Job Details

Position Type:
Administration/Director of Student Services

Date Posted:
4/10/2025

Location:
Student Services Department

Date Available:
06/02/2025

Closing Date:
04/29/2025

Position Title: Director of Student Services Location: Student Services
Reports To: Superintendent Supervises: Department Personnel
Classification: Certified Status: Full-time
FLSA Status: Exempt Benefit Eligible: Yes
Work Year: 261 days / 12 months Salary: See lhusd.org website

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Educational Administration or Curriculum and Instruction
• Evidence of eligibility for the appropriate Arizona Administrative or Supervisor Certification
• Knowledge of State and Federal laws pertinent to the areas of responsibility
• Evidence of a minimum of five years of teaching and administrative experience preferred; building level administration strongly preferred.
• IVP fingerprint clearance card through AZ Department of Public Safety
• Other combinations of applicable education, training, and experience, which provide the knowledge, abilities, and skills necessary to perform effectively in the position, may be considered.

Summary

• The Director of Student Services provides leadership, management and coordination of the overall functions of student services to include state and federal grants, child welfare, enrollment, attendance and transfers, discipline and emergency operations.

Requisite Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of all aspects of school law related to student services.
• Knowledge of Title IX requirements and procedures
• Possession of leadership skills, qualities, and personal characteristics necessary to work effectively with students, teachers, parents, administrators, and the general public.
• Ability to manage fiscal and physical resources and to direct the operation of a broad range of activities in order to successfully carry out instructional support activities.
• Ability to communicate school system policies and programs to the general public, media, and government officials.
• Capable of short and long range planning
• Ability to communicate skillfully, both orally and in writing, including preparing complex reports, making formal oral presentations, and participate fluently in meetings.
• Serve as role model.

Responsibilities and Requirements

• Directs the development of Board policies related to Student Services
• Prepares timely and concise reports and recommendations to the Superintendent and the School Board, including comprehensive financial and program data for all aspects of Student Services
• Establishes procedures for an array of preventative services for K-12 levels.
• Plans, develops, organizes, implements, and supervises all programs in the District for child welfare, attendance and transfers, discipline, and emergency operations.
• Establishes Student Services department goals for academic achievement, student attendance, PBIS, parent and community relations, and district management of resources for all students at risk.
• Oversees and monitors students placed in nontraditional programs.
• Directs the discipline processes and monitoring systems for the District
• Develops and directs the emergency operations plans for the District
• Monitors and regularly audits the safety plans of each school and district campus
• Oversees and monitors the provision of services for students who qualify as homeless under the McKinney Vento Act
• Oversees and monitors disciplinary hearings to include expulsion hearings to the School Board
• Supervises in-district transfers and open enrollment procedures and monitors impact on schools.
• Collects and audits all attendance and enrollment data including that required for 100th day student count report and determine student/staff ratios, reports data as requested to the Arizona Department of Education
• Directs student attendance and behavior processes, including the coordination of schools' student handbooks.
• Collaborates with Lake Havasu City Police Department to secure School Resource Officers and monitor the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA)
• Collaborates with Department of Family Services and Juvenile Court Services
• Oversees the school counseling program at all levels to ensure proper training and implementation for the K-12 School Counseling Student Services Plan
• Coordinates all Title IX investigations involving students and provides summary reports to the Superintendent.
• Addresses all parent complaints submitted to the District Office
• Works closely with Directors in all areas to evaluate existing student service programs.
• Communicates to the Superintendent the requirements and needs of the school division as perceived by the school division employees and community stakeholders.
• Represents The Office of The Superintendent at local, regional, state and national meetings and events as designated.
• Serves in a leadership capacity on various division committees.
• Performs other tasks and assumes other responsibilities as may be assigned.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Effective use and operation of various items of office related equipment, such as, but not limited to: a personal computer, calculator, copier, and fax machine
• Repetitive motion and eye strain through extensive utilization of computer hardware and software
• May require lifting materials and supplies weighing up to 25 pounds.
• Some climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, or other repetitive motion required.

EEOC
Lake Havasu Unified School District provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This job description is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements. Administrators and supervisors reserve the right to modify, add, or remove duties and assign other duties as necessary. It is not intended to be and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of all the responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position.