2023-2024: Special Education Compliance Manager

Bricolage Academy is searching for a Special Education Compliance Manager. Bricolage is a New Orleans charter school that started in 2013 with a Kindergarten and grew one year, and one grade, at a time and now serves grades pk-8.

Bricolage has a mission of advancing educational equity by preparing students from diverse backgrounds to be innovators who change the world. We bring together students and families who ordinarily wouldn't come together to create a new community that fosters creativity, belonging and a place where children can embrace their unique greatness to pursue the life of their dreams.

Bricolage is a diverse community, but we are committed to being an anti-racist one. This means devoting time to understand what racism is, exploring how it manifests, and taking actions to dismantle it. Also, Bricolage's diversity is not itself an end. Rather, we believe our diversity is a means to amplifying empathy, advancing equity and facilitating creativity and innovation.

About the Role

The Compliance Manager is a punctual and detail-oriented person with high integrity who works well independently and takes responsibility, alongside another Compliance Manager, for key components of success within our large Special Education program.

The Compliance Manager is responsible for three key areas of work:

1. IEP Management

• Scheduling the IEP’s and sending Prior Written Notice within timeline
• Reviewing IEP drafts and providing feedback to case managers
• Serve as an ODR
• Sending out completed drafts for signatures; managing collection of same and final filing
• Ensure consent to bill Medicaid is collected for every eligible IEP
• Liase with pupil appraisal to manage needs for RDR and dissemination of new evaluations

2. Case Management Compliance Monitoring

• Establish dates for staff to follow re progress reports, service logs, parent record of contact and progress reporting data,
• communicate schedule clearly to staff
• Collect compliance paperwork, review for accuracy, and file
• Meet with case managers every other week to review compliance with best practice and deadlines
• Participate in staff development of procedures and policies related to compliance
• Participate in creation of needed compliance documents and systems
• Submit documentation as requested by DCFS Disability Determination

3. eSER Management

• Participate in identifying new enrollment needs at BOY
• Ensure compliance with accepting and releasing jurisdiction
• Support SPED records requests for incoming and outgoing records
• Request and receive Special Education records as needed
• Maintain the whole school SPED Workbook and keep it up to date
• Run reports to include IDEA October 1, MFP February 1, counted/non-counted
• Attach services to students in eSER
• Upload documents to eSER as required

Qualifications

Required

• Strong belief in the Bricolage Academy mission, vision and core values

• Strong belief in and commitment to diverse, equitable, and inclusive educational access and equitable outcomes

• Strong belief in and commitment to the city of New Orleans

• Bachelor’s degree

• At least 2 years of Special Education teaching experience

  • experience successfully and compliantly managing IEPs, cases, & eSER

Preferred

• Special education leadership experience

People of color strongly encouraged to apply. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Bricolage Academy does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, gender or gender identity, age, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.