Director of Technology

West Bolivar School District West Bolivar District Office
- Rosedale, Mississippi Open in Google Maps

West Bolivar School District West Bolivar District Office
- Rosedale, Mississippi Open in Google Maps

This job is also posted in West Bolivar School District

Job : 5096618

Final date to receive applications: Oct 31, 2026 11:59 PM (Central Standard Time)

Re-Posted: Aug 10, 2025 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: To Be Determined

Qualifications:

• Valid endorsement issued by the Mississippi Department of Education and demonstrated knowledge and or skill in area of assignment
• Computer certification in Novell, MCP, or MCSE
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable

Reports to:

Superintendent

Supervises:
Computer Repair/Maintenance Technicians

Job Goal:
To coordinate the acquisition and implementation of the school district's technology program.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Leads implementation of school system vision, mission, and goals in his/her area of responsibility
  • Works with Superintendent and those whom he/she supervises to articulate and promotes the school system's vision of learning and teaching
  • Constantly monitors and evaluates progress toward accomplishing school goals and objectives
  • Ensures that policies and procedures of his/her operations and programs support the school system vision of teaching and learning, mission, and goals
• Leads program planning that facilitates the learning of students
  • Uses student data (achievement data, other) to identify program needs
  • Regularly collects additional data that will inform planning from appropriate stakeholder’s groups
  • Engages all appropriate stakeholders in planning of activities
  • Develops goals and objectives, programs, and operation that are consistent with school system vision, mission, and goals
  • Ensures that unit and program plans are consistent with the school system strategic plan
  • Ensures that unit and program plans support school improvement plans
• 3. Creates an organization structure that supports school system vision, mission, and goals and enhances the probability of success for all students
  • Organizes those for whom he/she is responsible to best serve needs of students and facilitate learning
  • Organizes daily, monthly, and yearly schedules to facilitate teaching and learning in the schools
  • Creates, identifies, encourages, and adopts innovative ideas, in turn, support learning and teaching in the schools
• Advocates, nurtures, and sustains a climate and culture conducive to learning, teaching, and improvement of schools
  • Communicates high expectations for students, professional and support staff, other stakeholders, and self
• Treats all individuals with fairness, dignity, and respect
• Recognizes and celebrates the contributions and achievement of students, schools, and the people and programs for whom he/she is responsible
• Promotes acceptance of diversity among students and school system employees

• Creates a customer orientation
  • Within his/her areas of responsibility, leads a process of identifying, prioritizing, and addressing the needs of the students and schools
• Within his/her areas of responsibility, leads a process of identifying, prioritizing, and addressing needs and expectations of stakeholder groups whose support is needed for students to achieve academic success
• Creates an environment of collaboration
  • Regularly interacts with educators, parents, community agencies/groups, students, and other stakeholders
• Builds and sustains program-school relationships that support student learning
• Develops working relationships with community agencies and the corporate sector to enhance student learning

• Recruits, selects, and retains quality professional and support staff
  • Develops and implements a plan for retaining quality employees, which includes incentives
• Makes data-driven employment and dismissal decisions
• Ensures that applicable federal, state, and local employment laws and policies are adhered to in recruitment, selection, retention, and dismissal procedures
• Develops and implements a multiyear recruitment/employment plan for Technology Department
• Ensures supervision and evaluation of all school system personnel
  • Communicates evaluation policies and procedures to all department personnel
• Consistently and fairly supervises and evaluates staff
• Ensures that…