Example Job Description
Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator
A threat assessment and management coordinator who advances multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
Interview Planning Resource
Possible Interview Q&A: Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator
How to use this resource: Select questions that measure competencies established through the district’s current job analysis. Ask candidates the same predetermined questions under comparable conditions and evaluate responses against the same job-related criteria.
The indicators below describe evidence a strong response may contain; they are not required scripts or the only acceptable answers.
- In the Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator role, how would you establish a trusted multidisciplinary threat assessment program?
Strong response indicators: Defines the purpose, scope, governing requirement, timeline, responsible owners, dependencies, controls, communication, contingencies, and evidence of completion. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
- In the Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator role, a concerning report is vague and anonymous. What would you do?
Strong response indicators: Verifies authoritative information, protects the affected person and data, follows approved procedures, involves responsible owners, documents facts, and confirms resolution. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
- In the Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator role, how would you distinguish threat assessment from discipline or profiling?
Strong response indicators: Uses systematic diagnosis, representative evidence, root-cause analysis, controlled correction, reconciliation, documentation, and monitoring for recurrence. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
- In the Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator role, what information should a team gather, and from whom?
Strong response indicators: Applies least privilege, minimum necessary access, secure channels, appropriate approval, auditability, retention, and prompt escalation of uncertainty or risk. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
- In the Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator role, how would you protect sensitive case information while enabling collaboration?
Strong response indicators: Communicates the evidence, affected population, operational consequence, uncertainty, available choices, recommended action, accountable owners, and follow-up without unnecessary jargon. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
- In the Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator role, a student has a disability that may affect how behavior is understood. How would you proceed?
Strong response indicators: Builds sustainable ownership through clear definitions, role-specific training, useful quality reports, feedback loops, documentation, support, and verification that improvement persists. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
- In the Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator role, what makes an intervention and management plan actionable?
Strong response indicators: Defines the purpose, scope, governing requirement, timeline, responsible owners, dependencies, controls, communication, contingencies, and evidence of completion. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
- In the Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator role, how would you monitor a case over time and determine closure?
Strong response indicators: Verifies authoritative information, protects the affected person and data, follows approved procedures, involves responsible owners, documents facts, and confirms resolution. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
- In the Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator role, a team member pushes for action based primarily on a diagnosis or social-media rumor. How would you respond?
Strong response indicators: Uses systematic diagnosis, representative evidence, root-cause analysis, controlled correction, reconciliation, documentation, and monitoring for recurrence. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
- In the Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator role, how would you evaluate equity and consistency across teams?
Strong response indicators: Applies least privilege, minimum necessary access, secure channels, appropriate approval, auditability, retention, and prompt escalation of uncertainty or risk. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
- In the Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator role, how would you design a bystander-reporting process students will trust?
Strong response indicators: Communicates the evidence, affected population, operational consequence, uncertainty, available choices, recommended action, accountable owners, and follow-up without unnecessary jargon. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
- In the Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator role, what would you prioritize during your first 90 days?
Strong response indicators: Builds sustainable ownership through clear definitions, role-specific training, useful quality reports, feedback loops, documentation, support, and verification that improvement persists. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
Position Description
Under the direction of the appropriate district administrator, the Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator coordinates and leads work supporting multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
The position applies behavioral threat assessment and management program coordination, multidisciplinary practice, bystander reporting, case triage, information gathering, intervention planning, monitoring, privacy, and continuous improvement across secure concern-reporting, case-management, student information, attendance, discipline, counseling, special education, health, human resources, communications, records, training, analytics, and emergency-notification systems within role-based authority. It establishes or follows clear ownership, validation, security, documentation, review, and escalation practices appropriate to the role’s assigned authority.
The Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator collaborates with students, families, school administrators, counselors, psychologists, social workers, nurses, special education staff, teachers, human resources, legal counsel, privacy officials, safety personnel, law enforcement, mental health providers, and community services. The role is accountable for cross-functional planning, ownership, calendars, training, quality control, escalation, and continuous improvement while protecting confidential information and keeping local decisions traceable.
