Carney, Sandoe & Associates , an education recruitment organization has been retained by the Milken School, a 6-12 independent Jewish day school in Los Angeles, California to find their next Head of Student Services.
Milken is one of the largest Jewish day schools in the United States, and its students are immersed in an environment that provides endless opportunities to create powerful Jewish experiences, strengthen their identities, and enhance their understanding of what it means to be links on a chain that goes back generations. Milken students receive high-impact learning and are put on a path to personal and professional achievement. Grounded in Jewish values, traditions, and practices, students are developed through the pursuit of deeply held core values.
Essential Job Functions:
- Serves as an expert in the areas of research-based instructional practices for students in grades 6-12, current trends in instructional intervention curriculum and methods, and rigorous academic standards for the purpose of developing new programs and/or master plans to meet the needs of a wide variety of student learners.
- Evaluates and expands current programs, and/or implements new programs that incorporate the latest research-based practices in academic support.
- Develops a comprehensive parent education program that is aligned with the school’s priorities and reflects the full arc of child development from 6th through 12th grade.
- Researches parent and staff concerns for the purpose of counseling them on program content, their obligations and responsibilities, and negotiates solutions.
- Provides professional development training to Academic Support Directors and Learning Specialists in the areas of educational assessments, individualized learning plans, assessment data, and best practices in research-based, 6-12 intervention programs.
- Provides professional development training to Division Counselors in the areas of mental health research, best practices for school counseling services and wellness programs.
- Oversees curricula for Advisory programs.
- Oversees curricula for learning intervention programs.
- Observes, trains and evaluates members of the Support and Counseling teams and makes recommendations to Division Heads.
- Partners with the Associate Head of School for Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives to explore models for integrated and self-contained academic and counseling support programs including diagnostic assessments, mild to moderate interventions, faculty training, and parent education.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Licensed Psychologist with PsyD.
- 7-10 years of experience working in schools.
- Experience working with grades 6-12.
- Expertise in the developmental needs of all students.
- Expertise in the areas of mental health, diagnostic assessments, therapeutic and school-based interventions.
- Expertise in the areas of learning differences, diagnostic assessments, academic interventions and support, and successful school-based learning modifications and accommodations.
- Expertise in parent education, specifically around the needs of middle and high school students, or able to secure and partner with external experts to deliver professional training or parent education.
- Effective in supporting and maintaining an effective group of professionals.
- Able to provide leadership and expertise in communicating the needs of typical and diverse learners.
- Able to provide leadership and expertise in interpreting and disseminating data and psycho-educational assessment results.
- Effective in communicating with parents, administration, faculty, outside service providers, and the extended educational community.
- Efficient with time management, organizational skills, and meeting deadlines.
- Collaborative and inclusive.
- Ability to think strategically in order to envision, plan, execute, and achieve results in a complex environment.
- Proficient in gathering and analyzing meaningful data to aid in the development of short-term and long-term goals.
- Superior communication and interpersonal skills.
- A track record of significant involvement in instructional and administrative leadership.
- Innovative and creative.
- Possess a love and empathy for adolescents and teens.
- Patient and disciplined, and inspires collaboration among colleagues.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands 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 essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Able to move around and across campus.
Potential Benefits: Compensation and benefit packages are competitive but will differ by school and will typically depend on geographic location, your experience, and your level of degree.
Competitive pay