Behavior Mentor - CCDC Valley

• Date Posted:
  9/11/2026
• Location:
  
  CCDC - Great Valley Campus
• Closing Date:
  09/24/2026

A vacancy exists for a full-time Behavior Mentor at the Child and Career Development Center (Great Valley) within the Student Services division of the Chester County Intermediate Unit, located in Malvern, PA
. This position involves providing direct behavior support to students with behavioral and emotional support needs.

Are you motivated to create brighter futures for students, families, and the entire community? If so, we want you on Team CCIU! At the CCIU, we pride ourselves on the creativity, dedication, and collaborative spirit that our employees bring to their work every day, and we know that achieving success together takes a team approach! We strive to hire exceptional, motivated, and passionate individuals that help us achieve our vision of acting as educational leaders who contribute to a better Chester County and beyond.

Ifyou are looking for an exciting, challenging opportunity to grow your career, don't wait –apply today to make Team CCIU even stronger tomorrow!

The primary role of the behavior mentor is to implement proactive, evidence-based strategies both individually with students and with staff by modeling strategies. The behavior mentor uses principles of applied behavior analysis to extinguish negative behaviors and promote positive replacement behaviors as developed in students' IEPs. The mentor works collaboratively with classroom staff to implement Positive Behavior Support Plans (PBSPs), collect data on current IEP goals and interventions, and communicate noted trends to classroom staff.

The mentor will utilize de-escalation techniques and management strategies for student-student or student-staff conflicts. The mentor works in conjunction with and reports directly to the Behavior Analyst.

Duties of this position include, but are not limited to:

Assisting the Teacher:

• Serve as liaison between Behavior Consultant/Behavior Analyst/administrative staff to ensure classroom staff implement students' PBSPs/teaching plans with fidelity.
• Model proactive, evidence-based strategies for classroom staff.
• Collect data on current goals, current interventions, discipline referrals, and ABC data for new Functional Behavior Assessments.
• Generate data tracking systems in collaboration with classroom staff to represent collected data graphically to ensure communication of student progress.
• Maintain paperwork for each student to support staff collaboration to include IEPat a glance, important personal information, most current PBSP highlights, the student's goals with tracking sheets, and pertinent data tools like ABC sheets or D  scales.
• Arrange the learning environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Assisting with Students:

• Implement universal expectations and follow established consequences for all students, while implementing strategies and individualized modifications for all students with specific programming.
• Work independently with students to provide opportunities to reinforce and practice newly taught replacement behaviors.
• Work independently with students to generalize learned replacement behaviors to new learning environments.
• Support students placing themselves or others in imminent risk by implementing Personal Emergency Interventions, after having been trained and demonstrating competency in the skills.

Assisting with Clerical Duties:

• Work independently to represent collected data graphically.
• Work independently to enter all daily data into provided templates (Skill Card Database).
• Entering discipline referrals into the Student Information System.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or GED required. Bachelor's degree (psychology,…