Community School - Social Emotional Learning Coach

Release Date: August 4, 2025         Application Deadline:  August 18, 2025

Requisition 11664

Current benefited staff of SMCPS who submit a timely application and meet the minimum qualifications for the position shall be granted an interview and shall be considered to fill the vacancy prior to external applicants being considered.  Questions regarding your application and/or candidacy should be directed to the Department of Human Resources.

POSITION:       Community School - Social Emotional Learning Coach

REPORTS TO:   Supervisor of Student Services and Special Programs

LOCATION:      Lexington Park Elementary School

Salary:           The salary for this EXEMPT position will be based on EASMC Teacher Career Ladder for ten-month employees.

Effective:         August 2025 

APPLICATION PROCEDURES:

Qualified applicants, including current employees of St. Mary's County Public Schools, must complete a TalentEd online application.   In addition to the online application, any support documentation (copy of certification where applicable) must be scanned and uploaded to the TalentEd application.  The online application and any support documentation must clearly demonstrate that the applicant meets the minimum qualifications, including information about the applicant’s background, experience, and professional qualifications.  Failure to submit all required documentation will result in your application being considered incomplete.  Incomplete applications will not be forwarded to the selection committee for review.  All online applications must be completed no later than August 18, 2025. Following a screening of credentials, interviews will be scheduled.  Please contact the Department of Human Resources with questions (301-475-5511, ext. 32187).  

NATURE OF WORK:

This is a professional position designed to meet the social-emotional needs of students by providing data-driven professional development, support for staff, and direct support to students as a community school wraparound service. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

• Ability to professionally relate to and collaborate with co-workers, students, families, and community members
• Ability to understand and maintain confidentiality
• Ability to use technology effectively to complete tasks
• Ability to report to work daily and on time
• Ability to organize, supervise, coordinate, and establish priorities of tasks to be completed
• Ability to work independently in the absence of detailed instructions and to follow complex oral and/or written instructions
• Ability to communicate orally or in writing, courteously and tactfully, with staff, students, parents, and the community in a timely manner
• Possess excellent time management skills and the ability to take initiative and make decisions within assigned responsibility in a challenging, fast-paced professional environment, and be flexible in work responsibilities
• Possess knowledge of the programs, policies, and procedures of the St. Mary’s County Public Schools
• Possess knowledge of social-emotional programs and trauma sensitive curriculum
• Ability to analyze data
• Ability to capture and analyze data for MSDE community school reports
• Ability to develop and implement large group, small group, and individual programs 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Assumes primary responsibility for the ongoing social and emotional learning within the classroom and with individually identified students
• Provides ongoing intervention services in the area of social and emotional learning
• Coordinates behavioral intervention programs within the school
• Develops, monitors, implements, and revises individual student plans and works with the school leadership team to determine the most appropriate intervention
• Provides coaching and professional development on social-emotional learning strategies for school-based staff
• Actively participates in the PST and IEP process as needed and requested
• Provides leadership in social-emotional learning program implementation
• Models and provides coaching for other staff, providing service to identified students, focusing on areas identified through climate surveys and school data
• Monitors student progress and assists teachers in the maintenance of data collection systems, specifically focusing on social-emotional areas
• Provides mentoring and support for teachers and staff providing service to identified students
• Provides direct social-emotional interventions and strategies to identified students for small groups or extension programs
• Conducts professional development for parents, teachers, and other colleagues on social foundations and social and emotional learning
• Serves on the School Improvement Team (SIT)
• Collaborates with the counselors, social worker, and school psychologist to plan, develop, and implement social-emotional best practices for identified students
• Performs other community school-related responsibilities as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• Professional License/Certification
• Four (4) years teaching experience
• National Board Certification OR Master's degree OR 30-semester credits post-baccalaureate

Preferred:

• Certification in special education, counseling, or related content area
• Experience with at-risk populations

TERM OF EMPLOYMENT:

Full-time ten-month position.  Hours may vary to meet the needs of the Community Schools After-School Program.

SALARY GRADE RANGE: The salary for this EXEMPT position will be based on EASMC Teacher Career Ladder for ten-month employees.

BARGAINING UNIT ELIGIBILITY:  EASMC

Updated: 07.2024, 04.2025, 06.2025, 7.18.2025