TUTORING PROGRAM DIRECTOR - 73080

Executive Service

This job is in office, with flexibility to work remotely as business needs support.

Who we are and what we do:

Department of Education Vision: We will set all students on a path to success.

Priorities:

• Academics: All Tennessee students will have access to a high-quality education, no matter where they live.
• Student Readiness: Tennessee public schools will be equipped to serve the academic and non-academic needs of all students.
• Educators: Tennessee will set a new path for the education profession and be the top state to become and remain a teacher and leader.

How you make a difference in this role:

• Ensuring all Tennessee students have access to high-quality, high-impact tutoring aligned to the state's academic priorities.
• Supporting educators and district leaders through professional development, coaching, and statewide implementation networks.
• Managing systems for grant allocation, vendor contracts, and implementation fidelity aligned to strategic tutoring outcomes.
• Launching innovative tools and training to standardize tutor preparation and accelerate student learning.

Job Overview:

Position Summary: The Tutoring Program Director leads Tennessee's TN ALL Corps Model tutoring initiative, the statewide high-dosage tutoring program serving students in grades K8 across Tennessee's public-school districts. This position is responsible for the strategy, execution, and monitoring of high-quality tutoring aligned to best practices in learning acceleration. The Senior Manager develops implementation guidance, professional learning, and tools to support district and partner success. The role also oversees state and federal grant programs, procurement and contracts, vendor partnerships, and cross-agency alignment to ensure efficient and equitable service delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Organization: Can manage multiple projects, communications, and job tasks simultaneously; able to maintain a clear and orderly workflow; produces reports and presentations in a manner that is easy to follow and understand.
• Communication: Able to formulate effective verbal, visual, and written messaging to a variety of audiences; can produce plans, outlines, and presentations to inform stakeholders about key initiatives; performs active listening to ensure optimal responses to customer inquiries.
• Service Orientation: Ability to collaborate and build relationships; maintain high-quality customer service for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Time Management: Uses time effectively and efficiently; values time; concentrates his/her efforts on the more important priorities; gets more done in less time than others; can attend to a broader range of activities.
• Strategic Planning: Skilled at identifying and developing processes to execute program plans; knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient workflow; knows what to measure and how to measure it; can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others cant; can simplify complex processes; gets more out of fewer resources.
• Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving: Able to identify and ask significant questions to overcome issues in the workplace; uses inductive and deductive reasoning methods to recognize opportunities for refinement; formulates clear and concise options to reduce procedural inefficiencies.

Minimum Qualifications:

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree and experience equivalent to substantial (five or more years of) full-time relevant experience.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.