Special Education Instructional/Data Specialist/MTSS (Located at Main Elementary)

Thank you for your interest in working with Rome City Schools.
We look forward to receiving your application.

Are you passionate about shaping young minds and making a lasting impact in education?

Rome City Schools is seeking dedicated Early Childhood Special Education Certified Employees for the upcoming 2025-2026 school year!

Position Title: Special Education Instructional/Data Specialist/MTSS (Located at Main Elementary)

Division/Department: Special Education

Pay Grade: Certified Salary Schedule

Pay Type: Salaried-Exempt

Retirement: TRS

Work Days: 210

Reports To:  Director of Special Education

Evaluation Instrument: TKES

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION AND REQUIREMENTS:

• A valid Georgia Educator Certificate in assigned teaching field as required by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission. 
• Education: Master’s Degree or higher in Special Education or a related field 
• Required Certification:  Special Education General Curriculum and Special Education Adapted Curriculum
• Preferred Certification (in addition to required certification):  Early Childhood Education and/or Elementary Education
• Preferred Training and/or Endorsement: GSU/GaDOE Functional Behavior Assessments and Behavior Intervention Planning, Registered Behavior Technician, GaDOE Approved Dyslexia Endorsement, MTSS, and Mindset
• Required Experience: Successful experience teaching special education.
• Preferred Experience: Successful experience as a general education teacher or co-teaching as a special educator, Successful experience leading teachers to improve practices and/or instruction.
• Physical activities: Routine physical activities that are required to fulfill job responsibilities.
• Exceptional understanding of federal, state, and local laws, policies, and procedures.
• Expertise in designing, evaluating, and providing specially designed instruction for students with disabilities.
• Expertise in general education curriculum, instruction, MTSS, and interventions (Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III).
• Leadership ability in professionally developing special education teachers, general education teachers, and special education paraprofessionals.
• Ability to collect, maintain, interpret, and verify accuracy of data.
• Proficient record keeping and computer skills.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Demonstrates prompt and regular attendance.
• Takes direction and completes all assigned work in a timely manner.
• Conduct ongoing program needs analysis and collaborate with other departments on developing procedures and practices to best serve students with disabilities.
• Coordinate the design and implementation of special education programming for a wide range of unique learner profiles.
• Provide professional learning and modeling of specially designed instruction, provision of accommodations and modifications, progress monitoring,  and implementation of behavior intervention plans.
• Provide leadership in the design and delivery of instruction in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
• Conduct bi-weekly school level special education team meetings focused on specially designed instruction and data based decision making.
• Analyze student data to review achievement and evaluate effectiveness of instruction for students with disabilities.
• Work in conjunction with special education teachers to ensure the needs of students are met according to IEP development.
• Build teacher capacity to effectively manage their caseload and efficiently schedule services.
• Assist with decision-making regarding statewide assessment participation of students with disabilities.
• Monitors the timely and accurate completion of grading, IEP data collection, and IEP progress monitoring.
• Maintains lending library and inventory of specially designed instructional materials assigned to special educators and schools.
• Mentor first year special education teachers on instruction and service provision.
• Collaborate with school level instructional/data specialists.
• Serves as LEA representative at IEP meetings.
• Performs other duties as assigned as needed to lead RCS through programmatic change

Essential Duties

Job descriptions are designed and intended only to summarize the essential duties, responsibilities, qualifications, and requirements for the purpose of clarifying the general nature and scope of a position’s role as part of the overall organization.  Job descriptions do not list all tasks an employee might be expected to perform, and they do not limit the right of the employer/supervisor to assign additional tasks or otherwise to modify duties to be performed – even if seemingly unrelated to the basic job.  Every employee has a duty to perform all assigned tasks.  It should also be noted the order of duties/ responsibilities as listed in the job description is not designed or intended to rank the duties in any order of importance relative to each other.

Minimum Requirements

In filling a vacant position, preferred or required credentials regarding education, training, experience, and other bona fide occupational qualifications may be established.  The credentials shown in this job description may be interpreted only as the minimum criteria existing at the time the description was developed.  Other bona fide occupational qualifications and criteria may be utilized as needed in the selection process.

The Board of Education and the Superintendent may accept alternatives to some of the above requirement

Salary : $50,000 - $75,000