Director of Instruction - Science

Los Angeles, CA
Full Time
Senior Manager/Supervisor

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

As our Director of Instructional Leadership - Science, your main goal will be to provide direct coaching and support to a cohort of ICEF schools within the areas of data informed instruction, observation/feedback, planning, culture, professional development, and managing instructional leadership teams. Reporting to the Vice President of Strategy, the Director of Instructional Leadership will have the ownership and agency necessary for their cluster of schools to: define the metrics for success for their instructional teams, design and implement the strategies and systems to achieve their goals, and professionally develop principals and their teams into strong instructional leaders. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of effective leadership with school leaders, and the ability to navigate complex issues and drive strong student performance results.

 

We want someone who has unwaveringly high expectations for performance from self, colleagues, teachers, principals, and students alike. You won’t give up seeking new ways to help the ICEF community with a strong sense of agency & urgency. 

 

We also want someone who is humble and will take time to step back and observe, listen, and learn not only from those within ICEF, but those outside of ICEF as well. You love learning – you constantly seek out growth and development. We are looking for someone who is able to take the perspective that no one is an expert and every moment of every day we have an opportunity to learn from those around us. In order to achieve our mission of empowering courageous leaders to pursue their full potential in college, career, and life, this speaks directly to student agency, voice and choice. We need to take this same approach to our teachers by providing them agency, voice and choice to make the best decisions for their students based on their classes' unique needs.

 

In addition to taking a student centered approach, you are constantly reflecting on your own actions, beliefs and mindsets through the lens of justice, equity, and inclusivity. 

 

REPORTING:

Reports to: Vice President of Organizational Learning

FLSA Status: Exempt

Pay Cycle: 12 months

Salary: Commensurate with Experience (110-125k)

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Retirement Plan

 

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: 

  • Coach and support a cohort of ICEF principals and school leaders within the areas of data informed instruction, observation/feedback, planning, culture, professional development, managing instructional teams, and other areas if applicable.
  • Work with VP of Strategy and in collaboration with the entire ICEF cabinet, to drive academic excellence and learning quality, set a high bar for rigor and develop a unique educational vision and philosophy that drives toward scholar success in college, career, and life.
  • Serve as an integral part of a team responsible for elevating the performance of schools and sustaining high-quality educational programs and opportunities across ICEF.
  • Support with year level curriculum pacing for designated content areas and grade levels, assessment oversight and creation, along with content specific PD.
  • Work with a cohort of schools to support their metrics for success decided during the annual state of school planning, designing and implementing strategies and systems to achieve their goals, including but not limited to data informed progress monitoring and action planning cycles. This may also include elements of data entry, cleaning and spot checking to ensure accuracy. 
  • Engage in learning leadership through identifying pedagogical best practices, both within and outside of ICEF, uplifting and sharing promising practices, and applying the learning at ICEF.
  • Build systems to create habits which result in increasing ICEF’s institutional knowledge around instructional leadership and habits as an organization in order to create sustainability driven mindsets and capacities within all ICEF community members to ensure that practices are built to last.
  • Work collaboratively with cross functional teams to drive both network wide vision and mission and the successful implementation at school sites.
  • Provide and broker professional development for school leaders based on individual and group learning needs.
  • Collaborate with ILT colleagues to share ideas and provide coherent support to schools.
 

EXPERIENCE & DEMONSTRATED SKILLS:

  • Relevant work experience (5+ years), Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, and demonstrated track record 
  • Experience engaging in equity work using a set of principles and practices through a lens of justice, equity, and inclusivity
  • Experience with Relay Graduate School of Education’s frameworks and processes
  • Exceptionally strong communicator and collaborator
 

ATTRIBUTES & ORIENTATION:

  • Hopeful: seeks to develop others’ capacity in a productive and creative ways, with unwaveringly high expectations for performance from self, colleagues, teachers, principals, and students alike
  • Planner: Ability to break down complex projects into actionable goals, targets, and milestones, and can manage self and others to these
  • Learner: Desire to make meaning out of data to generate insights that answer critically important questions and  lead to decisions
  • Listener: Humble, can step back and observe, listen, and learn, when that is required so that others may grow and learn
  • Relentless: Won’t give up seeking new ways to help the ICEF team, strong sense of agency & urgency
  • Strategic: Can see – and help create – the long-term, big-picture vision
 

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

This position may have direct supervisory responsibilities.

 

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements below represent knowledge, skill, and/or ability. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

 

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, AND REGISTRATIONS

●      Valid teaching credential, ideally within the state of California

 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; frequently required to talk or hear, stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms, and/or use hands to finger, handle, or feel.

 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to move and/or lift up to twenty-five (25) pounds.

 

Specific vision abilities this position requires include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

 

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

 

BENEFITS

Full-time employees of ICEF Public Schools are entitled to Medical, Life Insurance, Dental and Vision plans, and various retirement programs offered by ICEF Public Schools. Eligible employees will also be entitled to sick leave and vacation time in accordance with ICEF Public School policies. 
 

ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND: 

ICEF Public Schools is a nonprofit charter school network serving communities in the South Los Angeles area for 25 years. ICEF Public Schools operates seven high-quality, tuition-free, public charter elementary, middle, and high schools serving over 2,000 kids from TK-12th grade. We are a college, career, and life-bound network in ethnically diverse neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Inglewood, CA. Over 90% of the school population qualifies for free and reduced lunch programs, average of 60% of students are Black, and 40% are Latinx/e. 

 

ICEF's mission is to educate and empower courageous leaders to pursue their full potential in college, career, and life by providing a community that honors each student's unique identity, fosters academic excellence, nurtures healthy minds, and inspires critical thinkers. Our primary focus at ICEF is a whole-child approach that fosters excellence among all scholars. At ICEF, we nurture a healthy mind by learning about each unique student's identity and adjusting our pedagogical practices to meet the needs of each learner. 


 

ICEF is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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