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Board-Certified Behavior Analyst BCBA
The Menta Education GroupUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Apr 2026
About the role
Job Description
As a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst with The Menta Education Group, you will assess the development of students, as well as contribute to student IEP’s for behavioral growth.
Required: Behavior Analyst licensure and BACB certification
This position would entail local and regional reimbursed travel. Homebase will be in Centralia, IL, but will be required to travel to Belleville, IL, Marion, IL & Millstadt, IL as needed.
226 Chicago Ave. Centralia, IL 628017:30am-3:00pm CT, Monday-Friday, following a school calendar Direct Hire with our school: Return school year after school year (no annual contract)
The Menta Group’s mission is “To provide innovative solutions to critical problems in education and human services.” Menta brings a framework of educational practices that have been designed and are supported through evidence based practices. Menta’s collaborative process with various school and community stakeholders has resulted in programs designed to educate, support, challenge, empower and celebrate students who present with a range of academic, social and emotional needs. At the beginning of a student’s experience with Menta, a collaborative meeting is held that includes the student, significant people in their lives, Menta staff and other professionals as appropriate. During that meeting, a comprehensive assessment of the student’s past, present and future desires is used to establish a student centered plan (MAP) that serves as a foundation of the student’s Menta programming. A guiding principle of Menta is ‘we do not give up’, while also holding our students and staff to high expectations. The educational offerings at a Menta program provides students with a quality education that is designed to nurture and enhance the skills and maturity needed to meet the challenges of being productive adults and citizens in a rapidly changing 21st century world.
Menta’s programs utilize a unique curricular framework that relies on the Expanded Menta Method and Trauma Informed Practices as the foundational principles for the teaching, counseling and mentoring work done by our highly trained staff. Personalized learning is the hub of our strategic curricular design intended to meet the needs of every student. Starting with the end in mind (learning targets and academic goals), a leveraging of current technologies coupled with highly trained instructional facilitators creates a rich learning environment supporting all student needs. Menta’s learning spaces are unique and specially designed to combine traditional teacher/student interaction with state of the art technology and learning innovations. Those learning spaces are flexible and can accommodate a varie
As a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst with The Menta Education Group, you will assess the development of students, as well as contribute to student IEP’s for behavioral growth.
Required: Behavior Analyst licensure and BACB certification
This position would entail local and regional reimbursed travel. Homebase will be in Centralia, IL, but will be required to travel to Belleville, IL, Marion, IL & Millstadt, IL as needed.
226 Chicago Ave. Centralia, IL 628017:30am-3:00pm CT, Monday-Friday, following a school calendar Direct Hire with our school: Return school year after school year (no annual contract)
Responsibilities
- Work directly with students who exhibit challenging behaviors
- Travel to multiple school locations to support organization-wide initiatives Perform functional behavior assessments (FBA) for individual students
- Collaborate with the school team to develop and implement evidence-based intervention plans and oversee those interventions to ensure fidelity
- Develop resources and materials to support individual student interventions and programming
- Train staff in the implementation of interventions and programming
- Develop data collection strategies to monitor student response to intervention
- Assist staff in collecting and analyzing data
- Participate in the development of student IEP’s and in IEP meetings
- Collect data and prepare a variety of reports to document assessment, interventions, and student progress
Qualifications
- Required to have Behavior Analyst licensure and BACB certification
- Experience working as a behavior or autism specialist
- Ability to travel
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
- Strong consultative and data analysis abilities
- Creative thinking skills
- Excellent communication skills
Compensation & Benefits
- In accordance with the Pay Transparency amendment to the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003, information about pay ranges and employee benefits can be found at the following links:
- Compensation Information:
- https://menta.com/compensation-arizona-and-illinois/
- Please refer to the "Clinical" section for this position's category.
- Our benefits package includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance; paid time off (PTO); and a 403(b) retirement plan with an employer match. For more information visit:https://menta.com/employee-benefits-full-time/
The Menta Group’s mission is “To provide innovative solutions to critical problems in education and human services.” Menta brings a framework of educational practices that have been designed and are supported through evidence based practices. Menta’s collaborative process with various school and community stakeholders has resulted in programs designed to educate, support, challenge, empower and celebrate students who present with a range of academic, social and emotional needs. At the beginning of a student’s experience with Menta, a collaborative meeting is held that includes the student, significant people in their lives, Menta staff and other professionals as appropriate. During that meeting, a comprehensive assessment of the student’s past, present and future desires is used to establish a student centered plan (MAP) that serves as a foundation of the student’s Menta programming. A guiding principle of Menta is ‘we do not give up’, while also holding our students and staff to high expectations. The educational offerings at a Menta program provides students with a quality education that is designed to nurture and enhance the skills and maturity needed to meet the challenges of being productive adults and citizens in a rapidly changing 21st century world.
Menta’s programs utilize a unique curricular framework that relies on the Expanded Menta Method and Trauma Informed Practices as the foundational principles for the teaching, counseling and mentoring work done by our highly trained staff. Personalized learning is the hub of our strategic curricular design intended to meet the needs of every student. Starting with the end in mind (learning targets and academic goals), a leveraging of current technologies coupled with highly trained instructional facilitators creates a rich learning environment supporting all student needs. Menta’s learning spaces are unique and specially designed to combine traditional teacher/student interaction with state of the art technology and learning innovations. Those learning spaces are flexible and can accommodate a varie
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