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Innovative Staffing Project Manager - Office of Senior Human Resources Officer

Employer
Minneapolis Public Schools
Location
Minneapolis, MN, US
Salary
Competitive
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Job Title: Innovative Staffing Project Manager - Office of Senior Human Resources Officerand Requisition ID number: 82127
Close Date:11:59 PM on 09/30/2021
Organizational Unit: Talent Acquisition (10000777)
Site: Davis Center (0001)
FTE: 1.0; this is based on full-time equivalency with 1.0 being full time
Union: AMP(42)
Functional Area: Administrative

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Purpose of Position/Summary:

Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the district's work to support a cohort of 6-8 schools that will begin the process of implementing innovative school staffing models that will help to expand the reach and impact of successful veteran MPS teachers. This is an unprecedented opportunity to support innovative and research-based strategies at schools with persistent opportunity gaps.

The Project Manager will work directly with district and school leaders to pilot and ultimately implement new staffing models in a cohort of 6-8 high-needs MPS schools. This role will work on-site with cohort schools to identify opportunities to shift existing structures and practices in the interest of improving student outcomes. The Project Manager leads and manages all elements of the design process, which includes sessions where district staff will work with school leaders to redesign school schedules, teacher planning and co-teaching time, teacher leadership structures, and transform school budgets and staffing. The Project Manager collaborates closely with district leadership and across functional teams to organize and disseminate information about innovative staffing models, provide support to staff engaged in this work, develop capacity in school and teacher leader capacity for implementing new models, and continuously monitor fidelity of implementation across schools.

The primary goals of this role are to:
  • Effectively design and implement innovative staffing and scheduling structures in 6-8 schools
  • Improve academic and social-emotional outcomes for students in these sites
  • Increase teacher collaboration within these schools
  • Identify successful practices that can be brought to scale
  • Increase site and district teacher retention
  • Increase the number of high-quality, diverse staff that we are recruiting and hiring

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
Team Leadership
  • Serves as the innovative staffing content expert for schools and invests in others to impart innovative staffing knowledge
  • Sets the overall innovative staffing vision and goals through a collaborative, school-oriented design process
  • Oversees the process of aligning complex processes for innovative staffing implementation in each building
  • Holds others accountable for completing tasks and meeting deadlines necessary for results
  • Builds effective relationships with teacher leaders, school leaders, district departments and leadership
  • Anticipates and responds appropriately to adjustments needed to move forward in the design and implementation process, if/when barriers arise

Planning and Preparation
  • Facilitates innovative staffing design sessions for teachers and school leaders
  • Sets the direction, verbally and with materials, that clarifies the design process for local context
  • Ensures alignment of innovative staffing school plans with MPS's vision and goals
  • Shares innovative staffing information across a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders to successfully promote innovative staffing

Developing Others
  • Sets high expectations of achievement with ambitious and measurable goals for all school leaders and teachers in innovative staffing roles
  • Leads and coaches teachers and school leaders in the design process for innovative staffing roles
  • Reviews school plans to determine teacher leadership roles and adjustments needed within the district system to ensure a sustainable teacher-leader career ladder
  • Facilitates the training and support of innovative staffing teacher-leaders by providing professional learning opportunities to capitalize on strengths and improve development areas
  • Ensures alignment between the daily, job-embedded coaching innovative staffing teachers receive to relevant district training

Progress Monitoring
  • Ensures fidelity and robustness of the district's and each school's adherence to the innovative staffing goals and implementation
  • Partners with the MPS Division of Accountability, Research, and Equity to design a comprehensive program evaluation plan, including surveys of participating school leaders, teacher leaders, and staff, with clear metrics and timelines for measuring the success of different interventions in the portfolio
  • Coordinates across departments to gather, analyze, and communicate innovative staffing outcomes and fidelity of implementation
  • Regularly visits innovative staffing schools to gather formal and informal observational data, both qualitative and quantitative, on innovative staffing implementation and coaching of teacher leaders
  • Responds to data, including critical success indicators like teacher retention, staff diversity, and equitable distribution of high-quality instruction, and feedback from school leaders and teachers in innovative staffing roles to continuously improve district practices that arise as a barrier to innovative staffing success
  • Holds principals and teachers accountable for ambitious, measurable standards of academic achievement and instructional excellence
  • Collects innovative practices that can be implemented in additional schools after the two-year grant period

