Williston Basin School District #7, Williston, North Dakota, is currently accepting applications for the following position:

Behavior Specialist Williston Basin School District #7

Job Summary: Provides interventions for students to increase responsible behavior and reduce negative behavior including but not limited to small group and one-on-one interventions. Communicate with the students parents, other district employees, and other school personnel to build and implement a strong support mechanism for the student. Documents, maintains, analyzes, and discusses data with the student, parents, and others to determine the impact of the interventions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist in developing interventions, functional behavior assessments, and behavior plans to provide a safe and effective educational environment for students with challenging behaviors.
• Provide social skills instruction to students utilizing research-based.
• Works one-on-one with students evaluating needs and providing interventions to affect behavior.
• Review incident reports daily and monitor activity throughout the instructional day to maintain a safe environment for students and staff.
• Provides value clarification including rules, expectations, and consequences for inappropriate behavior.
• Consult with staff to obtain information and advice on student behavior problems.
• Completes all reporting requirements as mandated by the district, state, federal, and education agencies. Documents in Panorama daily (restraint, seclusion, assessments, behavioral data).
• Required to have prompt, regular attendance in person and be available to work on-site, in-person during regular business hours and as needed.
• Collaborates with instructional staff to develop student behavior objectives, goals, and plans well as methods to monitor conduct.
• Assesses and defuses situations using conflict resolution and management techniques.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the principal, immediate supervisor, and district-level administration.
• Comply with all safety policies, practices, and procedures; report all unsafe activities.

Job Requirements: Minimum Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE, ABILITY, SKILLS:

• Must possess instructional knowledge of crisis intervention strategies.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of various data collection methods and subsequent analysis and interpretation of data to drive appropriate behavioral interventions.
• Ability to develop and present ideas effectively, orally and in written form.
• Must be able to maintain frequent, meaningful parental communication and develop proactive partnerships between the student/parent and school district to support academic achievement and pro-social behaviors.
• Must serve as a positive role model for students and model professional and ethical standards.
• Ability to apply a gradually progressive system of verbal and non-verbal strategies to effectively de-escalate potentially dangerous situations.
• Effective listening.
• Ability to analyze data.
• Facilitating meetings
• Monitor activities.
• Planning.
• Problem-solving.
• Record keeping.
• Provide staff training.

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE: Bachelors degree or higher in Education. Five years of work experience where the position's primary function was working with children dealing with behaviors and consequences.