Regional Improvement Director

State of North Carolina•Wake County, NC

5d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is Exempt Policymaking and is EXEMPT from certain provisions of the State Human Resources Act (GS 126). This position serves at the pleasure of agency leadership. This position is located in the North Central Region of North Carolina. The Regional Improvement Director provides regional leadership for the planning, coordination, implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of district improvement efforts across an assigned region. Serving as the primary regional lead and single point of connection between district and charter senior leadership and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the position ensures regional support is coordinated, coherent, and responsive to local needs while aligning statewide priorities with district implementation. Through collaborative partnerships with district and charter leaders, the position strengthens instructional leadership, supports curriculum implementation, builds district capacity, and advances continuous improvement and turnaround efforts. The position leads the work of regional core teams and coordinates across statewide supplemental teams, creating a unified improvement strategy for districts that aligns data-informed findings, instructional leadership, curriculum implementation, leadership development, accountability, and programmatic supports. Through strategic planning, data-driven decision making, change management, and coaching, the Regional Improvement Director ensures districts experience support as one coordinated system rather than as separate or disconnected initiatives while building district capacity and advancing turnaround and continuous improvement efforts. The Regional Improvement Director exercises substantial independent judgment in defining and adapting regional strategies, prioritizing resources, coordinating cross-functional teams, identifying trends, barriers, and promising practices, and elevating regional needs to agency leadership. The position develops and maintains collaborative partnerships with Regional Education Service Alliance (RESA) Directors to strengthen regional coordination, align support, and advance shared priorities across districts and charter schools. The position also represents the needs of the region internally, supporting senior leaders in prioritizing needs, aligning support, and strengthening the implementation of statewide improvement priorities to improve educator effectiveness and student outcomes.

Requirements

Master's degree in education or the special education field to which assigned from an appropriately accredited institution, and six years of experience in public education, including a minimum of three years in an administrative capacity; or Doctoral degree in education or the special education field to which assigned from an appropriately accredited institution, and three years of experience in public education including two years in an administrative or supervisory capacity; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

Extensive knowledge of district turnaround, instructional leadership, curriculum implementation, systems leadership, and the coordination of multi-layered support to improve district outcomes.
Experience with data literacy, data-informed decision making, planning, and progress monitoring to analyze diagnostic findings, identify trends, address barriers, elevate regional insights, and inform continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned districts through proactive and responsive engagement with superintendents, district and charter leadership teams, and other key stakeholders to build collaborative partnerships and strengthen regional improvement efforts.
Lead regional strategic planning by defining and adapting regional improvement strategies based on data-informed and diagnostic findings, district needs, and data-driven decision making.
Provide coaching, guidance, and leadership support to regional staff to strengthen instructional leadership, curriculum implementation, instructional improvement, and continuous improvement efforts.
Strategize, coordinate, and integrate the work of statewide and departmental supplemental teams in alignment with regional priorities to ensure programmatic support is intentional, cohesive, coordinated, and responsive to district needs.
Monitor regional implementation through data-driven decision making, ongoing progress monitoring, and analysis of data-informed and diagnostic findings to evaluate the effectiveness of regional improvement strategies.
Lead change management efforts that support the implementation of regional improvement strategies and ensure coordinated delivery of programmatic support across districts.
Identify trends, barriers, and promising practices to represent regional needs, elevate regional insights to divisional and agency leadership, and inform regional improvement strategies and statewide improvement priorities.