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About the Role
The Associate Director of Special Services plays a critical role in ensuring that Democracy Prep scholars with disabilities and Multilingual Learners receive high-quality, legally compliant, and academically rigorous programming across our New York schools. This role provides network-level leadership, coaching, and systems support to school-based Special Services Managers and school leaders, translating the network vision into strong school-based practice, developing leader capacity, monitoring implementation and compliance, and partnering with school teams to improve scholar outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary Special Services network leader for an assigned portfolio of Democracy Prep schools.
- Develop a deep understanding of the strengths, needs, and priorities of each school within your portfolio.
- Use school- and network-level data to identify trends, establish priorities, and determine where additional support or intervention is needed.
- Partner closely with principals and other school leaders to build strong, sustainable Special Services systems.
- Serve as a thought partner to school leaders on complex Special Services decisions.
- Provide ongoing coaching and development to Special Services Managers and other school-based leaders.
- Build the capacity of SSMs to serve as effective instructional leaders, case-management leaders, and compliance owners.
- Regularly review school-level practices and data with SSMs, identify areas of strength and growth, and establish clear action steps.
- Develop and facilitate professional development for SSMs, school leaders, teachers, and other stakeholders.
- Serve as a champion for scholars with IEPs, ensuring IEPs and IEP goals are central to scholars’ educational experiences.
- Support schools in strengthening specially designed instruction, differentiation, intervention, progress monitoring, inclusive practices, and programming.
- Partner with academic and school-based leaders to ensure scholars with disabilities have meaningful access to rigorous grade-level curriculum.
- Review academic, IEP goal, intervention, service-delivery, and other student-level data to identify trends.
- Partner with school leaders and relevant network teams to support strong programming for Multilingual Learners.
- Support schools in establishing systems that ensure MLLs are appropriately identified, receive mandated language services, and have their progress regularly monitored.
- Monitor school-level MLL data and implementation trends, identify gaps or risks, and partner with school teams to develop clear action plans.
- Support professional learning and collaboration that strengthen teachers’ and leaders’ ability to provide rigorous, accessible instruction for MLLs and dually identified scholars.
- Establish and maintain strong network-level systems for monitoring special education and MLL compliance.
- Regularly analyze compliance data to identify individual school concerns as well as patterns and systemic trends.
- Support SSMs in maintaining strong systems for IEP implementation, annual reviews and reevaluations, progress reporting, and other mandated responsibilities.
- Conduct regular reviews and audits of school-level Special Services systems and documentation.
- Identify patterns across schools and use those trends to recommend and implement network-level improvements.
- Develop clear protocols, trackers, tools, and resources for school-based teams.
- Partner cross-functionally with Academic, Operations, Talent, Data, Legal, and school leadership teams.
- Support the Managing Director of Special Services in establishing annual priorities and monitoring network-wide progress.
- Maintain a strong understanding of changes in federal, state, and local special education and MLL requirements.
- Ensure that compliance, instruction, and scholar outcomes are never treated as separate bodies of work.
Requirements
- A leader and education reformer with an unwavering commitment to the Democracy Prep mission.
- A systems-level thinker and coach skilled at identifying trends, determining root causes, and translating findings into clear priorities, systems, and coaching actions.
- A data-informed leader, adept at analyzing academic, service-delivery, compliance, and student outcome data.
- A knowledgeable special education leader with a deep understanding of IDEA, New York State and New York City special education requirements, IEP development and implementation, specially designed instruction, related services, testing accommodations, inclusive practices, and the continuum of special education services.
- A leader with knowledge of effective programming and supports for Multilingual Learners.
- An effective coach of adults who can build trusting relationships while maintaining high expectations.
- An organized manager with strong time management and follow-up skills.
- An excellent communicator, with a demonstrated ability to speak and write clearly and persuasively.
- A constant learner who is willing to reevaluate one’s understanding based on new information and data.
- Experience managing, coaching, or developing adults and/or school-based leaders (Strongly Preferred).
Skills
- Special education
- IEP development and implementation
- Specially designed instruction
- Inclusive practices
- Multilingual Learner programming
- Data analysis
- Coaching adults
- Time management
- Communication
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Associate Director
- Leadership
Salary/Compensations
- $115,000 - $130,000
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- 403B matching
- Parental leave
- Smartphone
- Laptop
About the Company
- Democracy Prep's mission is to educate responsible citizen-scholars who will change the world.
- We strongly believe that by building a DREAM team that represents numerous perspectives, backgrounds, and expertises, we can achieve this goal together.
Equal Opportunity
- Democracy Prep is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.
- We strongly support and strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.