Program Director

University of South Florida•Tallahassee, FL

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Institute for School-Community Partnerships, Integrated Services, and Child Mental Health and Educational Policy (ISCP), which is part of the College of Education, envisions that all schools in the state of Florida and nationally will have the capacity to provide a safe, effective, and efficient environment to continuously improve the academic, social, and emotional growth of all students and to actively engage families and communities in education. The ISCP's nearly $23 million budget is derived from grants from federal, state, and private sources. It is the mission of the ISCP to implement and evaluate research-based and innovative practices in school and community settings. This is accomplished through (a) training, technical assistance, and support to key partners; (b) community-engaged research and program evaluation to inform key partners' decision making; (c) the development of research and evidence-based documents, tools, and resources to support implementation and evaluation activities; and (d) supporting the infrastructure and capacity of key partners to implement and evaluate federal and state educational policy. The Director supports Strategic Improvement initiatives and has the responsibility to provide direction and oversight of the specific federal program(s). This position has full administrative responsibility, under the direction of the Bureau Chief and Vice-Chancellor of Strategic Improvement, for oversight of staff, program development and implementation, as well as the monitoring of the project budget. The Director must be productive and facilitate meeting deadlines, balance multiple and competing priorities and maintain goal directed behavior and high performance. The Director must interact professionally with all stakeholders while demonstrating, modeling, and reinforcing the Department's fundamental values quality, fairness, cooperation, respect, commitment, excellence, honesty and teamwork. This position is grant funded.

Responsibilities

Provide direction and oversight of the specific federal program(s).
Full administrative responsibility for oversight of staff, program development and implementation, as well as the monitoring of the project budget.
Facilitate meeting deadlines, balance multiple and competing priorities and maintain goal directed behavior and high performance.
Interact professionally with all stakeholders while demonstrating, modeling, and reinforcing the Department's fundamental values quality, fairness, cooperation, respect, commitment, excellence, honesty and teamwork.