Director of IU High School Online and Partnerships (Curriculum Development Leader)

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Job description

Department

PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAMS (BL-EXP-IUBLA)

Department Information

Historically, IU High School has prioritized offering flexible, rigorous learning opportunities to our students; today, we strive to innovate without leaving behind the flexibility and rigor that have been our core values for many years.

IU High School's mission and vision statements reflect our current expectations. These statements embrace IU High School's ability and responsibility to lead the innovation of online learning for secondary education; they align with Indiana University's vision to provide, an excellent, relevant, and responsive education across a wide range of disciplines while pursuing excellent world-class research, scholarship, and creative activity. 4 Guiding Principles and accompanying Beliefs Statements specifically describe the ways in which our Mission and Vision are enacted as we move toward IU High School's future goals.

As a set, the Mission, Vision, Guiding Principles, and Beliefs Statements below embody IU High School in its entirety, recognizing its past experiences, embracing its current expectations, and carving the pathway toward its future goals. These statements articulate IU High School's purpose. These statements are IU High School.

This innovative leadership role is responsible for refining, designing, and implementing a comprehensive, dynamic, and effective online learning ecosystem. The IU High School Online learning ecosystem is uniquely situated within multiple levels of interaction, pedagogy, and partnership:

IUHS stakeholders include IU and other university partners, specialized schools and programs across the US (e.g., athletic, performance, and military), state and local offices, IUHS faculty and staff, and students and families.

External School Enrollments and Partnerships: This layer of the ecosystem services statewide school partners via a large virtual enrollment program. Working with the Indiana Department of Education and P-12 school administrators in Indiana and other US states, the Director supports virtual school enrollment of students whose schools do not have or cannot hire a teacher. The relationships the Director builds are critical to the success of this program.

IUHS Diploma and Supplemental Students: This layer of the ecosystem services individual students seeking an alternative path to completing their high school requirements. Students may be athletes, musicians, caring for a family member, healing or under institutional care, or for some other reason find the brick-and-mortar traditional school setting too constraining. These students may take only 1 course at IUHS or may pursue an entire high school diploma. The Director engages with these students and their families to understand and develop individualized strategies for helping the students achieve their high school learning goals.

Assessment and Evaluation Partners: This layer of the ecosystem engages experts in the fields of online learning, education, and specific content areas in systematic continuous improvement efforts. The Director works with university partners to evaluate and share practices with local, state, national, and global stakeholders. In this way, IUHS is established as a leader in secondary online education.

Job Summary

Department Specific Responsibilities

• Develops and hones a holistic vision for the online learning ecosystem, including virtual infrastructure, curriculum design, balanced assessment strategies, and student support services. In the IUHS ecosystem, this means continuously refining school and course structures in response to the evolving needs of the stakeholders and partners listed above and research in the field.
• Oversees the development, alignment, and continuous improvement of curriculum to ensure it meets the Indiana Academic Standards, is relevant to student needs, and leverages the virtual environment to teach students how to interact with the world using available and evolving digital resources.
  Leads the design and implementation of a robust assessment system that measures student growth, informs instruction, and facilitates continuous improvement.
• Collaborates with instructional designers, teachers, and other specialists to select and integrate effective educational resources within the above learning ecosystem. This role must balance the use of new resources and strategies with the practical implementation of them in the existing school structures and professional routines of the IUHS stakeholders and partners above.
• Utilizes course implementation data to inform decision-making, optimizes learning experiences, and identifies areas for improvement.
• Builds strong partnerships with teachers, administrators, students, families, and IU stakeholders and partners to gather input, ensure alignment, and refine the learning ecosystem as defined above. This means that the Director engages stakeholders as thought partners, not only inviting critical feedback, but also continuously searching for the underlying issues inherent in their experiences for the purpose of forecasting needs and challenges that may be coming.
• Stays abreast of emerging educational trends, educational research, and virtual learning resources to innovate and improve the learning ecosystem.
• Oversees the implementation and refinement of learning practices at IUHS Online, including the support and management of IUHS students, faculty, staff, and administration.
  research and evaluation efforts to measure the impact of the learning ecosystem on student achievement, engagement, and well-being. Shares findings to inform broader educational practice to local, state, and national audiences. This role includes travel to conferences and school sites.
• Oversees the refinement and implementation of a comprehensive digital pedagogy framework, including teacher training, coaching, and support. Fosters a culture of innovation and experimentation in online teaching and learning.

General Responsibilities

• Provides highest level of operational leadership and coordination of assigned staff members to define curriculum development methodologies and standards; provides direction and guidance on high priority curriculum development projects/initiatives.
• Establishes short-term business plans and long-term operational objectives, including managing project timelines/deliverables and developing resource plans for multi-project/multi-phase curriculum development initiatives.
• Conducts a variety of personnel actions to include, but not limited to hiring, promotion, performance management, and dismissal.
• Manages high level assignments and allocation of curriculum development resources, including negotiating and coordinating initiatives that involve staff in other departments/areas/teams; may coordinate large-scale curriculum development projects with a wide audiences in support of academic initiatives.
• Makes budgetary recommendations/proposals based on resource needs and ensures cost containment.
• Researches and stays up-to-date on new industry curriculum development standards, technologies, pedagogical methods, and delivery.
• Responsible for the implementation of new protocols/procedures to address business needs.
• Works collaboratively with other curriculum development leaders across departments in recommending standards, best practices, and related policies/procedures.
• Prepares management reports and summaries for senior administration, executive, steering and advisory committees.
• Acts as advisor to executive committees; serves on various university committees, communities of practice, and task forces related to curriculum development.

Qualifications

Combinations of related education and experience may be considered. Education beyond the minimum required may be substituted for work experience. Work experience beyond the minimum required may be substituted for education.

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor's degree in related field

WORK EXPERIENCE

Required

• 4 years in related field
• 1 year of management experience in related field

SKILLS

Required

• Proficient communication skills
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism
• Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent collaboration and team building skills
• Effectively coaches and delivers constructive feedback
• Instills commitment to organizational goals
• Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills
• Effective conflict management skills
• Builds and manages effective teams

Preferred

• Needs to be a visionary who can translate and adapt traditional teaching practices and goals in an asynchronous virtual learning environment, and do so in ways that support and uplift the educators who execute those practices in courses
• Possess a deep understanding of curriculum design, assessment, online pedagogy, and student-centered learning strategies for asynchronous and semi-synchronous online learning environments
• Unique blend of strategic thinking, technical expertise, and educational leadership
• Plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of online education and ensuring student success

Working Conditions / Demands

This role requires the ability to effectively communicate and to operate a computer and other standard office productivity equipment . click apply for full job details

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