Center for the School of the Future Senior Fellow

Overview

The Center for the School of the Future (CSF) at Utah State University seeks a Senior Fellow to assist with the growing interest in, and expansion of, Teacher Academy Schools/Teacher Apprenticeship programs in Utah schools. The Senior Fellow is a part time position. Successful candidates will demonstrate a strong record of professional experience with senior level executive appointments in education and with expertise in an area aligned with CSF interests. Appropriate candidates will demonstrate a strong record of successful senior level public school superintendent appointment history.

This position is telework eligible within the state of Utah.  

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with the Center’s leadership, staff, and other CSF Fellows to identify, implement, and evaluate K-12 improvements leading to enhanced student academic learning.
• Assist CSF leadership and staff and other Fellows in designing testable interventions, programs, or systems to improve K-12 student academic learning.
• Assist CSF leadership and staff and other Fellows with K-12 visioning to improve K-12 student academic learning outcomes.
• Work with Utah school district leaders to plan, implement and evaluate school training supports leading to improvements in K-12 student academic learning.
• Work with Utah school district and charter school leaders to plan and implement Teacher Academy Schools/Teacher Apprenticeship programs.
• Assist CSF director in fund raising efforts to support sponsored programs.v

Qualifications

• Breadth of successful experience working in school leadership including public school executive position at the Superintendent level.
• Successful experience working with university programs to implement school embedded teacher preparation apprenticeship or teacher internship programming in public schools.
• Demonstrated success in working collaboratively with K-12 school leadership and other educational personnel.
• Demonstrates success in working collaboratively with Utah policy makers leading to improved educational outcomes.
• Evidence of an innovative mindset to identify, implement, evaluate solutions for vexing challenges in public education.
• Evidence of success if seeking and obtaining funding to develop, implement and evaluate public school improvements leading to strong student academic learning.
• Evidence of the ability to align work efforts with previous organizations missions, vision and values.

Required Documents

Along with the online application, please attach:

Curriculum Vitae to be uploaded at the beginning of your application in the candidate profile under “Resume/CV”.

Names and contact information for at least three professional references to be provided at the beginning of your application in the candidate profile.

Cover Letter addressing candidate’s qualifications aligned with position including examples of previous successful relevant work experience should be typed/pasted at the end of the application process. 

**Document size may not exceed 10 MB.**

Advertised Salary

Commensurate with education and experience

ADA

Employees work indoors and are protected from weather and/or contaminants, but not, necessarily, occasional temperature changes.  The employee is regularly required to sit and often uses repetitive hand motions. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms and may lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. 

College/Department Highlights

The Center for the School of the Future (CSF) was established by the Utah Legislature at Utah State University to drive meaningful statewide reforms to public education focused on improving K-12 student academic learning. CSF leadership and staff recognize that schools exist to prepare children to flourish in a democratic society, and in an increasingly global economy. The mission of CSF is to produce equitable educational supports to liberate all students from limited life opportunities by animating their educational assets. To achieve this critical educational outcome for students, we are collaborating around important issues of teacher recruitment and retention, high achieving schools, and empirically validated instructional practices.

 

The Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services is committed to inclusive excellence in research, teaching, and service activities across a wide array of education and human service fields.  The college is home to eight academic departments with approximately 200 faculty who are engaged in innovative research and high-quality graduate and undergraduate education. The college’s programs and outreach missions are strengthened by an on-campus elementary laboratory school and five stand-alone centers including the Center for the