drug-Free both on and off the job, and free from alcohol on the job. In holding to this policy, all staff members will undergo drug testing prior to starting in their new role with us.
To read our full policy, please click the following link: https://ideapublicschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/FL-Drug-Free-Workplace-Policy.pdf