Leadership Development Director, Organizational Learning & Effectiveness
The mission of Partners in School Innovation (PartnersSI) is to enable public schools in low-income Bay Area communities - serving students of color and English language learners - to achieve educational equity through school-based reform. Our goal is to achieve educational excellence for all students while closing the gap in reading achievement between children living in poverty and their more affluent peers. PartnersSI transforms some of the lowest-performing schools in the Bay Area by leading them through a rigorous multiyear change process that improves teaching and learning and achieves long-term systemic change. Our set of integrated services includes: district systems change, results-oriented leadership development networks and on-site implementation support.

We are seeking a full-time Director of Leadership Development (LD Director). This person will be a key member of our Organizational Learning & Effectiveness (OLE) team and will bear primary responsibility for developing and refining our high-profile school and district leadership development program to deliver maximum impact.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
The LD Director will be charged with further developing and documenting PartnersSI's approach to developing the capacity of teachers, principals and district leaders to lead underperforming schools through a transformational change process to breakthrough results in student achievement. This includes:

1. Supporting our district network managers to design and deliver high quality leadership development training to our district clients. In working partnership w/each of our districts, the Director will develop and lead professional development sessions addressing best practices in leadership development and core competencies of highly effective school leaders. The LD Director will also transform content developed for the district networks into reusable PD modules.

2. Developing knowledge related to effective school leadership actions and competencies, ensuring that all of our work on leadership development is well documented. This means capturing the best practices and tools from our fieldwork and packaging it in digestible, actionable form for all of our staff to implement at their school sites. This also includes writing case studies on leadership development practices that are generating student achievement results and publishing these both internally and externally.

3. Managing the grants funding our leadership work. We have received - and expect to continue receiving - significant funding for our leadership development initiative. Such funding requires that we document the progress we are making in the creation and distribution of our leadership development materials, as well as of their impact on student achievement. The LD Director will also assist in applying for and renewing leadership-specific grants as well as managing relationships with these grantors.

4. Supporting staff as the in-house expert on educational leadership, both leading the internal professional development on educational leadership (e.g., by designing and delivering training) as well as bridging this learning w/direct application in the field (e.g., by providing on-site support to staff).

5. Enhancing the organizational knowledge base w/developments in the field of educational leadership. Through ongoing literature review, conference attendance/presentations, meeting w/other partner organizations, etc., ensuring that PartnersSI's work is building on and contributing to the best knowledge in the field and that any new knowledge that can strengthen our approach is captured and integrated into our practice.

QUALIFICATIONS

Our ideal candidate definitely has:

• The passion and commitment to closing the achievement gap
• A deep understanding of the leadership literature base (in education as well as in other fields) combined with a strong desire to apply that knowledge to generate impact
• Excellent and adaptable writing skills - in particular, skill at navigating different audiences, whether academicians in the education leadership field, grantors, educators
• Experience designing and delivering effective professional development for adults
• Demonstrated success designing, contributing to and/or using a knowledge management system - knowledge management system design/development a big plus
• Strong collaboration skills within a team and with clients - experience interacting w/school district-level administrators is ideal
• Experience designing, implementing and refining a program or initiative
• Racial and cultural competence - an understanding of the role of racism in the inequities of the public school system and demonstrated effectiveness in working through these inequities
• A high degree of initiative and tenacity; willingness and drive to see a difficult situation through to a satisfactory outcome

Additionally, s/he might have:

• Experience leading or managing a university-based leadership development program
• Experience leading a school, district or organization and the desire to both learn and teach others how to do it better

Salary and benefits DOE and are competitive with Bay Area compensation scales.

Application deadline: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Interviews will be conducted until the position is filled.

Partners in School Innovation is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from all individuals regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or physical ability and evaluate all candidates based on merit. Partners in School Innovation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.