Assistant Superintendent of Student and Family Supports

ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF STUDENT AND FAMILY SUPPORTS

CATEGORY: Administration / Executive Leadership

LOCATION: District Wide

RESPONSIBLE TO: Superintendent

CONTRACT: To be determined

SALARY: Assistant Superintendent pay scale / Board-approved salary schedule

Job Goal

Build and lead an integrated system of academic, behavioral, health, mental-health, family, and postsecondary supports so that barriers are identified early, services are coordinated, schools are held to high expectations, and every student is known, supported, safe, and prepared for life after graduation.

Key Leadership Outcomes

• A districtwide MTSS framework with clear tiers, decision rules, intervention menus, data cycles, ownership, and progress monitoring for students and families.
• Stronger principal performance and school culture through aligned evaluation, coaching, accountability, and differentiated support.
• Reliable identification, case coordination, compliance, and service delivery for students experiencing homelessness, foster care, adjudication, health, mental-health, attendance, or other barriers.
• Expanded high-quality afterschool, summer, athletics, adult education, postsecondary, and career-connected opportunities with equitable access and measurable outcomes.
• Coherent partnerships and family-service systems that reduce duplication, close gaps, protect confidentiality, and connect resources to district priorities.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in education leadership, counseling, social work, psychology, student services, public administration, or a related field.
• Valid Kentucky administrative certification appropriate to the assignment, or eligibility to obtain prior to employment.
• At least five years of successful leadership experience in schools or district student-support systems; supervision of principals or senior leaders preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of MTSS, attendance, student discipline, school counseling, Section 504, Title IX, health/mental-health services, vulnerable student populations, family services, and postsecondary readiness.
• Experience building cross-agency partnerships, using data for intervention, managing compliance, and leading equitable systems change in an urban context strongly preferred.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent and Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Essential Responsibilities

The following statements describe the primary work of the position but are not an exhaustive list of every duty. The leader is expected to exercise sound judgment, collaborate across functions, respond to emerging needs, and perform other duties assigned by the Superintendent.

Integrated Multi-Tiered Student and Family Supports

• Design, implement, and continuously improve a districtwide MTSS framework integrating academic, attendance, behavior, social-emotional, health, mental-health, and family supports.
• Establish universal screening, early-warning indicators, tiered interventions, case coordination, progress monitoring, referral pathways, and exit criteria.
• Create data routines that identify disproportionality, service gaps, chronic absence, discipline patterns, and students requiring intensified support.
• Clarify the roles of schools, central office, families, and community partners; ensure interventions supplement rather than replace strong core instruction and schoolwide culture.

Principal Evaluation, Coaching, and School Support

• Lead or coordinate principal evaluation and support systems aligned to Kentucky requirements, Board policy, district priorities, and evidence of student and organizational outcomes.
• Conduct school visits, coaching cycles, and performance reviews with feedback that is timely, specific, evidence-based, and connected to clear next steps.
• Partner with Academic leadership to align instructional improvement and student-support strategies, avoiding fragmented directives to schools.
• Support principal succession, onboarding, leadership development, crisis decision-making, and accountability for safe, inclusive, high-performing school cultures.