Job description

Academic Coordinator

JOB TITLE: Academic Coordinator

DEPARTMENT: YIT School

REPORTS TO: Executive Director of Education

FLSA STATUS: Exempt

GENERAL PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

• Provides direct supervision through performance feedback and consultation to teachers, encouraging professional development.
• Oversees vocational programming, and all aspects of the vocational program offered to students.
• Assists teachers in assessing students’ needs, writing goals and objectives and reviewing students’ progress.
• Works effectively with other personnel in the interdisciplinary setting to address students’ needs.
• Supports individual student and group learning, conduct demonstration lessons.
• Assists in identifying, evaluating, and recommending basic and supplemental materials, books, and teaching/learning materials to be utilized by teaching staff.
• Actively participate in faculty and committee meetings.
• Serves as administrator of individual education plans as needed.
• Assists in the Admission, Review, and Dismissal process.
• Manages the substitute process.
• Assumes responsibility for assuring that appropriately disciplinary measures are being addressed.
• Performs other professional duties, as requested.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Knowledge of and experience in educational assessment.
• Demonstrates knowledge of upper elementary, middle, and high school academics, behavior management and crisis intervention techniques.
• Utilizes a variety of resources and apply information related to cognitive and emotional development and positive behavior management.
• Observes and provide feedback to Vice President of Education and Organizational Learning.
• Organizes materials and schedule and coordinate various aspects of program.
• Writes clear, concise, comprehensive reports.
• Maintains working relationships with students, their families, staff, and colleagues.
• Exhibits computer literacy.
• Works flexible hours including some evenings, as needed.
• Travels by car to community-based meetings.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Teachers, teaching assistants, vocational coordinator, vocational experience staff.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Special Education.
• 5 years teaching experience.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• MSDE Certificate.

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• 5 years working with special education students preferred.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Frequent walking, standing, climbing stairs.
• Occasional activities that require pushing, pulling, lifting up to 15-20 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Classroom setting. Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic).

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Windsor Mill, MD 21244: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Teaching: 5 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• MSDE Special Education Teacher Certification (Required)

Work Location: In person

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