Associate Director II - Student Assessment

Position Details

• Position Type:
  Administration
• Date Posted: 12/17/2025
• Location:
  
  Organizational Effectiveness
• Date Available:
  
  As soon as possible
• Closing Date: 01/09/2026

Provide leadership, coordination, and management of the Granite School District’s assessment systems. The role involves contracting and collaborating with providers such as external assessment coordinators, commercial assessment providers, and with the Utah Board of Education. It also works with school and district office leadership to execute the measurement of student achievement in a variety of ways, and as part of a research and development team to determine best practices and provide professional learning as appropriate.

• Oversee assessment implementation in collaboration with Granite school principals, school technology specialists, and other district office departments.
• Plan and conduct testing cycles with a focus on supporting classroom teachers and students.
• Work to provide data to end‑users such as directors, principals, and teachers through dashboards, reports, and presentations.
• Form valid and reliable calculations of student academic growth from a variety of assessments.
• Provide professional learning in the use of assessments, tools, and measures.
• Coordinate research projects that evaluate the use of instructional practices and interventions.
• Perform other job‑related duties as requested or required.

Performs other duties as assigned.

• Experience in qualitative and quantitative research methods, evaluation, and analytics preferred.
• Experience with Excel (data analysis tools feature), Access, and Power BI preferred.
• Experience providing professional learning in an educational setting preferred.
• Experience executing complex logistical events preferred.
• Understanding of Granite School District student assessment practices, platforms, and student data privacy policy.
• Understanding of continuous improvement processes and practical applications in a pre‑K‑12 organization.
• Understanding of adult learning theory and effective professional learning practices.
• Understanding of the components and practices in the Granite Strategic Plan.
• Understanding of Grading Utah Schools performance measures.
• Working knowledge of Granite School District policies, rules, and procedures.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate well with staff and constituents of all levels, including classified and certified staff through verbal, written, and interpersonal means.

• Current Utah Administrative/supervisory license (required).
• Internal Applicants Preferred.

• Successful experience as a school administrator (required).
• Minimum of 5 years of professional/licensed experience in education (required).
• Internal Applicants Preferred.

• Interacts and collaborates with employees, board members, patrons, vendors, administrators and secretaries in schools.
• Works with various department secretaries, coordinators, managers and directors.
• Works positively and collaboratively with District departments including administrators and secretaries.
• Works with employees for certifications of time worked.
• Interacts with community partners to implement programming and secure donations for program student incentives.
• Strong interpersonal skills along with a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a diverse group of people.
• Able to create and support a team‑based environment within the program and department.

• Work takes place in a typical school environment.
• Supervision of students requires both indoor and outdoor responsibilities (e.g., recess duty, gymnasium activities, etc.) in all types of weather and air quality.
• Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak and/or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• The employee is occasionally required to use hands to handle or feel objects and must occasionally climb or balance.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.