Position Overview: Culture Liaison

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Reports to: Dean of Culture
Category: Classified
Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) Status: Non-Exempt
Pay Cycle: 11 months
Salary Range: Starting at $22/hour commensurate with experience
Benefits: Full-time employees of ICEF Public Schools are entitled to Medical, Life Insurance, Dental and Vision plans, and various retirement programs offered by ICEF Public Schools.

ICEF Public Schools is a nonprofit charter school network committed to educating and empowering courageous leaders who embrace their full potential for college, career, and life. Our work is rooted in five mission-aligned pillars:

• Educating and Empowering Courageous Leaders
• Providing a Diverse Community that Honors Each Student’s Uniqueness
• Fostering Academic Excellence
• Nurturing Healthy Minds
• Inspiring Critical Thinkers

To learn more, visit www.icefps.org

Job Description

Position Summary

The Culture Liaison supports the Dean of Culture in maintaining a safe, positive, structured, and student-centered school culture. This role plays an important role in both positive culture-building and behavior correction. This includes celebrating scholars who demonstrate school values, supporting scholars who need redirection, communicating with staff and families when appropriate, and helping ensure consistent follow-through with schoolwide behavior systems.

This is an on-site position based at a school site; remote work is not available for this role.

Essential Functions

School Culture and Climate

• Support the Dean of Culture in implementing schoolwide culture systems and expectations.
• Reinforce school values, routines, and procedures throughout the school day.
• Promote a positive school culture by recognizing scholars who demonstrate respect, empathy, community, integrity, perseverance, and excellence.
• Support schoolwide incentives, celebrations, assemblies, and culture-building activities.
• Help identify culture trends and communicate those trends to the Dean of Culture.
• Support a calm, safe, and respectful campus environment.

Behavioral Health & Restorative Justice

• Oversee the school’s approach to discipline, ensuring that redirection, reflection, and restorative conversations are applied consistently across the campus.
• Supervise the documentation of major behavior incidents and interventions, ensuring high-quality follow-through on re-entry plans and restorative practices.
• Act as the primary point of escalation for significant behavior concerns or safety issues communicated by the Culture Liaison.
• Lead high-level communication with families regarding behavioral trends and serious disciplinary concerns.

Student Support and Relationship Building

• Build positive relationships with scholars across grade levels.
• Serve as a trusted adult who supports scholars in making safe and respectful choices.
• Check in with scholars who need additional culture or behavior support.
• Help scholars develop self-regulation, conflict-resolution, and problem-solving skills.
• Encourage scholars to take responsibility for their actions and repair harm when needed.
• Support the standards for a calm, safe, and respectful campus environment during high-traffic periods like nutrition, lunch, and transitions.
• Support students in meeting schoolwide expectations for behavior, attendance, uniform, and participation.

Collaboration and Communication

• Work closely with the Dean of Culture to ensure alignment with schoolwide culture systems.
• Communicate with teachers regarding scholar behavior, resets, and return-to-class expectations.
• Collaborate with administrators, counselors, operations staff, instructional assistants, and other support staff as needed.
• Share timely updates with the Dean of Culture about major incidents, repeated behavior concerns, or safety issues.
• Maintain professional and student-centered communication with scholars, families, and staff.
• Attend culture meetings, student support meetings, or leadership meetings as requested.

Additional Duties

Performs other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; frequently required to talk or hear; and occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms, and/or use hands to finger, handle, or feel. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to move and/or lift up to twenty-five (25) pounds. 

Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Minimum Qualifications

• An earned High School Diploma or the equivalent, and
  • Two years of college (48 unites), or
  • Associate’s Degree or higher, or
  • Passed the California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST)
• Demonstrated excellence in writing, editing, and verbal communication
• Strong leadership, team management, and project execution skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally 
• Proficient use of Google-based applications
• Tuberculosis (TB) clearance
• Background check clearance
• Commitment to educational equity and ICEF’s mission

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher
• At least 2 years of experience in a public charter school, charter management organization or public school district
• Proficiency in using school-based information systems and applications
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) a plus

ICEF is an Equal Opportunity Employer

ICEF Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, association with a member of a protected class, bereavement leave, color, disability (physical, intellectual/developmental, or mental health/psychiatric.), exercising the right to family care and medical leave related to serious health condition of employee or family member, child bonding, or military exigencies, engaging in protected activity, gender identity or expression, genetic information or characteristic, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristic), military and veteran status, national origin (includes language restrictions), pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions, Pregnancy Disability Leave (PDL), race (includes hairstyle and hair texture, religious creed (includes dress and grooming practices), reproductive health decision making, sex/gender, and sexual orientation.