Regional Behavior Specialist

🔷 Starting Salary:  $50,000+ /year based on experience 🏫 Environment:  Special Education Programs, Grades K-12 🗺️ Required Residency:  Ohio -  Columbus | Cleveland | Dayton

ChanceLight Behavioral Health, Therapy, & Education, a growing, dynamic organization with a social mission to offer hope, is seeking a Regional Behavior Specialist to join our award-winning Special Education team and perform meaningful work in a culture that welcomes innovation, encourages creative expression and offers limitless potential for personal and professional satisfaction!

If you thrive in dynamic, student-centered environments, are motivated by measurable outcomes, and are passionate about strengthening behavioral systems across multiple programs, all while bringing strategic problem-solving, behavioral expertise, and a collaborative spirit — We Should Talk! 📲

As the Regional Behavior Specialist, you’ll serve as a trusted behavioral subject matter expert, helping strengthen schoolwide systems, elevate staff performance, and improve student outcomes across multiple programs. Through consultation, coaching, professional development, and program oversight, you’ll ensure evidence-based behavioral practices are implemented consistently, effectively, and with fidelity.

Using your expertise and independent judgment, you’ll evaluate behavioral programming, analyze performance data, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop practical, sustainable recommendations. You’ll partner closely with regional and school leadership to enhance instructional environments, strengthen behavioral supports, and advance organizational priorities related to quality, compliance, and continuous improvement.

🗺️ Travel Requirement:  Up to 50% to maintain appropriate on-site presence at all campus's within the assigned region. 

‖ Responsibilities Include:

• Providing regional behavioral consultation, coaching, and technical assistance to Program Directors, teachers, and school-based teams to strengthen student outcomes and schoolwide behavioral systems.
• Developing, coordinating, and evaluating behavior support practices to promote consistency, effectiveness, and implementation fidelity across assigned programs.
• Analyzing behavioral, operational, and program performance data to identify trends, uncover improvement opportunities, and support informed, data-driven decision-making.
• Conducting classroom observations and operational, instructional, and behavioral program reviews to assess implementation fidelity, identify systemic barriers, evaluate organizational risk, and recommend corrective actions.
• Establishing regional priorities for system-level improvement, staff development, training, and technical assistance based on program needs and performance trends.
• Designing and delivering engaging professional development, coaching, and training on behavior management, crisis prevention, de-escalation, and evidence-based intervention strategies.
• Preparing clear, actionable findings and recommendations for Program Directors, Regional Vice Presidents, and senior leadership regarding behavioral programming, staffing practices, training priorities, and operational improvements.
• Advising school leadership, multidisciplinary teams, families, and district partners on strategies that support student success, strengthen collaboration, and advance continuous program improvement.
• Providing behavioral leadership and consultation during complex student situations, including supporting crisis response, post-incident reviews, and corrective action planning as needed.
• Supporting regional initiatives, new program openings, and organization-wide projects by contributing behavioral expertise, strategic guidance, and practical recommendations.
• Traveling between assigned campuses, including across multiple states and with frequent overnight stays, to provide consultation, coaching, training, and operational support.
• Exercising independent judgment and sound decision-making to enhance behavioral services, strengthen program quality, and improve outcomes across the assigned region.
• Performing additional professional duties consistent with the scope, complexity, and level of responsibility of the position.

‖ Qualifications Required:

• Bachelors degree or higher in education, psychology, special education, applied behavior analysis, social work or a closely related field of study.
• Masters degree or