Open To: Open Competition
Position Type / Hours: Full-Time Permanent. Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm, 35 hours weekly, plus overtime as required
Annual Compensation: $185,000

Based in our Academic Services offices in Barrie, Ontario, the position is responsible for providing Catholic faith-filled leadership in both local and system-wide initiatives. Working as one of the members of the Educational Leadership Council (Senior Leadership Team), the successful candidate will assist in setting strategic and operational directions for the Board, including academic, program, curriculum and support services; providing ongoing supervision, support and direction to assigned staff and setting service directions for schools.

The position will require the successful candidate to:

• Work within a collaborative leadership model with other members of the Educational Leadership Council (Senior Leadership Team) to develop and implement on-going Catholic academic curriculum and programming needs.
• Work in a constructive, integrative and active leadership role as a member of the Board’s Educational Leadership Council (Senior Leadership Team).
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience with Catholic K-12 curriculum implementation.
• Prepare and submit reports and recommendations as requested by the Director of Education. Make recommendations to the Director of Education on matters relating to the program services operations, activities and matters that affect the achievement and well-being of students and staff.
• Lead and direct the design, development and implementation of the Board’s Program Services operational plan through collaborative leadership practices in alignment with the Board’s Mission, Vision and strategic priorities and goals.
• Manage system budgets, ensuring due diligence, fiscal accountability and transparency.
• Manage, motivate and lead a team of Program Services staff.
• Participate as a member of the Senior Leadership Team in labour and employee relations matters, such as contract negotiations and Labour-Management Committees, as required.
• Represent the Board with community agencies and partners with full autonomy and responsibility for the role, as well as serving as a resource to appropriate Board committees.
• Respond to and resolve any number of highly sensitive issues on behalf of the Board using constructive conflict resolution skills.
• Develop and implement portfolio specific policies and procedures to ensure continuous improvement of services and efficient program delivery.
• Manage organizational risk and ensure compliance with legislative requirements.
• Provide program analysis using effective and efficient research and planning principles.
• Prepare and present reports to the Board of Trustees, as required by the Director of Education.
• Keep abreast of new developments and initiatives related to program services that may affect the Board to assist in improving and enhancing student achievement and well-being.

Required Skills and Qualifications:
The successful candidate will bring the following skills and experiences to the role:

• Ontario Supervisory Officer’s Qualifications in accordance with The Ontario College of Teachers Act (1996) Regulation 176/10
• Ontario College of Teachers Certificate of Registration and Certificate of Qualifications.
• Certified Specialist in Religious Education.
• Current Pastoral Letter of Reference.
• Minimum of 5 to 7 years leadership (Principal or equivalent) experience in a Catholic educational environment with experience in both elementary and secondary panels strongly preferred.
• Proven experience in dealing constructively with a variety of leadership, supervisory, employee, labour and community partner relations matters.
• Experience working constructively with parents, child advocates, community advocates and government officials.
• Ability to recommend and co-ordinate system priorities to align with government initiatives and legislative requirements.
• Proven experience in leading large teams, providing ongoing supervision/support to staff using humanistic and collaborative principles.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a Kindergarten to Grade 12 academic program with strong skills and knowledge in the areas of effective teaching, learning and assessment practices as they pertain to the delivery of the Ontario curriculum.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively integrate the tenets of Catholic teachings, legislative requirements and responsibilities under the Ontario Human Rights Code.
• Demonstrated understanding of culturally relevant and responsive practices and principles particularly as it relates to First Nation, Inuit , and Metis communities, anti racism and oppression
• Strong budgetary and financial accountability and reporting skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation and technology skills.
• Superior interpersonal skills exhibiting confidentiality, diplomacy, negotiation, conflict resolution and issue-based problem solving techniques.
• Must have a valid driver’s license, or access to a vehicle to be able to travel.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Anti-Racism, Truth and Reconciliation. Ontario Human Rights training or equivalent
• Special Education for Administrators AQ Qualification or equivalent

Interested candidates must forward, in confidence, a cover letter, resume and supporting documentation to hr@smcdsb.on.ca by April 17, 2024 at 4:00pm. Please quote job posting #147-2324 in the subject line.

