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Network Superintendent: High School - High School Network Office (2019-20)

Employer
Oakland Unified School District
Location
Oakland, CA, US
Salary
$112,883.96 - $144,080.24 / Per Year

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Job Category
Administrator, Superintendent
Grade Level
High School
Ref: PCN934

TITLE:

Network Superintendent, High Schools

REPORTS TO:

Chief of Schools

DEPARTMENT:

Office of Post Secondary Readiness

CLASSIFICATION:

Certificated Management Confidential

FLSA:

Exempt

WORK YEAR/HOURS

227 Days

ISSUED:

Created: August 2014

SALARY GRADE:

Contract

BASIC FUNCTION: Under the direction of the Chief of Schools and in cooperation with other District administrators, the High Schools Network Superintendent is responsible for providing leadership for all of the assigned network schools aligning high schools and other programs, and facilitating the integration of all District resources of assigned schools. In partnership with local community-based organizations and city/county agencies (police, social services, health, juvenile justice), facilitate the optimum use of resources to enable the academic and social emotional success of all students. The Network Superintendent ensures the use of effective instruction in every classroom for every student, every day; the development of safe and supportive schools; and the cultivation of student literacy necessary for success in college and career. The Network Superintendent is responsible for understanding the needs of the students, families, and the community of the assigned schools and implementing the best strategies for meeting those needs.

The Network Superintendent is responsible for supporting and leading efforts to turn around struggling schools and plays a critical leadership role in transforming each school to a full-service community school model, supporting the District's transition to a full-service community District. Duties will also involve access to confidential information concerning employer-employee relations.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES: (Incumbents may perform any combination of the essential functions shown below. This position description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, knowledge, or abilities associated with this classification, but it is intended to accurately reflect the principal job elements).

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Organizational Vision: Lead the development of a shared vision of academic excellence and social success and sustain focus on student outcomes.

Ensure network vision is aligned with community and District goals and outcomes, as related to academic and social success.

Ensure network principals share a common vision of community development and conditions required for academic achievement.

Develop scorecard with specific goals and measures that reflects academic and social emotional success outcomes.

Community Resource Management: Lead activities associated with needs assessment, resource planning, and ongoing measurement of results. Perform activities in partnership with all community stakeholders, using best practices in family and community engagement.

Build strong strategic partnerships with families, community leaders, local business leaders, and city/county leaders to build a network team to assist with the community-based resource management plan.

Conduct needs assessment to understand the needs of students and the surrounding communities to provide support for ongoing academic and social emotional success.

Conduct resource-mapping to identify resources and strengths within community to meet the needs of the network schools, students and families.

Develop a plan that outlines how resources should be applied to meet the needs of the network schools, students and families. This plan includes the development of the scorecard and how to align and augment internal and external resources.

Develop and execute funding strategy to bring additional revenue to assigned schools.

Meet with parents, civic and community groups to explain and interpret matters relating to the educational programs and operations of the District.

Pathways Facilitation: Lead the analysis and programmatic response to ensure continuous support for students as they progress through their career as lifelong learners.

Collaborate with Pre-K 5 and Middle Schools Network Superintendents to analyze the transition from Pre-K to K, elementary to middle school, and middle school to high school. Ensure that the resources and support exists to ensure that all students navigate the transitions successfully as part of a protected pathway throughout their District experience.

Integrate data from pathways-analysis into network plans.

Tiered Support System for Students:

Use the needs assessment to establish service offerings and the associated funding strategy to meet the various needs of at-risk students.

Institutionalize ongoing measurement to track students and risk categories to formulate responses and to integrate them into the overall system of measurement and ongoing improvement.

Use early warning systems that provide data on individual student progress to facilitate prevention and early intervention to reduce risk and promote student success.

Continuous Improvement and Ongoing Learning: Establish Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) protocols and professional development activities to institutionalize systems of rigorous accountability, ongoing measurement, and dynamic response to meet the challenges facing network schools to support students in their academic and social emotional success.

Establish data systems and analyze protocols that focus on academic and social emotional outcomes and ongoing changes in delivery of services to impact those outcomes.

Develop and implement network meeting agreements, processes and values to promote trust, collaboration, support, risk-taking, active reflection and inquiry, and sharing of best practices. This could be in the form of well-structured professional learning communities.

Develop principal capacity to implement Results-Based Inquiry (RBI) cycles to establish site-based systems to collect and analyze data and make decisions with all stakeholders to support improvement in academic and social outcomes.

Increase principal capacity to lead and facilitate high-leverage learning opportunities for adult staff to focus on quality teaching and learning.

Ensure sites implement professional development plans aligned with school/community/District goals based on student performance data and network scorecard targets.

Ensure principals build and maintain structures and processes for regular and effective teacher collaboration.

Institute ongoing process to measure progress based on network strategic plan and make necessary modifications.

Instructional Program Management: Ensure network principals manage instructional programs to enhance student achievement.

Calibrate classroom instructional quality using learning walks with principals to elucidate their instructional vision and increase their capacity to provide direct and actionable feedback to staff.

Approve and monitor the development and implementation of approved instructional programs to align with District goals, targets and strategic practices and projects.

Approve and monitor the development and implementation of school-based intervention strategies and activities, including those beyond the regular school day and school year, to ensure effectiveness and alignment with goals and targets.

Engage principals in collecting, observing and analyzing achievement data to surface questions, patterns, and/or gaps in the instructional program models at the school and regional network level.

Ensure instructional programs and services are compliant with federal, state and/or District requirements.

Human Resources: Ensure optimal management and resourcing of network and school staff. Use supervision and evaluation to promote principals' performance.

