Director of Behavioral Intervention

Are you passionate about transforming student outcomes through healing-centered, data-driven interventions and systems-level leadership?

About The Role

The Director of Behavioral Intervention plays a key leadership role in creating a supportive, empowering, and healing-centered school environment for all students. Working as part of a collaborative team, the Director of Behavioral Intervention leads efforts to understand and address the root causes of behavior by designing and overseeing individualized intervention plans that promote long-term growth, skill development, and student independence. This role provides direct supervision, coaching, and consultation to staff responsible for developing and implementing these plans, ensuring consistency, compassion, and effectiveness in every approach. In addition to team leadership, the Director of Behavioral Intervention maintains a small student caseload, offering direct assessment, consultation, and oversight to ensure interventions are meaningful, responsive, and impactful.

About The Program

Seneca’s Non Public School (NPS) network’s centralized support (Home Office) team provides support at all four NPS programs and is dedicated to making a profound impact on both students and staff. By prioritizing leadership development and staff training, the Home Office empowers staff to deliver individualized and effective interventions tailored to each student’s unique needs. Through comprehensive school-wide goal setting and progress monitoring, the Home Office ensures continuous improvement and alignment with each school’s mission and vision. Additionally, it provides access to shared related service providers, such as speech therapists and occupational therapists, to enhance support for students. Guided by the belief that understanding our students and their needs through a clinical and academic lens, is key to creating meaningful behavioral change, the Home Office is committed to fostering a positive school culture and lasting transformation for NPS students.

About Seneca

Seneca Family of Agencies has been nominated among the Bay Area’s Top Workplaces for nearly a decade. We’re committed to providing traditionally marginalized communities with a network of outstanding mental health, community-based, and educational services. We are committed to building a diverse staff, and our programs actively engage in conversations and training on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to promote equity and justice for the youth and families we serve.

Responsibilities

• Work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team to develop and oversee a network wide system of individualized student intervention planning
• Lead network wide data-review processes to guide identification and planning for students who are not making progress and require additional intervention and support
• Provide training and professional development for staff in the development, implementation, and monitoring of individualized student plans
• Build the capacity of school teams to employ (clinical & academic) interventions from a variety of modalities to increase access to educational opportunities and find success at school
• Develop and oversee network wide systems to monitor individual student progress on individualized goals
• Provide leadership development and consultation to program leaders in developing school-wide system of interventions that are centered on healing
• Provide direct support to a caseload of assigned students
• Conduct Functional Behavioral Assessments
• Develop, oversee implementation, and monitor effectiveness of Interventions Plans for assigned students
• Build the capacity of natural supports, including classroom team and families, to support sustainability and maintain progress
• Provide effective supervision of students at all times to maintain safety
  

Qualificiations

• Master’s Degree in Education, Psychology, Counseling, Behavior Analyst, Behavior Science, Human Development, Social Work, Rehabilitation, or in a related field, issued by a regionally accredited post-secondary institution of higher education
• Current licensure or eligibility in one of the following:
• Pupil Personnel Services Credential in School Counseling or School Psychology
• Credential authorizing the holder to deliver special education instruction
• License as a Marriage and Family Therapist, Clinical Social Worker, Educational Psychologist
• License in Psychology
• At least 3 years of experience conducting FBA’s and implementing Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs)
• Prior experience as a school leader
• At least five years' experience in working with children and families who have experienced complex and enduring trauma
• TB test clearance, fingerprinting clearance, and any other state/federal licensing or certification requirements
  

SCHEDULE

• School based schedule:
• Monday to Friday: 8 AM - 4:30 PM (ability to work occasional flexible schedule when school needs vary)
• 5 weeks of paid time off, 11 paid holidays, and 14 paid school break days
  

Benefits

• Starting at $111,067 - $125,067 per year
• Actual salary dependent on creditable experience above the minimum qualifications
• Salary increases each year
• Additional compensation provided upon passing a bilingual language proficiency exam
• $2,000 sign-on bonus for new Seneca employees!
• Comprehensive employee benefits package:
• Medical, dental, vision, chiropractic, acupuncture, and fertility coverage
• Short and long-term disability, family leave, and life insurance
• Partially paid premiums for dependents
• 403b retirement plan
• Employer-Paid Assistance Plan
• 5 weeks of Paid Time off and 11 Paid Holidays, and 14 paid school break days
• Seneca is a Public Service Loan Forgiveness certified employer
• Relocation assistance is available for eligible staff
• Opportunities for internal promotions across California and Washington
• Specialized training and development opportunities