Our public school students need your expertise, passion and leadership.
We are looking for highly motivated and skilled talent to join our team at District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). We seek individuals who are passionate about transforming the DC school system and making a significant difference in the lives of public school students, parents, principals, teachers, and central office employees.
DCPS serves over 46,000 students in the nation's capital through the efforts of approximately 4,000 educators in 111 schools. As part of a comprehensive reform effort to become the preeminent urban school system in America, DCPS intends to have the highest-‐performing, best paid, most satisfied, and most honored educator force in the nation and a distinctive central office staff whose work supports and drives instructional excellence and significant achievement gains for DCPS students.
Position Overview
The Office of Human Capital (OHC) ensures that DCPS has the most effective teachers, principals, and Central Office staff in the nation so that we can provide all DCPS students with a world-‐class education that prepares them for college, career, and life. OHC is currently comprised of four divisions:1. Human Resources;
2. Teacher Effectiveness;
3. Principal Effectiveness; and
4. Central Office Effectiveness.
The Teacher Effectiveness (TE) division ensures that a highly effective educator fills every classroom and school-‐based position. Teacher Effectiveness is comprised of two teams:
1. IMPACT; and
2. Teacher Effectiveness Strategy.
IMPACT operationalizes and supports the implementation of IMPACT, the performance assessment system for all school-‐ based employees.
- The IMPACT Operations team manages the IMPACT database, conducts data analyses, and completes all work related to IMPACT scores and ratings, including value-‐added and other student achievement metrics, special education metrics, the IMPACTplus performance-‐based compensation system, and the Chancellors IMPACT appeals process.
- The Master Educator Program includes approximately 45 content-‐area experts who evaluate teachers twice per year (with some exception) and coach new teachers in the targeted 40 schools.
- Align maintains the Teaching and Learning Framework (TLF) platform, a state-‐of-‐the-‐art online platform that provides training and norming opportunities for all evaluators, including school leaders and master educators. The team works to ensure that all DCPS evaluators have the tools they need to accurately and consistently apply the TLF during classroom observations.
- Strategy is responsible for continuing to iterate on IMPACT and LIFT, the teacher career ladder. This team also manages the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grant, which supports various teacher leadership opportunities, as well as New Teacher Orientation, retention strategies, and the Chancellors Teacher Cabinet.
- Teacher Development Strategy is responsible for designing a more coordinated approach to teacher development for the 2014-‐15 and 2015-‐16 school years.
- Recruitment and Selection is responsible for the recruitment and selection of teachers and educational aides. They also manage the relationships with Teach For America and DC Teaching Fellows.
The Assistant, Align Team (IMPACT) role is a unique opportunity to work within a model program for teacher evaluation and support in order to help reach the larger DCPS goal of ensuring that all students receive a high quality education and are prepared for college, career, and life.
The Assistant, Align Team (IMPACT) will report to the Director, Align Team.
The below statements are intended to describe the general nature and scope of work being performed by this position. This is not a complete listing of all responsibilities, duties, and/or skills required. Other duties may be assigned.
- Supports all administrative processes that apply to the Align TLF Training Platform, including day-‐to-‐day operations and responding to school-‐based staff communications in a timely manner.
- Builds relationships with principals, other school staff, Master Educators, and key Central Office staff.
- Develops and implements process improvements to increase efficiency of the Align Teams operations.
- Generates memos, reports, and other basic analysis of Align Team initiatives.
- Collaborates on resources to support evaluators in providing high-‐quality feedback to teachers.
- Assist educators and Central Office staff in how to use the online evaluator platform.
- Schedules and coordinates program-‐related meetings, conferences, appointments, and logistics.
- Interact with, and respond effectively to, urgent requests and inquiries from multiple external and internal DCPS stakeholders.
- Serves as a positive representative of DCPS in all interactions with principals, teachers, school-‐based staff, and external contacts.
- Bachelor's degree and one to two years of general work experience.
- Previous exposure to or experience in the education sector a plus.
- Knowledge of DC Public Schools preferred.
- Practical experience with film editing software, such as Final Cut Pro, or design and developmental tools such as Adobe Captivate, a plus.
- Outstanding interpersonal and teamwork skills.
- Strong organizational skills, including keen attention to detail, and the ability to adhere to strict deadlines.
- Exceptional writing and oral communication skills.
- Excellent time-‐management.
- Strong data analysis skills.
- The ability to learn quickly, work in a fast-‐paced environment, and multi-‐task effectively.
- The ability to proactively identify challenges and work to find solutions.
- Commitment to Equity: Passionate about closing the achievement gap and ensuring that every child, regardless of background or circumstance, receives an excellent education.
- Leadership: Coaches, mentors, and challenges others to excel despite obstacles and challenging situations.
- Focus on Data-‐Driven Results: Relentlessly pursues the improvement of central office performance and school leadership, instruction, and operations, and is driven by a desire to produce quantifiable student achievement gains.
- Innovative Problem-‐Solving: Approaches work with a sense of possibility and sees challenges as opportunities for creative problem solving; takes initiative to explore issues and find potential innovative solutions.
- Adaptability: Excels in constantly changing environments and adapts flexibly in shifting projects or priorities to meet the needs of a dynamic transformation effort; comfortable with ambiguity and non-‐routine situations.
- Teamwork: Increases the effectiveness of surrounding teams through collaboration, constant learning and supporting others; sensitive to diversity in all its forms; respects and is committed to learning from others.
- Dependability: Does whatever it takes to consistently deliver with high quality under tight deadlines; successfully manages own projects through strong organization, detailed workplans, and balancing of multiple priorities.
- Communication and Customer Service Skills: Communicates clearly and compellingly with diverse stakeholders in both oral and written forms; anticipates and responds to customer needs in a high-‐quality and courteous manner.
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