Learning Manager (pending board approval) Certificated Staff 
Visions In Education Charter School - Sacramento -  
$80,700 - $105,094 a year - 

Application Deadline: 11/22/2015 12:00 PM Pacific

Length of Work Year: 12 months/ 224 days

Employment Type: Full Time

REPORTS TO: Associate Director of Instruction 

FLSA CATEGORY: Exempt 

LEVEL: Management

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CLASS: 

Under general direction, serves as a strategic leader responsible for instructional program development, curriculum development, and educational technology; responsible for management of resources; responsible for positive and effective relationships among staff, students, and parents; responsible for ensuring high quality instruction, student success and preparing students to function effectively in the marketplace; performs other duties as assigned. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

Any one position may not include all the duties listed nor do all the listed examples include all tasks which may be found in positions of this class. 

● Provides leadership for enhancing teaching and learning through the identification, evaluation, adoption, and integration of effective educational innovations into the curriculum. 

● Maintains awareness of best practices, emerging technologies and new potentials in educational technology that may be adopted as new and emerging instructional media, technologies, pedagogies and practices. 

● Serves as a member of the instructional leadership team, providing input and feedback in the educational program strategic planning and organizational change. 

● Collaborates with the instructional leadership team in the formation and implementation of instructional policy, philosophy, and implementation strategies. 

● Manages, coordinates, or assists with special projects, special school programs, events and office staff. 

● Attends and/or conducts staff meetings, in­service training activities, workshops, conferences, and other training. ● Presents at staff development and develops workshops and trainings for teachers and administrators in curriculum content, use of digital resources, teaching strategies and pedagogy and assessment. 

● Utilizes informal and formal assessment to monitor curriculum standards alignment. Aligns curriculum to state and federal content standards. 

● Formulates, selects, creates, revises, reviews, evaluates and/or implements K­12 curricula and instructional materials; gives direction to the development of adequate courses of study, instructional guides, and site ­based classes that result in a well­ articulated program and provides for student improvement and success. 

● Keeps informed on current trends and changes to curricular resources including CDE approved texts, online resources,and remedial material.

● Manages and coordinates workload of staff to ensure objectives are being met.

● Develops and facilitates curriculum review cycles to build capacity in the organization to improve student achievement and program success. 

● Mentors, guides and trains teachers to ensure program, student, and customer service goals are achieved and that teamwork is developed and practiced. 

● Maintains confidentiality. 

● Performs other duties as assigned. 

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Experience: 

● Possession of a valid California teaching credential.

● Administrative Credential preferred. 

● Previous independent study or home­school experience desirable. Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities: ● Knowledge of or ability to learn, interpret and apply Visions In Education’s objectives, policies, procedures, rules, regulations, and operations. 

● Knowledge of or ability to learn and use applicable sections of the California Education Code, Charter Law, and other pertinent laws. 

● Ability to maintain positive and professional interactions with students, parents, peers, other staff, and the public, and the ability to work in stressful situations. 

● Skill and ability to work with flexibility, efficiency, and diplomacy both individually and as part of an instructional team. 

● Skill and ability to use self ­restraint and professional judgment and to develop strategies to deal with a variety of people under varying situations and conditions. 

● Skill and ability to use written and oral communication requiring clarity and diplomacy in communication with a broad and diverse audience. 

● Familiarity with numerous curriculum options and resources for teachers. 

● Ability to act as liaison between teachers and administrators. 

● Knowledge, skill, and ability to assess, summarize, and document progress of teachers who are mentored. 

● Effective communication skills initiating individual and group discussions, listening, facilitating interaction with teachers and peers, and speaking in public. 

● Ability to establish and maintain effective work relations with those contacted in the performance of required duties. 

● Ability to work independently and in a team environment and be held accountable for results. 

● Ability to maintain a professional attitude and a strong customer service focus at all times with a strong desire to succeed and solve problems. 

● Ability to work confidentially. 

● Knowledge, skill, and ability to use a wide variety of office equipment including, but not limited to, personal computers, associated software programs (including Windows, word­ processing, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, database and web­ based applications), e­mail, Internet, copiers, faxes, and phones. 

● Proficiency with online instructional deliveries. 

● Skill and ability to motivate students to achieve educational success. 

● Knowledge and understanding of goal setting techniques including needs assessment and evaluation. 

● Skill in assessing, summarizing, and documenting the monthly progress of students. 

● Ability to assess and summarize the progress of students toward his/her goals and objectives on a regular basis.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS: 

● Possession of a valid California driver’s license, availability of a vehicle, and evidence of insurance. 

● Willingness and ability to travel within the local area and surrounding counties to meet with students and/or parents/students in a variety of socioeconomic locations. 

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL ABILITIES: 

​The physical requirements below are necessary to perform the essential functions. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable a person with a disability to perform these functions.

● Work environment is a combination of an office setting with occasional travel. Requires willingness and ability to work effectively and move about in an office and travel on an occasional basis to local locations and to surrounding counties. 

● Requires willingness and ability to work in small work areas, varying temperatures, and around noise and other people. 

● Sufficient physical mobility to enter/exit a vehicle and drive to various locations locally and to surrounding counties, to move about in sometimes crowded spaces, move over uneven ground, move in/about students’ homes and other public places, and access various floors in buildings. 

● Sufficient mobility to bend, stoop, push/pull, lift, stand, and walk on an occasional basis to file, move equipment or supplies, or take work from one location to another.

● Physical, mental, and emotional stamina to work under stressful conditions with frequent distraction and interruptions and deal with angry/upset people in a calm and professional manner. ● Ability to transport books, instructional materials, and a laptop computer from home to meetings and student homes/meeting places. 

● Ability to sit for extended periods of time up to an eight­hour shift (with the exception of lunch and breaks). 

● Sufficient dexterity to operate computers, printers, telephones, cell phones, faxes, and copiers. 

● Sufficient hand/eye coordination and manual dexterity to use a wide variety of office and computer equipment, to keyboard and write, file, and maintain records and reports.

● Sufficient hearing to hear and understand students, parents, staff, and the public both in person and on the telephone. 

● Ability to speak in an understandable voice with sufficient volume to be heard in normal conversational distance, on the telephone, and in addressing groups. 

● Sufficient vision to read fine print and figures and review and complete required forms, reports, and paperwork

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