Positive Behavior Specialist

Qualifications

• Valid Professional License from MDE or other State Agency
• Bachelor's degree or higher
• Minimum of 2 years experience in behavior management and in designing positive interventions in the educational setting

Reports to: Director of Special Education

Responsibilities

• Provide counseling to special education students who require such services
• Work side-by-side with teachers to assess students' needs and to improve student behavior
• Provide staff development focusing on students with difficult behaviors and related topics to teachers as needed
• Develop functional behavior assessments
• Develop and implement functional behavior plans
• Develop and implement behavior modification plans as a member of the IEP team
• Provide individual counseling as specified on the individual IEP
• Provide home/school behavior intervention support models
• Consult with out-of-district facilities of which Jackson County School District has placed students for individual services
• Support paraprofessionals/contracted personnel assigned to students with difficult behaviors
• Support Principals with discipline related issues as it relates to special education students
• Serve as a member of the District Behavior Support Team