Director, Education

ICF seeks a Director, Education to work within our Child Welfare and Education (CWE) Line of Business. The CWE Line of Business provides federal, state, and other clients with a wide range of technical assistance, research, and evaluation services. Our work focuses on important education policy issues; uses proven and innovative methods for delivering high-quality, timely technical assistance; seeks to inform education stakeholders of promising practices; and involves working closely with clients to ensure that training and technical assistance support services are relevant, useful, and make a positive impact.

The Director, Education will work with clients such as the U.S. Department of Education as well as state and local educational agencies to provide high-quality services and products. 

Key Responsibilities:

The Director, Education is responsible for developing and maintaining strong, collegial relationships with state education agencies (SEAs) and other clients to provide high-quality, relevant, and useful capacity-building technical assistance.  The Director, Education will conduct needs assessments, develop and deliver technical assistance that clearly addresses client needs, monitor and course correct technical assistance as needed, coordinate with project evaluators to curate evidence, and liaise with clients.  In addition, the Director, Education will coordinate with TA teams to ensure the provision of high-quality services to clients.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate in education, social sciences, public administration, or related subjects
• 10+ years of experience at the state and/or national level working with K-12 education policies, regulations, and systems
• 10+ years of experience developing and delivering technical assistance to state and district educators and leaders
• 10+ years developing high quality technical assistance materials, including information briefs, white papers, tools, presentations, and processes.
• 7+ years working with MS Office and other standard office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, SharePoint, and Adobe Connect)
• At least 1 year of prior experience supporting large-scale federal grants or contracts; demonstrated experience supporting implementation of a U.S. Department of Education Comprehensive Center grant award.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Ability to work independently and lead tasks
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Sound business ethics, including the protection of proprietary and confidential information
• Ability to apply detailed knowledge of organizational procedures to make independent decisions and serve as a credible resource for a senior management team
• Ability to work with all levels of internal staff, as well as outside clients and vendors
• Demonstrated outstanding level of professionalism, including ability to exercise good judgment, discretion, tact, and diplomacy

Working at ICF

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We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

 

Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation, please email Candidateaccommodation@icf.com and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reaso