Job Description

TSD Assistant Sped Director Secondary Job Description:

Director Level 1-3, ($105,600 - $164,930) depending on qualifications and experience

Start date: 07/01/2027

Contact Person: David Turner

Email: dturner@alpinedistrict.org

Phone: 385-579-5315

Under the direction of the Special Education Director, the Special Education Elementary Assistant Director will oversee the secondary/post high programs, special schools, motor (OT, PT, APE) services, BCBA specialist and the Carson Smith Program

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Consults and collaborates with site administrators, supervisors and other department directors in coordinating secondary school offerings and where they are offered.
• Communicates with parents/guardians regarding the growth and development of secondary students with disabilities.
• Maintains and promptly submits all records, documents, and reports required by USBE and the federal government (IDEIA).
• Consults and collaborates with site administrators regarding teachers and ongoing alignment development of instructional strategies, staff development opportunities, and instructional materials based on USBE Special Education guidelines.
• Engages in vertical alignment and collaborates to improve and support instruction, behavior and compliance.
• Models effective techniques for delivering administrative support to site staff (teachers and classified staff) in designing and providing developmentally appropriate learning opportunities.
• Develops and monitors Special Education secondary procedures regarding student and staff safety, discipline, and conduct.
• Collaborates with BCBA and Motor leads to support professional growth plans, connecting and integrating the work in larger instructional systems to meet the needs of students with disabilities.
• Consults and collaborates with special school administrators to support instruction, behavior, and compliance.
• Oversees Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program helping families and working with special education personnel to conduct eligibility and comply with program requirements.

N ON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Incumbent must be fingerprinted and clear a criminal background check
• Master's Degree required
• Requires a valid Professional Educator License for the State of Utah (Appropriate administrator/supervisor license)
• A Professional Educator License
• Administrator experience is required
• Building level administration experience (preferred)
• Special Education services experience (preferred)
• Must be skilled in working with diverse groups, building consensus, and maintaining focus on student needs
• Requires the ability to communicate orally and in written form
• Must be able to take initiative, work independently, be flexible, and be a collaborative team player
• Must demonstrate the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and respect for others

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS---Not limited to the following:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak and/or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to handle or feel and must occasionally climb or balance.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.