Behavior Interventionist Aide

Behavior Interventionist Aide

Quitman County School District, Quitman County Elementary School – Lambert, Mississippi

This job is also posted in Quitman County School District.

Job : 5715564

Final date to receive applications: Aug 05, 2026 5:00 PM (Central Standard Time)

Posted: May 14, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Jul 30, 2026

REPORTS TO: Building Principal and SIG Officer

Highly qualified individual with knowledge and skills necessary to assist individuals, groups, and systems through the application of positive behavior supports. The Behavior Interventionist helps coordinate Functional Assessments of Behavior and Behavior Intervention plans that address students’ inappropriate behaviors and that provide a means to help the students become more academically successful. The Behavior Interventionist Specialist also provides classroom and school-wide behavior management strategies.

B. S. in Social Work, Psychology or related field. Masters Degree preferred. Other relevant qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working with at-risk youth in a school or community based setting
• Knowledge of function based intervention planning for developing behavior change strategies that focuses on reducing problem behavior and increasing more appropriate behavior
• Knowledge of use of assessment data to inform instruction and prescribe work plans for individual students
• Knowledge in the use of technology to support instruction
• Demonstrates ability to plan and evaluate strategies for improving instruction
• Ascribes to the philosophy that all children can succeed and demonstrates the commitment to do what is necessary to make this a reality

The Elementary Behavior Interventionist will provide leadership and direction at the school level, working to design, implement, coordinate and evaluate a comprehensive behavior support program. In addition he/she will work directly and aggressively with identified students to adopt behaviors that substantially increase their academic performance. These students are the lowest achieving elementary students who have been identified as requiring substantial supplemental behavior intervention and support.

Under the supervision of the building principal and district representative, the Behavior Interventionist will provide diversified strategies and activities specifically designed for targeted students.

• Effectively support student acquisition of core curriculum and content standards identified by the MDE and Quitman County School District
• Assist staff in: defining and measuring behavior; understanding principles of reinforcement; teaching new behavior; implementing strategies for weakening behavior; and identifying antecedents.
• Facilitate team meetings with the identified student’s teachers and parents for the purpose of completing a Functional Behavioral Assessment.
• Facilitate team meetings that: design Behavior interventions Plans; address classroom organization, effective instruction, social skills instruction, and ethical issues;
  School-wide Positive Behavioral Support; and factors that affect effectiveness including social validity and treatment integrity.
• Work with individual teachers, groups of teachers and/or the entire staff on issues such as: crisis intervention, learning and collaboration issues, and factors that can affect development and implementation of interventions.
• Promote highly specialized positive behavior interventions in which “at risk” students thrive: behavior instruction that is explicit, intensive, accelerated and provides ample practice.
• Use ongoing assessments to maintain a record of student progress.
• Develop a repertoire of assessment strategies consistent with instructional goals, teaching methods, and individual student needs to more accurately assess student behavior skills and understandings.
• Regard assessment as a joint venture through which both student and teacher understanding is enhanced.
• Create fair and equitable assessments to assess higher-order thinking and problem solving as well as individual skills, knowledge, and understandings.
• Model good assessment…