Transition Services Manager
Vista Autism Services•Hershey, PA
•Hybrid
About The Position
The Director of Transition and Employment Services coordinates services, best practices, and resources with all staff across selected secondary transition-related activities.
Requirements
- Special Education Certification and/or pertinent experience with special education, secondary transition, and preparing students with disabilities for employment
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Customer service strength across a variety of stakeholders
- Successful completion of all pre-employment requirements
Nice To Haves
- Supervisory experience preferred
Responsibilities
- Facilitates transition planning process with families, classroom teams, and agencies, working towards a seamless transition from school to adult services for each graduate
- Develops professional development content, in-service training materials, and parent support, education, and workshops in relation to improving post-school outcomes
- Serves as embedded coach/mentor by bringing staff to mastery in evidence-based transition related model and practices, ensuring own attendance at transition related professional development to stay current in the field
- Ensures the school career development model, IEP transition sections, resources, school employment services, and tools related to transition are up to date, meet PDE and ODP guidelines and regulations, and are in line to achieving desired outcomes for students
- Oversees school career preparation services and team with an “employment first” approach and ensures services and billing are completed in accordance with funding regulations
- Serves as secondary transition lead person across all stakeholders and customers, including school districts, parents, , agencies, etc.
- Provides coaching to all team members in a supportive and collaborative manner and reviews and implements coaching and feedback from others to improve performance
- Reviews, submits, and manages timeline and other budgetary needs of department
- Identifies, addresses, and manages employee performance discrepancies, disciplinary issues, and training deficiencies for department members
- Implements performance management policies and positive management practices to result in high performing employees and teams
- Completes other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
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