Supervise and support all high school principals in the network.

Ensure principals appropriately and effectively supervise and evaluate teachers and other school staff.

Collaborate with Human Resources in interviewing and selecting principal candidates by using the District's principal selection process.

Conference regularly with principals and assigned staff; provide direct feedback to principals and hold them accountable for performance and professional standards of practice; jointly develop improvement objectives to identify professional growth opportunities when necessary.

Develop, monitor and support individualized growth plans for all principals in the network.

Recommend position transfers, reassignments, terminations and disciplinary actions. Ensure principals appropriately and effectively supervise and evaluate teachers and other staff. Coordinate appropriate training as needed.

Financial and Resource Management: Ensure optimization and alignment of schools' resources and finances in accordance with site plan goals and objectives. Ensure schools' utilize material resources to ensure optimal learning environments.

Assist principals to make strategic and compliant use of resources, including time, funding, grants, staffing, and technical support.

Approve and monitor the development and implementation of the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) to ensure compliant alignment of resources and strategic activities to achieve the climate/culture goals and targets.

Monitor site budgets, enrollment, consolidations, class size reduction, and functioning of school site councils to ensure strategic, viable and compliant management.

Manage network budget to support staff and provide professional development to achieve network goals and targets.

Identify and communicate new revenue and resource opportunities through external partnerships, federal and state grants that are aligned with school and District goals and strategic practices.

Convene regional network to collaborate on grant, funding, and community partnership opportunities.

Ensure sites provide equitable access and service/program delivery in accordance with federal and state law.

Other Duties:

Collaborate with the Chief of Schools, other Network Superintendents and other District staff in supervising and monitoring the adoption, integrations, articulation and implementation of the high school curriculum, including high school level textbook adoption.

Plan and facilitate monthly staff and principal meetings, workshops and/or seminars; collaborate with fellow Network Superintendents to plan quarterly all principal meetings.

Participate in conferences, workshops and seminars to remain current trend and changes in education.

Participate in District-wide administrative meetings, attend Board meetings and prepares and presents reports to the Board as required.

Perform related duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

TRAINING, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: a Master's degree and seven years of progressively responsible experience in educational administration, including experience as a school principal.

An earned Doctorate in Educational Administration preferred

Demonstrated knowledge and application of effective high school education principles, practices and trends

LICENSES AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

Valid California Administrative Services Credential

Valid California Teaching Credential

Valid California Driver's License

Employment eligibility that may include fingerprints, tuberculosis clearance and/or other employment clearance

KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES

KNOWLEDGE OF:

Applicable sections of State Education Code and other applicable codes, laws, rules and regulations related to work scope

Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) techniques and proficient data analysis skills such as data-based inquiry

Community and governmental institutions in the regional network

District resources and organization

Instructional programs, methods, and practices to accelerate student learning and achievement

Leadership development practices and effective supervision

California standards, curriculum frameworks and current research-based practices and trends

Adult learning principles and change-management theory

Effective professional development practices, including data-based inquiry

Formative and summative assessment instruments

Diversity, sensitivity and competence with regard to issues of race, learning or other ability, ethnicity, culture, religion, gender, socio-economic group, sexuality or other orientations or cultural markers

ABILITY TO:

Enhance overall educational programs and services for all students by building capacity and consistency for effective change and sustainability

Increase capacity, accountability, and efficiency for improved effectiveness among administrative and professional personnel

Enhance communication, critical thinking skills, and collaboration among administrative and professional personnel

Promote team-building and shared responsibilities among administrative and professional personnel

Develop effective and actionable plans that integrate a complex set of analysis and resource decisions

Apply efficient management skills; identify and develop leaders to effectively manage performance; provide direction and delegate major pieces of work

Apply a systems approach to problem solving

Attract external funding to support a well thought-out plan

Develop effective working partnerships across all sectors of stakeholders in the community and local government

Establish and maintain effective communications and working relationships among diverse groups of students, parents, District staff, and the community

Support, monitor and evaluate instructional program effectiveness

Use data to develop and analyze action plans

Implement collaborative and team-building processes

Plan, implement and monitor high-leverage professional development

Facilitate dissent and conduct difficult and constructive conversations

Provide timely and actionable feedback

Manage and prioritize time effectively

Provoke, inspire and motivate people to make progress toward goals

Read, interpret, apply and explain rules, regulations, policies and procedures

Demonstrate excellent and effective written and spoken communication skills in English, including content, context, communication, conciseness, grammar and usage

Work effectively across diverse communities

WORKING CONDITIONS

ENVIRONMENT:

Office environment; school sites; driving a vehicle to conduct work; making student home visits; fast-paced work; constant interruptions; potential contact with blood borne pathogens and communicable diseases; and potential violence from unstable individuals.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Consistent mental alertness; standing, walking, or sitting for extended periods of time; mobility to conduct work at school sites and other District facilities; lift/restrain/reposition/carry individuals to ensure safety; lift, carry, push, and pull moderate weight objects; bending and twisting at waist and neck; kneeling and bending at the waist, reaching overhead, above the shoulders and horizontally; dexterity of fingers and both arms and hands while performing duties, seeing to read, write, and use a computer; hearing and speaking to exchange information in person or on the telephone and make presentations.

OTHER PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Respond to emergency/life-saving situations which could require rapid response that would necessitate running.

NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY:

The Oakland Unified School District does not discriminate in any program, activity, or in employment on the basis of actual or perceived race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, gender, sex, or sexual orientation.



Primary Location: High School Network Office
Salary Range: $112,883.96 - $144,080.24 / Per Year
Shift Type: Full-Time

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