Director, Center for Equity for English Learners

The Director, Center for Equity for English Learners will have both internal and external responsibilities, including research, policy, and practice agendas, as well as partnership development and project management. The Director will partner with the CEEL Executive Director to further evolve CEEL's future growth and strategic response to an ever-increasing local, state, and national need to support English Learner/Multilingual Learners.

Requirements

• Typically a Doctorate Degree in Education or equivalent experience in research and evaluation
• Ten years of experience with schools and school systems responding to the needs of linguistically and culturally diverse students in the PK-12 system
• Advanced curricular and instructional knowledge appropriate for linguistically diverse students in multilingual settings
• Extensive knowledge in research, principles, practices, methods, and techniques for first and second language acquisition
• Successful leadership and administrative skills appropriate for research, professional development, training, program planning, and group collaboration
• Experience with developing, overseeing, and managing finances and budgets for academic centers, federal/state grants and contracts, and project budgets
• Evidence of successfully securing diverse funding streams including private and government grants, and contracts, institutional and individual donors and other revenue streams
• Effective organizational and project management abilities
• Accomplished writing, publication, communication and presentation skills

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package