Executive Director, Software and Data Solutions

Position Type:

Administration and Professionals

Date Posted:

2024-11-15

Location:East Professional Center

INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT AND MISSION

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) serves approximately 37,000 students in 100+ schools. Over the past several years, the Greater Cleveland community has united behind the collective goal of ensuring every child in Cleveland attends a high-quality school and every neighborhood has a multitude of great schools from which families can choose. The Cleveland Plan defines CMSD’s approach to the reinvention of public education and holds our community accountable for the success of Cleveland’s schoolchildren. The Cleveland Plan is supported by Ohio House Bill 525, which provides much-needed flexibility and autonomy for the district and its schools. Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for

performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing his or her school as a high-quality, high-expectations academic center with a focus on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District has developed standards of excellence that the district applies to all parts of the organization inclusive of schools, principals, school leadership teams, networks, and central office. Alignment between Standards of Excellence (SoE) and the district’s Theory of Action helps ensure that principals are able to focus on scholar achievement and that central office supports are timely and effective.

Our Vision for Learning in a Post-Pandemic World:

In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we want each of our learners, both each of our scholars and each of their educators, to be individually and collectively presented with academically / intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their productive struggle and allow them authentic opportunities to demonstrate their work and their learning of academic content and transferable skills in a joyful and adventurous environment.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

 

Location: Administration or As Assigned
Reports to: Officer of Information Technology
FLSA Status: Exempt
Salary Band: 16
Compensation: $ 91,800.00 - $ 128,520.00

The Executive Director, Software and Data Solutions, is responsible for managing the lifecycle of the District’s extensive portfolio of business and student software solutions. Assist departments and schools with their strategic software planning, selection, implementation and supports needs. Serve as a broker for introducing new technologies and vendors to academic leaders, faculty, and central office departments. Collaborate with software partners to drive key improvements to their products that benefit the District. Serve on software technology governance committee (s) to assist with driving business value from core software solutions. Responsible for the transition of on premise software solutions to the cloud. Ensure integration of the multiple cloud services platforms that contain the District’s strategic portfolio of software solutions. Provide technology solutions for data visualization, machine learning, analytics, reporting and data warehousing. Participate in Data Governance Committee activity. Collaborate with the internal legal department or contracted legal firms to help establish data sharing and compliance agreements.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Business and School Software and Technology Solutions

• Lead district transformation through the development and support of innovative and cost-effective software solutions.
• Assist in the creation of short-term and long-term software product solution strategies.
• Partner with departments and schools to identify new solutions and/or improvements to existing solutions to yield measurable business value.
• Management of software solutions and systems for student lifecycle management to include learning management, student management, unified classroom management, etc.
• Collaborate with school technology personnel, internal technology divisions, and solution vendors to establish school technology standards.
• Negotiate contracts and manage relationships with multiple external service providers.
• Manage software solutions provider’s compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Develop and maintain an enterprise-wide online mobile application store.  
• Develop, maintain, and enhance the District's use of bot technology.
• Provide software development, system a