School Culture & Climate Specialist - Seneca Family of Agencies

Overview

Are you passionate about making a positive impact in your community? We are seeking a dedicated individual to lead school teams in implementing the Unconditional Education Model, fostering a multi-tiered system of academic, behavioral, and social-emotional supports. This role focuses on creating a school culture and climate that is engaging and responsive to the needs of all students, families, and school communities. This role is based at Ánimo Legacy Charter Middle School in based in the West Athens neighborhood of south Los Angeles. Occasional travel is required for our monthly Los Angeles team meetings (usually downtown LA) and annual summer back-to-school activities in Oakland.

As a School Culture and Climate Specialist, you'll lead efforts to assess and improve the school's culture and climate through an annual implementation plan. You'll receive specialized training to implement School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) and foster students' social, emotional, and behavioral health. Your responsibilities include overseeing timely student interventions, facilitating professional development for staff and caregivers, and promoting trauma-informed, healing-centered practices to build inclusive, thriving school communities.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Seneca’s Unconditional Education program partners with Los Angeles schools to implement services that identify and intervene on behalf of the community’s most vulnerable children. You can learn more about Seneca’s School Partnership Programs and Unconditional Education model here. 

ABOUT SENECA

Seneca Family of Agencies has been nominated among the Bay Area’s Top Workplaces for several consecutive years. We’re committed to providing traditionally marginalized communities with a network of excellent mental health, community-based, and educational services. We are committed to building a diverse staff and strongly encourage people of color to apply. Our programs are deeply engaged in conversations and training on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to bring equity and justice to the youth and families we serve.

Responsibilities

• Lead a culture and climate team that administers a variety of measures to assess the school’s overall culture and tiered intervention practice, using input from the community to create an annual implementation plan. Areas of focus may include:
  • Staff communication, relational trust, and wellness
  • Student voice
  • Family engagement
  • Developing trauma-informed and healing centered practices and policies
• Lead the implementation of School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) and Trauma-Informed Practices including:
  • Facilitating the development of clear expectations and consistent responses to behavior
  • Creating and identifying systems for tracking and analyzing (discipline) data
  • Leading data-driven discussions informing school-wide and individual student interventions
  • Establishing practices for ensuring school-family partnership
• Develop and/or facilitate a Coordination of Services Team (or equivalent) that supports a data-driven process to:
  • Coordinate implementation of research-based interventions aligned with a multi-tiered intervention framework
  • Ensure students in need of additional support are identified as proactively as possible
  • Assess efficacy of intervention and progress
  • Ensure equity among students receiving intervention
  • Regularly review school-wide data to inform decisions around intervention services
• Coordinate implementation of research-based interventions aligned with a multi-tiered intervention framework
• Facilitate evaluation and program improvement assessment activities onsite
• Serve as on-site manager for Seneca team members if applicable
• Engage in Seneca's crisis response model, Equilibrium, or other Seneca approved crisis response model, if trained, to employ crisis communication and de-escalation techniques, ensuring the safety and well-being of others
  • This may include intervening with the students' using physical management

Qualifications

• Education/experience requirements:
  • Master’s degree in education, psychology, counseling, social work, a related field, OR
  • Bachelor's Degree and 1 year of equivalent experience
• Demonstrated record of effectively leading other adults in creating change
• California Driver's License and/or reliable transportation to and from the school site and other occasional meeting spots
• TB test clearance, fingerprinting clearance, and any other state/federal licensing or certification requirements
• Must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination

Schedule

• School-based schedule:
  • Monday to Friday: 8 AM- 4:30 PM 
• 5 weeks of paid time off, 11 paid holidays, and 14 paid school break days

Benefits

• Starting at $85,296 -$99,296 per year
  • Actual salary dependent on creditable experience above the minimum qualifications for the role
  • Salary increases each year 
  • Opportunity for a salary increase upon passing a bilingual language proficiency exam
  • $2000 sign-on bonus (for new Seneca employees in this position)
•  Comprehensive employee benefits package: 
  • Medical, dental, vision, chiropractic, acupuncture, and fertility coverage
  • Long-term disability, family leave, and life insurance
  • Partially paid premiums for dependants 
  • 403b retirement plan
  • Employer-Paid Assistance Plan
• 5 weeks of paid time off, 11 paid holidays, and 14 paid school break days
• Seneca is a Public Service Loan Forgiveness certified employer
• Abundant promotional opportunities across California and Washington
• Specialized training and development opportunities along with up to $2500 in scholarships and substantially funded embedded MSW and Education Specialist programs at various partner universities