Coordinator of Teacher Recruitment and Retention (27973)
- Employer
- University of Central Oklahoma
- Location
- Main Campus - Edmond, OK, 73034
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- Administrative Jobs
- Institutional & Business Affairs, Human Resources & Employee Development
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
- expanding joint educator recruitment and retention efforts with external partners
- recruiting high school and career tech students, district paraprofessionals, and community members who are invested in partner school districts and who demonstrate an interest in teaching
- assisting students with transitioning from high school, career tech, community college, or another university
- devising incentives/assistance to encourage teacher candidate progression from entry point through college graduation and teacher certification
- implementing programs/activities to improve teacher candidate retention and success
- connecting teacher candidates to university and community resources
- assisting with College of Education and Professional Studies recruitment and student success initiatives
- serving as UCO’s liaison for teacher pipeline programs
- participating in collaborative planning and progress reviews with teacher pipeline program partners
- overseeing the Educator Preparation Program's recruitment and retention plan
Requires a bachelor's degree in field plus 5+ years of experience as a leader in planning, innovating, developing and implementing programs; managing budgets; and implementing and revising assessment systems. Appropriate professional accomplishments and credentials.
Qualifications Preferred:
3+ years of experience in teaching in P-12 schools; Master's or Doctoral degree in education or closely related field; Experience in post-secondary teaching, community outreach and external funding. Able to converse in Spanish.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:Demonstrates excellent and effective communication skills with diverse audiences. Demonstrates effective listening skills and openness to other people's ideas and thoughts. Demonstrates the ability to interact professionally with all levels of internal and external stakeholders. Demonstrates commitment to continuous improvement. Demonstrates responsibility for her/his own actions and decisions. Demonstrates the ability to multi-task, meet deadlines, and maintain confidentiality with sensitive information. Demonstrates detail-oriented approaches with strong organizational skills. Demonstrates commitment to accomplish work in an ethical, efficient and cost-effective manner. Demonstrates flexibility in adjusting planned work. Demonstrates resourcefulness by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment. Demonstrates excellent computer skills in the use of relevant software applications. Demonstrates willingness to understand and apply new technologies. Demonstrates responsiveness to feedback addressing performance and/or behavioral expectations. Demonstrates leadership in mentoring or training others to accomplish program goals. Demonstrates actions that build relationships to enhance the image of the department, college, and university and to create stronger partnerships.
Will this employee supervise others?
No
Physical Demands:Reasonable accommodations (in accordance with ADA requirements) may be made, upon request, to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Organization
The University of Central Oklahoma prepares future leaders in an opportunity-rich environment, ideally located in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Central offers an innovative learning community to its more than 17,000 students, where teaching comes first, a commitment seeded in the university's roots as a teaching college. Students at Central develop personal relationships with more than 450 full-time faculty, 450 adjunct faculty and over 850 staff, like 2008 U.S. Professor of the Year, Dr. Wei Chen, who are committed to transforming lives.
With 117 undergraduate majors and 59 graduate programs, Central is a smart investment for students dedicated to their future success. Notable academic programs include Forensic Science, Music Theatre, Mass Communications, Accounting, the region's only accredited Professional Golf Management program, Jazz Studies and the Academy of Contemporary Music at UCO, located in downtown Oklahoma City's Bricktown district.
Central's appealing 210-acre campus is on track to become a certified botanical garden, offering both a pleasing learning and living environment and a source of pride for students, employees and alumni. In fact, Central is ranked among the top universities nationally in residence life and as one of the top universities to work for by the "Chronicle of Higher Education." Central is also an official U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Site, and hosted the 2010 World Sitting Volleyball Championships on campus. Founded in 1890, Central is the state's first public institution of higher learning, and continues to cultivate creativity and innovation in every corner of campus, bringing to life its core values of Character, Community and Civility each day.
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MISSION
The University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) exists to help students learn by providing transformative education experiences to students so that they may become productive, creative, ethical and engaged citizens and leaders serving our global community. UCO contributes to the intellectual, cultural, economic and social advancement of the communities and individuals it serves.
VISION
UCO will become one of the Top 10 metropolitan universities of our kind in the United States by providing a transformative education as well as development experiences that help learners achieve their highest level of leadership potential.
CALL TO ACTION
The University of Central Oklahoma transforms each student by focusing our resources on the Central Six tenets of transformative learning.
All students will be transformed with:
- Discipline Knowledge
- Leadership
- Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities
- Service Learning and Civic Engagement
- Global and Cultural Competencies
- Health and Wellness
Transformative learning is a holistic process that places students at the center of their own active and reflective learning experience.
About Edmond/Oklahoma City Metro
The University of Central Oklahoma is located in Edmond, a part of the growing, thriving Oklahoma City metropolitan area. At Central, our students, faculty and staff get the best of both worlds - the "small town" feel of Edmond, with the big city excitement of the Oklahoma City metro. Both the Edmond and the Oklahoma City metro consistently rank nationally among the safest, most affordable and most exciting places to live. In fact, Edmond recently ranked among the best places to live in the nation by Money Magazine and Family Circle magazine, and Oklahoma City ranked sixth in the nation for the "Best Places for Young Adults" by Portfolio.com. From year-round arts, music and theater offering, to exciting sporting events like the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder, to first class shopping, dining and more, Edmond and the Oklahoma City metro offer a diverse, active, culturally enriched lifestyle that's on the move to even bigger and better opportunities.
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