Reports To
Insert your school district’s specific reporting relationship here.
Required Education and Credentials
Required
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in psychology, counseling, social work, education, public health, behavioral science, emergency management, public administration, or a closely related field.
- Successful completion of all district-required employment clearances and professional-license verification when a license is required by the locally determined scope.
- Completion of district-approved behavioral threat assessment and management, suicide-prevention, privacy, records, disability, nondiscrimination, mandated-reporting, and emergency-escalation training within established timelines.
Preferred
- Master’s degree in psychology, counseling, social work, education, public health, behavioral science, or a closely related field.
- Current professional license, credential, certification, or advanced training relevant to the district-determined responsibilities of the position.
- Advanced multidisciplinary threat assessment and management training that addresses evidence-based practice, supportive intervention, bias, disability, privacy, case management, and program evaluation.
Required / Desired Experience
Required Experience
- Three or more years of progressively responsible experience in K-12 education, student information, data, technology, compliance, research, records, or a closely related function.
- Experience with multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality.
- Experience interpreting requirements, procedures, definitions, reports, system information, or technical documentation relevant to assigned work.
- Experience coordinating or completing deadline-driven work with careful documentation and quality control.
- Experience handling confidential information and communicating with users or stakeholders.
Desired Experience
- Experience with secure concern-reporting, case-management, student information, attendance, discipline, counseling, special education, health, human resources, communications, records, training, analytics, and emergency-notification systems within role-based authority.
- Experience partnering with students, families, school administrators, counselors, psychologists, social workers, nurses, special education staff, teachers, human resources, legal counsel, privacy officials, safety personnel, law enforcement, mental health providers, and community services.
- Experience in cross-functional planning, ownership, calendars, training, quality control, escalation, and continuous improvement.
- Experience using SQL, advanced spreadsheets, scripting, workflow tools, APIs, secure file transfer, or visualization tools when relevant to assigned duties.
- Experience developing accessible training, technical documentation, process maps, data dictionaries, or continuity materials.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Planning, Operations, and Service Delivery
- Establish and maintain district protocols for reporting, immediate-danger escalation, triage, multidisciplinary assessment, intervention, monitoring, closure, reactivation, consultation, and quality review.
- Coordinate trained multidisciplinary teams, role clarity, meeting cadence, consultation, school support, case transfer, after-hours pathways, and connection to appropriate services.
- Promote accessible, trusted reporting options and age-appropriate education that explain what to report, how reports are handled, emergency alternatives, confidentiality limits, and protection from retaliation.
- Support teams in gathering corroborated information from appropriate sources, understanding behavior in context, identifying risks and needs, and developing individualized management and support plans.
- Monitor program workload, timeliness, fidelity, service connections, plan implementation, unresolved needs, repeat concerns, disparities, outcomes, training, and corrective action.
Data Quality, Controls, and Documentation
- Use behavior- and evidence-based assessment; do not rely on profiles, protected characteristics, diagnosis alone, rumor, a checklist score, or zero-tolerance discipline.
- Distinguish behavioral threat assessment from criminal investigation, school discipline, suicide-risk assessment, special education decision making, and clinical diagnosis while coordinating responsible professionals.
- Apply role-based access, minimum-necessary information, secure case records, source attribution, correction procedures, retention, approved disclosure, and documented legal or policy guidance.
- Record observable behavior, context, sources, uncertainties, team reasoning, protective factors, interventions, responsible owners, timelines, monitoring, changes, and closure rationale.
- Review referral, assessment, intervention, and outcome patterns for potential bias, underreporting, over-referral, inconsistent practice, access barriers, and unmet support needs.
Threat Assessment and Management Coordinator-Specific Leadership and Support
- Own or support the assigned portfolio for multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management, trusted reporting, evidence-based case practice, supportive intervention, secure records, monitoring, and program quality, with responsibilities clearly matched to the position’s authority and classification.
