Interagency Liaison

Job Details

Starting Date:Immediately

Job Description

Release Date: June 11, 2025 Application Deadline: June 25, 2025

Requisition: 11435

Current benefited staff of SMCPS who submit a timely application and meet the minimum qualifications for the position shall be granted an interview and shall be considered to fill the vacancy prior to external applicants being considered. Questions regarding your application and/or candidacy should be directed to the Department of Human Resources.

Position: Interagency liaison

Location: Department of Student Services, St. Mary’s County Department of Aging and Human Services

Salary: The salary for this EXEMPT position will be based on EASMC Teacher Career Ladder for eleven-month employees.

Effective: July 30, 2025

APPLICATION PROCEDURES:

Qualified applicants, including current employees of St. Mary's County Public Schools, must complete a TalentEd online application. In addition to the online application, any support documentation (copy of certification where applicable) must be scanned and uploaded to the TalentEd application. The online application and any support documentation must clearly demonstrate that the applicant meets the minimum qualifications, including information about the applicant’s background, experience, and professional qualifications. Failure to submit all required documentation will result in your application being considered incomplete. Incomplete applications will not be forwarded to the selection committee for review. All online applications must be completed no later than June 25, 2025. Following a screening of credentials, interviews will be scheduled. Please contact the Department of Human Resources with questions. (301-475-5511, ext. 32187)

NATURE OF WORK:

Representative and primary school system contact to early intervention multi-agency program teams for the St. Mary’s County Public School System. This position serves as an interagency liaison and education system navigator of the Local Management Board network of care and works closely with the family support person and family navigator.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Ability to professionally relate to and collaborate with co-workers, students, community members, and local agency partners
• Ability to understand and maintain confidentiality
• Ability to use technology effectively to complete tasks
• Ability to report to work daily and on time
• Ability to organize, supervise, coordinate, and establish priorities of tasks to be completed
• Ability to work independently in the absence of detailed instructions and to follow complex oral and/or written instructions
• Ability to communicate orally or in writing, courteously and tactfully, with staff, students, parents, and the community in a timely manner
• Ability to work under pressure
• Possess excellent time management skills and the ability to take initiative and make decisions within assigned responsibility in a challenging, fast-paced professional environment and be flexible in work responsibilities and hours
• Possess knowledge of the programs, policies, and procedures of the St. Mary’s County Public Schools

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborates with and provides technical assistance for agency partners in navigating the St. Mary’s County Public Schools system
• Provides support to Juvenile Court as a representative in court for the St. Mary’s County Public Schools
• Develops and maintains data of the youth being served for statistical purposes and reviews
• Assists parents and school staff in providing for students’ basic needs
• Collects and analyzes all available information regarding students, such as cumulative records, and reports findings in various student-centered committee meetings
• Participates in multi-agency team meetings such as the Local Care Team, Multi-Disciplinary Interagency Meetings, and Re-entry Meetings with the Department of Juvenile Services
• Participates in “wrap around” meetings as a representative of the school system
• Assists in the preparation of juvenile services and drug court reports
• Represents the school system in juvenile court and on the drug court team
• Performs other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• Hold a Professional Certificate/License in school counseling and/or pupil personnel worker
• Three (3) semester credits in Special Education

Preferred:

• Experience working with students with disabilities and their families

TERM OF EMPLOYMENT:

Full-time eleven-month position

SALARY GRADE RANGE: The salary for this EXEMPT position will be based on EASMC Teacher Career Ladder for eleven-month employees.

BARGAINING UNIT ELIGIBILITY: EASMC

Updated: 07.2024, 05.2025

Job Requirements

• Bachelor degree preferred.
• Citizenship, residency or work visa required

Contact Information

• Dale Farrell
• 23160 Moakley St. Ste 106
• Leonardtown, Maryland 20650
• Phone: 3014755511
• Email: hrd@smcps.org