Senior Director, Special Programs

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee special education, Section 504, English Learner, Gifted and Talented, and McKinney-Vento initiatives.

• Mentor, develop, and enhance the capabilities of leaders in special programs.

• Assess portfolio-level performance metrics concerning students, staff, and leadership and take action to enhance outcomes.

• Evaluate student/staff and staff/leader interactions, providing feedback to the appropriate supervisors.

• Ensure compliance in service delivery, instructional execution, student engagement, progress tracking, and intervention planning.

• Enforce and document established company procedures and governance processes.

• Review organizational structure, reporting relationships, supervisory tiers, and staffing ratios.

• Create data governance protocols, definitions, required fields, reconciliation controls, dashboards, and conduct weekly exception reviews.

• Uphold approved service and accommodation standards while ensuring necessary services, FAPE, and LRE are maintained.

• Define productivity, quality, timeliness, utilization, backlog, and rework standards; redistribute assignments and optimize workflows.

• Implement observation, evaluation, coaching, documentation, recruitment, and performance-action standards.

• Collaborate with Operations, IT, Data, Curriculum and Instruction, school leadership, legal, and the CFO.

• Manage and audit compliance with federal, state, authorizer, and company regulations.

• Handle routine decisions and complex issue resolutions, escalating significant risks and verifying outcomes.

• Monitor provider performance, align services with records and invoices, and provide evidence of fiscal compliance.

• Maintain a monthly scorecard with targets approved by the VP and source evidence.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master’s degree in Education, Special Education, or a related discipline (mandatory).

• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in special services and at least ten (10) years in a leadership role (mandatory).

• Extensive expertise in special education, Section 504, EL, GT, and McKinney-Vento (mandatory).

• Experience in Colorado, Arizona, and/or Washington (preferred).

• Proven track record of successfully leading directors or program heads, aligning teams with organizational standards, and enhancing operations, productivity, and performance using existing resources (mandatory).

• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational abilities.

• Proficient in student information systems, learning management systems, IEPs, and workflow tools (mandatory).

• Experience in online school leadership (highly preferred).

• Professional, private remote workspace with dependable high-speed internet access (mandatory).

• Capability to pass necessary background checks (mandatory).

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees starting at just $1 each per month.

• Personal paid time off in addition to recognized holidays.

• Short-term disability insurance fully covered by the employer.

• Long-term disability insurance completely funded by the employer.

• Life insurance provided at no cost to the employee by the employer.

• Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance fully paid for by the employer.

• 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions dollar-for-dollar up to 6% of employee earnings.