Specialist - Migrant
3 months ago
**_Provide effective and efficient technical assistance and training to ESC clients for the development and implementation of federal programs to improve the performance of students. Job requires frequent in-region and occasional out-of-region travel, occasional prolonged and irregular hours._**
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**Minimum Qualifications**
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- **Bachelor's Degree****:
- **Valid Texas Teaching Certificate with endorsement in area of assignment or appropriate license/certification.****:
- **Minimum of three years of teaching experience****:
- **Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred**
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**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**
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- **A demonstrated track record of success improving student outcomes in a teacher, campus leader, or district leader **role****:
- **An in-depth knowledge of instruction practices that lead to improved teaching and learning****:
- **An in-depth knowledge and content expertise, specific to role****:
- **In Depth knowledge of ESSA grants and program guidelines****:
- **Ability to design, deliver, and facilitate high-quality professional development for adult audiences, both in person **and virtually****:
- **Ability to connect with diverse audiences and understand complex and unique circumstances in order to support **growth among individuals and across regions/districts****:
- **Ability to coach, model and provide feedback on performance****:
- **Highly organized; ability to manage multiple projects at once and meet deadlines****:
- **Attention to detail with an ability to produce high quality work in diverse environment****:
- **Ability to break down complex information into comprehensive parts, ask questions, synthesize and analyze****:
- **Ability to influence others to achieve outcomes, both within and outside formal management structures****:
- **Collaborative and results-oriented****:
- **Excellent written and oral communication skills****:
- **Emerging expertise in virtual platforms and virtual facilitation to ensure the continued ability to meet district need****:
- **Demonstrates a growth mindset, desire to self-reflect, give/receive feedback and continuously improve****:
- **Strong sense of personal accountability; takes initiative to meet ambitious goals****:
- **Builds strong relationships without compromising outcomes****:
- **Knowledge of and experience using Microsoft Office, Google, video conferencing tools, and multimedia equipment**
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**Essential Functions**
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- **Designs, delivers, and/or facilitates job-embedded professional development for relevant clients at district, school, or classroom level, including**:****:
- **Whole-group trainings that build a shared understanding of skills, practices, or systems and include opportunities for practice****:
- **Support for participants implementing a new skill, practice, or system within their context, including co-planning, observation, and real-time feedback****:
- **One-on-one coaching sessions that identify participant successes and develop their capacity to improve high-leverage areas of growth****:
- **Technical assistance that provides direct, responsive training or support to individuals or small groups around compliance, systems, or state requirements****:
- **Partners closely with classroom/school to assess areas in need of capacity building and to develop intentional scope and sequences of professional development aimed at effectively addressing those growth areas****:
- **Effectively supports stakeholders to analyze data to drive instructional growth (at relevant classroom/school) by identifying areas of strength and opportunity as applicable for their role and context****:
- **Contributes to the scaling and aligning of best practices in instruction and/or instructional leadership with other individuals, teams, or departments****:
- **Contributes to building and strengthening the culture of individual teams and the entire Academic Services Department****:
- **Complies with federal and state laws, State Board of Education Rules, and ESC board policy and procedures**
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**All positions at ESC 3 are defined as security-sensitive. Security-sensitive positions are those which require employees to be**
**entrusted with the certain types of data, whether electronic or in paper form. Those data elements, as defined by the ESC 3 Data**
**Classification and Handling Policy may include, but not limited to**:
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- **Sensitive Personal Information (SPI)****:
- **Personally, Identifiable Information (PII)****:
- **Protected Health Information (PHI)****:
- **Family Educational Records (FERPA Data)****:
- **Federal Tax Information (FTI)****:
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**HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act)**
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**It is the employees on-going responsibility to safeguard this type of data and to report any instance of lost or stolen data.