Position/Title: Curriculum Coordinator
Responsible To: Director of Teaching & Learning
Terms of Employment: 12 Months
The Curriculum Coordinator is responsible for providing instructional leadership across subject areas. Position objectives include studying, evaluating, and implementing research-based curriculum and instruction; providing leadership in the development, articulation, and implementation of an instructional program; improving the instructional program by assisting with program evaluation; and assisting in the coordination of relevant staff development. Responsibilities will include but are not limited to coordinating, supporting, organizing, and implementing PreK - 8th Grade curriculum, instruction, pacing guides and assessment alignment within the schools and providing leadership for district-wide initiatives and state law.
Qualifications:

• Illinois Professional Educator License
• Administrative Endorsement (Preferred)
• Master’s Degree in related field
• At least 3-5 years of successful teaching or administrative experience
• Illinois driver’s license

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Graduate work and/or experience in:
  • Curriculum development, instruction, and assessment
• Successful teaching experience at more than one grade level
• Experience in staff development work
• Successful leadership experience
• Curriculum Adoption Processes
• Preschool Programming (PFA)
• Common Core and Illinois State Standards

Essential Duties:

• Oversees alignment of curriculum with the Illinois Learning Standards.
• Assists in the development and implementation of Zion District 6 Scope/Sequence documents as well as related pacing guides.
• Provides leadership to assure correlation between district curriculum and state/national standards, ensuring compliance with ISBE’s units of study
• Previews new instructional materials, coordinates the appropriate implementation, and creates and monitors curriculum adoption process.
• Coordinates projects and curricular recommendation with the Teaching and Learning Department and Building Administrators
• Provides input for the Teaching and Learning budget.
• Development and leadership of a curriculum adoption committee.
• Updates current curriculum to include research-based instruction.
• Assists in the assessment of curriculum effectiveness on student learning outcomes.
• Assisting in the coordination of relevant staff development.
• Management and ordering of curriculum materials.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:

• Environment: District office, school sites
• Physical Abilities: Standing for extended periods; bending at the waist to assist students; reaching overhead, above the shoulders, and horizontally; hearing and speaking to exchange information; seeing to monitor student activities and behavior; dexterity of hands and fingers to demonstrate activities and prepare materials.
• Frequent visitation to school sites