Director of Special Education Dispute Resolution

About the role

The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is recruiting for a Director Special Education of Dispute Resolution to supervise the Office of Special Education Dispute Resolution and provide highly complex, professional, technical, and analytical services to ensure an effective compliance system with complaints, mediation and due process actions, and assurances related to compliance with federal and state law and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Provide management, oversight and supervision of staff in the Office of Special Education Dispute Resolution.
• Manages the performance evaluation process.
• Oversee the implementation of office protocols related to processing case correspondences for the systems, maintaining case files and tracking systems and provide specialized training on aspects of dispute resolution, and matters related to special education regulations.
• Review and approve matters and work products related to the implementation of special education dispute system, regulation revision process, development and posting of guidance, technical assistance and professional development and dissemination of information related to IDEA and the state special education regulations.
• Approve reimbursements associated with due process hearings, mediations, facilitations and