Arizona Department of Education

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TITLE IV-A SPECIALIST, EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY

Job Location:

Title IV-A Unit

Phoenix Location

Posting Details:

Salary: $67,000 - $72,000 

Grade: 21

Closing Date: 09/07/2025

Job Summary:

• Engage in performance management and collaborative monitoring activities to ensure grantees are accessing and expending Title IV-A and related program grant resources in accordance with all applicable requirements and are leveraging resources effectively and efficiently to meet local needs and improve local capacities to support student learning outcomes.
• Serve as the Title IV-A effective use of Technology Specialist.
• Collaborate with a Title IV-A interdisciplinary team and work to educate and support internal and external stakeholders regarding the successful implementation and evaluation of Title IV-A, particularly with respect to supporting the effective use of technology.
• Support the implementation and evaluation of Title IV-A programs of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), as well as related well-rounded areas such as: Arts Education; Gifted Education; Advanced Placement Programs; well-rounded education programs, to include supporting the effective use of technology; college and career readiness programs, to include the new state College Credit by Examination program.
• Occasional in-state and out-of-state travel may be required for this position.

The Arizona Department of Education currently utilizes a hybrid work environment, with up to two days of remote work (contingent upon business needs). Candidates should apply with an ability and willingness to work in-office up to five days per week as business needs necessitate.

Job Duties:

• Review grant applications to ensure programmatic and fiscal compliance for each LEA assigned to his/her caseload.
• Responsible for reviewing and approving Local Integrated Action Plans (LIAPs) and Site Integrated Action Plans (SIAPs) and fiscal grant applications to ensure that grant funds are necessary, reasonable, and allocable in accordance with all ESSA program requirements, and that all expenditures are aligned to local IAPs
• Engage in performance management and collaborative monitoring fiscal and programmatic activities to ensure grantees are accessing and expending Title 1-A, Title I-D, Subpart 2, Title II-A, Title IV-A, Title V-B grant resources in accordance with federal and state applicable statutes and programmatic requirements, and that LEAs and schools are leveraging resources effectively and efficiently to meet local needs and improve local capacities to support student learning outcomes.
• Develop and provide professional learning and technical assistance opportunities through face to face and virtual methods in collaboration with unit leadership, personnel, other ADE program areas, and/or external partners to assist LEAs with the completion of required Comprehensive Needs Assessments (CNA), development of LEA and school IAPs, and completion of fiscal grant applications for the Consolidated Application.
• Assist in preparing and completing administrative and monitoring reports.
• Collaborate and build supportive relationships with other sections within ADE and external stakeholders to coordinate technical assistance, professional development, monitoring, and alignment of resources for LEAs and schools to close the achievement gaps and increase student achievement.
• Other duties as assigned as related to the position.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs):

Knowledge in:
• Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), particularly relating to Title IV, Part A, and Arizona Revised Statutes and State Board of Education rules governing public education
• Evidence based instructional pedagogy and strategies
• How to meet the needs of all students including those traditionally underserved
• Implementation of a well-rounded program of instruction, conditions for learning and systems
• Standards and practices for professional learning (adult learning theory)
• Program evaluation techniques
• Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR)
• OMB Uniform Grant Guidance (UGG)
• Multiple effective technological learning platforms, techniques, and practices
• A Bachelor’s degree in (preferably) education or public administration, or equivalent experience to substitut