Dean of Students
Virginia Home For Boys and Girls
•Onsite
About The Position
The Dean of Students is a member of the school’s leadership team and exercises discretion and independent judgement in matters related to personnel, students, and work assignments. They may serve as the designated school administrator in the absence of the Director. The Dean of Students is responsible for facilitating a therapeutic environment, leading processes and procedures related to student motivation and accountability, engaging in stakeholder contact, participating in staff training, and working in compliance with DOE, VAISEF, and IEP requirements.
Requirements
- Hold a degree from an accredited college or university
- Have at least two years of experience working with students with disabilities.
- Experience in a private day school
- Experience supervising others
- Must be able to successfully clear background checks associated with job and must successfully complete in-house training
Responsibilities
- Takes steps to maintain a safe and secure and nurturing school environment
- Protects the academic instructional time from unnecessary interruptions
- Directs behavior management, student suspension and discharge, and crisis intervention practices
- Facilitates student reintegration after suspension
- Staff development instructor for practices related to behavior intervention and therapeutic holds
- Manages arrival and dismissal procedures
- Leads processes and procedures related to student motivation systems (including incentives, rewards, and consequences)
- Facilitates student council and student leadership roles
- Ensures quality of parental involvement and/or family engagement, and stakeholder contact and communication
- Responsible for staff selection, onboarding, training, supervision, coaching/counseling, time off approvals, termination, and other personnel related issues
- Provides and ensures supportive supervision occurs in accordance with Positively Managing Performance
- Reviews outcome reports and other sources of data about program performance
- Works with team to plan action steps for improvement
- Responsible for other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
