QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree and/or post-graduate work in psychology, counseling, or social work.
• Experience working with children ages 2-12 and their families
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as public speaking/presenting skills
• Demonstrated leadership and facilitative skills
• Familiarity with psychometrics in order to effectively interpret neuropsychological evaluations
• Technological proficiencies in the areas of communication, presentation, and record-keeping

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty to the satisfaction of the administration.  The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

BEHAVIORAL SKILLS:  Demonstrates personal integrity, friendliness, patience, fairness, openness, non-defensiveness, sensitivity, flexibility, and enthusiasm.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:  Ability to read, analyze, and interpret written documents pertinent to computer technology.  Ability to write reports, keep records, and communicate with faculty, students, administration and parents.  Ability to verbally present information clearly and respond to questions from children, parents, colleagues, administrators and visitors.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:  Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide; create and interpret graphs, compute ratio and percent and use a calculator.

REASONING ABILITY:  Ability to solve practical problems and apply common sense in dealing with everyday and emergency situations.  Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram and schedule form.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.  The employee is required to stand, walk, sit, climb, use hands, or crouch.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.