Manager, Classified Personnel

Position Type:
Management- Classified/Personnel Coordinator

Date Posted:
8/19/2024

Location:
District Office

Date Available:
September 2024

Closing Date:
09/01/2024Pay: $142,560 - $161,146/ year, plus full benefits.
Range 19, Classified Management Salary Schedule. Plus Annual stipends for a Master's and Doctorate degrees
Under the direction of the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, the Manager, Classified Personnel plans and supervises school district classified personnel services in support of the District's mission.

Equity

• Provide leadership to classified personnel that delivers on the unique needs of a socio-economically, culturally, ethnically, racially and linguistically diverse student population.

• Work with district and site level teams to develop articulated strategies and plans to address academic, behavioral, and social-emotional prevention and intervention and implementing practices that ensure equitable outcomes so all students can achieve College and Career Readiness across K-12.
• Supervise the recruitment for classified staff including management positions with a focus on maintaining a diverse workforce.
• Prepare job announcements for classified staff including classified management positions, in an effort to attract diversity among our classified and classified management positions.
• Supervise the review of classified applications and establish qualified applicant pools for interviews, ensuring that the hiring process is fair and impartial.
• Participate in interview panels for classified and classified staff as determined by the Assistant Superintendent, Human Resources and ensure those panels have a diverse representation of people.

Accountability

• Support Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources in the preparation and maintenance of a variety of narrative and statistical reports, records and files related to assigned activities.
• Responsible for supervision and evaluation of employees.
• Establish and maintain the district's classified and management personnel records.
• Prepare offers of employment for classified and management personnel.
• Establish salary placement and verify the training and the experience of new classified employees.
• Plan, conduct, or arrange for professional learning for classified staffing including new employee orientations.
• Assure all employee status changes are accurate and submitted to the Payroll Department in a timely manner and ensures that the Payroll Department is properly notified.
• Establish and maintain current records of all classified personnel, including professional growth, training certifications, and ESSA certification.
• Maintain classified employee seniority lists.
• Assist in preparing budget information for Fiscal Department.
• Authorize staffing through position control system.

Student-Centered

• Build capacity with staff, to celebrate and sustain the diverse student populations we serve.
• Participate in collective bargaining, along with the Assistant Superintendent, Human Resources.
• Prepare materials for employer-employee relations and interprets the employee agreement.

Culture and Climate

• Establish and maintain the district's classified and management personnel records.
• Oversees Workers' Compensation claims and maintains status of those receiving compensation.
• Determine and adjust salary placement of personnel in accordance with established procedures.
• Provide information to employees regarding such matters as leaves, illness, vacation, benefits and retirement.
• Counsel employees, supervisors, and management.
• Under the direction of the Assistant Superintendent, Human Resources, provide information and counsel employees, supervisors, and managers regarding such matters as leave benefits, retirement, performance evaluations, and discipline.
• Conduct research for Assistant Superintendent, Human Resources in matters concerning budget, staffing and collective bargaining.

Perform other duties as assigned

Working Conditions & Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential responsibilities and functions of the job and are not meant to be all inclusive. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential responsibilities and function of the job.

Unless reasonable accommodations can be made, while performing this job the staff member shall:

• Use strength to lift items needed to perform the functions of the job.
• Sit, stand and walk for required periods of time.
• Speak and hear.
• Use close vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception along with the ability to focus vision.
• Communicate effectively in English, using proper grammar and vocabulary.
• Reach with hands and arms and use hands and fingers to handle objects and operate tools, computers, and/or controls.

Environmental Demands:

The environmental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential responsibilities and functions of the job and are not meant to be all inclusive.

• Exposure to a variety of childhood and adult diseases and illnesses.
• Occasional exposure to a variety of weather conditions.
• Exposure to a building in which a variety of chemical substances are used for cleaning, instruction, and/or operation of equipment.

Knowledge of:

• The importance of equity, cultural proficiency, cultural awareness, implicit bias, and anti-racist agenda.
• Two-way communication methods that enhance the district's standing with employees.
• Transformational systems leadership approach.
• Data analysis and data-driven decision making.
• Procedures, methods and techniques of organization, management and supervision of personnel

Ability to:

• Implement an equity agenda that ensures that all staffing supports school programs that are centered around the acceptance and achievement of all students.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Establish accountability measures that ensure that every staff member is focused on equal educational opportunities for all students and families, particularly those socio-economically disadvantaged, and our culturally, ethnically, racially and linguistically diverse students and families.
• Knowledge of all laws, rules, regulations, and Ed Code related to school programs and personnel.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to present to diverse audiences.

Education, Training and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree
• A Master's Degree is preferred.
• Prior background and experience as a site administrator is highly desired.
• Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Desire for second language proficiency in Spanish or other language to match community needs.