Accountability, Assessment, and Professional Development Director

Position Type:
Administration/Director

Date Posted:
6/5/2024

Location:
District Assignment

Date Available:
07/01/2024Position Title: Director of Accountability, Assessment, and Professional Development
Reports To: Superintendent of Schools
Classification: Certified
Pay Status: Salary: Based on Board approved salary schedule.
Employment Days: 240 DAYS

Qualifications:

Master's Degree with related work in professional development and strategic planning.

Valid S.C. Administrative Certification.

Minimum of five years' successful experience as a classroom teacher.

Minimum Qualifications:

South Carolina Teacher Certification in Elementary, Middle Level, Secondary, or Guidance. SC Certification in Administration/Supervision, preferred.

Performance Responsibilities:

Organize and direct all State and District high school testing programs, including AP, EOCEP, MAP, PASS, PSAT, SAT and other testing programs mandated by State and/or District.

Plan and implement staff development activities for the district testing programs.

Submit all required reports on the testing program.

Analyze and interpret district data and trends for all school-testing programs.

Assess professional development needs of all employees.

Communicate with directors and principals to ascertain professional development needs.

Survey teachers and staff to determine professional development needs.

Determine professional development.

Plan/ schedule for all professional development days.

Develop a monthly professional development calendar that identifies all professional development activities in the district/schools.

Perform any other related duties as assigned.

Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions

• Physical Requirements: Requires sedentary work that involves walking or standing some of the time and involves exerting up to 10 pounds of force on a recurring basis or routine keyboard operations.
• Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving assignments and/or directions from supervisor.
• Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of policy and procedure manuals, computer manuals, reference materials, etc. Requires the ability to enter data into computer and prepare reports, correspondence, minutes, etc., with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of speech. Must be able to speak with poise, voice control and confidence and to articulate information to others.
• Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of instructions in oral, written, schedule, mathematical or diagrammatic form; to deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Requires the ability to make independent judgments in the absence of supervisor; to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation. Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information and the ability to comprehend and implement basic office machinery functions.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with persons of varying educational and cultural backgrounds.
• Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, to multiply and divide, to determine percentages and decimals, to determine time. Must be able to use practical applications of fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape, and visually read various information.
• Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using automated office equipment and communications machinery.
• Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items including computer keyboards, office equipment, control knobs, switches, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.
• Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under moderate stress when confronted with an emergency or tight deadline. The worker is subject to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.
• Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words; hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear). Must be able to hear and understand communications through a telephone.

Evaluation:
Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of board policy for Professional Personnel.