Job Description

General Description:

The Exceptional Education school-based Instruction and Compliance Coordinator (ICC) supports the overall efficacy of exceptional education programming by promoting the academic, social, and developmental progress of students with disabilities in Richmond Public Schools. The ICC ensures that the school is adhering to local, state/federal regulations, policies and procedures governing students with disabilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates knowledge of, and the ability to implement, the Regulations Governing Special Education Programs for Children with Disabilities in Virginiaand the Virginia Standards of Learning and Alternate Assessment Program
• Collaborates with school-based staff to conduct observations and provide evidenced-based instructional and behavioral strategies to both general and exceptional education teachers to improve outcomes for students with disabilities
• Meets with the building principal and/or exceptional education designees to provide exceptional education compliance updates, feedback on weekly observations, individual/group professional development needs, and/or review of data (discipline, attendance, child find, etc.) 
• Collaborates with case managers to ensure IEPs are reviewed at least annually, contain parental consent for implementation, are finalized within VA IEP, and are filed appropriately in the student’s cumulative record
• Collaborates with case managers to ensure initial eligibility and/or triennial reviews are conducted within 65 business days of the referral date and completes Indicators 9, 10, and 11 as appropriate for each newly eligible student with a disability
• Conducts regular IEP audits to ensure compliance with federal and state law, as well as the division’s exceptional education policies and procedures
• Ensures that all students with disabilities are assigned an exceptional education case manager and ensures that caseloads are equitable amongst case managers 
• Attends all eligibility and re-evaluation meetings
• Monitors discipline data for students with disabilities and when applicable attends manifestation determination meetings to ensure procedures for disciplining students with disabilities are followed
• Ensures procedures are followed for transfer students including written parental consent to implement an out-of-state or out-of-division IEP and assists staff in ensuring the transfer IEP is completed within 30 days of the student’s arrival
• Ensures that appropriate documents are completed when referring students to the Family Assessment and Planning Team (FAPT)
• Attends all division-wide ICC meetings
• May assume teaching and/or intervention support duties (part-time ICC select schools)
• Completes other duties as determined by school’s principal

Qualifications:

• Master's Degree required
• Valid Virginia teaching license with an endorsement in one or more areas of Exceptional Education required; endorsement in Administration and Supervision preferred
• Minimum of three years’ experience as an exceptional education teacher
• Comprehensive knowledge of regulations governing programming for students with disabilities
• Comprehensive understanding of the processes of service delivery and instruction
• Knowledge of Response to Intervention (RTI) and Child Find processes
• Ability to work effectively with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and colleagues
• Demonstrated ability in individual and group decision making, problem analysis, and conflict resolution
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing
• Bilingual skills preferred

HOW TO APPLY: All applicants (including RPS employees) must submit an on-line application. Please access website at: www.rvaschools.net

Please upload the following information with your application: a current resume, transcript and license if applicable.  Three references names and contact information will be required if you progress to the interview step of the selection process.  Richmond Public Schools will conduct a background investigation, fingerprinting, tuberculosis screening as a condition of employment. EOE.