Position Type:Administration and Professionals
Date Posted:2024-11-15
Location:East Professional Center
INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT AND MISSIONThe Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) serves approximately 37,000 students in 100+ schools. Over the past several years, the Greater Cleveland community has united behind the collective goal of ensuring every child in Cleveland attends a high-quality school and every neighborhood has a multitude of great schools from which families can choose. The Cleveland Plan defines CMSD's approach to the reinvention of public education and holds our community accountable for the success of Cleveland's schoolchildren. The Cleveland Plan is supported by Ohio House Bill 525, which provides much-needed flexibility and autonomy for the district and its schools. Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability forperformance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing his or her school as a high-quality, high-expectations academic center with a focus on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.The Cleveland Metropolitan School District has developed standards of excellence that the district applies to all parts of the organization inclusive of schools, principals, school leadership teams, networks, and central office. Alignment between Standards of Excellence (SoE) and the district's Theory of Action helps ensure that principals are able to focus on scholar achievement and that central office supports are timely and effective.
Our Vision for Learning in a Post-Pandemic World:In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we want each of our learners, both each of our scholars and each of their educators, to be individually and collectively presented with academically / intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their productive struggle and allow them authentic opportunities to demonstrate their work and their learning of academic content and transferable skills in a joyful and adventurous environment.
THE OPPORTUNITY: Location: Administration or As AssignedReports to: Officer of Information TechnologyFLSA Status: ExemptSalary Band: 16Compensation: $ 91,800.00 - $ 128,520.00The Executive Director, Software and Data Solutions, is responsible for managing the lifecycle of the District's extensive portfolio of business and student software solutions. Assist departments and schools with their strategic software planning, selection, implementation and supports needs. Serve as a broker for introducing new technologies and vendors to academic leaders, faculty, and central office departments. Collaborate with software partners to drive key improvements to their products that benefit the District. Serve on software technology governance committee (s) to assist with driving business value from core software solutions. Responsible for the transition of on premise software solutions to the cloud. Ensure integration of the multiple cloud services platforms that contain the District's strategic portfolio of software solutions. Provide technology solutions for data visualization, machine learning, analytics, reporting and data warehousing. Participate in Data Governance Committee activity. Collaborate with the internal legal department or contracted legal firms to help establish data sharing and compliance agreements.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIESBusiness and School Software and Technology Solutions- Lead district transformation through the development and support of innovative and cost-effective software solutions.
- Assist in the creation of short-term and long-term software product solution strategies.
- Partner with departments and schools to identify new solutions and/or improvements to existing solutions to yield measurable business value.
- Management of software solutions and systems for student lifecycle management to include learning management, student management, unified classroom management, etc.
- Collaborate with school technology personnel, internal technology divisions, and solution vendors to establish school technology standards.
- Negotiate contracts and manage relationships with multiple external service providers.
- Manage software solutions provider's compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Develop and maintain an enterprise-wide online mobile application store.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance the District's use of bot technology.
- Provide software development, system and data integration capabilities where needed.
- Direct the planning, design, development, deployment, quality, and support for business and student software solutions.
Data Solutions- Provide leadership in the development and implementation of the District's information management and business intelligence (BI) architecture strategy.
- Articulate the value of BI and analytics solutions across the District partnering closely with key stakeholders in functional areas.
- Work closely with district leaders to identify opportunities to operationalize specific metrics, models or insights and automate tools and dashboards to provide real-time insights.
- Develop strategies to create and maintain insightful automated dashboards and data visualization to track core metrics and extract useful insights for the District.
- Provide business intelligence expertise and consultation to internal stakeholders as needed.
- Participate in Data Governance Committee activity.
- Drive the development and execution of the enterprise data warehousing and data architecture.
- Establish and ensure adherence to a set of guiding principles for data warehousing and analytical practice.
QUALIFICATIONS Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities- Expertise in contract negotiation, technology procurement, and sourcing strategies
- Ability to perform cost-benefit analysis and market and competitor analysis
- Expertise in technology and vendor evaluation
- Knowledge of a broad range of cloud software and platform services
- Knowledge of cloud integration services
- Working knowledge in AZURE DevOps delivery services
- Excellent written and verbal communication and negotiation skills
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills
- Ability to communicate and build relationships outside of the department, including outside the District
Experience- Ten (10) years of IT management experience
- Experience in enterprise software and data integration
- Experience in mobile application development
- Experience in Artificial Intelligent (AI) technology deployment
- Experience in various cloud solution offerings-e.g., SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
- Experience in data modeling and warehousing, business intelligence including data visualization and analytics best practices
- Experience in software development and management and cloud-based delivery services
- Experience or working knowledge of data mining tools such as BI, SAS, Python, SPSS, and R. and predictive modeling
Education- Bachelor's degree in information systems, management information systems, computer science, business or related field
- Master's degree preferred but not required
WORKING CONDITIONS?PHYSICAL DEMANDSThe characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties.
- Expected moving, walking, and standing consistent with a school environment and occasionally lifting up to 15 pounds
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms
- The employee is frequently required to talk and/or hear.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to a normal school environment.
- Local travel may be required for training/meetings.
NOTE: The above-stated duties are intended to outline those functions typically performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This description of duties is not intended to be all-inclusive or to limit the discretionary authority of management to assign other tasks of a similar nature or level of responsibility.
EducationTo ApplyPlease submit your resume and application using Workday, our online human capital management system. Please note that an offer of employment will be subject to the successful completion of an FBI/BCI background check and drug screen.
EEO StatementWe believe that equity and inclusion at CMSD is an essential call to action, a catalyst to ensure value and appreciation among all our employees, so we may be fair and welcoming now and in the future. CMSD provides equal opportunities for employment, retention and advancement of all personnel by administering all terms and conditions of employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sex, disability or genetic information, age, citizenship status, military status, sexual orientation or expression, socio-economic status, title, other dimensions of identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.The District's Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Discriminatory Harassment, and Sexual Harassment and the District's Title IX grievance procedures, including information on how to report or file a complaint of discrimination, how to report or file a formal complaint of sexual harassment, and how the District will respond, may be accessed on the District's Civil Rights Notices webpage, available at ClevelandMetroSchools.org/domain/105. The District's Title IX Coordinator / Director of Equal Employment Opportunity may be reached at:1111 Superior Avenue East, Suite 1800Cleveland, Ohio 44114(216)-###-####...@ClevelandMetroSchools.org