Accessibility accommodations are available for all parts of the recruitment process upon request. Accommodation queries should be directed to the Human Resources Department at hr@smcdsb.on.ca.

Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

As a condition of employment, new employees to SMCDSB are required, by legislation, to submit a satisfactory Criminal Background Check with Vulnerable Sector Screening.

The Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board is deeply committed to promoting Truth, Reconciliation and the rights of Indigenous peoples, Human Rights, Equity and Anti-Racism, and the elimination of Oppressive Practices, in our schools, our workplace and in the communities we serve. We strongly encourage applications from all individuals including those with varied lived experiences that can contribute to the diversification of the workforce at the SMCDSB.

THE BOARD IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Frances Bagley
Director of Education

Maria Hardie
Chair, Board of Trustees

Number of Positions: 1
Job Term: Up to Three Years Secondment
Compensation Group: Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario (AMAPCEO)
Salary: $77,146 - $133,183 per year
Posting Status: Open Targeted
Note: Effective April 1, 2024 the salary range for this position is $82,217 to $141,937 per year in compliance with the AMAPCEO collective agreement provisions. The new rates, effective retroactive to April 1, 2024, were recently confirmed and dates for implementation of the new salary rates are still to be determined.

Posting Date: April 8, 2024
Closing Date: April 29, 2024

Are you interested in helping to shape the future of education in Ontario? Join the Student Achievement Division at the Ministry of Education and become part of a highly motivated team in the Curriculum, Assessment and Student Success Policy Branch that leads the development and implementation of Ontario’s curriculum.

We are seeking an individual with the following experience:

• Expertise building anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and anti-discrimination cultures in schools and fostering culturally responsive and relevant, equitable and inclusive learning environments.
• Experience and knowledge with the development of culturally relevant and responsive curriculum and curriculum-linked resources.
• Demonstrated understanding and experience supporting the integration and implementation of Indigenous histories, perspectives, worldviews, pedagogy, and emerging issues related to curriculum-policy making, writing, and research.
• Implementing a range of high-impact instructional and assessment practices in schools designed to identify and meet the needs of diverse learners.
• Dismantling a range of practices and attitudes that marginalize particular groups of students, such as addressing bias, building cultures of accountability and developing culturally responsive and relevant practices.
• Extensive knowledge of school systems, curriculum implementation, and professional learning that have been developed through work within the school system as an educator, school leader and/or system leader.
• Curriculum expertise, instructional leadership experience, and a passion for increasing the achievement and well-being of all students.
• Ability to plan, conduct and make recommendations on highly diverse, complex and far-reaching array of educational curriculum and related policy issues.
• Ability to develop, evaluate and facilitate digital resources and implementation strategies to support appropriate implementation in school boards and schools.
• Ability to coordinate committees to develop policy or supporting documents used as a basis for instructional programs across the province.
• Ability to instruct school officials, professional associations, and other areas of provincial and federal governments on curriculum policy and specialized areas of education, as well as prepare briefs, respond to correspondence, and develop and deliver professional learning workshops.
• Ability to develop and sustain positive relationships and networks with stakeholders, including to gather information; identify needs; provide advice, interpretation and clarification; and collaboration and cooperation amongst stakeholders on education policies and materials.
• Ability to coordinate with branch colleagues to ensure consistency in policy approaches and seamless education policies between elementary and secondary schools, and participate on committees, study groups and task forces addressing a wide variety of major policy and program related issues.

What can I expect to do in this role?

You will lead the development, revisions, and implementation of curriculum that:
• Address racism and inequity,
• Ensure all students see themselves reflected in the teaching and learning in Ontario classrooms, and
• Ensure all students have every opportunity to pursue the pathway of their choice after their K-12 education.

You will also:
• Support ministry priorities in achievement, equity, and well-being.
• Review, develop and/or implement resources to support student achievement, equity and well-being.
• Ensure curriculum supports are aligned with ministry priorities (e.g., Education that Works for You, the First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Education Policy Framework, Learning for All, and Growing Success).
• Develop internal and external partnerships and represent the Student Achievement Division as needed with key stakeholder groups.

