The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) is the State Education Agency for the District of Columbia charged with raising the quality of education for all DC residents. OSSE is focused on sustaining, accelerating, and deepening the progress being made for the District’s 90,000+ students. OSSE serves as the District’s liaison to the U.S. Department of Education and works closely with the District’s 470+ early childhood facilities, 250+ schools, 60+ local education agencies (including DCPS and charter organizations), and community-based organizations to provide critical programming and resources to our stakeholders.  

Educators are the single most important in-school factor impacting student learning and lives. The state education agency plays a critically important role in leading towards ensuring that all DC students have equitable access to excellent educators, consistent with the Every Student Succeeds Act.  

The Educator Preparation, Pipeline and Support Manager position is located in OSSE’s Division of Teaching and Learning, within the Educator Pipelines, Equity and Quality (EPEQ) team, which manages critical state-level, public-facing systems related to the educator workforce. The Manager will be responsible for triangulating data, research, and best practices to advance strategies that lead to equitable access to excellent educators, with a particular focus on bolstering educator pipelines and increasing workforce diversity. In doing so, the Manager will steward financial resources, oversee initiatives and iterate to improve effectiveness and efficacy, while ensuring alignment with agency priorities and consistency with the Equitable Access provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act. The Educator Preparation, Pipeline and Support Manager will report to the Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning. 

Specific functions of the Educator Preparation, Pipeline and Support Manager include: 

• Develop, oversee, and execute on state-level strategies to lead towards equitable access to excellent educators, with a particular focus on educator retention and workforce diversity  
• Utilize national, state and local sources of educator data and student data – together with insights from research and practice – to catalyze a robust pipeline of diverse and well prepared DC educators to meet the needs of all DC students 
• Propose, manage, and execute strategic uses of funding in the service of strategic goals 
• Provide direct supervision, guidance, mentoring and coaching to direct reports within the Division of Teaching and Learning, enabling individuals on this team to grow in their skills and achieve ambitious goals  
• Oversee policy initiatives related to the educator workforce (e.g., flexible scheduling programs) in alignment with Division need and priority 
• Advise the Director of Teaching and Learning on regulatory compliance and reporting and make proposals for new policy and guidance related to existing programs.  
• Provides technical assistance to internal and local education agency (LEA) stakeholders   
• Collaborates across the Division and with other Divisions within OSSE 
• Advance OSSE’s commitment to equitable access to excellent educators, consistent with the Every Student Succeeds Act law  
• Ensure coherence across OSSE’s educator preparation provider workstreams 

Key qualifications for the role include: 

• A four-year Bachelors’ degree from an accredited college or university  
• One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lowest grade level in the District of Columbia government  
• Knowledge of system-level levers for catalyzing an equitable, diverse, stable, and effective educator workforce – including policy, data, research, and practice  
• Knowledge of and professional experience in the following functional areas: educator retention, educator workforce diversification, equity in educator pipelines, educator development 
• Capacity to synthesize large amounts of qualitative and quantitative information to uncover trends, analyze root causes, and act strategically 
• Experience in preparing and presenting recommendations and solutions regarding complex issues based on analysis and evaluation 
• Exemplary fiscal and program management skills, with a focus on grants and/or similar programming that uses public funds 
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects that require cross-functional collaboration between teams and agencies 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills that enable the incumbent to effectively and efficiently communicate both technical and theoretical topics accurately, concisely, and compellingly 
• Meticulous attention to detail, with an ability to produce high-quality work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; and 
• An unapologetic commitment to ensuring that all DC students have equitable, sustained access to educators who are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to enable all DC students to succeed. 

Our ideal candidate will also have: 

• Experience managing and supervising diverse, high-performing team(s) to achieve ambitious goals 
• Demonstrated experience approaching persistent challenges with curiosity and creativity;  
• A growth mindset; and  
• Relevant, advanced professional education from an accredited university (e.g., M.A., MAT, M.Ed., J.D., Ph.D., Ed.D.). 
• Experience interpreting requirements into program design and implementation. 

Interested applicants should register for the OSSE Hiring Fair.