Program Manager Operations, Center for Equity for English Learners

About the role

Under the direction of the Center for Equity for English Learner's (CEEL’s) Executive Director and Directors, the Program/Project Manager will collaborate on the Center’s projects, including leading and coordinating CEEL’s operations. The role provides leadership and oversight for program management with internal and external partners, compiles data analysis to support strategic planning and implementation, reviews applicable policies and procedures, researches issues, analyzes institutional data, prepares reports, and makes recommendations for process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Support the Executive Director, Directors and Project Leads/Teams; lead in all operational aspects of the Center and work collaboratively with the Leadership Team (30%). This includes managing detailed project plans and ensuring milestones are met.
• Serve as liaison between CEEL’s internal and external partners (10%).
• Lead the CEEL team by coordinating team meetings, assignments and deliverables across organizations with Center leadership (15%). Job functions include developing and managing overall project plans, leading weekly team meetings, compiling notes for grant reports, and monitoring progress of CEEL projects.
• Facilitate, plan and implement internal and external communications (25%). This requires extensive outreach, engagement, and coordination with multiple partners.
• Support compilation of resources (5%). This includes analyzing notes and presenting the findings from various project milestones.
• Coordinate graphic design and webpage development (5%). Collaborate with communications teams at CEEL to build out new tools and manage existing channels for internal and external communications.
• Manage Advisory Committee (5%). Support ongoing partnership agreements, engage in communications and conversations, and fulfill other duties as assigned by CEEL Leadership (5%). Collaborate with partners and internal teams to maintain and continue collaboration for vision and plan.

Qualifications

• Typically a master’s degree preferably in Education or related field or equivalent experience, with comparable experience in research and evaluation.
• Minimum five years of experience.
• Experience with schools and school systems responding to the needs of linguistically diverse students in the PK‑12 system.
• Experience with managing budgets and grant writing.

Skills

• Effective organization and management techniques.
• Knowledge of curricular and instructional knowledge appropriate for linguistically diverse students in multilingual settings.
• Extensive knowledge in research, principles, practices, methods, and techniques for first and second language acquisition.
• Effective writing and communication skills.
• Bilingual capability is desirable.

Pay

Salary range: $80,600.00 – $104,800.00 (salary commensurate with education and experience).