ED Program Administrator; Program Administrator

Organization: Education and Workforce

Work Location: 25 South Front Street
Columbus, Ohio,
United States

Compensation: $40.40 - $57.57

Schedule: Permanent - Full Time

Work Hours: Flexible

Classified Indicator: Unclassified

Union: Exempt from union

Primary Job Skill: Program Management

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce is a diverse team of passionate, education-focused professionals responsible for overseeing and enhancing the quality of education for each of Ohio’s 1.7 million students. The Department provides the resources and supports essential to raising student achievement and accelerating learning opportunities, advancing the connectivity between K-12 and postsecondary learning, creating programs to support and expand workforce experiences, and ensuring students have the necessary supports to be ready each day to learn.

As the governing body responsible for overseeing and enhancing the quality of education within the State of Ohio, the Department of Education and Workforce is dedicated to promoting educational excellence and ensuring equal access to learning opportunities for all students. The Department is committed to collaborating with schools, districts, educators, students, families, businesses, nonprofit sand all stakeholders to achieve our educational goals.

Serves as Program Administrator of the ED STEPS unit:

• Provides vision, direction, and alignment of work to the goals and initiatives of the unit and department;
• Assists with review and recommendation of legislation pertaining to unit initiatives;
• Makes policy recommendations related to implementation of statewide initiatives in response to federal and state laws as applicable to work of the unit;
• Implements laws by developing policies, procedures, processes, and guidelines;
• Assures unit procedures are within federal and state regulations;
• Formulates, develops, and drafts rules and guidelines pertaining to office initiatives and policies and documents internal business rules;
• Provides hands-on assistance in daily unit operations;
• Plans, develops, prepares, and conducts presentations to internal and external stakeholder group;
• Identifies and delivers professional development to support continuous growth of staff;
• Works with team members to effectively manage multiple initiatives, ensuring consistent communication, collaboration, implementation, and coordination among team members;
• Provides leadership, direction, and supervision of staff (e.g., approves leave requests, assigns work, monitors work);
• Determines workforce needs and effectively uses team members to achieve unit and department goals efficiently;
• Interviews and recommends job applicants and conducts effective onboarding of new team members;
• Conducts performance evaluations;

Provides program direction for the ED STEPS system:

• Serves as Business Owner for ED STEPS, collaborating with IT and cross-functional teams to prioritize development work, manage product backlog, and define requirements;
• Manages, develops, and communicates standards, rules, policies, and procedures regarding ED STEPS system;
• Evaluates ED STEPS implementation and makes necessary changes to continually improve tool development, implementation, and feedback;
• Provides leadership, direction, technical support, and guidance to education agencies and vendors related to ED STEPS system;
• Provides leadership, direction, technical support, and guidance to internal project management processes as needed;
• Provides policy development and direction, technical assistance, consultation, mediation, and review to district personnel (e.g., district, building and/or community school staff members) working with school improvement initiatives (e.g., school improvement infrastructure and collaborative teams);
• Assists…