Desired Knowledge and Experience:

• An excellent understanding of and extensive experience with the Ontario publicly-funded education system.
• Knowledge and understanding of current educational research and promising practices in support of equitable, inclusive, and culturally responsive education
• The ability to manage multiple, complex and sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy within demanding timelines.
• Reflective listening, questioning, and facilitation skills to provoke thinking and co-reflection.
• Excellent relationship building skills in a collaborative professional learning environment.
• Research, analytical, evaluation and interpretative skills.
• An ability to think strategically, anticipate and absorb complex and large-scale issues and to develop practical and effective policy positions.
• Strong planning, time-management, organization and collaboration skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including listening, engaging, presenting and reporting; and proficiency with MS Word, Excel, Power Point and experience with other web-based applications.

OPS Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism:
We are committed to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful and equitable workplace.

We invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black, and racialized individuals, as well as people from a diversity of ethnic and cultural origins, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.

Visit the OPS Anti-Racism Policy and the OPS Diversity and Inclusion Blueprint pages to learn more about the OPS commitment to advance racial equity, accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the public service.

We offer employment accommodation across the recruitment process and all aspects of employment consistent with the requirements of Ontario's Human Rights Code.

HOW TO APPLY:
Please send your cover letter and resume to Patricia Huang at Patricia.Huang2@ontario.ca by the closing date.

If you require an accommodation under the Ontario Human Rights Code in order to participate in the recruitment process, please contact Patricia Huang at Patricia.Huang2@ontario.ca.

Please note that to qualify for a Broader Public Service secondee, that a successful candidate must be a full-time, permanent employee of a Broader Public Service organization.

In addition, please note that commuting, moving and relocation expenses will not be covered by the Ministry. The successful candidate will continue to be covered by the benefit plans and pension plan of their home board/organization, with the Ministry covering the employer costs of maintaining such coverage.

Remember:

The deadline to apply is April 29, 2024, 11:59pm. Late applications will not be accepted.

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for further screening or an interview will be contacted.

Number of Positions: 2 (1 position for September 2024 start; 1 position for February 2025 start)
Job Term: Up to Three Years Secondment
Compensation Group: Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario (AMAPCEO)
Salary: $77,146 - $133,183 per year
Posting Status: Open Targeted
Note: Effective April 1, 2024 the salary range for this position is $82,217 to $141,937 per year in compliance with the AMAPCEO collective agreement provisions. The new rates, effective retroactive to April 1, 2024, were recently confirmed and dates for implementation of the new salary rates are still to be determined.

Posting Date: April 8, 2024
Closing Date: April 29, 2024

Are you interested in helping to shape the future of education in Ontario? Join the Student Achievement Division at the Ministry of Education and become part of a highly motivated team in the Curriculum, Assessment and Student Success Policy Branch that leads the development and implementation of Ontario’s curriculum.

We are seeking an individual with the following experience:

