Learning Development Program Manager Jobs in Perrysburg, OH

Job Title: 1.07 Elementary Director, Teaching and Learning 

Reports to: Superintendent 

Contract Length: Full Time 222 Days 

FLSA Status: Exempt - 

Administrative Salary Schedule 

Updated: August 2024 

General Summary: Elementary Director of Teaching and Learning provides leadership 
General Summary: The Director of Teaching and Learning provides leadership for development and implementation of the district Strategic Plan. Articulates and champions a vision of great teaching to the staff, administration, and community while cultivating a shared language about what great teaching looks like. Assists the Superintendent substantially and effectively in the task of providing leadership in developing, articulating, executing, and maintaining excellent educational programs and services.

Job Duties-

40 % - Instructional Leadership 

•  Analyze stakeholder feedback and work to collaboratively create a district vision and focus with goals to measure institutional progress.
• Coordinate the instructional and curricular program to achieve alignment with state standards as well as proper vertical and horizontal articulation.
• Administer a program of curriculum development and improvement for all levels of instruction through periodic revisions of courses of study and curricular evaluation.
• Review and evaluate all curriculum and the implementation of courses of study on a rotating cycle, making adjustments, acquiring materials, providing training, and identifying tools or assessment of student    learning.
• Lead curriculum leadership teams (department chairs and team leaders) in the study, mapping, and implementation of the state standards.
• Serve as lead in the preparation and administration of state testing.
• Oversee the Jacket Way/Positive Behavior Intervention Supports program.
• Monitor and evaluate the educational programming and curriculum implementation in all buildings in concert with building principals.
• Seek local, state, federal, and private grants to fund identified needs of the educational program and oversee all categorically funded instructional programs.
• Develop and plan for the evaluation and acquisition of instructional software and other technologies.

40% Administration and Management

• Supervise the development of district and building leadership teams and serve as an advisor on all teams.
• Coordinate all educational programs and related issues for the school district.
• Ensure all local, state, and federal data is accurate and reporting procedures are being followed.
• Ensure that all local and state mandates are followed.
• Assist in preparation of budgets, upholding a high standard of fiscal responsibility regarding the curriculum budget, and providing appropriate documentation of expenditures.
• Assist with communications to the district's community.
• Keep Superintendent informed concerning all areas of responsibility.
   
  

10 % Professional Development 

• Oversee the professional development vision and strategy for the district with a focus on building a reflective and collaborative professional culture in which teachers are committed to and supported in growing their craft of teaching.
• Administer, coordinate, monitor and encourage the growth of professional employees through a program of in-service education and staff development.
• Identify professional development needs related to the Strategic Plan as well as state and federal requirements and organize professional learning and workshops.
• Help with the evaluation process for certificated personnel (with principals) and develop specific educational opportunities to address deficiencies.
• Collect, analyze, and share assessment programming data with teachers, principals, the superintendent, and the Board and make recommendations for instructional programming and professional development.
• Oversee support programs for new teachers to the district, including the Resident Educator Program.

5 %Technology 

• Attend professional development meetings to provide specific recommendations regarding classroom activities which utilize technology to meet instructional objectives.
• Coordinate staff and administrative use of software applications and the development of applications necessary for staff and administration to perform their duties.
• Develop and plan for the evaluation and acquisition of instructional software and other technologies.
• Seek grants and/or other funding sources to support applications of technology.
• Supervise the direction of technology and evaluate the other annual technology plan prepared by the technology department.

5 %Other 

• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position includes 10 direct reports and over 375 indirect reports. This position involves budgeting, buying, developing or coaching, directing, directing, disciplining, evaluating performance, hiring, investigating, orienting, onboarding, scheduling, terminating, training, and approving timecards or time off requests. 

Budget Management: This position has a budget signing authority of approximately $3,000,000. 

Requirements and Qualifications Minimum Requirements 

• Valid driver's license.
• Current Ohio Administrative or Superintendent Certificate
• Master's degree in Education, Educational Administration, or Curriculum
• Experience in teaching, administration, curriculum development and implementation, testing, and intervention.
• Demonstrated leadership, managerial, and interpersonal skills.
• Professional tact and diplomacy when interacting with administrators, staff, teachers, students, and the community. 

Preferred Qualifications 

Knowledge, Abilities, Skills, and Other Characteristics Knowledge:

English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of principals and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. 

Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

 Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs
assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the
democratic political process.

Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation;
psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security
operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

Skills: 

Judgement and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. 

Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. 

Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. 

Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements to take corrective action. 

Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively. 

Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. 

Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. 

Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. 

Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work. 

Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work or how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. 

Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of a system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to goals of the system.

Abilities: 

Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. 

Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. 

Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. 

Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. 

Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. 

Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. 

Relationship Building: The ability to cultivate effective relationships. 

Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity.) 

Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. 

Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. 

Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). 

Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g. patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations.)

Work Type Classification: 

Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

 Work Environment and Hazards: The work environment for this position involves everyday risks or discomforts that require normal safety precautions typical of such places as offices, meeting and training rooms, libraries, residences, or commercial vehicles e.g., use of safe work practices with office equipment, avoidance of trips and falls, observance of fire regulations and traffic signals. The work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated. 

Mental Demands: Mental demands for this position include concentration, interpretive skills, understanding verbal instructions, differentiating, reading, communicating (verbal/written), reasoning skills, analyzing, memorizing, and coordinating. 

Physical Demands: Physical demands for this position include standing, lifting, typing, and reaching.

This job description documents the general nature and level of responsibility associated with the position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all activities, duties and responsibilities required of the employee, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and monitor the work of employees under supervision. The employee shall remain free of any alcohol or nonprescribed controlled substance abuse in the workplace throughout his/her employment in the district. The Perrysburg Exempted Village School District Board of Education is an equal opportunity employer offering employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, or disability. This job description summary does not imply that these are the only duties to be performed. This job description is subject to change.