Coordinator for Alternative Education Programs (PC2679) for School Year 2025/2026

Position Title: Coordinator for Alternative Education Programs

Pay Grade: A - 1 Period of Employment: 12 months

Description Approved/Revised: 4/25 FLSA Status: Exempt

Supervised by and / or Reports to: Director of School Leadership

General Responsibilities: Oversees programming for students receiving educational services through an alternative educational placement. Acts as a case manager, working with school leaders, counselors, and support teams to improve these students' experiences and outcomes. Develops instructional support plans, monitoring attendance, and managing out-of-division placements, as well as facilitating multi-disciplinary team meetings to ensure compliance with academic and behavioral expectations.

Essential Duties:

(This list is intended solely as an illustration of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude their addition if they are similar to or a logical extension of the position.)

• Serves as the case manager for students receiving services in a nontraditional educational setting.
• Works directly with school leadership and student support teams to optimize the student’s success and compliance with conditions necessary to return to a traditional education setting.
• Creates, monitors, and revises the Instructional Support Plan as needed to meet the needs of the student as well as ensuring student compliance.
• Provides summative reports for disciplinary hearings as requested.
• Monitors and maintains tracking and placement data for students.
• Collaborates with school counselors to maintain accuracy and update the instructional support plans for students displaced from their traditional educational setting program due to disciplinary consequences or student behavior.
• Meets with school-based attendance officers to review attendance reports for non-traditional students and compulsory attendance including communication to the student, parent, school administration, and attendance officer.
• Serves on educational committees with students, parents, and/or staff, to continually improve alternative education learning experiences for students.
• Serves as a flexible and innovative team leader who maintains a student-centered approach in all decision-making.
• Coordinates the enrollment process for students receiving alternative education as determined by the division’s hearing officer, superintendent or school board.

• Provides effective direct services to students, families, and colleagues.
• Establishes and monitors procedures for the screening, placement, evaluation, assignment, and reappraisal of students concerning alternative education.
• Coordinates the development, implementation, and revision of the curriculum for alternative education with curriculum supervisors.
• Provides supervision for online instructional programming.
• Interprets alternative education instruction to the School Board, staff, parents, and the community.
• Assist principals, administrators, and teachers with understanding alternative education and making appropriate referrals for student placement.
• Meets with parents/guardians and students to resolve concerns and determine appropriate educational placements.
• Assesses and identify program needs and provide recommendations regarding future equipment, site, program and personnel requirements.
• Assists with transitioning students who have attended an alternative education facility back to the comprehensive school setting.
• Communicates with the transportation department to arrange transportation for alternative education students as needed.
• Facilitates interagency planning between the school division and external service providers such as regional programs, court services, and detention centers.
• Monitors and assists with accurate record keeping of students receiving alternative education instructional services.
• Conducts site and home visits as necessary to foster and strengthen connections with families and non-traditional schools where MCPS students receive their education.
• Develops the credit recovery summer school program for students receiving alternative education services who are at risk of not graduating.
• Partners with school social workers, school counselors, and related professionals to provide a continuum of services to students placed in non-traditional settings due to disciplinary action or behavioral challenges.

Requisite Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Possess extensive knowledge of the curriculum and instructional program, including content and methodologies, and the integration of technology into instruction.
• Ability to analyze, interpret, and utilize data.
• Demonstrated ability to use research-based practices that result in higher student achievement.
• Knowledge of current research and best practices in alternative education.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with all staff in a school and provide on-going staff development and leadership.
• Serve as a role model.

Requisite Education and Experience:

• Must possess or be eligible for a Virginia Postgraduate Professional License with an Administration and Supervision Pre-K-12 endorsement.
• Must possess three to five years of teaching experience; middle or high school teaching experience preferred.
• Knowledge of middle and high school organizational philosophy, and evidence of a minimum of three years of successful school-based administrative leadership experience.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• A commitment to student advocacy and a collaborative approach to problem-solving.
• Knowledge of the disciplinary process.
• Experience working with at-risk students and families.
• Master’s degree required.

Physical Requirements:

Must have the use of sensory skills in order to effectively communicate and interact with other employees and the public through the use of the telephone and personal contact as normally defined by the ability to see, read, talk, hear, handle or feel objects and controls. Physical capability to effectively use and operate various items of office related equipment, such as, but not limited to: a personal computer, calculator, copier, and fax machine. Some climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, or repetitive motions required.

Manassas City Public Schools (MCPS) does not discriminate in employment nor in the provision of educational programs, services and activities on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law.

This job description is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements. It is neither intended to be, nor should it be construed as, an all-inclusive list of the responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position. The administration reserves the right to modify, assign, or remove duties as necessary.