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Title: Education Coordinator - #BVI
00202 (Previous applicants need not reapply)

State Role

Title:

Prog Admin Specialist I

Hiring Range: Starting Salary $75,000 commensurate with experience

Pay Band: 4

Agency: Dept for Blind/Vision Impaired

Location: Dept f/t Blind & Vision Impair

Agency Website: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

If you want to work in an environment with a dynamic team that has a passion in reducing blind, vision impaired and deafblind related barriers to employment, then this is the place for you.

• Meaningful, mission driven impact
• Collaborative and supportive work culture

“In accordance with the Commonwealth Telework Policy, telework is limited based on agency business needs.”

The Division of Services is a division within the Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (DBVI). The Division of Services provides quality programs of individualized rehabilitation services, educational consultation, technical assistance, and instruction that will empower eligible individuals to achieve their desired levels of independence consistent with their abilities and informed choices.

We are seeking an Education Coordinator to ensure that Virginia's infants, toddlers, and children who are blind, vision impaired or deafblind receive the services they need in order to participate and progress in developmental, educational, and extracurricular activities.

Knowledge/Experience-

• Possess a Virginia collegiate professional license. Successfully complete Virginia’s Early Intervention Modules and receives the Early Intervention Certification within nine months of employment.
• Considerable experience teaching students who are blind and visual impaired as a Teacher of the Blind and Visually Impaired.
• Experience in organizing events and making presentations.
• Experience in writing IEP, teaching goals, and objectives as a Teacher of the Blind and Visually Impaired, participating in IEP meetings, consulting with regular education teachers, transition specialists, and vocational rehabilitation counselors to assist students who are blind, vision impaired or deafblind.
• Experience in teaching infants and toddlers.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the following:
  Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Individualized Education Program (IEP), the federal, state and agency rights of parents and students, adapted materials and equipment, eye disorders and the functional limitations of eye diseases.
• Demonstrated knowledge of individual organizations, special education related services, visual impairment eligibility guidelines for the Virginia Department of Education, Expanded Core Curriculum for Children and Youth who are blind, vision impaired, or deafblind, role of a Teacher of the Blind and Visually Implied, high and low tech visual accommodations/technology, infant and toddler development, the impact of a visual impairment on all areas of a child’s development, and the transition of toddlers from early intervention to school.

• Demonstrated ability to complete a functional vision assessment, assess developmental delays in children who are blind, vision impaired, deafblind, and complete learning media assessments to evaluate communication skills; and to develop and implement programs of sensory stimulation, concept development, gross/fine motor development, self-help skills, cognitive development, adaptive communication skills, and orientation and mobility.
• Demonstrated ability to provide counseling, consultation and technical assistance to children who are blind, visually impaired, or deafblind, their parents, and their teachers; and to work independently and within a team environment, develop collaborative relationships…