Position: Employee Effectiveness and Evaluation Specialist

Position Summary:

Under the direction of the Evaluation Supervisor, the Employee Effectiveness and Evaluation Specialist will support principals, managers, educators and system employees in all aspects of the employee evaluation system, including but not limited to:  self-assessment, goal setting, plan development, collection of evidence and formative and summative assessments. The incumbent of this position will support managers with all facets of the evaluation process and will work with a variety of individuals and serve as liaisons between schools, offices, district content experts, supervisors, directors and executive level management to ensure the performance evaluation process is ensuring effective teaching in every classroom and effective leadership in all schools.  This position will require working year round on training, support and capacity building throughout the district, including support to building new evaluation systems for all employee groups as required.  

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Redesigns and implements evaluation systems and tools tied to the various teaching and non-teaching positions;
• Develops and implements the technology used to support evaluation;
• Creates reports for district and state use and analysis;
• Understands the standards and calibration for performance evaluation; 
• Supports educator self-assessment, goal setting and growth plan development; 
• Understands, disseminates and supports educators with best practices that impact student learning; 
• Works toward building systems in each school that will be able to provide ongoing support to teachers in the realm of evaluation; 
• Identifies and resolves problems and refers issues to academic leadership; 
• Develops and maintains positive working relationships within PGCPS departments to drive collaboration and project success; 
• Ensures fidelity of systems through calibration of evaluators; 
• Verifies reliability of systems through random tests of evaluation integrity in schools and offices;
• Provides technical assistance to principals and/or managers to drive evaluation rollout success in every school and office;
• Provides professional support and coaching support to supervisors, managers and identified employees;
• Supports districts and school cultures focused on teaching and learning;
• Conducts evaluations when needed; and
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Ability to work under tight deadlines achieving goals successfully;
• Ability to analyze complex data and communicate effectively verbally and in writing;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to present information to large and small groups;
• Ability to build and sustain positive working relationships with all PGCPS departments, and external partners;
• Demonstrated project management experience;
• Proficiencies with technology including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Google Docs and Oracle;.
• Familiarity and knowledge with the PGCPS evaluation systems, Framework for Teaching and other evaluation systems; and
• Exceptional time management, communication skills and a strong organizational capacity.

Education and/or Experience Requirements:

Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in education, educational policy, administration or a related field required.  A minimum of five (5) years of successful teaching experience required.

Certification:

Holds or is eligible for certification/licensure appropriate to area of assignment issued by the Maryland State Department of Education.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

No direct supervisory responsibilities.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, talk, hear, walk, sit, and use fingers, tools or controls. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision such as to read handwritten or typed material, the ability to adjust focus, and depth perception. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally push or lift up to 25 lbs.

Working Environment:

The work environment characteristics are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job.

Additional Information:

Highly demanding and fast-paced; frequently required to work long hours, nights and weekends; annual leave may be limited during specified timeframes.