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Special Education Consultant/504 Coordinator JobID: 302

+ Position Type:

Special Education

+ Date Posted:

5/22/2025

+ Location:

Mid-Prairie Central Office

Job Title: Special Education Consultant/504 Coordinator

Revised Date: May 2025

Work Days: 201 (191 day contract w/extended 10 days)

Department: Special Education

Reports To: Superintendent

Support Services Salary: The final salary is determined based on relevant experience.

ABOUT THE MID-PRAIRIE SCHOOL DISTRICT:

The Mid-Prairie Community School District is located 15 miles south of Iowa City, encompassing 217 square miles and serving around 1,500 students. The district's territory covers Washington, Johnson, Iowa, and Keokuk counties. Mid-Prairie Community School District caters to students from Pre-K to 12th grade, and has an elementary and middle school building in Kalona, Iowa, along with a high school building and an elementary building in Wellman, Iowa. Teachers and administrators work closely with families and community partners to ensure that students are well-prepared for college, career, and community life. For more information, please visit the district website atmphawks.org.

SUMMARY:

The Special Education Consultant/504 Coordinator role provides leadership, supervision, coordination, and direction of all special education programs and services for students with disabilities aged 3 to 21. Responsibilities include strategic professional development, creating and managing budgets, monitoring compliance to meet state and federal mandates, and supporting equitable evidence-based practices and programming for academic growth and achievement, social-emotional learning, and behavior management within a multi-tiered system of support framework.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

? Using a continuous improvement model, monitor the effectiveness of special education programming and provide guidance to the building administration, superintendent, and senior staff on necessary programmatic changes and expectations to ensure increased student achievement and social-emotional learning for students receiving special education.

? Communicate effectively with staff, principals, superintendent, parents, agencies, facilities, districts, and the Iowa Department of Education.

? Provide updates to the Board of Education as requested.

? Support and engage with the Grant Wood Area Education Agency.

? Supervise the planning, implementation, and evaluation of Extended School Year (ESY) each summer.

? Allocate and assign equitable FTE distribution for special education programs in all district schools.

? Train and lead a team of certified and classified staff to support effective implementation of special education programming.

? Oversee reporting and compliance, including preparation and submission of all reports and data for federal, state, and district monitoring of special education.

? Analyze budgets, revenue, expenditures, adjustments, and grants in collaboration with Business Services staff.

? Supervise out-of-district placements and approve contracts for both in-district and out-of-district placements.

? Manage conflict resolution, including consultation, facilitation, and mediation within the district.

? Coordinate relevant professional development for licensed and classified.

? Oversight of state and federal compliance related to IDEA.

? Supervise all activities related to Medicaid claiming and reimbursement, including annual training, budgeting, billing, and cost reconciliation.

? Perform other duties as assigned.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITY:

? Written communication skills, including editing and publications.

? Public speaking, large and small group facilitation skills.

? Human relation skills.

? Ability to maintain honesty and integrity in all aspects of the job.

? Ability to promote and follow Board of Education policies, Superintendent Policies and building and department procedures.

? Ability to communicate, interact, and work effectively and cooperatively with people from diverse ethnic and educational backgrounds.

? Ability to be a part of/work with a team.

? Ability and willingness to adhere to attendance requirements, including regular and punctual employee presence.

? Ability to recognize the importance of safety in the workplace, follow safety rules, practice safe work habits, utilize appropriate safety equipment and report unsafe conditions to the appropriate administrator.

SUPERVISION/TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITY:

? This position carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. This position may be responsible for the hiring process.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

?Masters Degree in education or special education

? Experience in the field of special education, with leadership experience in serving special education programming and students.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, & REGISTRATIONS:

? An Iowa teaching license with a special education consultant endorsement is preferred.

? Criminal background check required for hire.

? Valid Iowa driver’s license.

SAFETY TO SELF AND OTHERS:

? In order to safely perform this position, you must familiarize yourself with the safety rules of your job and participate in all safety training provided by your building. You must wear personal protective equipment whenever required, ask for assistance if the task requires more than one person and, if you’re unsure how to perform a task safely, stop and ask your supervisor for instruction before continuing.

? All employees of the district are responsible for maintaining a safe and healthy workplace and ensuring that safety precautions and practices are followed.

? We expect you to immediately report any unsafe working conditions or safety problems to your supervisor. Until corrective action is taken, be sure that the area or condition is restricted and that cautionary devices, i.e., cones, temporary fencing, floor signs, etc. are in place so that others are not affected or injured.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:

Mid-Prairie Community School District is an equal opportunity educational institution and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, sex, gender identity/expression, national origin, creed, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability or veteran status in admission or access to, and treatment and employment in its educational programs or activities.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibility, or qualifications associated with the job.

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the post-offer screening process, including a background check.