Require Education Deputy Advisor (Office of Teaching and Learning) in Baton Rouge, LA
Job title: Education Deputy Advisor (Office of Teaching and Learning)
Company: State of Louisiana
Job description: Supplemental Information
This position is open to current permanent classified employees of the Louisiana Department of Education only
Office of Teaching and Learning
Job Focus Areas
This Education Deputy Advisor is located within the Office of Teaching and Learning and reports directly to the Assistant Superintendent. This position will serve as the Director of Teaching and Learning Support Services supporting the Assistant Superintendent with program specific projects (including tracking, monitoring, and budgeting) to ensure successful implementation and scaling of program initiatives across all divisions in the Office of Teaching and Learning. This position is responsible for overseeing and managing communicating with school systems, scaling statewide programs, goal setting, monitoring, tracking progress, and ensuring alignment between priorities and funding needs across all of the Teaching and Learning Divisions.
Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
- Assists and serves as principal assistant to the Assistant Superintendent in directing the work activities of all state educational authority (SEA) and local educational authority (LEA) educational programs within the Office of Teaching and Learning.
- Supports the Assistant Superintendent, Division Directors, contractor/subcontractors, and other departments across the agency with high-level policy, research, and design recommendations relative to Teaching and Learning.
- Reviews and makes recommendations to the Assistant Superintendent for departmental budget revisions in matters related to personnel services, equipment, materials, and capital outlay for the office, performance indicators, and operational plans.
- Coordinates the alignment of program initiatives and funding through grant application processes, such as Super App, which combines the agency's competitive and formula awards to schools into a single annual application process.
- Conducts research and special projects and assures implementation of programs developed and initiated by the office;
- Performs all other duties as assigned by the Assistant Superintendent.
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
- Experience in working with people from diverse cultures and economic backgrounds
- Possess the skills necessary to manage people
- Ability to work with parents, administrators, teachers, and other staff and members of the community
- Ability to be flexible and perform multiple tasks successfully
- New Year's Day
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
- Mardi Gras,
- Good Friday,
- Memorial Day,
- Independence Day,
- Labor Day,
- Veteran's Day,
- Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
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