<p>Position Type:</p> <p>Administrators and Supervisors/Coordinator</p> <p>Date Posted:</p> <p>7/15/2025</p> <p>Location:</p> <p>Center for Education Services</p> <p>Closing Date:</p> <p>07/31/2025</p> <p>&nbsp&nbspAdditional Information: Show/Hide</p> <p>School Coordinator: Enhanced Programs at Funkstown Elementary</p> <p>Category 04 on the A&S Salary Scale, 12-month work year</p> <p>Salary Range: $84,059 - $134,381</p> <p>Reports to: Director of Special Education</p> <p>Employee Benefits Summary</p> <p>Role Overview</p> <ul> <li>To provide an educational program that best meets the instructional needs of students within the policies of Washington County Public Schools. Administer and supervise all school operations. Provide educational leadership to staff and students. Support and provide a safe and secure learning environment. </li></ul> <p>Minimum Requirements</p> <ul> <li>Currently holds or is immediately eligible for Maryland State Department of Education Professional Certificate with Administrator II endorsement. </li><li>Documented successful experience in a school administrator, school-based leadership, or central office role. </li><li>Has three (3) years of documented successful classroom teaching or equivalent experience. </li><li>Experience in utilizing data to facilitate and support decision-making. </li><li>Excellent interpersonal and human relations skills that ensure effective teambuilding. </li><li>Demonstrated success in identifying, growing, and leveraging the potential of staff and teams. </li><li>Ability to manage and monitor a school financial budget. </li><li>Effectively prioritizes and responds quickly to competing demands, especially in times of crisis. </li><li>Possess strong conflict resolution and verbal de-escalation skills. </li><li>Ability to effectively apply knowledge of best practices and educational research. </li><li>Understands universal design for learning, exemplary instructional strategies, and school schedules. </li><li>Ability to work extended workdays, including evenings and weekends, as necessary. </li><li>Must have regular and predictable attendance. </li><li>Ability to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations. </li></ul> <p>Preferred Qualifications</p> <ul> <li>Holds a Master's degree from an accredited university in a clinical mental health discipline and/or education field such as: Applied Behavior Analysis, Psychology, Counseling, Clinical Social Work, Special Education </li></ul> <p>Role Responsibilities</p> <ul> <li>Develop and oversee staffing models, ensuring recruitment of qualified educators, therapists, and medical personnel. </li><li>Manage operational planning, including facility readiness and program logistics. </li><li>Build partnerships with universities, medical providers, and community organizations to implement and sustain evidence-based practices. </li><li>Serve as the primary liaison between the therapeutic lab school, WCPS leadership, and external stakeholders. </li><li>Create multidisciplinary teams, including educators, therapists, social workers, and medical professionals, to ensure coordinated care for each student. </li><li>Effectively communicate with students, teachers, parents/guardians, and members of the school community. </li><li>Identify behavioral, social, and emotional educational needs of students referred using appropriate assessment measures. </li><li>Establish, maintain, and oversee data measurement and collection systems for students receiving behavior or academic interventions and monitor fidelity of implementation. </li><li>Coordinate and conduct staff development activities and in-service workshops for school personnel and community partners, including the provision of ongoing job-embedded training. </li><li>Oversee all aspects of a school culture to promote student achievement and an effective professional learning community. </li><li>Oversee the supervision and evaluation of staff effectiveness for high-quality teaching and learning. </li><li>Provide leadership and support to school staff through regular classroom visits, conferences, and meetings. </li><li>Hire and support effective teacher personnel. </li><li>Ensure the success of every student by acting in an ethical manner with integrity and fairness. </li><li>Provide staff with focused, sustained, and research-based professional development. </li><li>Attend and contribute to professional meetings. </li><li>Utilize a variety of data in the development of the school improvement plan. </li><li>Assume specific responsibilities as assigned by senior leadership. </li><li>Participate in interagency activities that support program implementation. </li><li>Attend training and professional learning related to grant implementation, including required reporting. </li></ul> <p>Environmental Factors and Physical/Mental Requirements</p> <p>The Environmental Factors and Physical/Mental demands represent 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.</p> <ul> <li>Required periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer and other office equipment. </li><li>Ability to sufficiently and efficiently move throughout the building and grounds for extended periods. </li><li>Ability to intervene in physical interventions in order to maintain a safe learning environment. </li><li>Must have the use of sensory skills in order to effectively communicate and interact with students, other faculty, staff, and parents as normally defined by the ability to see, read, talk, hear. </li><li>May have exposure to weather. </li><li>Maintain emotional control under stress. </li><li>Ability to travel district-wide and state-wide if needed. </li><li>Ability to work prolonged and irregular hours. </li></ul>