What are the responsibilities and job description for the Horizons - SEL Leadership Team position at Sacred Heart University?
Position Summary
Provide SEL support and crisis intervention to HSHU learners in grades K-8. Serve as a resource for HSHU teachers/staff, and families.
Principal Duties & Responsibilities
Provide social-emotional support and facilitate co-regulatory practices with students who are struggling to maintain emotional regulation.
Help to foster and maintain an emotionally safe and trauma-informed environment at HSHU.
Coordinate and/or provide students with individual sessions as needed, as well as facilitate group work that engages dyads, small groups and/or affinity groups, and classrooms.
Engage in classroom observation and provide consultation to teachers regarding student social emotional learning, student behavior, individual student situations, community building, inclusive practices, and classroom management.
Maintain records of student progress/data.
Maintain and model professional boundaries and mutually respectful relationships with students, colleagues, supervisors, and community partners with the foundation of open communication, respect, and collaboration.
Interface with families and provide feedback and resources for their children.
Provide and/or collaborate on professional learning for staff.
Support and complete mandated reporting processes when needed.
Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, & Other Attributes
Minimum 2-4 years of experience working with children in a K-8 educational setting preferred.
Knowledge of trauma-responsive practices and working with under-resourced communities preferred.
Strong commitment to the Horizons at SHU mission, working agreement, and community values.
Effective oral and communication skills.
Experience/comfort working with a wide range of abilities and differentiating learning to meet the needs of all students.
Experience teaching social-emotional learning and with mentoring.
Experience with building community.
Strong commitment to antiracist practice
Willingness to connect with the HSHU community after the summer program by attending school-year events.
Skills needed to mentor and coach classroom staff.
Unusual Working Conditions
This is a seasonal summer program position.
This is a full-day position.
Dates of Program:
Training week: 6/23 through 6/27/25
Program Days: 6/30 through 8/8/25; two required evening events 8/6/25 & 8/8/25
Clean-up & Reporting Days: 8/11 & 8/12/25
Pre-Training Onboarding – Date TBD
Trainings generally run 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Program days are 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.