What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Superintendent of People Services (Internal Only) position at Kankakee School District #111?
Position Title: Assistant Superintendent of People Services Payroll/Personnel Type: 12 Month Job #: 5247 Reports to: Superintendent Shift Length: 8 Hour Day Union Eligibility: Not Eligible FSLA Status: Exempt Salary: Commensurate with Experience
Position Summary
The Assistant Superintendent of People Services is responsible for recruiting and selecting district staff; to coordinate district personnel relations; to make recommendations with respect to negotiations; to assist the Superintendent of Schools in formulation of overall school district objectives, policies, procedures, and plans; to carry out related duties and responsibilities as required.
Supervision
Personnel assigned by the Superintendent of Schools; one Administrative Assistant; Recruitment and Retention Coordinator; Coordinator of Professional Development; Certified and Classified Staffing Specialists; and Compensation and Benefits Specialist. The Assistant Superintendent of People Services is also indirectly responsible for building principals; certified staff; classified staff; assigned office and technical employees.
Essential Functions
The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.
In connection with hiring for this position the district shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status or national origin.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled
Interested candidates should apply online at www.ksd111.org
Dr. James L Henderson
Interim Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources
EOE/AA/D/V
Position Summary
The Assistant Superintendent of People Services is responsible for recruiting and selecting district staff; to coordinate district personnel relations; to make recommendations with respect to negotiations; to assist the Superintendent of Schools in formulation of overall school district objectives, policies, procedures, and plans; to carry out related duties and responsibilities as required.
Supervision
Personnel assigned by the Superintendent of Schools; one Administrative Assistant; Recruitment and Retention Coordinator; Coordinator of Professional Development; Certified and Classified Staffing Specialists; and Compensation and Benefits Specialist. The Assistant Superintendent of People Services is also indirectly responsible for building principals; certified staff; classified staff; assigned office and technical employees.
Essential Functions
- Sets compelling vision for talent across the district and invests team and relevant stakeholders in achieving vision
- Serves in the absence of the Superintendent of Schools, when directed by the Superintendent, as chief administrative officer of the district.
- Assists the Superintendent with all personnel and public relations issues.
- Develops a district wide recruitment program. Coordinates the recruitment, selection, and orientation of staff including university-recruiting visits.
- Plans and implements programs in employee relations, community development, and demographic analysis.
- Makes recommendations to the Superintendent and the Board of Education with respect to negotiations and labor relations.
- Serves as chief negotiator for the Board of Education as assigned by the Superintendent.
- Establishes and maintains open lines of communications with district labor unions.
- Confers and advises administrative personnel in the application and interpretation of collective bargaining agreements. Manages grievance, arbitration, discipline, and dismissal matters for the district.
- Serves as liaison with Board legal counsel on matters assigned.
- Assists Directors, School Principals and other administrative staff in the identification and planning of administrative staff development needs.
- Coordinates services with other school districts and agencies. Serves as district representative to these school districts and agencies in the areas assigned.
- Ensures all district funds are allocated and spent following Kankakee School District guidelines and those of the funding source.
- Serves as Board of Education Hearing Officer and Complaint Manager as assigned by the Superintendent.
- Maintains all records following district policies, the rules and laws of the State of Illinois, and the rules and laws of federal regulations.
- Evaluates the performance of personnel under direct supervision.
- Executes such general responsibilities common to all administrative positions of the school district and additional responsibilities as directed by the Superintendent.
- Develops and implements effective strategic plan to ensure all talent workstreams are effective
- Leads team to ensure effective implementation of all strategic and operational workflows
- Designs effective strategies and solutions to address talent gaps in all areas across the District
- Collaborates with all relevant stakeholders in the implementation of strategic initiatives
- Ensures effective recruitment and selection strategies, through the recruitment and selection team, to ensure hiring managers have high-quality, diverse pools of candidates and that hiring managers are highly-satisfied with the overall recruitment and selection function
- Supports, through leadership development team, effective strategy for leadership pathways, development, and recruitment such that all schools have strong pools of candidates for all aspiring leader roles
- Leads cross-departmental work to ensure retention of high-performing employees across all levels of the district
- Working with the Recruitment and Retention Coordinator, designs and implements an effective framework for competencies that inform selection, evaluation, retention, and promotion, and monitors implementation to ensure fidelity across the district
- Aligns talent systems to key academic systems to create continuity across hiring, development, promotion, and other key talent functions
- Highly visionary, with a belief that all children and adults are capable of greatness
- Deep understanding of how systems operate and how to lead change efforts internally
- Compelling communicator with the ability to invest key stakeholders in prioritized work
- Effectively collaborative, working across teams at various levels of the organization to ensure effective implementation of strategic priorities
- Deep understanding of equity, especially in an educational context
- Highly self-aware of identity, biases, and characteristics and how those impact one’s own leadership
- Deeply committed to growing and accepting feedback with a demonstrated track record of receiving feedback well and implementing feedback effectively
- Effective leader of leaders with the ability to develop one’s own direct reports while creating a highly-functional and effective team
- Deep understanding of academic systems related to performance, development, and evaluation
- Deep understanding of all talent workstreams related to role
- Minimum of five years of district leadership with a proven track record of results
- Experience leading and developing adults
- Experience leading talent work in a comparable setting
- Experience in a public, urban school district (preferred)
- Master’s Degree (required)
- Doctoral Degree (preferred)
- Must be physically able to operate a motor vehicle
- Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, and pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body
- Light work usually requires walking or standing to a significant degree
- Work is routinely performed in a typical interior/office environment
- Very limited or no exposure to physical risk
The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.
In connection with hiring for this position the district shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status or national origin.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled
Interested candidates should apply online at www.ksd111.org
Dr. James L Henderson
Interim Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources
EOE/AA/D/V
