Psychometrist

Psychometrist

Madison City Schools (AL) Central Office – Madison, Alabama. Open in Google Maps.

Job : 5681929
Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled
Posted: Apr 30, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)
Starting Date: To Be Determined

Job Goal: To evaluate and assess educational and emotional needs of students and provide data for planning a program that will help them learn subject matter and skills that will contribute to their development as mature, able, responsible members of society.

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in the area of instructional responsibility required.
• Alabama State Department of Education teaching certification in the area of instructional responsibility required.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

FLSA Status: Exempt

Reports to: Local School Principal and Special Education Director

Background Check

Required:

(Ala. Code §§ 16-22A-5) upon offer of employment, employees will be required to submit legible fingerprints for a background review by the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Background checks must not be more than 10 years old.

• Skilled in the use of oral and written language to present ideas simply and clearly to administration, teachers, parents, and students.
• Comprehensive knowledge of principles, concepts and skills pertaining to evaluation program.
• Skills in the use of evaluation instruments consistent with goals and objectives.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with students, parents, colleagues, and community members.
• Knowledge and understanding of the school system rules, administrative procedures, local board policy, and state and federal rules and regulations.
• Possesses the physical and emotional stability to fulfill the contract period.

• Administers to students, on an individual basis, intelligence tests, achievement tests, and tests to measure perceptual and motor development.
• Evaluates and interprets all testing and makes recommendations for school and class placement for the appropriate special education program.
• Interprets test findings to parents as requested; counsels with parents regarding student's potential and achievement level; recommends to parents ways of helping student or recommends sources from which they may seek further counseling.
• Confers with teacher, administrators, and other professional staff on findings of individual tests and helps them in their efforts to better understand and place each student.
• Consults with other agencies, both public and private, regarding individual cases.
• Consults with psychologists, psychiatrists, and physicians for the purpose of correlating all available information regarding individual cases.
• Writes complete reports on each student tested and files with test record.
• Engages in personal professional growth and demonstrates professional ethics and leadership.
• Adheres to school system rules, administrative procedures, and local board policy, and state and federal rules and regulations.
• Keeps informed regarding research in psychological and educational testing practices in the areas of testing construction, test administration, and test results evaluation.
• Performs other duties within the scope of his/her employment as may be assigned.

• This position will be subject to the Students First Act of 2011. Madison City Schools reserves the right to fill this position by transfer of a qualified applicant who is already employed by Madison City Schools.

• Under the Students First Act of 2011, no credit toward tenure or non-probationary status is earned in the initial school year of employment if the date of hire occurs after September 30.

Expected Employment: 187 days (full year)

Evaluation: According to established Board policies and administrative procedures and guidelines.

Salary Range: According to Madison City Schools Salary Schedule (Salary based on employment for complete year).

Position Type: Full-Time

• Student Services >
  Educational Diagnostician
• Student Services >
  School/Guidance Counselor

• Citizenship, residency or work visa required.

• Dr Susan Zinkil, Special Education Director
• Central Office
• Phone:
• Email: szinkil.al.us