Social Emotional Learning Specialist New Grads welcome!

Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running the largest, fastest-growing, and highest-performing network of public charter schools in New York City takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates and supporters alike. We would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure each child in NYC has access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through the doors of one of our 53 schools in NYC a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.

Job Description:

We are interviewing and reviewing candidates for rolling, immediate start dates AND a Summer 2024 start date.

In your application, please provide the earliest available time you'd be able to start or note your Summer 2024 availability.

We now need a results-driven Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Specialist to join our school community.

Reporting directly to the Principal, Social Emotional Learning, Specialists work closely with scholars, teachers, families and School Leadership to provide school-based Counseling sessions both formally through IEPs as well as at-risk to high-needs scholars. They also work collaboratively with teachers to implement Social Emotional Learning curricula daily in the classrooms. SEL Specialists manage day-to-day crisis support and de-escalation, and the implementation and progress monitoring of behavior intervention plans (BIPs). SEL Specialists are jointly involved in the creation of BIPs with the assigned Evaluating Psychologist.

Representative Roles & Responsibilities:

Day-to-day implementation of school-based Counseling sessions;

Participate in the identification of at-risk scholars who may need informal counseling;

Report on Counseling progress for Trimester Progress Reports and IEP Meeting Progress Reports;

Develop and Implement Social Emotional Learning curricula to be used in classrooms school-wide; 

De-escalate behavior and follow up on scholars in crisis;

Collaborate in the design of Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs); and

Implement, maintain and progress monitor efficacy of BIPs.

We’d be excited to hear from you if:

You hold a valid NY State School Counseling or Social Work certification;

You have experience with a behavioral assessment tools;

You have prior experience working in a school setting (School Counseling or School Social Work experience required);

You have background in counseling and crisis;

You are a person of high moral character; and

You are passionate about learning.

Compensation:

Annual Salary: $65,000.00