CERTIFIED COORDINATOR-ASSESSMENT

KINGMAN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 20

                                                            CERTIFIED COORDINATOR-ASSESSMENT

Classification

Exempt

Salary Grade/Family

Certified Salary Schedule

Reports to

Director of Curriculum

Summary/Objective

To provide oversight and guidance for coordinating, conducting, and analyzing all formal assessments within the district. To provide leadership in designing, developing, evaluating and implementing curriculum, use of instructional materials, assessments, and professional development activities to benefit students and to assist in faculty learning.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

1. Respond to all internal and external customers, as it relates to the job, in a prompt, efficient, friendly, and patient manner.
2. Create and manage district-wide assessment calendar.
3. Serve as the District Testing Coordinator (DTC) and oversee administration of district & state assessments.
4. Coordinate with Director of Special Education to administer the MSAA and ensure accommodations are in place for students with IEPs taking other required state and district assessments.
5. Coordinate with technicians to set up testing requirements for online assessments.
6. Facilitate any required assessment training, handling of testing materials, scheduling of testing locations, and purchasing of testing incentives.
7. Oversee comprehensive school improvement plan.
8. Oversee Move on When Reading plans at schools.
9. Oversee EL compliance and services at schools.
10. Provide leadership to ensure the utilization of a variety of effective and best-practice instructional delivery systems, in an environment conducive to quality teaching and learning.
11. Arrange and direct ongoing professional development activities for the instructional staff that coincide with district goals and/or relate to the implementation of the instructional program.
12. Investigate and gather resources that aid in the implementation of teaching plans.
13. Assist in ensuring approved curricula are fully operational and being actively used by all staff.
14. Provide oversight of special projects as they relate to school improvement and instruction.
15. Assure compliance with federal, state, and local standards and legislated mandates; ensure alignment with state core standards. Prepare applicable reports district and/or grant/program requirements.
16. Promote effective communication and cooperation among administrators and among all members of the school community.
17. Work with building leadership to develop plans to assess and monitor student academic progress.
18. Coordinate and articulate assessment among and between grades and/or content areas.
19. Coordinate state testing programs and analyze the results of the tests.
20. Work cooperatively with colleagues within the district to promote initiatives.
21. Perform other duties as assigned or delegated by the superintendent or designee.

Other Duties

This job description is not a comprehensive listing of duties, responsibilities, or activities that are required of the employee for this job.  Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Competencies

1. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
2. High level of interpersonal skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff, vendors, schools, and the community.
3. Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. 
4. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from staff and the general public.
5. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. 
6. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram forms and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
7. Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory in specific field. 
8. Ability to establish priorities and meet deadlines and demands from multiple sites.  

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment

This job primarily operates within a school and district environment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

1. Regularly required to communicate, detect, converse with, discern, convey, express oneself, and exchange information with faculty, students, and visitors.
2. Regularly required to detect, determine, perceive, identify, recognize, judge, observe, inspect, estimate, and assess details as needed to complete job functions.
3. Regularly required to remain stationary, stand, and position self to complete job-related tasks.
4. Occasionally move, transport, position, put, install, and remove items up to 10 pounds

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position, primarily working Monday through Thursday, with a 180-day certified contract.  Employee may need to work extended hours to meet deadlines.  Occasional travel to conferences, with overnight stays, may be required.

Required Education and Experience

1. Bachelor’s degree
2. Minimum five years teaching experience

Preferred Education and Experience

Master’s degree

Required Certifications/Licenses

Valid Arizona teaching certificate

Work Authorization/Security Clearance

Must be able to pass a criminal background check and obtain an IVP Fingerprint Clearance Card through the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

Salary : $67,000 - $77,000