State Support Team Consultant

Position: SST Consultant Reports to: SST Director Employment Status: Full-time

Contract: 215 days Salary Range: $80,000 to $84,000, (Based on Qualifications and Experience)

Location: State Support Team – Region 7 Service Area

Start Date: July 1, 2026 Open Date: June 4, 2026 Closing Date: Open Until Filled

Description: Ohio’s State Support Teams (“SST”) are regional extensions of the work of the Department of Education and Workforce (“the Department”) that were established under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3312. SSTs partner with prioritized schools and districts identified through decision rules grounded in IDEA, ESSA, and Ohio law. SST Consultants support these schools and districts in establishing the foundations of their Integrated Multi-Tiered System of Supports (Integrated MTSS), aligned to Ohio’s framework.

This means building coherent systems that strengthen instruction, improve adult practices, and ensures compliance with federal and state requirements. While sustaining a particular emphasis on students with disabilities in alignment with IDEA, SST Consultants helps advance statewide priorities (e.g., Science of Reading and the K‑12 Math Plan), integrate academic and non‑academic systems, and ensure that services for both compliance and high‑quality instruction reinforce on another to improve student outcomes in literacy, math, and chronic absenteeism.

This role involves developing and implementing comprehensive support frameworks that align with federal mandates and state laws to promote equitable outcomes for all students, including those with disabilities.

• A bachelor’s degree, master’s degree preferred, aligned to the area for which an employee has primary responsibility (i.e., instructional improvement, special education, reading and literacy, data analysis, or appropriate related field or evidence of equivalency);
• A minimum of three to five years of successful classroom teaching experience, instructional improvement planning and implementation, special education administration, or related experience and a license appropriate to the individual’s profession (special education administration, general education, intervention specialist);
• Knowledge of improvement planning processes, including the use of strategic problem‑solving;
• Effective coaching using the Department’s coaching model and consultation skills in a school or district setting;
• Ability to implement and monitor improvement strategies;
• Ability to deliver high‑quality professional learning and technical assistance;
• Understanding of the main provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (“IDEA”) and Every Student Succeeds Act (“ESSA”);
• Basic analysis skills, including data‑based decision‑making and an understanding of Ohio’s accountability (report card) system;
• Effective evidence‑based processes and instructional practices, including components of Ohio’s Integrated Multi‑Tiered System of Supports;
• Universal Design for Learning and differentiated instruction;
• Understanding of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (“PBIS”);
• Specially designed instruction and provision of free appropriate public education (“FAPE”) in the least restrictive environment (special education);
• Understanding of the contents of Ohio’s Plan for K‑12 Mathematics; and
• Language and literacy instruction grounded in the Science of Reading and structured literacy implementation including having successfully completed the following professional learning modules offered by the Department, Ohio’s Introduction to the Science of Reading Courses, K‑5, Ohio’s Introduction to the Science of Reading Courses 6‑12, Ohio’s Introduction to Literacy Coaching Course, and Department provided professional learning in mathematics.

• Organize and deliver all services in alignment with Ohio’s Integrated MTSS and include academic (literacy and math) and non‑academic (student engagement, behavior, attendance) supports.

• Prioritize time and resources for schools and districts identified through the Regional Needs Assessment…