Pay Grade: AI
Department: Academic Services/Social Services
Accountable to: Assistant Superintendent of Academic Services
FLSA Status: Exempt
Creation/Revision Date: May 4, 2023
Summary: Under general direction, incumbent(s) oversees the Social Services Program, including supervising departmental staff, developing activities and services, managing budget, evaluating program needs, and complying with entitlement requirements.
Essential Duties:
- Develops and oversees implementation of the Social Services program, including school-based Social Workers.
- Collaborates with district staff, families, and the community in developing and implementing services and/or programs.
- Supervises Campus Social Workers, interns, and District department staff including determining workloads, monitoring work performance, hiring and professional development.
- Develops and oversees the budget for the Social Services Department and works collaboratively with all District departments on procurement processes.
- Maintain a close working relationship with school-based and District-level administrators to ensure information exchange, coordination of efforts and general support for the decision making process.
- Participate on District Crisis Team. Provide and coordinate social services when needed.
- Provides oversite of the District’s homeless student program. Coordinates transportation alignment with Curriculum to improve consistency and access to education for homeless students.
- Evaluate District Social Service programs and make recommendations for continued improvement.
- Provide resource and support to school administrators and staff to meet students’ emotional, developmental and behavioral needs.
- Supports District and schools to successfully provide interventions (social and behavioral) that meet the needs of all students.
- Act as a liaison to community agencies in relation to counselors and social workers throughout the district.
- Monitor and approve expenditures of funds allocated through the budget and other sources.
- Develop and coordinate grants in department subject areas as needed.
- Researches, recommends and supports schools with a systemic solution for meeting students’ emotional and mental health issues that impact learning; Manages District counseling and social work programs.
- Attends state and national meetings and conferences to stay updated on entitlement requirements and current laws and regulations. Ensures the program is in compliance with grant requirements, federal laws, state statutes, and District policies and procedures.
- Performs other duties as required.
Required Qualifications:
To be eligible for this position, an applicant must meet the following required qualifications. Verification of these required qualifications is necessary.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mental Health, Social Work, Public Affairs, or related field;
- Two years of work experience in School-Based Social Services, Program Development, Community Development and Partnerships, Federal Grant Management, or related experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
It is preferred that applicant possesses the following preferred qualifications; however, the following qualifications are not required to be eligible for this position.
- Master’s degree in Mental Health, Social Work, Public Affairs, or related field;
- LCSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker;
- Five years of work experience in School-Based Social Services, Program Development, Community Development and Partnerships, Federal Grant Management, or related experience.
Knowledge and Skills Required:
To perform the job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The qualifications for this job description are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Skills required, but not limited to, for this position include:
- Performing comprehensive, community-wide need assessments;
- Implementing programmatic changes
- Identifying community organizations and development strategies;
- Knowing local cultural, socioeconomic, lingual, and relational patterns of surrounding community;
- Applying supervisory responsibilities;
- Implementing and monitoring grant development;
- Being aware of educational systems and integration of support services into these systems;
- Recognizing causative factors of poverty, discrimination, low achievement, and high dropout rates among at-risk populations;
- Assessing community needs in terms of academic, physical, social, economic, cultural, linguistic, emotional, behavioral or familial difficulties that impact student performance;
- Directing, facilitating, supervising, and evaluating social services providers at school sites;
- Providing consultation to district employees, principals, staff, and community concerning legal issues that affect delivery of services for student success;
- Coordinating training for C.P.S., domestic violence, custody issues, trauma or crisis, etc;
- Collecting and analyzing data;
- Monitoring and evaluating programmatic success;
- Coordinating appropriate delivery of mental health services to children and families;
- Procuring appropriate training for social service providers to enhance practice;
- Using computer software related programs;
- Engaging and encouraging communication skills while interacting with supervisors, staff, students, etc. to exchange information.
Physical Requirements:
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Working Conditions:
The working environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
The Washington Elementary School District is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil Rights Act Title VII of 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Washington Elementary School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify or expression, disability or age in employment or in any of its educational programs or in the provisions of benefits and services to students. For information regarding discrimination grievance or complaint procedures contact the Executive Director for Human Resources at 602.347.2801.
