Performs a variety of duties involving contact with the public. This includes determining the appropriate action necessary and making recommendations to assign students to schools. - Administers student assignments and explaining the school's systems policies and procedures. - Coordinates and administers the student application and selection process of the magnet schools program for the district. - Responsible for evaluating and managing data and specialized information including capacity, and student projections. - Assigns, directs, and supervises activities of assigned professional and clerical assistants, ensuring adherence to established policies, procedures and standards; assists and advises employees, as necessary, resolving problems as non-routine situations arise. - Administers the student assignment process including reassignments, tuition, and release to other systems. - Oversees issues of student domicile for the district. - Receives, reviews, and records all transfer requests for the student transfer and appeal process. - Works with Student Support Services and the Department of Exceptional Children to determine appropriate placements for all new students enrolling in the district. - Directly manages the foreign exchange program including working with exchange companies to receive, review, accept and enroll students requesting to study in our high schools. - Works with students entering our system domiciled in group and foster homes. - Assist with the implementation of boundary line changes. - Works directly with the Director of Social Workers and staff to establish and monitor students attending schools using a Residence Affidavit. - Manages discipline status affidavits documents as required by the State of North Carolina. - Directly supervises all student records and public requests. - Assist school administrators with all aspects of student placements and enrollments. - Attends meetings, conferences, and hearings as a representative of the department. - Participates in and contributes to professional activities such as professional development, workshops, and community meetings. - Performs other related work as required. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities - Thorough knowledge of program guidelines and professional standards. - Considerable knowledge of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study/ Common Core and Essential Standards. - Considerable knowledge of School Board policies, procedures, and standards regarding education and testing. - Considerable knowledge of the current legislature, literature, trends, methods, and developments in the areas of assessment and testing. - Considerable knowledge of the ethical guidelines applicable to the position as outlined by professional organizations and/or federal, state and local laws, rules, and regulations. - General knowledge of the principles of organization, supervision, and administration. - General knowledge of database, statistics, and graphical software available. - Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things. - Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments or directions. - Requires the ability to read and understand a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, articles, proposals, manuals, legislation, graphs, charts, etc. - Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, charts, graphs, statistical analysis, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. - Requires the ability to speak to a variety of people with poise, voice control, and confidence. - Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables. - Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. - Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment. - Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. - Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with persons acting under stress. - Ability to maintain complete and accurate records and to develop meaningful reports, charts and graphs from them. - Ability to use common office machines and popular computer-driven word processing, spreadsheet, and file maintenance programs. - Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments. Minimum Training and Experience - Bachelor's degree in education administration, business administration, public relations, or a related field, with a master's degree preferred, and at least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in administration or public relations; or any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.