Salary: $82,487.00 - $97,050.00 Annually
Location : Thurston County - Olympia, WA
Job Type: Full Time - Permanent
Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid
Job Number:Department: Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Division: Student Engagement and Support
Opening Date: 08/28/2026
Closing Date: 9/13/2026 11:59 PM Pacific
DescriptionWASHINGTON MANAGEMENT SERVICEJOB ANNOUNCEMENTThreat Assessment and HIB - Program Supervisor
$82,487 - $97,050 annually
September 13, 2026 The Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) seeks to fill the Threat Assessment and HIB Program Supervisor position. This full-time position is based in Olympia, Washington. This position may be eligible for partial to near full-time telework. Telework is a combination of in-building and off-site days.
During your onboarding period (first 6 - 8 weeks) you will be required to be in the office 3 days per week. After you've completed your onboarding period, you may have the option to work a flexible telework schedule (days of the week to be determined with Supervisor approval). While we're happy to offer this balance of in-office connections and telework flexibility, this isn't a fully remote position. Position OverviewThis position is housed within SESP and reports to the Director of Student Support. It serves as OSPI's statewide content authority for behavioral threat assessment and harassment, intimidation, and bullying (HIB) including bullying prevention, cyberbullying, digital safety, and violence prevention - translating law, policy, and evidence into accurate guidance, training, and sustainable systems for districts, ESDs, families, and partners.
The Program Supervisor leads the ESD Threat Assessment Coordinator network, supports HIB Compliance Officers statewide, and responds directly to complex district and family inquiries. The role requires balancing rapid response with legal accuracy, sound complaint-handling and referral judgment, and clear communication with distressed families, districts, and agency leadership on matters involving significant legal, safety, or reputational risk.
This portfolio operates primarily under RCW 28A.300.630 (State School Safety Center), RCW 28A.310.510 (regional school safety centers), RCW 28A.320.123 (school-based threat assessment), and RCW 28A.600.477 (harassment, intimidation, and bullying), along with other applicable state and federal school safety, civil rights, privacy, and student-support requirements.
Key Responsibilities- Serve as OSPI's technical content authority on HIB and behavioral threat assessment for school districts, ESDs, legislative work, and cross-agency initiatives.
- Lead statewide behavioral threat assessment, violence prevention, HIB compliance, bullying prevention (including cyberbullying and digital safety), and related initiatives.
- Facilitate and coordinate with the ESD Threat Assessment Coordinator network and support HIB Compliance Officers statewide, building shared practice and consistent implementation across districts and ESDs.
- Design and deliver technical assistance, training, coaching, and professional learning for districts and partners.
- Respond to districts, HIB Compliance Officers, families, caregivers, community members, and partners regarding requirements, complaints, implementation challenges, and emerging situations - often serving as the point of contact in a difficult or urgent moment; provide guidance or referrals within OSPI authority.
- Understand and articulate laws, rules, policies, and grant requirements and translate them into actionable guidance for districts and partners.
- Monitor program implementation, outcomes, access, equity, fiscal performance, and service quality; analyze quantitative and qualitative information to identify progress, needs, risks, disparities, and opportunities; and use data, stakeholder input, and equity analysis to improve program design, technical assistance, and recommendations.
- Develop practical guidance, tools, templates, timelines, modules, and communications for the school districts.
- Lead, facilitate, or support advisory groups, workgroups, interagency meetings, and stakeholder engagement, using resulting district and partner feedback to inform program, policy, funding, and implementation decisions.
- Coordinate and partner within OSPI, OEO, Office of Equity & Civil Rights, and Office of Legal Affairs complaint and referral processes; and with behavioral health partners, law enforcement, districts, ESDs, Tribes, families, students, community organizations, vendors, and other partners.
- Identify emerging needs, risks, and opportunities and recommend adjustments to strategy, operations, policy, or resources.
- Lead assigned statutory data collections and reporting, including the threat-assessment three-year cycle and annual HIB data collection; support assigned federal data submissions.
