Reporting to the Superintendent, the Chief District Performance Officer is charged with the mission-critical task of creating a service-oriented and accountability-focused environment.  The Performance Office will implement The School District of Philadelphia’s System of Great Schools approach, focused on ensuring that good schools are supported and promoted, innovative ideas flourish, and poor-performing schools are not left to languish. The District Performance Office supports the Superintendent’s Action Plan 3.0 by holding all schools to a rigorous bar for performance to ensure all students have the access to a high-quality education. The District Performance Office will use the School Progress Report, an innovative tool that measures schools across multiple dimensions, to drive evidence-based, transparent decision-making about school intervention, replication, renewal, and expansion for district-run and partner-operated schools. The Chief District Performance Officer is a member of the District’s executive leadership team and will manage an office to support the work.

Essential Functions

• Serves as a key member of The School District of Philadelphia’s executive leadership team
• Sets and manages the performance management structures and processes to drive all district-run and partner-operated schools toward ambitious accountability goals in alignment with Action Plan 3.0
• Designs an accountability system to monitor improvements in student outcomes across schools and holds all schools accountable, in partnership with the Assistant Superintendents, to providing all students with an excellent education
• Plans and implements the strategic and cohesive vision for the District’s System of Great Schools approach, including expansion and replication of good schools and transformation or closure of chronically under-enrolled and/or under-performing schools to support all district-run and partner-operated schools in improving their students outcomes
• Invests and engages key internal and external stakeholders in the System of Great Schools plan
• Develops a comprehensive, evidence-based, transparent decision-making process for how schools are replicated, expanded, transformed, or closed
• Oversees District and school accountability processes, including the School Progress Report as the driver of performance metrics, and works with staff at all levels to understand and use performance data to inform evidence-based decision making
• Serves as the District’s subject-matter expert and resource to other staff members on all issues related to school accountability and performance
• Partners with the Assistant Superintendents to ensure alignment across strategic visions and shared understanding of challenges and opportunities that impact schools
• Manages the District Performance Office, provides coaching and development to direct reports, and ensures the office is high-functioning and provides outstanding support to schools
• Performs related duties as required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Demonstrated knowledge of:

• Urban education and driving improvement in student achievement
• Using quantitative and qualitative information to drive decision-making and evaluation across a system
• Using systems-level information to review, create and monitor school improvement strategies
• Strategic planning, executive leadership and organizational skills

Demonstrated ability:

• Commitment to high performance standards and an unwavering belief that all students can excel
• Inspire, manage and collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders at all levels
• A proven track record of working across diverse sets of stakeholders and using data to set vision and drive results
• Outstanding critical thinking skills, with demonstrated success in creating strategic processes and systems during a time of tremendous change
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with a track record of working collaboratively with staff at all levels to build consensus while also delivering exceptional results
• Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Flexible, resilient and adaptable to changing priorities
• Communicate effectively, verbally and in writing
• Exceptional executive-level judgment and decision-making skills

Selection Process
Selected candidates will participate in an interview process.  Please note that not all qualified candidates may be selected for an interview. The selected candidate must have no anecdotal record on file and have not been subject to any disciplinary action within the past eighteen (18) months, and have an excellent record of attendance and punctuality during the last three (3) years (defined as no more than eighteen (18) occasions of lateness or absence for personal illness in the last three years (3) years with the exception of one extended long-term absence).

Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.