Program Manager, Multilingual Multicultural Education K-12-2

Position Type:

Administration and Professionals

Natividad Pagan International Newcomers Academy

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is Ohio's third-largest public school system, serving more than 35,000 students.

CMSD strives to ensure that every child receives a high-quality education, regardless of the provider. To that end, CMSD lets families choose which District schools their children attend, with options that include STEM, the arts, single-gender education, International Baccalaureate, Montessori, and early college.

Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing their school as a high-quality, high-expectation academic center focusing on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.

CMSD ensures that students have access to technology and training to prepare them for the future. The District provides a free laptop or tablet for every student and connects every family that needs internet access. Graduating seniors leave commencement with not only a diploma but also a laptop.

In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we strive to ensure that all of our learners, both scholars and educators, to be challenged with academically and intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their efforts and provide them opportunities to demonstrate their best work.

The Cleveland Board of Education adopted the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) initiative on December 9, 2025. Building Brighter Futures is a strategic and data-driven plan shaped by more than a year of community engagement, information analysis, and thoughtful deliberation. The goal of this plan is to strengthen enrollment and ensure scholars attend a newer school building that offers more educational opportunities, including algebra in the eighth grade, more sports and extracurricular activities, and college credits and college and career pathways in high school.

BBF is ensuring academic excellence so every CMSD scholar can thrive.

Location: Administration or As Assigned

Reports to: Executive Director, Multilingual and Multicultural

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary Band: 7

Compensation: $ 68,891.00 - $ 93,003.00

The Multicultural/Multilingual Program Manager leads to improve the District’s Multilingual Multicultural Education programs and services to support the District’s goal of every student can achieve. The Multilingual Manager supports a comprehensive program of school-based programs, stakeholders, and bring community partners and the District together to achieve this goal.

• Assists the Executive Director in coordinating the development and selection of multilingual multicultural curriculum resources and supplemental materials
• Provides classroom support to teachers in core subjects and English as a Second Language
• Assists the Executive Director in organizing and providing professional development opportunities for District staff based on current research on ESL best practices, assessments, and strategies for ELL’s and modeling of effective instruction to build capacity and support schools with delivery of classroom instruction appropriate for second language learners
• Leads conversations and processes that engage principals and teachers to use all available data, including ELL student achievement data, ESL curriculum, lesson plans, ESL and second language learning teaching strategies, and other benchmark data that affect ELL student achievement in order to define the joint work of the school
• Holds daily coaching sessions with school staff
• Identifies specific principal, teacher and student needs and assists in the development of customized curriculum and teacher professional development to build capacity and a culture of collaborative support
• Assists school staff in all academic aspects and documents and progresses monitor coaching sessions
• Be active and visible in schools to provide support
• Assist…