Coordinator, Monitoring and Program

Job Title:

Coordinator, Monitoring and Program Support

The Officeof Fiscal  Strategy (OFS) is a catalyst for ensuring excellence, equity, and efficiency to ensure DCPS achieves our goals for our students. We want employees who recognize and embrace the importance of a strong partnership between schools and Central Services. When Central Services runs efficiently, and provides high-quality customer service, our school-based employees can concentrate on educating our children and leading our schools.

By combining financial planning with strategic planning, thisofficesupports DCPS with activelyidentifyingresources, costs and budget and aligning them with our mission and goals.

Divisions/Teams:

The Officeof Fiscal  Strategy is organized intofourdivisions

Finance: Ensures school and centralservicesfinances areallocatedandexpendedin alignment with the agency’s strategic plan, in a manner that fosters transparency, maximizes funds, promotes equity, and ensures compliance with requirements.

Contract sand Acquisitions:Provides procurement services to schools and Central Services programs through contract and purchase order processes in alignment with District and Federal procurement laws and regulations.

Manages andfacilitatesthe procurement of goods and services for all DCPS schools and central services, that fosters transparency, maximizes buying power, promotes equity of spending with local vendors, and ensures compliance with contractual requirements.

Operational Finance(Core):Works to improve organizational effectiveness and to ensure daily fiscal operations are managed efficiently across DCPS. The Operational Finance Team advocates for DCPSprogramsand schoolsby shepherding collaboration with procurement, budget, and HR teams.

Operational Finance provides oversight to ensure equitable, transparent, and compliant personnel and non-personnel spending through quality customer service.

Fiscal Operations Systems:Supports schools and central services by leading OFS’s efforts to design efficient and effective operational finance structure sand processes. Promotes agency financial data literacy by leading finance data visualization initiatives that equipDCPS stakeholders with comprehensive information.

The Finance Division within theOfficeof

Fiscal Strategyincludesfour teams:

School Finance:Oversees the annual budget formulation process for DCPS schools, including the allocation of resources,engaging and collaborating with internal and external budget stakeholders, and publishing school budget reports and information. The team ensures that the allocation of resources is aligned to the agency's vision and strategic priorities.

Budget Strategy:Oversees annual development and implementation of agency budget, including coordination of new policies and programs as directed by DCPS leadership. Budget Strategy works to solve long-term budget challenges, improve budget processes across the agency, andservesas key relationship holder with OCFO.

Grant Administration:Oversees and manages all direct federal, intradistrict, and private grants.

The team ensures that DCPS is following all relevant federal grant regulations, and that all grants areexpendedin accordance withthe approved grant application.

Monitoring and Program Support:Exists to ensure implementation, guidance, and compliance of federal government mandates that Local Education Agencies (LEAs) must provide to schools. The team works with school leaders and service providers to understand best practices foroperatinga successful federal program in public and private schools, and oversees fiduciary responsibilities as outlined in ESSA, Titles I-IV.

The Monitoring and Program Support (MPS) team ensures implementation, guidance, and compliance with federal mandates applicable to Local Education Agencies (LEAs). The team works with public and private school leaders, families, service providers, and internal partners to implement federally funded programs and oversee programmatic requirements under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), including Titles I-IV.

As a member of the Monitoring and Program Support team, the Coordinator, Monitoring and Program Support supports the compliant, effective, and customer-focused administration of federally funded programs serving DC public schools and eligible private school students. The Coordinator independently manages assigned compliance monitoring, student and school eligibility, program documentation, inventory, consultation, stakeholder guidance, data…