Job Summary
The Utah Education Policy Center (UEPC) bridges research, policy, and practice by conducting rigorous research, performing comprehensive program evaluations, and providing expert, research-informed technical assistance and professional learning. We empower educators, policymakers, and leaders to make research actionable and impactful to transform education across early childhood, K-12, and higher education settings.
UEPC seeks a full-time practitioner-scholar with experience leading improvement in schools, districts, state agencies, and/or community-based organizations, and who can bring their expertise to support our professional learning and technical assistance/capacity-building partnerships, to serve on this dynamic team. The Leadership Development and Systems Improvement Specialist role is partner-facing. The person(s) in this role will design and facilitate high-quality, research-informed experiences for school, district, and state education partners, and actively cultivate new professional learning and technical assistance/capacity building partnerships to grow the UEPC's portfolio and impact.
Responsibilities
- Design and facilitate research-informed professional learning experiences, tools, and strategies for school, district, and/or organizational leaders and their teams to build leadership capacity, content knowledge, and sustainable improvement practices over time.
- Support school, district, and organizational leaders and leadership teams in applying continuous improvement processes and developing coherent improvement systems that align goals, strategies, data use, and leadership practices.
- Translate research and evidence into practical tools, protocols, frameworks, and resources that support leadership development and improvement.
- Lead and contribute to technical assistance engagements (e.g., needs assessments, strategic planning processes, PDSA cycles, capacity building strategies tailored to partner programs and contexts) with schools, districts, and/or organizations.
- Use participant feedback, implementation data, and outcome evidence to continuously improve the design, content, and/or facilitation approaches of professional learning and technical assistance/capacity building.
- Lead or contribute to the development of proposals and scopes of work for new and continuing partnerships.
- Conduct targeted literature reviews and synthesize research and evidence to inform professional learning design, resource development, and technical assistance strategies.
- Contribute to data collection, analysis, and reporting across research, evaluation, and technical assistance projects.
- Collaborate on concurrent projects, including managing tasks, timelines, deliverables, and partner communications.
- Lead and contribute to written products, including professional learning or technical assistance guides, briefs, presentations, tools, and publications.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master's degree in educational leadership, curriculum and instruction, or a related field.
- At least five years of professional experience in education with progressively increasing responsibilities and a minimum of three years in a formal leadership role such as principal, assistant principal, district-level administrator, agency director, or an equivalent role in an education-focused technical assistance organization.
- Demonstrated success designing and facilitating professional learning for leaders and educators across varied contexts, formats, and audiences.
- Demonstrated experience applying structured improvement efforts (e.g., leading improvement at the school, district, or state level using structured improvement methods such as inquiry cycles, PDSA, root cause analysis, data-informed decision-making, theory of change, logic models) in ways that produced documented and measurable results for schools, districts, or organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply research and evidence to inform professional learning design, tools, and content development.
- Demonstrated organizational skills, including the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and meet deadlines.
- Demonstrated strong communication, written and oral communication skills, including the ability to produce professional deliverables (e.g., tools, guides, briefs, reports/publications, and presentations).
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects while maintaining quality, rigor, and partner responsiveness.
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