Anticipated City Connects Coordinator, Salem Public Schools, Salem, MA [SY 2025-2025]

Anticipated City Connects Coordinator, Salem Public Schools, Salem, MA [SY 2025-2025]

About Salem Public Schools, where belonging leads to opportunity.

Salem is a small, diverse city with a proud maritime and immigrant history.  Salem Public Schools is an urban public school district enrolling nearly 4,000 students in 11 schools. Our vision is to ensure that all students will be locally engaged, globally connected, and fully prepared to thrive in a diverse and changing world. We hold dear our core values of belonging, equity, and opportunity in everything we do. We seek individuals who are passionate about urban education and understand the urgency of improving student achievement for all students, regardless of ability, economic status, gender/gender identity, language, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, or other backgrounds. We invite you to learn more about our strategic plan and core priorities on our website at https://salemk12.org/. 

What You’ll Do: 

Salem Public Schools is seeking professionals to implement the City Connects program within our schools. City Connects__ a school-based collaboration among the public schools, community agencies, and Boston College, is reinvigorating a core function of schools by implementing an innovative model of systemic student support. City Connects Coordinators implement a systematic, integrated framework for student supports that assess the strengths and needs of each student in the school and connect students with a tailored set of supports and resources from inside and outside the school. Salem Public Schools seeks a full-time City-Connects Coordinator to fill a leadership position at a participating school. The responsibilities of the Coordinator are to:  

• Establish and lead Student Support Teams in the school that identifies and responds to the strengths and personal developmental needs of each and every child in the school 
• Connect students to a range of prevention, early intervention and intensive services programs that address the physical, emotional, cognitive, and social development of each student 
• Develop and enhance community partnerships with varied community agencies to meet the identified needs of students, families, and the school
• Collaborate with school staff, including classroom teachers, to implement the City Connects model 
• Promote the City Connects model of student support to the school community, families and community agencies. 
• Engage families and caregivers in understanding and supporting the education of their children and the ways in which academic outcomes are enhanced by serving the social / emotional and personal development needs of the child 
• Collect data on the implementation of the model and the delivery of services 
• Offer consultation and support regarding students with emotional or academic concerns
• Support teachers in developing & implementing behavior support plans in the classroom
• Complete needed paperwork and job related functions in a timely manner in accordance with DESE guidelines
• Facilitate Tier 1 and 2 intervention groups on topics including social skills, conflict resolution, substance abuse prevention etc.
• Collaborate with school staff, including classroom teachers, to implement the college and career readiness curriculum and programming.
• Respond appropriately to building and district crisis
• Routinely attend district and school based meetings, training and professional development 
• Other duties as requested by school Principal or Director of Student and Family Supports

What You’ll Bring: 

We are looking for candidates who have diverse backgrounds and experiences, are inspired by our mission, and are highly motivated to change children’s lives through education. You’ll be right at home here if you are a reflective practitioner who values collaboration with colleagues and pushes yourself, your work and the people around you to the next level.  We expect our SPS employees to:

• Hold a deep commitment to students and families - The SPS community is vibrant, diverse in background, ethnicity, language, and perspective. You embrace and affirm the backgrounds of all members of the SPS community and value our diversity as a powerful resource that supports us in doing our best work.
• Hold high expectations for yourself, students, and colleagues – You see potential in all, especially our SPS students, and maintain high expectations for achievement, while providing the support necessary to meet that bar. You hold yourself to high expectations, modeling SPS values and seeking opportunities to continuously improve.
• Build authentic, caring relationships with teachers, students, administrators, and other stakeholders – You build strong relationships that are collaborative in nature and contribute to the individual and collective success of SPS.  You partner with colleagues to make decisions in the best interest of students and learning.
• Embrace feedback – You are a reflective practitioner who learns from failure, using mistakes and challenges as opportunities for growth. You model persistence and growth mindset and thrive in a culture of feedback.

Job Requirements

Qualifications

• Licensed or license eligible as a school social worker/school adjustment counselor, school counselor, school psychologist
• Master’s degree in School Counseling, Social Work or School Psychology
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively with families, community members, collateral contracts, students and staff verbally and in written form  
• Excellent time managements skills and data based decision making skills
• Experience working in a school environment
• Evidence of culturally competent practices
• Must be Crisis Prevention Intervention and restraint trained or willing to be trained
• Bilingual (Spanish) skills preferred
• Current authorization to work in the United States.

Work Year: Teachers in Salem Public Schools work a 185 day school year (180 student contact days plus 5 professional development days. Please visit www.salemk12.org to view the 2023-24 district and/or school calendar.

Salary: Teacher salaries in the Salem Public Schools are determined by the Salem Teachers Union collective bargaining agreement. Salary information can be found in Appendix A. Use our new Salem Teacher Salary estimator here. Collins Middle School teachers receive an additional 4% differential on top of their base salary for a slightly longer (7 hour) school day.

Benefits: The City of Salem offers Group Insurance Commission (GIC) benefits to all full-time employees. Click here for more information about our health benefits.

Contact Information: Ellen Wingard, Executive Director of Student Support Services

                        Salem Public Schools

                        29 Highland Avenue

                        Salem, MA  01970

Phone: 781-732-0137

Email: ewingard@salemk12.org

Equal Opportunity Employer

Salem Public School District is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/civil union status, ancestry, place of birth, age, citizenship status, veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information or disability, as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally, we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation.