Ever More Bureaucrats

This week teachers learned the district is thinking of:

1. cutting days out of the school year

2. increasing class sizes in January

3. cutting the number of teachers again.

And then the following landed in my inbox:

Position/Title: Director of Operations

Organization: The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Organization Description: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has made education reform of Los Angeles schools, which have the second highest student enrollment in the country, a centerpiece of his administration’s agenda. The Mayor created the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools (the Partnership), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is partnering with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and other education-related organizations in Los Angeles to dramatically improve schools in Los Angeles. The Partnership currently runs twelve schools with approximately 18,000 children and 1,500 school-site employees, with budgets exceeding $150 million per year.

Position Description and Responsibilities: The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools is seeking an accomplished professional to help direct the Partnership’s school site operations, with a focus on budget and human resources. These services are being dramatically redesigned under the Partnership model and the Director will be responsible for the redesign and execution of the new processes, in close collaboration with Partnership leadership, Partnership school sites and LAUSD central office staff. The Director will be responsible for developing and executing strategies to ensure that schools are provided outstanding service using metrics that will be jointly defined by the Director.

The potential of this role is very high because the lessons learned with Partnership schools will be fed back into LAUSD to be replicated at a broader scale. The Director will be integral to working with LAUSD to ensure that the entire district learns from the Partnership’s new operational strategies.

This role reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer (COO), and will manage one full-time individual. The specific responsibilities across the different areas would be developed jointly by the Director and COO based on the needs of the organization. Key job duties might include:

Support LAUSD’s development of a new “per pupil” budget model that provides budget transparency, accountability, equitable resource allocation and flexibility for school sites. Lead the implementation of the new budget model at Partnership schools.

Train all Partnership principals, school leadership teams and others on their budgets so that school stakeholders (administrators, teachers, parents and others) better understand the resources they have and how they can most effectively allocate their resources.

Develop tools and other mechanisms to help principals and school stakeholders effectively manage their budgets over the course of the year.

Develop the strategy and implementation for human resource services (hiring, retention, and management) in the Partnership schools.

Manage the staffing of all school site positions across all classifications, jointly with the school sites and LAUSD central office staff.

Jointly with LAUSD, manage the staff and employee relations processes for the Partnership schools.

Manage relationships with LAUSD departments, including budget services, fiscal services, staff relations, employee relations and human resources.

Develop a strategy for how to rapidly scale operations as the Partnership expands.

Regularly brief the Partnership’s senior management team on progress.

Manage the recruitment process for Partnership staff.

Develop policy implications for LAUSD and help District leadership implement recommendations.

Qualifications:

At least 5 years of professional experience in school or related operations.

Management experience in leading teams and/or managing relationships with partners and service providers.

Candidates should be self-starters who are capable of developing and executing strategic and implementation plans in conjunction with other partners.

Strategic thinker with intense focus on performance and proven ability to execute effectively against strategy.

Candidates need to have a strong belief in providing outstanding customer service.

Experience working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment a plus.

A proven track record of consistently exceeding goals. 

Strong analytical and quantitative skills, and excellent interpersonal skills.

Experience working in operations roles in a school district, charter management organization or other education service organization a plus but not required.

Must be reflective and open to new ideas and opinions.

Graduate degree a plus, especially in business or law.

Salary: Compensation will be highly competitive and commensurate with demonstrated skills and work experience.

Please send inquiries and applications (cover letter and resume) via email to:

Je-nee Tyson

Operations Associate

The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

1541 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 200

Los Angeles, California 90017

jenee.tyson@partnershipla.org

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce.

This position is exempt from civil service requirements.

Whatever all that means.  Because clearly the students need more. .  . ADMINISTRATORS!

I wonder how many other admins are being hired.  Anecdotes, anyone?

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