- Develop role-specific calendars, service expectations, status reporting, support channels, and escalation paths.
- Coordinate decisions with responsible data owners, program leaders, technical custodians, reviewers, and approving officials.
- Provide accessible training, guidance, communications, and technical assistance tailored to user responsibilities.
- Analyze recurring errors, incidents, requests, and process delays and recommend sustainable improvements.
Security, Improvement, and Continuity
- Protect personally identifiable and confidential information in systems, files, reports, email, tickets, meetings, training, and support activity.
- Test consequential changes using representative cases, documented expectations, peer or owner review, and post-change validation.
- Use automation only with appropriate access, versioning, logging, exception handling, review, and recovery procedures.
- Maintain current standard operating procedures, cross-training, critical contacts, dependencies, backup coverage, and recovery steps.
- Perform other related duties consistent with the position’s purpose and classification.
Required Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of
- Behavioral threat assessment and management program coordination, multidisciplinary practice, bystander reporting, case triage, information gathering, intervention planning, monitoring, privacy, and continuous improvement.
- Secure concern-reporting, case-management, student information, attendance, discipline, counseling, special education, health, human resources, communications, records, training, analytics, and emergency-notification systems within role-based authority.
- Data governance, source ownership, data quality, internal controls, change management, documentation, and continuous improvement.
- Student privacy, confidentiality, role-based access, secure transmission, records management, incident escalation, and responsible use.
- Project coordination, customer service, adult learning, accessible communication, and support practices appropriate to assigned work.
Ability to
- Interpret detailed requirements and translate them into accurate procedures, system actions, reports, guidance, or decisions.
- Trace discrepancies through source records, processes, configurations, mappings, transformations, and outputs.
- Manage competing priorities and fixed deadlines with transparent status, documentation, review, and escalation.
- Communicate clearly with technical, program, school, leadership, family, vendor, or agency audiences as appropriate.
- Exercise discretion, preserve confidentiality, recognize limits of authority, and escalate material risk promptly.
- Learn evolving requirements and technologies and improve processes without weakening controls or continuity.
Work Environment
- Work is performed primarily in district offices, schools, service locations, meetings, training environments, and other computer-based professional settings.
- The position requires sustained computer use and detailed review of records, systems, files, reports, requests, and technical or procedural documentation.
- Work involves frequent interaction with students, families, school administrators, counselors, psychologists, social workers, nurses, special education staff, teachers, human resources, legal counsel, privacy officials, safety personnel, law enforcement, mental health providers, and community services.
- Workload may increase substantially during annual cycles, reporting windows, implementations, releases, audits, incidents, school transitions, or other critical deadlines.
- The employee may encounter frequent interruptions, confidential matters, ambiguous records, failed processes, competing priorities, and urgent requests.
- The position requires secure handling of personally identifiable student, family, or staff information.
Other Requirements
- Successfully complete required criminal-record, fingerprint, and employment clearances.
- Complete a tuberculosis risk assessment and any examination required by applicable law or district policy.
- Complete annual mandated-reporter training and fulfill all legally applicable reporting responsibilities.
- Complete district-required cybersecurity, student-privacy, safety, nondiscrimination, records, and workplace training.
- Maintain professional confidentiality and comply with district policies governing records, information security, acceptable technology use, and data access.
- Travel between district offices, schools, service locations, meetings, and professional-development activities as assigned.
- Possess a valid California driver’s license and maintain insurability when driving is an essential function of the position.
- Occasionally work early-morning, evening, weekend, or extended hours during critical operational, reporting, testing, implementation, or incident periods.
- Regularly sit, stand, walk, speak, hear, read, and operate computers and standard office equipment.
- Use hands and fingers for keyboarding and handling documents; maintain visual attention while reviewing detailed records and computer displays.
- Occasionally lift, carry, or move records, devices, equipment, or supplies weighing up to 25 pounds.
- Perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.