Position Type:

Administration and Professionals

Date Posted:

2025-04-09

Location: Cleveland School of the Arts

INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT AND MISSION

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) serves approximately 37,000 students in 100+ schools. Over the past several years, the Greater Cleveland community has united behind the collective goal of ensuring every child in Cleveland attends a high-quality school and every neighborhood has a multitude of great schools from which families can choose. The Cleveland Plan defines CMSD’s approach to the reinvention of public education and holds our community accountable for the success of Cleveland’s schoolchildren. The Cleveland Plan is supported by Ohio House Bill 525, which provides much-needed flexibility and autonomy for the district and its schools. Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for

performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing his or her school as a high-quality, high-expectations academic center with a focus on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District has developed standards of excellence that the district applies to all parts of the organization inclusive of schools, principals, school leadership teams, networks, and central office. Alignment between Standards of Excellence (SoE) and the district’s Theory of Action helps ensure that principals are able to focus on scholar achievement and that central office supports are timely and effective.

Our Vision for Learning in a Post-Pandemic World:

In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we want each of our learners, both each of our scholars and each of their educators, to be individually and collectively presented with academically / intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their productive struggle and allow them authentic opportunities to demonstrate their work and their learning of academic content and transferable skills in a joyful and adventurous environment.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Works with a community of professional arts educators dedicated to excellence in the arts. Requires a working knowledge of all areas of the arts including band, dance, creative writing, choir, orchestra, visual arts, and theater. Supports the faculty, students, and the school in the efforts to provide a broad range of training experiences in the arts. This position is a 12-month contracted position.

Responsibilities

· Monitors the arts education program to ensure that the school is fulfilling its mission

· Designs and implements professional development activities for arts faculty

· Manages art curriculums, courses, policies, and procedures to determine appropriateness, effectiveness, and adherence to the school’s mission

· Manages art budget as designated by the Head of School

· Manages CSA’s audition process

· Works directly with the HOS to manage admissions systems

· Attends student productions, concerts, recitals, and performances, both on and off campus, to the greatest extent possible

· Establishes and maintains a working relationship with arts organizations and with arts departments at institutions of higher learning

· Collaborates with leadership team to implement the Head of School vision and overall school mission

· Other duties as assigned by the Head of School

Qualifications

· Hold a Bachelor’s degree; Master’s degree (preferred)

· Professional experience as a working artist (preferred)

· Ability to work with a community of professional arts educators dedicated to excellence in the arts

· Support the arts faculty, students, and the school in its efforts to provide a broad range of training experiences and industry level competencies in the arts

· Working knowledge of the teaching-learning process and how to create high-performance learning environments, particularly in the context of the arts

· Excellent written and oral communication skills

· Develop, implement, and evaluate innovative programming that engages students, utilizes technology and the arts, and makes learning in and through the arts meaningful and relevant

· Support arts faculty in using data to inform instructional decisions

· Set SMART goals with strategic plans for arts department advancement

· Must have good interpersonal skills

· Work with CSA board of trustees and Head of School on fund raising initiatives

· Work with arts faculty and the Head of School to create and maintain performing and creative arts standards for student success

· Create opportunities for cooperative learning experience for students-artists with local community partners

· Design and manage a minimum of two student-centered art showcases yearly

Education

To Apply

Please submit your resume and application using Workday, our online human capital management system. Please note that an offer of employment will be subject to the successful completion of an FBI/BCI background check and drug screen.

EEO Statement

We believe that equity and inclusion at CMSD is an essential call to action, a catalyst to ensure value and appreciation among all our employees, so we may be fair and welcoming now and in the future. CMSD provides equal opportunities for employment, retention and advancement of all personnel by administering all terms and conditions of employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sex, disability or genetic information, age, citizenship status, military status, sexual orientation or expression, socio-economic status, title, other dimensions of identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The District’s Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Discriminatory Harassment, and Sexual Harassment and the District’s Title IX grievance procedures, including information on how to report or file a complaint of discrimination, how to report or file a formal complaint of sexual harassment, and how the District will respond, may be accessed on the District’s Civil Rights Notices webpage, available at ClevelandMetroSchools.org/domain/105. The District’s Title IX Coordinator / Director of Equal Employment Opportunity may be reached at:

1111 Superior Avenue East, Suite 1800

Cleveland, Ohio 44114

(216)-838-0070

TitleIX_EEO@ClevelandMetroSchools.org

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