Behavior Support Specialist
Behavior Support Specialist
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Job Description
The Behavior Support Specialist will work with the schools leadership team to ensure that all students demonstrate dramatic student achievement gains and develop their character and socialemotional skills. This individual will also help lead the schools efforts to create a positive structured consistent caring and disciplined school culture.
In addition to the duties set forth below the Employee agrees that s/he will perform all the other duties that are assigned by his/her supervisors the schools Principal and the Principals designees and/or the Board of Trustees including but not limited to:
Goals for the Behavior Support Specialist include but are not limited to:
- Model high expectations for student behavior and interactions.
- Support efforts of every student to succeed academically and behaviorally and graduate from college.
- Enforce expectations from the Code of Conduct
- Maintain a focused serious and efficient environment for the InSchool Suspension program.
- Create and support systems that prevent misbehavior as well as intervene and correct misbehaviors as they arise to prevent escalation.
- Collaborate with the DOS to develop plans for students with repeated struggles to meet expectations.
- Refer students to the Social Worker (via email and CC DOS) if/when reports are made that require SW intervention.
- Motivate and coach students to meet expectations by leveraging personal relationships while also maintaining strong professional boundaries and a clear line between adult and student.
Specific Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Manage the InSchool Suspension classroom daily including communicating with teachers accepting and processing sendouts addressing misconduct and communicating with families.
- Distribute and monitor work that students are completing during InSchool Suspension.
- Collecting work for students with Out of School Suspensions and manage the pickup/delivery with students.
- Manage Lunch Detention.
- Manage EarlyRelease Program for Detention based on Kickboard.
- Manage Extended Detention Notifications.
- Assist DOS when no students are in ISS.
- Meet weekly with DOS for feedback goalsetting coaching/practice collaboration and problemsolving of discipline issues and concerns.
- Utilize Kickboard and Microsoft Excel to manage behavioral data of students.
Qualifications :
- Passionate commitment to the mission of Uncommon Schools and investment in our vision for being an antiracist organization.
- Unwavering belief in high academic and behavioral expectations for all students.
- Exceptional time and task management skills.
- Ability to persevere despite uncertainty and unexpected obstacles.
- Relentless drive to empower students academically and personally.
- Selfmotivation desire to be a great teammate and a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written and strong interpersonal skills with students parents colleagues and community members.
- Ability and desire to implement feedback from school leaders and colleagues.
- Required Experience:
- Bachelors degree is required
Additional Information :
Our people are what makes us Uncommon. We believe our compensation philosophy and benefits should reflect our valuesequity transparency and clarityto enhance our ability to attract and retain talent and reward their expertise. Our staff receive bestinclass training coaching and support to develop and operate missiondriven schools that provide a highquality education to our students and families.
Compensation for this position: Most candidates who meet job description requirements will receive an offer of $19.19$20.76 per hour. The starting compensation for this role is between $19.19 per hour to $24.80 per hour. The starting pay will depend on various factors including but not limited to relevant professional experience education certifications and tenure with Uncommon Schools. To receive an offer at the top of the range candidates will need significant experience in a directly aligned role. Because we value staff tenure in a role we do not currently cap salary ranges for current staff members.
Other Benefits:
- Generous paid time off inclusive of sick time and school breaks (spring winter and summer) additional sustainability half days throughout the school year
- Extensive bestinclass training and development
- Choice of 3 comprehensive health insurance plans
- Pretax flexible spending and health saving accounts
- Financial planning & wellness
- 403(b) retirement savings program employer match
- 529 college savings program
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness application assistance
- Financial planning tools and assistance
- Dependent Care FSA back up childcare and daycare discounts
- Paid leave of absence
- Fully paid parental leave
- Fully paid medical leave
- Additional paid Short Term and Long Term Disability insurance
- Mental health and counseling support wellness benefits
Uncommon believes in the importance of being a diverse equitable and inclusive organization that enables our students and staff to thrive. We are committed to building an exceptional team that reflects the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our students. We also strive to ensure an inclusive community by creating a space for meaningful dialogue about issues of race and identity for our staff and students. As an equal opportunity employer Uncommon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. We also ensure that individuals with disabilities receive all privileges and benefits associated with employment and are provided reasonable accommodations for the interview process and to perform core job functions. If you would like to request an accommodation please email
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
