[2026-2027] Part-Time Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA or BCaBA)

About the role

Yu Ming Charter School seeks dynamic, innovative, and experienced educators to join our team, committed to nurturing lifelong learners who are bilingual, bicultural, and able to create change in their own lives and in our community.

We seek teachers that are excited by the possibility of transforming the traditional model of education to be learner-centered through personalized and project-based learning that cultivates both the cognitive and social-emotional skills our students need to thrive in school and beyond.

Yu Ming teachers are leaders that thrive on exploration, collaboration, and seek to continuously learn and grow as individuals and team members.

Position Summary

The BCBA or BCaBA supports special education and general education staff in the prevention, identification, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of children/students in a TK-8 school with behavioral difficulties.

They can also provide ongoing professional development in the area of behavior to all staff as well as provide techniques and modeling of behavior intervention support.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual and group supervision of behavior intervention aides.
• Work collaboratively with staff to promote positive student behavior by providing professional development that targets research, strategies and modeling of instructional practices to support staff in their implementation of positive support and PBIS.
• Demonstrate expertise in the area of data collection and behavior analysis.
• Assists case managers/building based psychologists and social workers in writing of comprehensive functional assessments and behavior intervention plans and instructional methodologies for staff.
• Demonstrate behavior management ideas and/or techniques.
• Provide training in the use of data collection, positive behavior supports, intervention techniques and instructional methodologies for staff.
• Assist staff working with children with autism on teaching skill deficits, maintaining acquired skills, teaching self-help skills and developing social skills.
• Develop materials and provide resources for and provide professional development to administrators, educators, paraprofessionals and parents/guardians.
• Attend IEP, eligibility, or other meetings as necessary and provide related behavioral information.
• Work with students who exhibit maladaptive/unexpected behaviors and provide support and professional learning for staff who work with such students.
• Travel to school sites as required for observations, functional behavioral assessments, behavior intervention plans, or programmatic recommendations for individual students.
• Engage parents in the process of creating behavior programs for students in order to empower parents by providing them with skills and techniques to support the positive behavior development of their child.
• Conducts functional behavior assessments and educational assessments, accurately identifying the function of challenging behavior and socially valid, pivotal behaviors to target.
• Develops treatment plans that recommend individualized, evidence-based behavioral strategies in a format accessible to staff, family members, other professionals.
• Develops strong collaborative relationships and trains families, caregivers, and school staff to implement effective techniques across all environments, promoting progress and generalization.
• Provides ongoing training of school staff, ensuring treatment integrity and supporting the professional growth of staff.
• Makes progress and evaluates treatment effectiveness regularly, maintaining high rates of progress.
• Selects intervention and strategies according to the needs and desires and abilities of the individual, and prepares written behavior interventions and strategies, and support plans.
• Completes reports and other paperwork within the established timeframes.
• Participate in building-level meetings as appropriate.
• Assist in other areas as needed.

Qualifications

• Current Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA, as certified by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB)).
• Master's Degree in applied behavior analysis, special education, psychology or related discipline.
• Expert knowledge of intervention planning for developing behavior change strategies that focus on reducing problem behaviors and increasing appropriate behaviors.

Preferred

• Minimum of 2 years experience as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst.
• Classroom teaching, social worker, or psychologist experience.

TIME COMMITMENT

180-day school year, 8 student-free professional development days for collaboration with colleagues.

Common building hours

Common building hours are 8:00am-3:30pm Monday, 8:00am-4pm Tuesday-Friday.

Salary And Benefits

• $80,000-$110,000
• 100% of Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance covered by the school (depending on the selected plan).
• Free Access to an Employee Assistance Program offering a variety of services including counseling and legal aid.
• 11 Sick days per full time employee per school year.

To Apply

Interested candidates should apply at https://yumingcharterschool.bamboohr.com/jobs/.

Application submission screening and initial phone interviews will be completed on a rolling basis.

Yu Ming Charter School is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity at all levels.