Director of Special Education

Director Special Education

The Superintendent invites qualified and interested persons to apply for the position of Director Special Education. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a track record of passionate belief that all students can achieve at high levels, personal accountability for serving all students and ensuring their academic achievement, ability to create, articulate, and build staff and community buy-in to a clear vision and mission, effective team leadership, exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, outstanding critical thinking skills, excellent execution and project management skills, and deep knowledge of services for students with special needs.

Basic functions and responsibilities include ensuring that special needs students are provided with the highest quality supports, serving as an advocate and representing the needs of special education students in all major district decisions, collaborating with Human Resources to identify the qualifications and skill sets needed of special education professionals and recruit, train, support and retain the most talented special education educators, advocates, aides and specialists, leading the Special Education office staff in implementing a vision with a clear focus on providing strategic support for schools and students while ensuring compliance with all state and federal requirements related to special needs students, evaluating and improving existing special education programs by disseminating knowledge and best practices across the district, leading the selection and implementation of academic assessments appropriate for students with special needs; driving data-based special education program improvements, building innovative programs that improve early supports, enabling differentiated and integrated learning and accelerating student achievement for all kinds of learners, working to create district-wide professional development programs, ensuring a robust, systemic approach to meeting the needs of special education students, overseeing the support of district- and school-based teams in their understanding of learning and behavior disabilities and their manifestations in the classroom through staff coaching, site-based workshops, and district-wide professional development, developing and leading strategic partnerships that serve the interests of the district's special needs students, assessing the distribution of Special Education supports, ensuring that the allocation is even, efficient and provides the best resources to efficiently and effectively meet the needs of Newark's students, families and schools, strategically managing and allocating resources, ensuring that resources are aligned to students' needs and are used effectively and efficiently, and performing other duties and tasks assigned by Supervisor.

Reports to: Assistant Superintendent. Salary Range: $156,000 to $171,000. Employment Period: Twelve (12) Months. Union affiliation: City Association of Supervisors and Administrators (C.A.S.A.). In an effort to attract and retain staff, NBOE offers competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits for all full-time staff. Offerings include Medical and Prescription Drug plans, employer-paid Dental and Vision coverage, an array of Wellness and Voluntary benefits programs, and paid time off; all employees receive paid Personal and Sick days, as well as Vacation days for 12-month employees. For details, please go to