Manager, School Quality and Accountability

Title:

Manager, School Quality and Accountability

Department:
School Performance Department

Reports to:

Director of Accountability

Location:

Washington, DC (Two days of Telework)

Every day, we' re doing the work to ensure that 44,000+ public charter school students, families, and communities receive a quality education that makes them feel valued and prepared for lifelong learning, fulfilling careers, and economic security. DC PCSB is an independent agency of the District of Columbia government. Our mission, vision, values, and work are rooted in the principle of ensuring that every DC student has access to a quality education.

In this role, you serve as the strategic "right hand" to the Director, acting as a high-level technical expert and school liaison. This is a Manager-Level role. You will bridge the gap between complex academic data and the real-world context of school leadership. Your primary focus is ensuring that DC public charter schools have rigorous, fair, and mission-aligned academic accountability goals and a fair, well-understood academic performance accountability system.

• Negotiation & Strategy:
  Lead the high-level negotiation of charter goals with school leaders, ensuring measures are both rigorous and reflective of unique school models (e.g., Adult Ed, Alternative, or Early Childhood).

• Policy Implementation:
  Support the Director in the design and rollout of the new Charter Goals Policy, ensuring it aligns with DC PCSB's academic accountability system, ASPIRE.

• Project Management:
  Lead and manage cross-functional projects related to academic accountability, charter goals implementation, policy rollout, and portfolio initiatives by establishing timelines, coordinating stakeholders, tracking deliverables, mitigating risks, and ensuring successful execution aligned with organizational priorities.

• Technical Assistance:
  Serve as the primary point of contact for school leaders to interpret academic data and navigate the goals lifecycle.

• Lead & Support Authorship:
  Pivot between roles based on portfolio needs - acting as the lead analyst and author for complex charter review and renewal reports, while at other times owning specific technical sections or providing high-level peer review for team members to ensure consistency and accuracy.

• Evidence Synthesis:
  Synthesize multi-year performance data into clear, evidence-based recommendations for the Board.

• School Performance Data Analysis:
  Analyze complex datasets to drive the implementation and refinement of academic assessment methodologies and tools. Move beyond data entry by interpreting business rules, analyzing growth metrics, and ensuring the accurate, data-driven evaluation of a school’s long-time viability. The candidate should have experience with one or more widely used data visualization, scripting, and/or transformation tools.

• Technical Liaison:
  Communicate directly with school leaders regarding testing results, performance ratings, and framework compliance, translating technical data into actionable school-level context.

• Strategic Triage:
  Use field-based knowledge to identify "red flags" in performance data and coordinate with other departments (Finance, Equity, Legal) and the Executive Team to determine if a school requires a specific intervention.

• Seeking candidates with deep expertise in one or…