• Extensive Ontario teaching experience in secondary Technological Education to lead revisions of this curriculum.
• Knowledge of and leadership experience in implementing ministry policies, resources, and curriculum, including Growing Success: assessment, evaluation, and reporting in Ontario’s schools, kindergarten to Grade 12.
• Expertise building anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and anti-discrimination cultures in schools and fostering culturally responsive and relevant, equitable and inclusive learning environments.
• Demonstrated understanding and experience supporting the integration and implementation of Indigenous histories, perspectives, worldviews, pedagogy, and emerging issues related to curriculum-policy making, writing, and research.
• Demonstrated understanding and experience supporting the integration and implementation of Indigenous histories, perspectives, worldviews, pedagogy, and emerging issues related to curriculum and assessment policy making, writing, and research.
• Extensive knowledge of school systems, curriculum implementation, and professional learning that have been developed through work within the school system as an educator, school leader and/or system leader.
• Experience and knowledge with the development of culturally relevant and responsive curriculum and curriculum-linked resources.
• Implementing a range of high-impact instructional and assessment practices in schools designed to identify and meet the needs of diverse learners.
• Dismantling a range of practices and attitudes that marginalize particular groups of students, such as addressing bias, building cultures of accountability and developing culturally responsive and relevant practices.
• Expert knowledge in evidence-based pedagogical approaches in technological education.
• Curriculum expertise, instructional leadership experience, and a passion for increasing the achievement and well-being of all students.
• Ability to plan, conduct and make recommendations on highly diverse, complex and far-reaching array of educational curriculum and related policy issues.
• Ability to develop, evaluate and facilitate digital resources and implementation strategies to support appropriate implementation in school boards and schools.
• Ability to coordinate committees to develop policy or supporting documents used as a basis for instructional programs across the province.
• Ability to instruct school officials, professional associations, and other areas of provincial and federal governments on curriculum policy and specialized areas of education, as well as prepare briefs, respond to correspondence, and develop and deliver professional learning workshops.
• Ability to develop and sustain positive relationships and networks with stakeholders, including to gather information; identify needs; provide advice, interpretation and clarification; and collaboration and cooperation amongst stakeholders on education policies and materials.
• Ability to coordinate with branch colleagues to ensure consistency in policy approaches and seamless education policies between elementary and secondary schools, and participate on committees, study groups and task forces addressing a wide variety of major policy and program related issues.

What can I expect to do in this role?

You will lead the curriculum revision, development and implementation for:
• The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 and 10: Technological Education
• The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12: Technological Education

You will also:
• Support cross-curricular connections to Skilled Trades and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related curriculum areas, including the development and implementation of curriculum-linked resources.
• Support ministry priorities in achievement, equity, and well-being
• Review, develop and/or implement resources to support student achievement, equity and well-being.
• Ensure curriculum supports are aligned with ministry priorities (e.g., Education that Works for You, the First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Education Policy Framework, Learning for All, and Growing Success).
• Develop internal and external partnerships and represent the Student Achievement Division as needed with key stakeholder groups.

Desired Knowledge and Experience:

• Extensive experience teaching and leading learning across multiple grades of Ontario’s secondary Technological Education curriculum.
• An excellent understanding of and extensive experience with the Ontario publicly-funded education system.
• Knowledge and understanding of current educational research and promising practices in support of equitable, inclusive, and culturally responsive technological education.
• The ability to manage multiple, complex and sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy within demanding timelines.
• Reflective listening, questioning, and facilitation skills to provoke thinking and co-reflection.
• Excellent relationship building skills in a collaborative professional learning environment.
• Research, analytical, evaluation and interpretative skills.
• An ability to think strategically, anticipate and absorb complex and large-scale issues and to develop practical and effective policy positions.
• Strong planning, time-management, organization and collaboration skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including listening, engaging, presenting and reporting; and proficiency with MS Word, Excel, Power Point and experience with other web-based applications.

OPS Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism:
We are committed to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful and equitable workplace.

We invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black, and racialized individuals, as well as people from a diversity of ethnic and cultural origins, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.

Visit the OPS Anti-Racism Policy and the OPS Diversity and Inclusion Blueprint pages to learn more about the OPS commitment to advance racial equity, accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the public service.

We offer employment accommodation across the recruitment process and all aspects of employment consistent with the requirements of Ontario's Human Rights Code.

HOW TO APPLY:
Please send your cover letter and resume to Theodora Vales at Theodora.Vales@ontario.ca by the closing date.

If you require an accommodation under the Ontario Human Rights Code in order to participate in the recruitment process, please contact Theodora Vales at Theodora.Vales@ontario.ca.

Please note that to qualify for a Broader Public Service secondee, that a successful candidate must be a full-time, permanent employee of a Broader Public Service organization.

In addition, please note that commuting, moving and relocation expenses will not be covered by the Ministry. The successful candidate will continue to be covered by the benefit plans and pension plan of their home board/organization, with the Ministry covering the employer costs of maintaining such coverage.

Remember:
The deadline to apply is April 29, 2024, 11:59pm. Late applications will not be accepted.

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for further screening or an interview will be contacted.