Check and Connect Program Specialist
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Position Type:
Professional
Date Posted:
7/2/2025
Location:
Eagle Point Elementary
District:
North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale School District Position: Check and Connect Program Specialist
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8 hours per day, 190 days
Start Date: Fall 2025
Pay: $56,160 - $57,200 DOQ
Benefits: Single contribution Health, Dental, vision, 403b matching
Summary:
This position supports the Check & Connect Program by providing positive behavior interventions and maintains a caseload of students. The incumbent will work with individual students and their families, school staff, and community service providers to implement strategies and interventions that address school success and school completion for students in need of support to graduate. Including tracking students' level of engagement, document results, and complete monthly forms and a contact log as a tool to assess student improvements in regards to the following: absences, truancies, suspensions, and grades/credits earned.
Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Social Work or a related field.
Experience working in the school setting.
Knowledge and understanding of behavior interventions and support.
Ability to collaborate with community agencies to provide services to students.
Ability to communicate effectively both in oral and written format.
Desired Qualifications: Master's Degree in Social Work or related field.
Licensed in a MN related license service area (i.e. school social work, school psychologist, guidance counselor)
Ability to understand, use and share data related to practices and progress monitoring
Knowledge of targeted and individual behavior support
Ability to design and deliver training on School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Computer proficiency
Multi-age and multi-culture experience
Responsibilities: Work with caseloads of students and families, functioning as liaisons between home and school, and striving to build constructive family-school relationships
Data collection in building: including regular checks on students' attendance, grades and behavior
Reteach and provide behavior interventions to students, communicate regularly with families, and initiate efforts to keep students engaged in school
Provide timely, personalized, data-based interventions determined by the solutions team designed to provide support tailored to individual student needs, based on the student's level of engagement with school ("check" data), associated influences of home and school, and leveraging of local resources
Reteach expectations that are taught, reinforced, and monitored at the school-wide level.
Consult with teachers, parents, and administrators to develop intervention strategies to reduce barriers to school success
Consult with teachers, parents, and administrators to develop intervention strategies to reduce barriers to school success
Collaborate with other Check & Connect Program Specialists and district social workers
Independent School District No, 622, North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale, does not discriminated on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity.
ISD 622 is an equal opportunity employer and supports an inclusive workplace environment.
- Location:
- Oakdale, MN, United States
- Category:
- Business And Financial Operations Occupations