What are the responsibilities and job description for the Stipend Opportunity: Behavioral Health Services PD Designer (SY24-25) position at Boston Public Schools, Office of Human Resources?
REPORTS TO: Senior Director of Behavioral Health Services Department or their designee
STIPEND POSITION OVERVIEW: The Behavioral Health Services Department (BHS) seeks a current BHS School Psychologist to create and provide professional development within the department, within the district, and at schools.
This opportunity will occur primarily from January 1, 2025, to June 1, 2025, as needed up to 20 hours.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Following grant expectations, this position will be responsible for:
- Communications: develop all communications about MH PD and communicate with BPS staff to promote events.
- Development: Curate and distribute a variety of mental health resources.
- Implementation: Planning and implementing MH awareness events both at the district level and school level
- Dissemination: Distribute information and outcomes of the MH events
- Materials: Order, organize and disseminate all materials for the events
- Scheduling: scheduling the event, finding physical space or creating a Zoom link for the training, and sharing logistics of the training session with the organizer(s).
- Data: Maintain and report attendance, share data and presentation information about the training with the organizer(s) and the Senior Director of Behavioral Health Services
- Culturally Relevant: PD must be grounded in equitable, anti-oppressive, and/or culturally responsive practices.
The stipend will be paid at the hourly rate of $56.81 and once the responsibilities are completed.
QUALIFICATIONS - REQUIRED:
- Currently working in Boston Public Schools;
- Appropriate school psychologist licensure.
- BPS values linguistic diversity and believes that candidates who speak another language bring added value to the classroom, school, and district culture and diversity. We are particularly interested in candidates who are fluent in one of BPS' official languages: Spanish, Creole (Cape Verdean), Creole (Haitian), Chinese, Vietnamese, Portuguese, & Somali.
Salary : $57
