Job Openings

Children's Center for Visually Impaired

11/18/2025

Position: Teacher of the Visually Impaired (TVI) – Onsite Classroom, Early Intervention Program (EIP) and/or Itinerant

Classification: Full-time or Part-time, Exempt, Salaried (hours are dependent on organizational needs)

Reports To: Director of Student Services, Director of Therapy & Early Intervention Services and/or Director of Vision Services

Direct Reports: None

Summary/Objective

The Teacher of the Visually Impaired (TVI) will work collaboratively with children, families and other service providers to ensure instruction and strategies to increase independence and to provide a comprehensive and individualized education to each child based on their visual impairment. Additionally, the TVI will provide direct instruction in vision-specific goals areas (Expanded Core Curriculum - ECC, Braille, &/or Technology) as set by the IEP or IFSP. TVI’s will provide instructional opportunities across all developmental domains to support IEP/IFSP student goals as well as the general curriculum. This position may have reporting responsibility to a direct manager and dotted line responsibility to other managers within Program staff.

Competencies

· Demonstrates practice knowledge

· Analytical and critical thinking

· Strong written and verbal communication

· Collaboration and team management

· Trust and Integrity

· Attention to detail, problem-solving, and organization

· Persuasion/Capacity to influence

· Commitment to confidentiality

· Engages in professional development

· Time management and prioritization

Leadership Responsibilities

· Ability to guide and direct the tasks and duties of the Teaching Assistants, and to provide mentorship and coaching

· Ability to coach and support interns and/or individuals working as student teachers

· Manage daily schedule to maximize efficiency & benefit to children

· Supports the Vision and Mission of CCVI by actively participating in building committee work

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

· Prepares daily lesson plans and adapts materials for each child based on individual needs and abilities.

· Understand educational implications of visual impairments and implement strategies within area of specialty

· Implement interventions and strategies with all children, including those with multiple disabilities and CVI

· Responsible for the care and safety of each child across all CCVI related settings.

· Directs the tasks and duties for classroom, teaching assistants, and volunteers.

· Serves as the case manager for assigned students.

· Participates in the development of IFSP &/or IEP with appropriate goals and objectives.

· Completes Functional Vision Evaluation (FVE), cumulative student, and Learning Media Assessments (LMA) when needed and Assistive Technology evaluations and updates annually. May update the OREGON project annually.

· Use a variety of assessment tools for students of CVI to plan and implement strategies.

· Maintains the individual teacher files on each child enrolled.

· Ensure cumulative student files are updated at a minimum of quarterly for each child.

· Communicates directly with family through daily journaling, as well as telephone, email, and other methods as needed.

· Communicates and collaborates with each child’s team as needed.

· Assesses functional vision of children.

· Completes all reports in a timely manner.

· Researches and educates self with regard to current educational trends and new developments in the field of special education and visual impairment.

· Partners and helps educate families and other external stakeholders.

· Partners with district staff to follow and meet all special education timelines.

· Provides a multimodal approach to therapy within the context of the home, community, center-based educational setting according to the child’s IFSP, IEP, Goal Plan, or Service Plan.

· Makes referrals to other providers, both within the agency and interagency, when needed.

· Attends staff meetings, team meetings, student meetings, in-service activities and professional development.

· Use Conscious Discipline language, strategies, and actions.

· Ensure children/students on caseload are included on annual American Printing House for the Blind (APH) census.

· Takes student data weekly to inform lesson plans and instruction.

· Implements Assistive Technology to support instruction.

Responsibilities of Early Intervention Program and MOVE Itinerant Staff:

· Manages scheduling of visits for assigned caseload.

· Conducts covisits per IFSP authorizations.

· Conducts assessments and evaluations as assigned.

· Completes necessary documentation and billing requirements in a timely manner per policy and according to deadlines set by finance.

· Collaborates with external providers, coordinators and case managers for the best interests of the child.

· Compliance with expectations of external partners.

Work Environment

· Office(s), family homes, &/or classroom. No extreme temperatures

Physical demands

· Frequent sitting, standing, and walking, including the use of floor seating, child-size chairs, stools, etc.

· Frequent and repetitive lifting, positioning, pushing, and/or transferring of students.

· Frequent and repetitive reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching.

· Ability to lift students as follows:

o Students weighing 0–35 lbs: 1 adult transfer

o Students weighing 35–60 lbs: 2 adult transfer

o Students weighing 60+ lbs: mechanical lift or 3-person transfer

Travel Required

· Outside the Kansas City metropolitan area - less than 50%

· Some itinerant and EIP teachers may be required to drive to locations outside the KC metro area.

Required Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in the field of early childhood special education or special education
Teacher of the Visually Impaired certification
Missouri teaching certification in Blind and Partially Sighted and other related areas

Preferred Education and Experience

· Master’s degree from an accredited university in the field of special education or visual disabilities

· Orientation and Mobility certification preferred

· Experience working with children with visual impairments

· Experience working with early childhood regular or special education classroom TVI’s

· Experience with Expanded Core Curriculum

Additional Eligibility Requirements

Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, and Excel
Proficiency in a variety of assistive technology
Proficiency with vision specific technologies such as JAWS, Perky Duck, Duxbury, Braille embossing/transcribing, ZoomText

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. TVI’s may be assigned to a classroom, to itinerant students in various locations or a hybrid of both.

E_mail: [email protected]

Phone: 8168412284

Cert: TSVI

We are looking for fill at least two positions immediately and potentially more beginning August 2026.