STUDENT VOICE AND LEADERSHIP COORDINATOR Job Opening!!!

Job ID: 11085

Position Title: STUDENT VOICE AND LEADERSHIP COORDINATOR

Position Description:

EMILY GRIFFITH CAMPUS

Traditional 235 work days per year - NONE

FTE: 1.00

Starting Salary: $47,116

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STUDENT VOICE AND LEADERSHIP COORDINATOR

Essential Functions and Objectives:

• The Student Voice and Leadership Coordinator will enhance the performance of Denver Public Schools by: promoting student voice and leadership, building powerful relationships among students and between students and adults, creating a positive school environment, fostering our school and district goals. Student Voice is a core strategy in DPS – where adults know, understand and choose to engage students in meaningful ways to improve their schools. Students are valued as engaged partners: contributing and growing as leaders. This position will be with the Office of Post-Secondary Readiness to support strategies focused on expanding high quality student voice and leadership opportunities across DPS to increase student engagement. Student Engagement is measured by district goals to increase attendance, decrease dropout rates, increase graduation rates, and increase participation in extra and co-curricular activities. The SVL Coordinator will be responsible for the day-to-day operations and support of the SBOE students and teacher leaders, ensuring a strong SVL program district-wide.

Knowledge, Experience & Other Qualifications:

• Experience in managing staff and teams

• Strong writing, research and public speaking skills

• Understanding of education structures/systems - DPS specific preferable

• Familiarity with theoretical frameworks and research supporting student leadership, student voice and community engagement

• Demonstrated leadership experience and event coordinating experience

• Ability to effectively communicate, lead and work with students, teachers, school administrators and district leaders

• Knowledge of a capacity to update social media and group sharing sites – facebook, google, twitter, instagram

• Have a car for transportation between school sites

Education Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in education or related field required

About Denver Public Schools:

Denver Public Schools is committed to meeting the educational needs of every student with great schools in every neighborhood. Our goal is to provide every child in Denver with rigorous, enriching educational opportunities from preschool through high school graduation. DPS is comprised of nearly 200 schools including traditional, magnet, charter and alternative pathways schools, with an enrollment of more than 90,000 students.

Under the leadership of Superintendent Tom Boasberg and guided by the tenets of The Denver Plan, DPS has become the fastest-growing school district in the country in terms of enrollment and the fastest-growing large school district in the state in terms of student academic growth. Learn more at dpsk12.org.

Denver Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.