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The Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools is seeking a Director of Instructional Leadership - Science in Los Angeles, CA. This role involves coaching and supporting school leaders in data-informed instruction, professional development, and instructional leadership. The candidate should have over 5 years of relevant experience and a proven leadership track record. Responsibilities include designing strategies for academic excellence and collaborating with various teams to enhance educational quality.
As our Director of Instructional Leadership - Science, your main goal will be to provide direct coaching and support to a cohort of ICEF schools within the areas of data informed instruction, observation/feedback, planning, culture, professional development, and managing instructional leadership teams. Reporting to the Vice President of Strategy, the Director of Instructional Leadership will have the ownership and agency necessary for their cluster of schools to: define the metrics for success for their instructional teams, design and implement the strategies and systems to achieve their goals, and professionally develop principals and their teams into strong instructional leaders. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of effective leadership with school leaders, and the ability to navigate complex issues and drive strong student performance results.

We want someone who has unwaveringly high expectations for performance from self, colleagues, teachers, principals, and students alike. You won't give up seeking new ways to help the ICEF community with a strong sense of agency & urgency.

In order to achieve our mission of empowering courageous leaders to pursue their full potential in college, career, and life, this speaks directly to student agency, voice and choice. Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Retirement Plan

Coach and support a cohort of ICEF principals and school leaders within the areas of data informed instruction, observation/feedback, planning, culture, professional development, managing instructional teams, and other areas if applicable.
Work with VP of Strategy and in collaboration with the entire ICEF cabinet, to drive academic excellence and learning quality, set a high bar for rigor and develop a unique educational vision and philosophy that drives toward scholar success in college, career, and life.
Serve as an integral part of a team responsible for elevating the performance of schools and sustaining high-quality educational programs and opportunities across ICEF.
Support with year level curriculum pacing for designated content areas and grade levels, assessment oversight and creation, along with content specific PD.
Work with a cohort of schools to support their metrics for success decided during the annual state of school planning, designing and implementing strategies and systems to achieve their goals, including but not limited to data informed progress monitoring and action planning cycles. This may also include elements of data entry, cleaning and spot checking to ensure accuracy.
Build systems to create habits which result in increasing ICEF's institutional knowledge around instructional leadership and habits as an organization in order to create sustainability driven mindsets and capacities within all ICEF community members to ensure that practices are built to last.
Work collaboratively with cross functional teams to drive both network wide vision and mission and the successful implementation at school sites.
Provide and broker professional development for school leaders based on individual and group learning needs.
Collaborate with ILT colleagues to share ideas and provide coherent support to schools.
Relevant work experience (5+ years), Bachelor's degree in relevant field, and demonstrated track record
Experience with Relay Graduate School of Education's frameworks and processes
ATTRIBUTES & ORIENTATION: Hopeful: seeks to develop others' capacity in a productive and creative ways, with unwaveringly high expectations for performance from self, colleagues, teachers, principals, and students alike
Ability to break down complex projects into actionable goals, targets, and milestones, and can manage self and others to these
Desire to make meaning out of data to generate insights that answer critically important questions and lead to decisions
Relentless: Won't give up seeking new ways to help the ICEF team, strong sense of agency & urgency
Strategic: Can see - and help create - the long-term, big-picture vision

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, AND REGISTRATIONS

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Full-time employees of ICEF Public Schools are entitled to Medical, Life Insurance, Dental and Vision plans, and various retirement programs offered by ICEF Public Schools. Eligible employees will also be entitled to sick leave and vacation time in accordance with ICEF Public School policies.

ICEF Public Schools is a nonprofit charter school network serving communities in the South Los Angeles area for 25 years. ICEF Public Schools operates seven high-quality, tuition-free, public charter elementary, middle, and high schools serving over 2,000 kids from TK-12th grade. We are a college, career, and life-bound network in ethnically diverse neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Inglewood, CA. Over 90% of the school population qualifies for free and reduced lunch programs, average of 60% of students are Black, and 40% are Latinx/e.

ICEF's mission is to educate and empower courageous leaders to pursue their full potential in college, career, and life by providing a community that honors each student's unique identity, fosters academic excellence, nurtures healthy minds, and inspires critical thinkers. Our primary focus at ICEF is a whole-child approach that fosters excellence among all scholars. ICEF is an Equal Opportunity Employer Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools