Board Certified Behavior Analyst - Elementary - LTS

Position: Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) - Elementary - Long-Term Substitute
Location:  DASD Elementary Schools
Benefits Eligible: Yes
Effective Date: Start of the 2025-2026 School Year

Downingtown Area School District is excited to announce an opening for a certified behavior analyst for the 2025-2026 school year. This is a full-time, long-term substitute position beginning approx. December/January through the end of the 2025-2026 school year. This position will support all elementary schools in the district.

Job Summary: Highly qualified BCBA with knowledge and skills necessary to assist individuals, groups and systems through the application of positive behavior supports. The BCBA helps coordinate Functional Assessments of Behavior and Behavior Intervention Plans that address behaviors of concern and provide a means to help the students become more academically successful. BCBA also provides classroom and school-wide behavior management strategies.

Qualifications:

• Candidate must be a graduate of an accredited college or university and hold a proper Pennsylvania certification for the position
  • Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, or related field required
  • Certification as a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst required
  • Special Education Certification preferred
• Three (3) years of experience preferred
• Ability to effectively communicate with staff, students, and parents in a professional manner
• Must have and maintain a valid state vehicle operator’s license and a good driving record
• Must successfully complete and maintain compliance with all federal and state background and criminal record check requirements
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• Candidate must adhere to all local, state, federal, and school code requirements for employment

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assist staff in: defining and measuring behavior; understanding principles of reinforcement; teaching new behavior; implementing strategies for weakening behavior; and identifying antecedents
• Facilitate team meetings with the identified student’s teachers and parents for the purpose of completing a Functional Behavioral Assessment
• Facilitate team meetings that: design Behavior Interventions Plans; address classroom organization, effective instruction, social skills instruction, and ethical issues; School-wide Positive Behavioral Support; and factors that affect effectiveness including social validity and treatment integrity
• Work with individual teachers, groups of teachers and/or the entire staff on issues such as: crisis intervention, learning and collaboration issues, and factors that can affect development and implementation of interventions
• Promote highly specialized positive behavior interventions in which “at risk” students thrive: behavior instruction that is explicit, intensive, accelerated and provides ample practice
• Provide coaching and training to staff on a variety of topics
• Model good assessment processes that assist students in assessing their own work and behavior
• Work cooperatively with building administrators to promote positive student behavior by providing professional development that targets research, strategies and modeling of instructional practices to support teachers in their implementation of positive behavior support in their classrooms
• Engage in on-going professional development to increase knowledge and skills of positive student behavior support for all students, targeted students and students who represent sub-group population
• Collaborate with school social workers, counselors, and teachers
• Serve as a consultant to administrators, teachers, and parents
• Conduct Functional Behavior Assessments and create Positive Behavior Support Plans as assigned

Salary 2025-2026 School Year:
Placement upon salary scale is dependent upon education and years of relevant experience.

Schedule:
7.5 hours per day based upon district-approved calendar
Up to 191 days per year, plus up to 3 days of orientation for professional employees during first year of employment