Director of Student Services
Director of Student Services for the 2023/24 School Year
Job Description
Purpose: The Director of Student Services will support student learning and growth through the continuous improvement of a tiered behavioral support system. This position will collaborate with district and building administration with a data-driven focus to ensure positive, orderly, and safe building climates. Collaborates with building administration on student attendance procedures and protocols. Assists with developing and overseeing district emergency and crisis plans for student and staff safety.
Reports To: Deputy Superintendent
FLSA Status: Exempt, salaried
Salary: $85,000-$95,000 per year; year-round contact commensurate with experience.
Required Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree from an accredited educational institution in education, educational leadership, or a related field
- Valid Kansas Teaching Certification with building-level leadership/administrator endorsements.
- Demonstrates written communications, oral presentation, and program planning and organization skills.
- Experience working with the public and communicational media in providing information and interpreting programs.
- Effectively present information and respond to questions, inquiries, and/or complaints.
- Able to read, analyze, process, and interpret data independently.
- Hold a high level of integrity and confidentiality.
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate or acceptable.
- Valid state driver’s license.
- Health and Inoculation Certificate on file in the District Office (after an employment offer is made).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certifications in Behavior Management or Board-Certified Behavior Analyst.
- Valid Kansas Teaching Certification with district-level leadership/administrator endorsements.
- Minimum of three (3) years of successful building-level administrator or equivalent experience.
- Successful experience in leadership and human relations field.
- Successful experience working with K-12 student behaviors in special education and general education.
- Knowledge of Kansas Department of Education Guidelines related to student attendance, discipline, and social-emotional learning.
Essential Functions: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily.
- Support student learning and growth through the continuous improvement of a tiered behavioral support system.
- Assist in ensuring the implementation and development of a tiered intervention plan for student support and behaviors.
- Collaborate with district and building administration with a data-driven focus to ensure positive, orderly, and safe building climates.
- Collaborates with building administration on student attendance procedures and protocols.
- Assists with developing and overseeing district emergency and crisis plans for student and staff safety.
- Monitors disciplinary consequences throughout the district to ensure equitable enforcement of consequences.
- Provides routine reporting to buildings of disciplinary referrals and consequences by student sub-groups.
- Participates in building and grade-level discipline committees in developing a building and/or district discipline plan.
- Analyzes attendance interventions and disseminates the information to the school buildings.
- Organizes the process for educational neglect and truancy reporting to law enforcement officials.
- Serves as a liaison between the district and all law enforcement regarding student attendance.
- Collaborates with district and building administration to prepare and update district handbooks.
- Facilitates dialogue between community support and the district to promote positive attendance behaviors.
- Maintains effective relationships with professional and community organizations and actively participates as a member where appropriate for the purpose of engaging and influencing community involvement.
- Assists in supervising all guidance (counselor, social worker, BCBA, MFLC, etc.) personnel staff and holds routine meetings focusing on the process of forms, handbooks, annual advisory meetings, and hotlines.
- Holds routine meetings with school nurses focusing on the process of forms, handbooks, standard operating procedures, budgets, state and federal reports, accident reports, AED/audiometer equipment, and CPR training.
- Assists in developing a process of integrating social-emotional support into the regular school day.
- Develops ongoing training for staff in the area of social-emotional and behavioral health of students.
- Maintains the integration of social workers and therapists in the school setting.
- Establishes and maintains liaison with outside social agencies on and off-post.
- Assists with investigating allegations of misconduct involving district employees and students, including but not limited to child abuse investigations and all grievances filed by employees.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities that are within the scope of employment as assigned by the Superintendent.
- May need to travel using personal transportation.
- Regular and consistent attendance at work.
General Responsibilities
- Establishes and maintains effective working relationships and demonstrates a commitment to teamwork.
- Reacts positively under pressure, handles and balances multiple demands at one time, and performs duties and tasks at expected levels of professionalism.
- Assists in developing policies, procedures, and SOPs to support district goals.
- Assists in developing, implementing, and coordinating all USD 207 school administrative and operational procedures.
- Conducts themself with integrity and always demonstrates ethical behavior and a positive leadership model.
- Works to promote a harassment-free environment for students, staff, and parents.
- Shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences.
- Develops and maintains an accurate system of records for the district’s student attendance, behaviors, and discipline.
- Stays well-informed about developments in state and federal requirements for student attendance, student discipline, and social-emotional learning needs.
- Keeps informed of professional practices in the field through participation in pertinent professional organizations.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
- Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen, and to print material with or without vision aids.
- Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone.
- Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in standard classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone.
- Ability to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk, and reach overhead.
- Requires physical exertion to manually lift, carry, pull or push heavy objects or materials up to 25 pounds.
- Must occasionally work in noisy and crowded environments, with numerous interruptions.
Terms of Employment: At-will employment. Year-round 2000-hour Administrative Contract
Evaluation: Performance evaluations in accordance with the Board’s policy and the Classified Employee Handbook.
Fort Leavenworth USD 207 is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promoting on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, disability, veteran's status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status under local, state or federal law.