Senior Director of Diverse Learners

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Reports to: Chief of Learning & Instruction
Direct Reports: Director of Special Education & Psychological Services
Category: Certificated
Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) Status: Exempt
Pay Cycle: 12 months
Salary Range: Starting at $125,000 commensurate with experience
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.

ICEF Public Schools is a nonprofit charter school network committed to educating and empowering courageous leaders who embrace their full potential for college, career, and life. Our work is rooted in five mission-aligned pillars:

• Educating and Empowering Courageous Leaders
• Providing a Diverse Community that Honors Each Student’s Uniqueness
• Fostering Academic Excellence
• Nurturing Healthy Minds
• Inspiring Critical Thinkers

To learn more, visit www.icefps.org

Job Description

Position Summary

The Senior Director of Diverse Learners provides strategic, instructional, and operational leadership for ICEF’s network-wide special education and multilingual learner (MLL) programming across TK–12 schools. This role ensures that students with disabilities and multilingual learners receive equitable, high-quality, and legally compliant instruction and services that accelerate academic achievement and foster full access to rigorous Tier 1 instruction.

This role ensures that systems are built to prevent over-identification, address disproportionality, strengthen Tier 1 instruction and intervention (MTSS), and uphold the highest standards of compliance. The Senior Director serves as the network’s architect for inclusive programming and equitable access.

Essential Functions

Strategic Leadership for Diverse Learners:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive TK–12 strategy for students with disabilities and multilingual learners aligned to ICEF’s academic vision and mission pillars.
• Set a clear vision for inclusive, high-impact service delivery models that prioritize access to rigorous, knowledge-building Tier 1 instruction.
• Lead multi-year planning to improve achievement outcomes, reclassification rates, graduation rates, and postsecondary readiness for diverse learners.
• Ensure alignment between special education, multilingual learner supports, MTSS systems, and core instructional programming.
• Advisement on annual budgeting and staff ratios.

Multilingual Learner Strategy & Programming:

• Design and oversee network-wide Multilingual Learner strategy.
• Ensure effective ELD programming (designated and integrated) that accelerates language acquisition while protecting access to grade-level content.
• Monitor reclassification rates, language proficiency growth, long-term English learner trends, and subgroup achievement data.
• Partner with curriculum and instruction leaders to ensure scaffolding and knowledge-building strategies support multilingual learners across content areas.
• Develop guidance for newcomer supports, family engagement for multilingual families, and culturally responsive programming.

Leadership & Talent Development:

• Directly supervise and coach the Director of Special Education & Psychological Services.
• Provide leadership development to site-based special education and multilingual learner managers and teachers.
• Design professional development for principals and instructional leaders on inclusive practices, compliance, and data-driven decision making.
• Develop onboarding systems and calibration processes for service providers and leaders.
• Foster a culture of excellence, clarity, and equity across all diverse learner teams.

Systems, Data & Continuous Improvement:

• Develop dashboards to monitor identification rates, service delivery, compliance metrics, reclassification rates, and student outcomes.
• Analyze data trends to identify equity concerns and recommend corrective action.
• Align special education and multilingual learner data with MTSS and Tier 1 instructional improvement strategies.
• Ensure schools have clear referral, intervention, and pre-referral systems that reduce inappropriate identification.

Additional Duties

Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• An earned Bachelor's Degree or higher from an accredited college or university in education, public administration or policy, or a related field
• Demonstrated experience as a special education teacher and preferably, a school leader
• Demonstrated excellence in writing, editing, and verbal communication
• Strong leadership, team management, and project execution skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally 
• Proficient use of Google-based applications
• Tuberculosis (TB) clearance
• Background check clearance
• Commitment to educational equity and ICEF’s mission

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 5 years of progressive professional experience in a public charter school, charter management organization or public school district
• Proficiency in using school-based information systems and applications
• Experience with Welligent and SEIS, preferred
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) is strongly preferred

ICEF is an Equal Opportunity Employer

ICEF Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, association with a member of a protected class, bereavement leave, color, disability (physical, intellectual/developmental, or mental health/psychiatric.), exercising the right to family care and medical leave related to serious health condition of employee or family member, child bonding, or military exigencies, engaging in protected activity, gender identity or expression, genetic information or characteristic, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristic), military and veteran status, national origin (includes language restrictions), pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions, Pregnancy Disability Leave (PDL), race (includes hairstyle and hair texture, religious creed (includes dress and grooming practices), reproductive health decision making, sex/gender, and sexual orientation.