K-8 Strong Start Specialist (work from home) - Vacancy ID: 195291

Strong Start Specialist ~ Kindergarten - 8th Grade
We provide families an online option for a high-quality, personalized education experience. Students can thrive, find their passion, and learn in an environment that encourages discovery at their own pace. In support of this, we are committed to creating and maintaining a culture of inclusion and diversity where our employees are passionate about serving students and families, treat one another and customers with respect, challenge each other to innovate and always strive to do better. We want you to be part of our team!
The mission of Wisconsin Virtual Academies is to provide an exemplary individualized and engaging educational experience for students by incorporating school and community/family partnerships coupled with a rigorous curriculum along with a data-driven and student-centered instructional model. Student success will be measured by valid and reliable assessment data, parent and student satisfaction, and continued institutional growth within the academic community.
This is a full-time year-round position. Ability to work independently, typically 40 hours per week is required. Ability to work from a professional home office.
Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
• Provide support to students and learning coaches as relates to onboarding of a new student and their learning coach
• Recognize, and through the exercise of discretion and independent judgment along with adherence to policy, when student/family situations and circumstance require differentiated assistance and implement said assistance
• Assess hardware, learning coach and student login and send appropriate documentation prior to start date
• Create auto dialer, welcome letter and PowerPoint to Facilitate an onboarding process for new students
• Create and moderate live class connect sessions in Newrow virtual classroom to orient students to the learning management system and deliver critical information relevant to student’s grade-band.
• Serves as a main point of contact for all non-instructional issues during first week of school, ensuring students have all necessary equipment and know both how and when to access their courses
• Monitor student participation and work to contact students who do not attend
• Outreach to late starting or missing students by phone, email or text to ensure strong start
• Document attendance and completion of Online Learning Course in Strong Start Tracker
• Actively monitor written communication during orientation and respond to student/learning coach accordingly
• Coordinate with Mentor team to ensure students become acquainted with their assigned Mentor
• Provide continued orientation support to students and learning coaches as needed following initial Strong Start programming
• Support completion of universal screener assessment
• Add notes to Strong Start Tracker regarding issues any student in orientation may be experiencing
• Send recordings and PDFs to students who have missed live sessions and document accordingly in
Total View
• Collaborate with various departments to support student needs
• Facilitate and/or support learning coach workshops
• Work closely with Operations Manager and Principals to support the rapidly changing needs of our Strong Start onboarding program
• Provide support with student connection calls when applicable
• Provide support with re-registration efforts

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees