COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL SAFETY AND WELLNESS SPECIALIST

Arizona Department of Administration • Phoenix, AZ

4d • $70,000 - $72,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Comprehensive School Safety and Wellness Specialist works with the School
Safety Unit to support, promote, and enhance safe and effective learning
environments through the emotional, mental, and physical health and safety of
students, staff, and the school community. This position supports school safety
through suicide prevention and early intervention, building and expanding school
mental health systems, partnership and collaboration through national, state and
local organizations, and through a comprehensive array of prevention activities.
Frequent in-state and out-of-state travel is required for this position.

The Arizona Department of Education currently utilizes a hybrid work
environment, with up to two days of remote work (contingent upon business
needs). Candidates should apply with an ability and willingness to work
in-office up to five days per week as business needs necessitate.

Requirements

• Knowledge in laws and policies pertaining to school safety, school mental health, and related topics in school safety, health, and wellness
• Knowledge in program development, administration, implementation, and evaluation
• Knowledge in adult learning techniques, methods, and instructional strategies for in-person and virtual trainings
• Knowledge in evidence-based practices in comprehensive school safety to include prevention, intervention, response, and recovery strategies
• Knowledge in community health and wellness resources
• A Bachelor’s degree in public health, mental health, student services, other education related school safety and wellness field of study, or equivalent experience to substitute for the degree, is required
• Skills in public speaking
• Skills in effective written and oral communication
• Skills in planning and conducting training and workforce development for adult learners
• Skills in facilitating in-person and virtual meetings with diverse stakeholders
• Skills in project leadership
• Skills in grant management
• Skills in fiscal oversight
• Skills in building partnership networks to magnify efforts and reduce duplication of efforts
• Skills in intermediate skill in using Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel
• Ability to operate successfully in a team environment
• Ability to guide and support Local Education Agencies (LEAs) in designing, implementing, and evaluating effective and comprehensive school safety systems
• Ability to research technical, specialized knowledge, laws, and legislation related to school safety
• Ability to research and draw interpretations from public laws and rules
• Ability to identify and create a network of connections between school and community resources and related federal technical assistance centers to support school safety
• Ability to lead and facilitate meetings with diverse stakeholders and program staff

Nice To Haves

• Preference will be given to those applicants with experience in a school safety, mental health, or wellness role within a school or district setting

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the implementation of annual work plans and allowable activities to achieve program deliverables and agency goals; evaluate and report on program activity progress, quarterly budgets, and continuous quality improvement and sustainability efforts
• Develop and revise guidance documents and resources and ensure agency web page(s) are up to date with best practices in school safety prevention, mental health, emergency planning, preparedness, response, and recovery
• Coordinate and facilitate training and workforce development; support state cadres of trainers; disseminate relevant surveys and report data collection for continuous training improvement; submit proposals to prepare and deliver presentations at national, state, and local school safety, mental health, and related events
• Manage and monitor grant programmatic and evaluation activities; report regularly to supervisor and submit annual state and federal reports; collaborate on grant fiscal planning
• Collaborate with internal and external key partners to lead multi-disciplinary cross-functional school safety outcomes
• Respond to technical assistance requests on the development and implementation of effective comprehensive school safety practices
• Research and identify grant opportunities to sustain comprehensive school safety systems; write and submit grant applications to federal and state systems

Benefits

• Affordable medical, dental, life, and short-term disability insurance plans
• Top-ranked retirement and long-term disability plans
• Ten paid holidays per year
• Vacation time accrued at 4.00 hours bi-weekly for the first 3 years
• Sick time accrued at 3.70 hours bi-weekly
• Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program).
• Deferred compensation plan
• Wellness plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees