Interim Dean of Students

Position for remainder of the 2024-2025 School Year

Job Title: Interim Dean of Students Wage/Hr Status: Exempt

Reports to: Principal, Assistant Principal Paygrade: Certified

Dept./School: Assigned Campus Revised: February 2025

Primary Purpose:

To assist the campus principal, assistant principal, school personnel and students with directing/supervising assigned operations at the campus level. To assist with the direction and implementation of district policies, disciplinary matters regarding students, and certain campus activities that may be assigned by building level administrators. To help build and maintain a positive, safe school climate.

Qualifications:

Education/Certification from an NCATE- accredited Arkansas College or university and hold the following degree:

• Minimum: Bachelor of Science in Education

Must hold the following certification from the Arkansas Department of Education:

• Valid Arkansas teaching license and/or valid Arkansas Administrative license

Special Knowledge/Skills:

• Working knowledge of curriculum and instruction
• Ability to assist with coordination of assigned campus functions
• Ability to interpret policy, procedures, and data
• Strong organizational, communication, public relations, and interpersonal skills
• Calm and patient demeanor with students and others

Experience:

• Three years of teaching experience in the classroom, or as a school counselor, or as a school librarian

Evaluation:

The Dean of Students will be evaluated on an annual basis by a building level administrator.

Major responsibilities and Duties:

• Knowledge of positive behavioral interventions and support
• Creating and implementing student behavior expectations
• Conflict resolution strategies
• State policy and laws affecting the management of student behaviors
• Build positive relationships with students, staff, parents and community members
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with key stakeholders through a variety of methods
• Provide leadership of behavior management and supervision
• Facilitate the resolution of conflict
• Plan, organize and manage time and resources
• Manage and enforce school behavioral expectations, including attendance classroom alignment with school-wide goals
• Confer with students, parents, and teachers regarding student related policies.
• Assist staff with the creation and alignment of classroom student behavioral expectations and classroom management plans.
• Serve as a resource to staff regarding student management issues.
• Create and coordinate education alternatives for students in need.

• Collaborate with staff, administrators, and parents through the response to intervention process.
• Assist in the planning, developing, and implementation of student behavior plans.
• Confer with students and administer appropriate consequences.
• Openly communicate with staff and parents/guardians regarding student behavior.
• Collaborate with the school counselor and personnel to create and maintain research-based behavioral interventions, and training of faculty and staff in those interventions.
• Manage the documentation of student behavior through the use of eSchool
• Attend appropriate meetings regarding student growth and success (IEP and 504 case conferences, parent meetings, expulsion hearings, etc.)
• Assist in the maintenance of the campus crisis management plan and assist with school safety requirements
• Compile, analyze, and share student discipline data regularly, and use that data to make decisions

Management/Supervisor Responsibilities:

Administration of student discipline, and assist with coordination of campus activities as assigned by the building level administrator(s).

Working Conditions:

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 will be made if necessary

Mental Demands

Maintain emotional control under stress; subject to deal with a variety of stressful situations as they arise

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand and move throughout the facility. Duties also typically include considerable walking, standing, stooping, bending, and moderate lifting. Physical intervention may be required at times to manage student behavior; normal office environment as well as inside and outside duties; occasional district wide and statewide travel; frequent prolonged and irregular hours.

The foregoing statements describe the general purpose and responsibilities to this job and are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills that may be required.

Salary Range: $55,000 to $65,000 to be determined based on experience, credentials, and other factors taken into consideration by the district.