Professional Responsibilities
  • Believes that all students can succeed
  • Advocates for equitable student access to excellent teachers
  • Consistently oriented towards, and leading others to, act on what is best for kids and their teachers
  • Holds oneself and others to high standards, relentlessly pursuing solutions to persistent challenges
  • Respects and adapts to people across all lines of differences including racial, ethnic, and other identities
  • Maximizes time and resources using effective time management and organization systems
  • Solicits and eagerly receives feedback from supervisor and team members to improve professional skills
  • Continuously learns and seeks new information to incorporate into professional work

Core Competencies
Critical core competencies for successful performance in this role are:
  • Collaborative: share the responsibility and the work for realizing a shared vision of student success
  • Innovative: willingness to break from established ways of doing things when needed
  • Analytical: gather evidence and engage in rigorous data analysis to develop, manage, refire, and evaluate new and more effective approaches
  • Persevering: courageous in doing what is best for students even when challenged
  • Reflective: habitually re-examine practices and dispositions needed to succeed in pursuing new and more effective approaches
  • Equity-minded: ensuring all students are treated fairly, equitably and have access to excellent teachers and necessary resources
  • Systems-focused: committed to developing systems and solutions that are sustainable and effective district-wide and generate equitable outcomes for all schools and stakeholders

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, or related field
AND
2 years of professional experience in project management and/or strategic planning or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience as determined by Human Resources.

Qualifications
This role provides opportunity to engage with district and school leadership in a large urban district. The successful candidate will be discreet, high-energy, agile-minded, strategic, proactive, a direct communicator, highly-organized and committed to MPS's vision and values. . In addition, the following qualifications will generally define the successful incumbent:
  • Minimum 5 years' experience as a teacher and/or administrator
  • Experience managing and leading a team
  • Knowledge of innovative staffing models
  • Significant experience coaching others
  • A track record of developing and maintaining strong working relationships with and among a diverse group of actors
  • Extensive experience managing complex projects, and ability to adapting to evolving projects
  • Researching, collecting, analyzing and preparing data and generating related reports
  • Excellent communication skills and strong analytical and writing capabilities
  • Close attention to detail coupled with the ability to exercise good judgment
  • Strong organizational, oral and written communication, and interpersonal skills; Proactive nature; able to anticipate conflicts before they arise
  • Ability to work well independently as well as collaboratively; Ability to execute meetings, calls and emails with professionalism, courtesy and accuracy
  • Personal qualities of maturity, humility, strong work ethic, and diligence
  • Ability to effectively allocate and prioritize time to several tasks to ensure completion of all

Personal Work Relationships:
The individual in this position works with a wide range of district staff, administrators and service providers on routine and diverse problems encountered in schools. The individual must possess and employ a variety of personal and interpersonal skills in the discharge of the position's responsibilities. This position requires a positive attitude when supporting staff and families. Good judgment, discretion and individual initiative are necessary for the effective discharge of the position's significant responsibilities.

A valid Minnesota State Driver's License may be required.
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PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT
Work is performed in a standard office environment which requires occasionally lifting such articles as file boxes or heavier materials with help from others and/or lifting and carrying light objects frequently. A job in this category may require walking or standing to a significant degree or may involve sitting most of the time with long periods of computer work, heavy phone usage, and ability to lift and move items weighing up to 50 pounds.

Final candidates may be invited to interview with a committee. Final appointment to this position will be contingent upon passing a criminal background check.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY:
Diversity is one of Minneapolis Public Schools core values and is essential to our goal of putting children first and making them college-ready. Diversity of our workforce provides us with a competitive advantage and allows us to better understand, communicate with and educate our diverse student body. Minneapolis Public Schools will not deny anyone the opportunity for training or employment because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender or gender identity, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, sexual orientation, age, family care leave status, or veteran status.

Minneapolis Public Schools strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply.

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