School Safety Training Specialist
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- Mar 13, 2025 Post Date
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Title: School Safety Training Specialist
Department: Office of School Safety
Reports To: Administrative Superior
The School District of Philadelphia is committed to becoming the fastest improving District in the country and transforming the educational opportunities it offers to our city’s more than 200,000 students. The District seeks leaders who have a passion for working with schools and communities who are committed to ensuring all students achieve. Serving a population as diverse as ours requires creativity, commitment and vision.
Will you join us?
Job Summary
The Office of School Safety is committed to having a team supporting schools across the entire School District staffed with excellent, highly trained School Safety professionals. School Safety Training Specialists are responsible for supporting the continuous development of school safety and emergency management staff. School Safety Training Specialists design, align, and facilitate, professional learning opportunities for school safety personnel throughout the School District of Philadelphia (SDP). Work involves formulating and implementing plans to meet the short-term and long-term needs of the District’s School Safety staff and other District and community partners. Work additionally involves determining training and personnel development needs across School Safety, including regionally, at various titles, and the individual level. School Safety Learning Specialists are tasked with providing high-quality professional growth opportunities that will enhance School Safety professionals’ operational effectiveness, leadership, cultural competency, organizational, communication, problem-solving, and outcomes-oriented capabilities and skills. Their work also involves supporting Office of School Safety and School District curriculum, assessment, and instructional goals.
Essential Functions
- Designs and facilitates professional learning and development sessions and courses on a variety of topics, including school safety and security, emergency management, school climate, restorative justice, and other related areas, to support the school safety programmatic learning framework.
- Conducts training sessions across all positions and levels of the Office of School Safety and its partners to bolster school safety, security, emergency management, and school climate.
- Research new trends in school safety, security, emergency management, and school climate aligned with pedagogical shifts and SDP instructional practices.
- Thoughtfully creates customized professional learning modules.
- Creates curricula and customized learning plans for all school safety personnel.
- Partners with other School District Offices to ensure the intentional, proactive, and responsive design of safety, security, and emergency management professional learning opportunities.
- Leads content programming and logistics for large-scale school safety training inclusive of all school safety personnel, and in support of District-wide safety training.
- Develops plans for measuring the impact of professional learning; creates tools for collecting data; analyzes that data to evolve professional learning and support programmatic decision making.
- Works with external partners and vendors to support the development and continuous improvement of training and professional development.
- Support School Safety and District initiatives and key priorities.
Other Functions
- May participate in the review and/or preparation of grant proposals, reports, and other required documentation as needed.
- May develop and participate in the RFP/RFQ and Action Item processes.
Minimum Requirements
- Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in training, education, administration or a related field.
- Five years of full-time, paid, professional training experience which have included leading and designing professional learning for adults.
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Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Demonstrated knowledge of:
- adult learning theories, techniques, and training models.
- group processes and organizational planning.
- training methods, principles and practices.
- exemplary performance evaluations from rating officers.
- asynchronous learning and various on-line platforms preferred
Demonstrated ability to:
- inform and design the scope and sequence of training for School Safety.
- align training initiatives with the District’s mission and Action Plan.
- analyze issues and shift priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- support adult learning and training strategies.
- plan, organize, and direct training.
- be punctual and follow through in work related projects and responsibility.
- work collaboratively.
- communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
- establish and maintain effective working relationships.
Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Nondiscrimination
The School District of Philadelphia provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, age, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, disability, pregnancy, marital status, gender identity, or genetic information. Please refer to Board Policy 348 for further information regarding the District's commitment to Nondiscrimination in Employment Practices.
