Deputy Superintendent of Innovation, Student Pathways, and Opportunities

Title: Deputy Superintendent of Innovation, Student Pathways, and Opportunities

State Role Title: Education Administrator IV

Hiring Range: Exact Commensurate Based on Qualifications & Experience

Pay Band: 7

Agency: Dept of Ed Central Operations

Location: JAMES MONROE BUILDING

Agency Website: doe.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

This position will serve as a critical leader for the Virginia Department of Education as the Deputy Superintendent of Innovation, Student Pathways, & Opportunities in the Division of Academics & Innovation.

The top priority is to lead a bold, results-oriented vision for modernizing education while maintaining accountability, academic rigor, and effective use of taxpayer resources to deliver on the Board of Education’s promise for every high school graduate to be ready for work and lifelong learning and align the agency’s innovation, workforce development, and advanced learning initiatives with the state’s economic priorities, emphasizing opportunity, upward mobility, and local empowerment.

• Oversight of the Office of Innovation: Oversee development of innovation policies, standards & programs to help students and educators understand and use emerging ed tech, AI, data science, and computer science to prepare students for 21st century jobs without compromising core academic fundamentals. Promote and expand new and redesigned school models that increase public options for families, reduce bureaucratic barriers, and deliver measurable results. This includes helping divisions rethink empty and excess school space with small learning communities or schools within schools and the development of innovative school models that utilize personalized learning, seat time flexibility and student engagement. Support flexible learning models and learning networks with competency-based education, micro-credentialing, and alternatives to traditional seat-time. Champion practical, scalable innovations that provide more freedom for local educators and eliminate access barriers for families (eg. Transportation Modernization Network to embrace new transportation flexibilities passed by the General Assembly and adopted by the Board of Education to expand transportation options to reach more families and improve access to learning opportunities).
  
• Oversight of the Office of Student Pathways and Opportunities: Support the Departments work in postsecondary pathways to college, career training, and the military. Expand access to career-ready pathways, including trades, skilled professions, youth apprenticeships, and military-readiness programs. Collaborate on work-based learning, and early college initiatives across the agency and with other relevant agencies and partners. Strengthen partnerships with private-sector employers, trade associations, and community colleges to align education with real-world demand. Administer, market and grow tax credit scholarship programs and neighborhood assistance grant opportunities that give parents of low-income students and students with disabilities additional learning options. Ensure state initiatives empower students with practical, high-value skills while holding programs accountable for performance.
  
• For the Office of Advanced Learning: Strengthen advanced coursework in middle school to support academic acceleration and identify gifted learners early. Expand college credit opportunities in high school, including dual enrollment, AP, IB, Cambridge, and other early college opportunities. Support the growth of access to advanced coursework as well as developing a system of supports for student success and new pathways for educators to credential or badge with endorsements to teach more rigorous coursework. Promote academic excellence and upward mobility by ensuring these programs remain rigorous, outcomes-focused, and accessible for all students who are ready. Partner with other state agencies to improve transferability and access to Virginia public and private institutions of higher education.

Additionally, this position will create connections among multiple offices and divisions to implement overarching high school redesign and career pathways initiatives in collaboration with local school divisions, workforce development professionals, and Institutions of Higher Education. The position workflow will include an ongoing assessment of data, evaluation and presentation of a trajectory of learning and related issues present for the Commonwealth’s