**Pending Board Approval**

The WISD's Mission is to educate, serve, and advocate with students, families, schools, and the community. We disrupt racial inequities, build just educational systems, and expand access for all learners. We value human potential while striving to support current and future generations of Washtenaw County to enrich as many lives as we possibly can.

The WISD’s Vision is to be a leader in empowering, facilitating, and delivering high-quality, boundary- spanning, educational system that educates all children through an equitable, inclusive, and holistic approach.

SUMMARY:

The MiSTEM Advisory Council Director leads the work of the Mathematics Science & Engineering collaboratives within the state MiSTEM Network. The Advisory Council Director will work to build collaborative partnerships that align collaborative activities to the statewide strategy and vision as articulated in the four pillars of the MiSTEM Advisory Council report to the state legislature. The Director will provide leadership across the state in creating a STEM culture, empowering STEM teachers, integrating business and education, and ensuring high-quality STEM experiences. This position will work with the state MiSTEM director’s network to align and connect the work at the state level. The Director will be hired collaboratively by WISD and the MiSTEM Network Executive Director.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Demonstrates a strong commitment to equity, social justice, and inclusion in all practices and position responsibilities.
Demonstrates the ability to examine how his/her/their position (directly or indirectly) impacts educational inequities in student achievement outcomes.
Engages in reflection and ongoing learning and development on critical concepts and terms identified in the Washtenaw ISD Educational Equity Policy including concepts such as cultural proficiency, racial equity, and systemic and structural inequities.
Supports the development of a STEM culture within the mathematics and science & engineering collaboratives.
Co-develops agendas and facilitate team meetings for mathematics and science & engineering collaboratives.
Convenes and facilitate activities including the MiSTEM workgroups.
Provides communication across the MiSTEM regions.
Provides budget oversight.
Identifies best practices and assesses their applicability to scaling up in STEM across the state.
Works with mathematics and science & engineering advisory collaboratives to evaluate the effectiveness of STEM initiatives inclusive of multiple measures of data (minimally specific to student achievement data).
Partners and Collaborates with Business, Industries, and Universities:
- Develops and implements a multi-level communication campaign to equitably connect STEM stakeholders across the state.
- Promotes the collaboration of business and education by fostering partnerships between educators and employers that might be evidenced by externships, internship placements, career fairs, talent showcases, and other events.
- Collaborates and communicates with universities and business organizations (e.g. chambers of commerce, economic developers, Michigan Works!, etc.)
- Identifies and develops innovative and impactful systems and experiences that integrate STEM employers with educational endeavors, so that needs and aims are well aligned.
Collaborates and Coordinates at the State Level:
- Pursues and leads programs that achieve state and regional goals.
- Supervises team, manages budgets, evaluates, and reports on STEM education and talent pathway impact.
- Coordinates the resources and progress of all advisory council grant funded education activities to demonstrate alignment with the state’s goals.
- Collaborates in the development of a statewide vision, strategy, and goals in concert with other regional and state-level stakeholders.
Meets regularly with the regional and state-level stakeholders.
Maintains regular predictable attendance.
Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

N/A

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Alternative requirements that may be appropriate and acceptable to the Board of Education may be considered. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

Master’s degree or equivalent certification or experience; STEM field focus preferred.
Possesses successful teaching and/or facilitation experience preferred.
Possesses strong leadership skills and experience.
Possesses experience in education and business settings with a strong understanding of the challenges and opportunities within STEM education.
Possesses expertise in pedagogy in STEM instruction and assessment.
Possesses knowledge of the Michigan state standards and assessments.
Possesses community engagement and or community-building experience.
Possesses ability and experience in developing and managing networks.
Possesses knowledge of the region and its stakeholders.
Possesses a proven track record of applying principles and practices that support and maintain equity, social justice, and inclusion.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Demonstrates ability to read and interpret documents such as grants, journal articles, governmental forms and handbooks and following instructions.
Demonstrates ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of educators, business leaders, college and University faculty, customers, and the general public.
Demonstrates ability to facilitate effective group process.
Exhibits ability to express self clearly, both orally and in writing.
Exhibits effective communication, leadership, and management skills.

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:

Demonstrates ability to build rapport with others and to serve diverse publics.
Demonstrates ability to coordinate and lead stakeholders toward consensus and action.
Demonstrates ability to take the initiative, work well with others as a collaborative team member and exhibit good communication skills.
Demonstrates ability to work effectively and collaboratively with other departments, agencies, and individuals.
Exhibits adaptability to support and implement change.
Demonstrates ability to lead and work among new and developing relationships with a variety of stakeholders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Demonstrates ability to use a personal computer (PC) in a networked environment to utilize the Internet and other electronic communication mechanisms such as video conferencing.
Possesses knowledge of productivity applications such as Microsoft Office (word processing, spreadsheets, database, and presentation software) is required.
Demonstrates ability to design and facilitate effective meetings.
Exhibits ability to multitask and meet deadlines.
Demonstrates ability to organize, prioritize and work independently, as well as cooperatively with diverse groups.

REASONING ABILITY:

Possesses a high proficiency in subject areas of reasoning, problem solving, organizational dynamics and emotional intelligence.
Demonstrates ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Demonstrates ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak or listen. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand. The employee is occasionally required to bend and or twist at the trunk more than the average person. The employee is continuously repeating the same hand, arm or finger motion many times. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds such as books and training material. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distant vision and the ability to adjust focus. The ability to travel to other buildings, districts, ISDs, and meetings held in various state locations is required. The position requires the individual to sometimes work irregular or extended work hours and meet multiple demands from several people.

ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTABILITY:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is quiet to loud depending upon the activity in the particular part of the day. Occasionally the employee may be required to be outdoors for a short period of time, and therefore subject to varying weather conditions, for purposes of accomplishing the essential functions of this job.

FUNCTIONS OF POSITION DESCRIPTION:

This position description has been prepared to define the general duties of the position, provide examples of work and to detail the required knowledge, skills and ability as well as the acceptable experience and training for the position. The description is not intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct and control the duties of employees under supervision. The WISD retains and reserves any and all rights to change, modify, amend, add to or delete from any portion of this description in its sole judgment.

This position description is not a contract for employment.

The WISD is an equal opportunity employer, in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The District will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.

TERMS:

Contract, salary, and other employment conditions to be established by the Board of Education as reflected in in the Non-Affiliated Staff Manual. Starting salary ranging (dependent upon experience) from $100,025 – $122,930.

Washtenaw Intermediate School District is a drug-free workplace.

It is the policy and commitment of the Washtenaw Intermediate School District not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, age, height, weight, familial status, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation or any legally protected characteristic, in its educational programs, activities, admissions, or employment policies in accordance with Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments, executive order 11246 as amended, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and all other pertinent state and Federal regulations.

MISTEM Advisory Council Administrator