Central Office / Education Center

Closing Date:
07/17/2019

   Performance Evaluation Manager

ABOUT CPS
Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) serves nearly 36,000 students preschool to 12th grade in 63 school communities, across a 90-square-mile district in Southwest Ohio. Cincinnati Public Schools is the best-performing large urban district in Ohio and ranks among the top 2 percent of Ohio districts for students' learning and growth and offers families high-quality school choices and academic programs.

The district's innovative approach to education, its investment in effective and caring educators and employees, and vast array of collaborative partnerships have accelerated school performance to the highest level in decades - ensuring that students in preschool to 12th grade thrive and graduate prepared for successful lives in the 21st century.

Cincinnati Public is looking for creative, innovative, passionate, problem-solvers to join our team. We seek to have a positive impact on our children and families every day and are looking for staff members who want to not only do an excellent job with their career field but also serve as a role model for the children in CPS. We invite you to become a member of our CPS work family.

ROLE SUMMARY
The Performance Evaluation Manager will have primary responsibility to oversee the evaluation of all CPS employees. They will manage best-in-class performance initiatives and programs that align with and drive a high performance culture, incorporating best practices into program design. He or she will coach our leaders on how to successfully have ongoing, development-focused performance conversations with their employees. In addition, he or she will lead the measurement and analysis of success against intended goals and manage design and implementation of performance management processes, communication, training and related technology systems. They will drive the cultural transformation of performance management moving from and bi-annual HR activity to a more progressive, ongoing process that supports talent pipelining.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create a calendar and implementation timeline of all evaluation dates and deadlines and communicate this with all stakeholders.
• Create customized support and training for each employee group under evaluation to ensure they know and are able to complete their parts of the evaluation.
• Collaborate with all unions around evaluation of their membership.
• Ensure systems for accurate data input are in place for all evaluation systems and audit the data integrity.
• Provide evaluation data to CPS Administration.
• Provide training and development for all facets of employee evaluation in CPS - on Frontline and on ODE's online platform.
• Administer and Manage e-platforms of ODE: set up, evaluator management, staff assignment, monitoring district wide observation completion, providing assistance to all users (Teachers and Evaluators).
• Develop and deliver training necessary to ensure all administrators are trained and credentialed on ODE's e-platform, providing training updates as necessary.
• Assist Principals and Assistant Principals and any appropriate Central Office Administrators with the implementation of all parts of the Cincinnati Teacher Evaluation System (CTES) to include: Professional Growth Plans, improvement plans, CAR referrals, observation completion support, student growth measures guidance, and questions.
• Assist Principals and Assistant Principals and any appropriate Central Office Administrators with the implementation of all parts of the Frontline Professional Growth platform.
• Facilitate the development and delivery of professional learning and information to teachers reflective of the CTES performance rubric and ODE Teaching Standards.
• Maintain updated OTES and OPES credentials.
• Attend as a District representative all OTES/OPES meetings and trainings.
• Provide assistance in the full implementation of the Ohio Principal Evaluation System.
• Work with Peer Review Panel with regard to CAR cases.
• Work with administration regarding non-renewals, terminations, and contract changes due to employee performance.
• Coordinate and monitor licensure compliance, working with the EMIS team for data integrity.
• Work with EMIS team to create reports of ESSA licensure requirements and plans for support in cases where there are violations.
• Interpret personnel policies, procedures, rules and regulations to certificated employees.
• Conduct certificated discipline hearings.
• Serve as a member of the account management team and other teams as assigned
• Collaborate with Talent Department to configure best practices around use of evaluation data for career coaching and trend data for actions for the district.
• Perform all other Duties as assigned by the Director.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITIES

• Possess a collaborative and open leadership style which can lead a team to achieve measurable results.
• Maintain a track record of influencing and collaborating with local leaders, strategic partners, principals, teachers, labor unions.
• Achieve outstanding results in human resources planning and execution.

• Be professional, compassionate, empathetic, caring and dedicated to human growth and development.
• Juggle management of several projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Communicate with excellent written and verbal skills, including skills required to communicate diplomatically and persuasively to diverse stakeholders.
• Possess well-honed people skills, poised and capable of gaining the trust of leadership and employees while influencing positive organizational outcomes.
• Enjoy a spirit of willingness to continuing to grow and develop as a practitioner and leader and model this for others.
• Possess skills to develop and deliver training materials to all levels within the organization.
• Excellent presentation and relationship building skills
• Experience with performance management administrative systems and tools

QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Bachelor's Degree in related field; Master's Degree in Educational
Administration or related field preferred.
HR training and/or experience preferred.

CONTRACT PROVISIONS

Contract Provisions: 261 day limited
Salary: Manager 1 per CAAS agreement

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
All interested applicants are encouraged to apply and only online applications will be considered.

The intent of this job description is to provide a representation of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Certain jobs at Cincinnati Public Schools may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation are available upon request from Human Resources.

Cincinnati Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer and is subject to federal regulations pertaining to employment. The district has a continuing non-discrimination policy which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or veteran status. We hire only United States citizens and aliens lawfully authorized to work in the United States.
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