Special Education Coordinator

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Description

Woodbourne Campus is located on a historic site in the heart of Baltimore, Maryland, that has been helping kids in need for over 200 years, originally as an orphanage in the early 1800s. In 2012, Nexus Family Healing affiliated with location, bringing our innovative trauma-informed practices to the youth of Baltimore.

Nexus-Woodbourne Family Healing is seeking passionate Special Education Coordinator dedicated to making a meaningful impact on students with diverse learning needs. In this role, you'll deliver individualized instruction using effective teaching techniques while implementing behavior management strategies that support a positive, structured learning environment. You will collaborate with a supportive team to ensure each student's Individualized Education Program (IEP) is carried out successfully, helping them achieve both academic and personal growth.

At Nexus Family Healing, we embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster inclusion. As a national mental health organization, we serve a diverse group of youth and families, and we strive for our workforce to support and represent that diversity.

Schedule/Location/Pay:

Salary Range - $88,000 - $95,000 - Based on Experience & Certification

Full Time - On-site opportunity (1301 Woodbourne Ave Baltimore MD)

Nexus' Comprehensive Benefits Include:

* Eight Days of PTO in First Year of employment.

* Seven Paid Holidays

* Spring, Summer, Winter Breaks

* Multiple options for health insurance coverage

* No-cost life insurance

* Short/long-term disability insurance

* 401k match

* NEW - Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family

* NEW - Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family

* NEW - Carrot Fertility Benefit

* Tuition assistance and training opportunities

* Advancement pathways and internal promotion

* And much more!

Position Summary:

The Special Education Coordinator supervises and facilitates the IEP process for all students placed in the school to ensure the special education program is achieving and maintaining a high-quality, therapeutic learning and treatment environment.

Primary responsibilities:

Registration

* Coordinates Special Education services and registration processes at the school level and outside agencies.

* Coordinates Special Education teacher assignments, program design, training, and development of staff, and orients new staff members.

* Interacts with building staff regarding the Special Education program and regular classes and is an active member of the administration team.

* Responsible for handling minor discipline problems in tandem with the Dean of Students/Behavior Coordinator, and contact parents regarding placement, curriculum, and discipline problems.

* Establishes effective relationships with students, staff, and public, and responsible for disseminating the latest law and regulations to staff; remains current in state educational guidelines and requirements for the school.

Service Delivery & Compliance

* Monitors delivery of service to achieve compliance and provide suggestions and direction to staff in keeping aware of current trends in Special ED, and provides input, assists in class scheduling to implement plans.

* Works with school therapists, Dean of Student/behavior Coordinator, and administration to develop departmental and school wide in services regarding Special Ed and related issues; remain current on the most current accepted teaching techniques to meet the needs behaviorally challenges students within a residential setting.

* Articulates with other districts and agencies agency programs regarding incoming students.

* Review attendance discipline and transcripts, and records.

* Chairs the IEP meetings, parent conferences and parent/staff meetings, and represents the school agency program needs to SELPA Liaison, and assurance compliance with the law.

* Assists in supervising the development and administration of services for students with special needs, in order to provide for diagnosis, evaluation, and education, that meet the vision, mission, core values, and goals of Nexus and also meet and/or exceed federal, and state, regulations.

* Assists in the accreditation process to ensure the school meets State Department of Education regulations.

* Reviews federal and state legislation/regulations related to special education; identify and share with staff the impacts and changes on the school level, and interprets special education laws, rules, and regulations to students, parents, and staff.

Scheduling & Educational Support

* Ensures compliance in the administration, scheduling, and evaluation of Special Education service delivery process for the development of IEP's as required by state and federal mandates and guidelines.

* Plan, prioritize and effectively manage multiple tasks and priorities; research and recommend policies and programs essential to the needs of special education students and keeps informed of current trends and legal requirements governing special education.

* Develops uniform procedures and evaluates the…