- Prepare required reports, dashboards, data products, issue briefs, executive summaries, legislative reports, incident summaries, complaint-response guidance, presentations, and partner communications.
- Oversee program operations, legislative and internal requirements, resources, grants, contracts, reporting, and implementation activities, including establishing priorities, work plans, deliverables, and implementation approaches aligned with agency and division direction.
- Manage or influence assigned budgets, grants, contracts, subawards, staffing, and other public resources, including monitoring grant and contract performance, deliverables, reporting, allowable uses, audit readiness, corrective action, and sustainability.
- Integrate program work within the division's MTSS framework by coordinating across SESP teams, identifying connections across tiers and initiatives, and supporting a coherent continuum of whole-child supports for districts and students.
Required Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in education, law, public administration, public policy, behavioral or social sciences, psychology, social work, public health, criminal justice, or a closely related field; and at least three (3) years of progressively responsible experience in behavioral threat assessment, HIB or bullying prevention and compliance, student behavior or mental-health supports, school safety, policy implementation, technical assistance, or related public-sector work.
OR
- An equivalent combination of education and professional experience totaling seven (7) years that demonstrates progressively increasing responsibility in behavioral threat assessment, HIB or bullying prevention and compliance, student supports, program leadership, policy implementation, technical assistance, or public-sector program management.
Additionally:
- Knowledge of Washington's K-12 education system and the roles of state, regional, Tribal, district, school, and community partners.
- Ability to interpret laws, policies, complaint pathways, data requirements, and/or compliance expectations and translate them into accurate, actionable guidance - strong analytical and legal-interpretation skill is essential; a law degree is not required.
- Demonstrated systems-level thinking: able to identify gaps, inconsistencies, or emerging risks across statewide practice, and translate them into policy, training, or guidance improvements.
- Ability to lead complex statewide programs or initiatives from planning through implementation and improvement.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and facilitate a statewide coordinator or practitioner network - such as the ESD Threat Assessment Coordinator Team or HIB Compliance Officers - building shared practice, consistent statewide implementation, and sustained engagement among participants who operate independently across districts and ESDs.
- Demonstrated success working across agencies, districts, ESDs, Tribes, behavioral health, law enforcement, OEO, families, community organizations, advisory groups, or comparable partners.
- Experience providing technical assistance, training, facilitation, coaching, complaint-response support, or capacity building for varied audiences, including distressed or upset callers.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to develop plain-language guidance and synthesize complex or sensitive information for field, leadership, and public audiences.
- Ability to use data, stakeholder input, and implementation evidence to inform decisions, identify risk, and support continuous improvement.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, respond effectively to emerging issues, meet deadlines, follow through, and exercise sound independent judgment.
- Demonstrated ability to advance equitable, culturally responsive, inclusive practices and understand how safety systems and policies affect historically underserved students and communities.
- Demonstrated stewardship of public resources, relationships, sensitive information, and public trust.
- Considers impacts beyond the individual program(s); communicates concerns and feedback early and supports shared decisions; builds trust through respectful collaboration; and seeks feedback, learns, adapts, navigates change effectively, and helps others do the same.
- Experience engaging with or serving diverse communities - through professional, volunteer, educational, or lived experience - and a demonstrated ability to work effectively with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
- Periodic statewide travel, including travel to districts, ESDs, trainings, coordinator meetings, conferences, interagency meetings, or incident-related activities.
- Must reside of in the state of Washington as a condition of employment
Desired Qualifications: - Experience handling sensitive, urgent, or high-profile inquiries from districts, families, community members, or agency leadership with composure, political awareness, sound judgment, legal accuracy, and appropriate confidentiality.
- Experience developing HIB or threat assessment supports, trainings, resources, compliance modules, training materials, data products, complaint guidance, or other district implementation supports; HIB knowledge will be weighed more than threat assessment knowledge for this position.
- Solid, hands-on knowledge and experience in be
