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Special Education Interventionist - Kenwood

Cedar Rapids Community School District

Cedar Rapids, IAJob$46K/yrPosted 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$46K/yr
Location
Cedar Rapids, IA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Special Education Interventionist provides behavioral, academic, and mental health support to students to increase academic achievement. The role includes monitoring behavior, implementing support plans, connecting youth and families with social services, coordinating services, and collaborating with school staff and community agencies. The position may also involve attendance interventions, restorative justice activities, and student and family transportation.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Behavioral Trend AnalysisBehavior InterventionAutism Support StrategiesVisual SchedulesCheck and ConnectAggression Replacement TrainingRestorative PracticesSEB StrategiesTrauma-Informed PracticesWorking With Children

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Social Services, Psychology, Criminal Justice, or RelatedPrior Related Job ExperienceSchool Setting Experience

Full job description

Special Education Interventionist - Kenwood JobID: 16279

  • Position Type:

Student Support Services

  • Date Posted:

11/2/2026

  • Location:

Kenwood Elementary School

  • Date Available:

2026-2027 School Year

SPECIAL EDUCATION INTERVENTIONIST

Kenwood Elementary

Classification: Meet and Confer- Table D

Annual Salary: $46,000.00

JOB SUMMARY: The Special Education Interventionist is responsible for providing behavioral, academic, and mental health support to students in an effort to increase student academic achievement. The responsibility of the interventionist may include, but not limited to: monitoring student behaviors, implementing plans of support when needed, connecting youth and families to social service providers, facilitating collaborative planning, and ensuring that coordinated services are offered which match assessed needs.

ORGANIZATIONAL AND REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS: The special education interventionist will report directly to the building/program administrator and will maintain a working relationship with building staff, ELSC staff, and community agencies.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: The essential functions, as shown below, represent the key areas of responsibility; specific position requirements may vary depending on need. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Team Collaboration:

  • Provide active communication and positive relationships with parents, students, staff, and community members

  • Analyze behavioral trends and patterns

  • Assist with BIP development

  • Assist with BIP implementation checklist(s)

  • Assist with interventions

  • Meet with families in their homes and other locations that are convenient to the family

  • Attend IEP meetings, support team meetings and other similar meetings within the building for the purpose of communication and service coordination when requested

  • Assist staff with strategies to support and meet students' needs in the areas of behavior, autism supports, and achievement of IEP goals

  • Develop and implement programming associated with supporting students with academic, behavioral, and SEB needs. This may include:

  • small group instruction

  • whole group instruction

Student Support:

  • Provide assistance with de-escalation of student behaviors including reintegration back into the classroom/work system/related required task

  • Administer one-to-one intensive behavior interventions for students. Actively participate in behavior intervention or team meetings

  • Assist teacher with Medicaid summaries and daily medicaid logs

  • Assist with transition of students back to home building when applicable

  • Provide supervision of students (e.g. lunch duty, recess, substitute rotation, arrival dismal) as necessary and directed by the building/program administrator

  • Serve as an active member of the building/program PBIS team

Case Management

  • Assist and provide transportation for students and families when appropriate

  • Collaborate with mental health therapist when applicable (Polk)

  • Foster and support community partnerships

  • Maintain satisfactory harmonious working relationships with the public, students, and other employees.

  • Serve as liaison between students and community, and home attendance building when applicable

Additional Off-site specific positions could include, but not be limited to:

Restorative Justice:

  • Assist with Restorative Justice process in building when applicable

  • Complete training

  • Perform restorative circles

Student Attendance:

  • Tracking student daily attendance

  • When needed apply attendance intervention process (e.g. phone calls, parent letters, visits, etc.)

  • Implement and oversee attendance policy within your team while working with attendance secretary (i.e. attendance letters)

  • Review and Analyze attendance data and trends while completing attendance interventions

OTHER DUTIES: This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of duties or responsibilities required for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

  • Bachelor's degree in Social Services, Psychology, Criminal Justice, or other related program of study preferred; or prior job experience in a related position.

  • Preferred experience with any of the following: Autism support strategies, visual schedules, Check and Connect, Aggression Replacement Training, Restorative Practices, SEB strategies, behavioral interventions, and Trauma-informed practices.

  • Experience working with children in a school setting.

How this job compares

Set against the 485 open Special Education jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$46K/yr
  • US median$56–73K/yr87 salary ranges

This rate, $46K, is 30% below the US median midpoint ($66K) — in the lowest quarter of Special Education salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 49 open Special Education jobs in Iowa and 485 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Experience
Special Education postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (102 postings).
Education
156 of the 485 open Special Education jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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