Assistant Superintendent of Middle Level Learning and Student Services

The Manchester School District offers a full benefits package to all eligible employees including:

• Anthem Medical insurance
• Anthem Vision insurance
• Delta Dental insurance
• Company funded HSA for select Anthem health plans
• Flexible spending accounts
• Retirement pension plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Gym Reimbursement
• Company sponsored life insurance
• 403(b) tax sheltered annuity plan
• Vision discounts
• Medical incentive rewards
• Employee assistance program
• Many more.

Manchester School District is seeking an Assistant Superintendent of Middle Level Learning and Student Services

Start Date: 7/1/2025

Minimum Qualifications and Requirements:

• Meets New Hampshire requirements for Superintendent or Assistant Superintendent
• Master's Degree with emphasis in curriculum and instruction and/or educational administration. Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies or Doctorate degree preferred.
• Minimum of five years (5) classroom experience
• Minimum of three years (3) years of building level administrative/supervisory experience and/or district level experience that demonstrates capabilities in:
  • learning theories and instructional strategies
  • assessment of student achievement
  • teacher supervision/evaluation
  • Special Education law, policy and practice
  • Comprehension Guidance
  • Data driven decision making
• Multilingualism preferred

Specific Core Functions:

• Administers the mission and goals of the district.
• The Assistant Superintendent-Student Services is not limited to: tasks with Student Services and Middle Level Learning.
• Develops and Implements District educational philosophy, goals and objectives, into active terms that directly support the mission and vision of the district.
• Responsible for all aspects of the Special Education and Guidance programs from the budgetary, administrative, and strategic standpoints.

Responsibilities of the Position:

Leadership

• Supports Teaching and Learning Assistant Superintendent with instruction and curriculum for the District's Middle Schools.
• Provides leadership, and support for the Middle School principals.
• Involvement of various stakeholder groups including school employees, students,parents, community members and community partners.
• Provides comprehensive oversight of the Special Ed and Guidance Departments.
• Ensures the district/school objectives are aligned to state statutes and district policy as well as intervention practices that yield the highest standards of student achievement.
• Provides leadership and oversight of the Executive Student Services, Director of Comprehensive Guidance.
• Supports the superintendent in facilitation of community partner relationships.
• Utilizes local state and national data and trends as well a state and local policy to maintain the department of Student Services.
• Responsible for the daily management of issues.
• Responsible for the creation and maintenance of internal communication systems allowing for effective district operation.
• Assists with budget development regarding areas of responsibility.
• Collaborates with appropriate staff to develop, maintain and revise systems and processes related to areas of responsibility.
• Participates in the district-level decision process to establish and review the district's goals and objectives and instructional programs of the district.
• Performs such duties as may be assigned by the Superintendent.
• Supervises and evaluated Executive Director of Student Services, Middle School principals.

Responsibilities:

• Prepares drafts of needed Board of School Committee (BOSC) policies, administrative rules, and status reports for the Superintendent's review and action.
• Conducts staff meetings as needed to train, implement actions of the department.
• Works collaboratively with the Executive Team and Teaching and Learning Team on integration of Special Education and Guidance.
• Coordinates all projects that will provide information concerning the District's Student Services programming.
• Assists in the determination of the types of programs needed by the middle schools and makes appropriate recommendations to teaching and learning that builds review selection and implementation teams.
• Assists administration in budget development and long range financial planning for the department and responsibilities.
• Coordination with Executive Team the work of all professionals, paraprofessionals and other staff members in the school District.
• Organizes a variety of training programs for interns, practice teachers, paraprofessional personnel, and all personnel; devise and implement staff developments and problems of mutual interest with others in the field as needed for the Middle Schools.
• Work cooperatively with other administration leaders in integrating and coordinating individual efforts into a unified program for the District.
• Accepts from the Superintendent responsibilities that the Superintendent chooses to delegate to him/her, and assumes full responsibility for discharging them.
• Performs such other tasks and assumes such other responsibilities as the Superintendent may assign.

Specified Length/Hours of Position:

• This is a full year (228 day) full time, non-affiliated position.

Salary Range:

• $140,000-$155,000

Application Procedure:

The Manchester School District uses this Applicant Tracking on-line application platform, please visit our site: https://mansd.schoolspring.com/ The Manchester School District's website is www.mansd.org