Program Coordinator 2 (Apprenticeship Coordinator PCN 115013)

Job Description

Welcome to the Department of Education & Early Development (DEED)!

We’d be delighted to have you join our team.

If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us, apply today!

What You Will Be Doing:

This position serves as the statewide educator apprenticeship coordinator. This position serves as the subject matter expert, division lead, and primary point of contact for Universities, School Districts, Apprentices, and Mentor/Journey workers for the Department of Education and Early Development educator apprenticeship program. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring program compliance while supporting participants in understanding and meeting all program requirements. The educator apprenticeship program supports districts in growing skilled educators from existing local workforce to meet teacher vacancy and turnover needs across the state, and the Apprenticeship Coordinator is a key resource in supporting districts in meeting apprenticeship goals.

Our Mission, Values, and Culture:
DEED values collaboration and relationship building, creativity and innovation, and mission-driven work guided by the Alaska's Education Challenge. The Division of Innovation and Education Excellence is seeking a Program Coordinator 2 to join the Teacher Certification team to lead the work of implementing Alaska's statewide educator apprenticeship program and to support approved districts and universities in meeting state and federal apprenticeship requirements while providing high-quality educator preparation programming to apprentices.
Benefits of Joining Our Team:
The ideal candidate to join our friendly, hard-working team has a strong education background, skills in leading project management, and a disposition of service. The incumbent works closely with division leadership, community partners, districts, and universities on program success and presents at statewide convenings on program requirements, progress, and updates occasionally throughout the year. The position may be eligible for telework and/or flexible schedules as appropriate. Works independently but is housed in the Teacher Certification Team.
The Working Environment You Can Expect:

DEED offices are conveniently located either on the 9th floor of the State Office Building in downtown Juneau, or on the 8th floor of the Atwood building in Anchorage. The position has the opportunity for flexible scheduling and teleworking to promote work/life balance. There may be travel opportunities associated with this job both in and out of state.

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

• Customer Service: Anticipates and meets the needs of both internal and external customers. Delivers high-quality products and services; is committed to continuous improvement

• Manages and Organizes Information: Identifies a need; gathers, organizes, and maintains information; determines its importance and accuracy, and communicates it by a variety of methods..

• K-12 Public Education: Knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories, methods, and practices of planning, teaching, and evaluating an assigned K-12 public education content area. Integrates best practices with subject matter expertise to develop resources, inform policy implementation, provide technical assistance, and support continuous improvement. Provides guidance and consultation to school districts and/or stakeholders while advancing statewide educational priorities.

If you can imagine yourself in this role, we encourage you to apply!

Minimum Qualifications

Competency Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions
This job class uses competency based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.

• Compliance: Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and guidance.

• Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.

• Planning and Evaluating: Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.

• Organizational Awareness: Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Training from an accredited college or university in any field and/or progressively responsible professional experience developing, planning, coordinating, and implementing a program, project, business, organization, or major components of a program, including having administrative authority over the program/project funding, staff, and/or overall operations.

Special Note:

“Competencies” means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

“Typically gained by” means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

“Training” and “education” are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.

“Professional experience” means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.

“Progressively responsible” means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

Additional Required Information

At the time of application, please submit the following:

Please provide a cover letter to describe how you possess the knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and how your skills will be of particular benefit to the position. We request your cover letter be no more than two to three paragraphs and limited to one page.
At the time of the interview, please provide the following:
Three (3) professional references, whom we may contact by phone, are required. Two of these references must be your current or most recent supervisor, if not already provided in the application.
Please read the information below carefully. This applies to your application submission.

COVERLETTER

A cover letter is required as part of your application. In your cover letter, please describe how you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed in the “Who We Are Looking For” section and how your skills will be of particular benefit to the position. We request your cover letter be no more than two to three paragraphs and limited to one page.
EDUCATION
To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, you must fill in the Education section of the application If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts) Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION
If education is completed in a foreign college or university, it may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. The omission of the required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application, and you will not receive further consideration.
WORK EXPERIENCE
When using work experience not documented in your application, please provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether you worked full-time or part-time Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application If the application does not support minimum qualifications, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment A resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position you are applying for.
If you have currently or previously been appointed to a flexibly staffed position, please ensure your work experience within a flexibly staffed position indicates the actual dates employed at each level Ensure your time and any subsequent flex promotion(s) are documented as a separate position This is required as minimum qualifications require experience at a particular level in which the lower level may not be considered If this information is not accurately reflected in your application, this may cause the processing of your application for consideration to be delayed.

SALARY INFORMATION

Base salary for:

• Anchorage ….. $3,119.25/ Bi-weekly

• Juneau …….…. $3,275.25/ Bi-weekly

The State of Alaska does not provide VISA Employer sponsorships.
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EEO STATEMENT
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Contact Information

For specific information in reference to the position, feel free to contact the hiring manager at:

Kelly Manning
907-465-8431
[email protected]