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The School District of Philadelphia Job posting 12052
440 NORTH BROAD ST, PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, 19130 Job posted as of Jun 02, 2015 until Until Filled
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The School District of Philadelphia is the cornerstone provider of public education in Philadelphia. For forward-thinking administrators and educators, opportunities abound. The 130,000 students entrusted to the District arrive at school every day with an extraordinary range of needs and aspirations. We are committed to delivering on their right to an excellent public school education, and we are particularly focused on ensuring every student has access to exceptional educational opportunities. Equity is our mandate. Critical to this effort are leaders who are dedicated to expanding the opportunities available to children across our city. They must be creative and flexible leaders who are resilient and responsive in the face of many challenges as we strive to make all schools great. Will you join us?
Job Title
Deputy, Parent and Family Services
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District Name
The School District of Philadelphia
Posted on
Jun 02, 2015
Expiry Date
Until Filled
Job Description
The active engagement of parents and families is critical to the improvement of student achievement and overall performance of The School District of Philadelphia. The Deputy for Parent and Family Services is responsible for directing and coordinating outreach to parents to involve them in the achievement of the goals of their children’s schools. The Deputy will lead the development of specific parent engagement strategies (e.g., the launch of a School Advisory Council (SAC) in every school) and establish clear processes for parent and family input and ideas. Ensuring parents receive important information regularly about their children’s progress and how to support that progress is an important function of this job. The Deputy is also expected to provide parents and families with excellent customer service, and facilitate the same across schools and central administrative functions.

Essential Functions
Minimum Requirements
  • Master’s degree program from an accredited college or university.
  • Ten years of full-time, paid, professional administrative experience in an education or community outreach setting, at least five of which have been in a supervisory or administrative capacity.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Community Organization: Fluent in the principles and practices of community organizing and advocacy and the current evidence-based parent and community engagement models, practices, methods and techniques related to parent involvement and parent education initiatives.
  • Commitment to Equity: Passionate about closing the achievement gap and ensuring that every child, regardless of background or circumstance, receives an excellent education and every parent has access and information to support their child’s academic success.
  • Leadership: Coaches, supervises, manages, mentors, and challenges others to excel despite obstacles and challenging situations.
  • Focus on Data Driven Results: Relentlessly pursues the improvement of central office performance and school leadership, instruction, and operations, and is driven by a desire to produce quantifiable student achievement gains.
  • Innovative Problem Solving: Approaches work with a sense of possibility and sees challenges as opportunities for creative problem solving; takes initiative to explore issues and find potential innovative solutions.
  • Adaptability: Excels in constantly changing environments and adapts flexibly in shifting projects or priorities to meet the needs of a dynamic transformation effort; comfortable with ambiguity and non routine situations.
  • Teamwork: Augments the effectiveness of surrounding teams through collaboration, constant learning and supporting others; sensitive to diversity in all its forms; respects and is committed to learning from others.
  • Dependability: Does whatever it takes to consistently deliver with high quality and within short deadlines; successfully manages projects using strong organization, detailed work plans, and does so while balancing multiple priorities.
  • Communication and Customer Service Skills: Communicates clearly and compellingly with diverse stakeholders in both oral and written forms; anticipates and responds to customer needs in a high quality and courteous manner. Successful customer-service models

Demonstrated ability to:
  • Communicate clearly, both orally and in writing, with a wide variety of audiences
  • Lead and execute change management strategies
  • Develop productive relationships and build effective advisory bodies
  • Create processes that are customer service driven
  • Effectively supervise staff
  • Establish and maintain productive working relationships with peers and supervisors

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.
 
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