Education Administration, #29130
Occupational Family: Educational and Media
Pay Band Range: 4 - 7

 

Concept of Work

This Career Group provides career tracks for education administrators who direct educational programs, job training and community service for schools, colleges and universities, businesses, residential facilities, museums, and the public. Employees’ responsibilities range from coordinator to expert in practitioner roles to executive management in administrator roles. Duties include developing, implementing, evaluating, and administering educational programs to increase and enhance educational learning. Teacher licensure in accordance with the Code of Virginia 22.1-299 may be required.

 

Roles Comprising This Group

These roles describe the collective characteristics of the work performed by employees in the Education Administration Career Group. These roles define the typical career paths for employees who pursue careers as administrators.

Although all of these occupations are educational administrators, each warrants a separate career track. Each of these career paths requires different knowledge, skills, and abilities and may not naturally lead to the other for career progression. However a role for each of these occupations represents different levels of work, or career progression. Career paths may exist within a single role, extend to other roles in this Career Group, or to roles in other occupationally related Career Groups.

 

PAY
BAND

PRACTITIONER ROLES

ROLE

CODE

MANAGEMENT ROLES

ROLE

CODE

4

   

Education Administrator I

29133

5

Education Coordinator I

29131

Education Administrator II

29134

6

Education Coordinator II

29132

Education Administrator III

29135

7

   

Education Administrator IV

29136

Role Descriptions

These roles are distinguished based upon the Compensable Factors of Complexity, Results, and Accountability and are used for position classification. These factors should be used for classification and compensation analysis. Recruitment and selection standards must be based on knowledge, sills, and abilities as indicated in the Employee Work Profile.

 

Education Administrator I

Code: 29133

Pay Band: 4

SOC: 11-9030*

The Education Administrator I role provides career tracks for managers of programmatic areas within an agency, museums, and educational facilities, and involves budget development and monitoring, management of staff and programs. Duties include development of operational policies and procedures, and implementing and evaluating various educational programs for the public, students, visitors and other related audiences.
COMPLEXITY
  • Applies knowledge of specialty area, program and budget development and administration, and management principles and practices.
  • Contacts include staff, general public, professionals, students, teachers, management, administrators, legislators, and specialists within subject area for exchange of information.
RESULTS
  • Effective and successful programs, activities, and customer service provided.
  • Programs and agency image are enhanced and promoted.
  • Program participation, revenue, and funding are increased.
ACCOUNTABILITY
  • Independent decision making regarding programs and staff within prescribed limits or parameters.
  • Leadership, development and management of staff and programs.
  • Develops, interprets, and applies policies and procedures within prescribed limits or parameters.
 
These two roles provide a dual career track for education coordinators and administrators.
 

Education Coordinator I

Code: 29131

Pay Band: 5

SOC: 25-0000*

Education Administrator II

Code: 29134

Pay Band: 5

SOC: 11-9030*

The Education Coordinator I role provides career tracks for advanced level education coordinators whose responsibilities range from coordination to program supervision involving responsibilities such as planning, coordinating, implementing, supervising, and evaluating of a program(s) or service(s) statewide.

Education Coordinator I

COMPLEXITY
  • Applies knowledge of the specialized area(s) and program administration.
  • Applies knowledge of local school divisions, state and local government policies/ procedures, state agency functions.
  • Applies knowledge of federal grant management.
  • Responsibilities include providing support services to teachers and administrators; assisting with the design of research and development projects; conducting research studies; providing technical assistance and consultative services; participating in curriculum planning, new course development, selection of materials, evaluation of instructional activities and student services programs/policies; supporting localities in efforts to assess program/service needs and identifying problem areas; compiling statistical data to support program goals and objectives; and administration of projects and programs.
  • Contact with government officials, community and special interest groups, volunteers, businesses, teachers, administrators, and board members to promote involvement in agency programs, provide technical assistance and consultative services, and exchange information.
RESULTS
  • Public awareness and support of designated program(s) are enhanced.
  • Participation and enrollment in programs is increased.
  • Funding and accreditation are supported.
ACCOUNTABILITY
  • Independent decision making within program or specialty area.
  • May develop policies and procedures.
  • May provide leadership, direction and supervision to staff.

Education Administrator II

The Education Administrator II role provides career tracks for administrators, such as principals, responsible for coordinating, planning, directing and supervising educational programs and services for a state college or university, facility or agency with statewide scope. Duties include developing and administering budgets; preparing and administering grants; selecting/developing curricula and educational materials and monitoring accreditation standards; evaluating scholarship and admission eligibility; and coordinating facility operations.
COMPLEXITY
  • Applies knowledge of specialty area, program and budget development and administration, management principles and practices, and research methodologies.
  • Applies knowledge of applicable state and federal regulations.
  • Contacts include staff, public, professionals, students, parents, teachers, management, administrators, financial institutions, board members, legislators, and specialists for information exchange and program administration.
  • May require teacher licensure.
RESULTS
  • Agency image and customer relations are enhanced and promoted.
  • Program participation, revenue, funding, and accreditation are supported.
  • Educational materials meet state standards.
  • Student achievement of standards is fostered.
ACCOUNTABILITY
  • Develops and administers agency and program policies.
  • May represent agency head and serve as a member of agency executive management.
  • Leadership, development, and management of staff and resources.
  • Effective long-range strategic planning and development of comprehensive agency and specialty area programs.
 
These two roles provide a dual career track for the education coordinators and administrators.
 

Education Coordinator II

Code: 29132

Pay Band: 6

SOC: 25-0000*

Education Administrator III

Code: 29135

Pay Band: 6

SOC: 11-9030*

Education Coordinator II

The Education Coordinator II role provides career tracks for educational coordinators who act as experts providing highly complex professional, analytical, and/or technical educational expertise to a critical specialty area. Responsibilities are multifaceted and involve administration of multiple projects and statewide programs through the application of broad technical expertise.

COMPLEXITY
  • Applies expert knowledge of the specialized area(s) and program administration.
  • Applies knowledge of local school divisions, state and local government policies and procedures and state agency functions.
  • Applies knowledge of research methods.
  • May require considerable knowledge of technology use within an educational environment.
  • Responsibilities include researching, developing, implementing, and evaluating education projects and providing services and support to local school divisions and state government.
  • Contacts include government officials, community and special interest groups, volunteers, businesses, teachers, administrators, and board members to coordinate and discuss project assignments, policy and program initiatives, and services.
RESULTS
  • Educational materials meet state standards.
  • Student achievement of standards is fostered.
  • Statewide educational programs are effective.
  • Funding and accreditation are supported.
ACCOUNTABILITY
  • Independent decision making within program or specialty area.
  • May supervise staff.
  • Provides leadership and guidance to program constituents and staff.
  • Develops, interprets, and assesses implementation of policies and procedures.

Education Administrator III

The Education Administrator III role provides career tracks for administrators responsible for managing or directing the programs, projects and staff of an educational facility or divisional unit. Duties are unusually complex and include the direction of service provision, the development of standards of student achievement and educational program content, or serving as the primary administrator and instructional leader for a specialized school(s). Experts in this role are recognized on a local, state and national basis in their specialty field.
COMPLEXITY
  • Applies knowledge of specialty area, program and budget development and administration, management principles and practices, and research methodologies.
  • Applies knowledge of applicable state and federal regulations.
  • Contacts include local, state and national experts and school officials; businesses; board members, and legislators to provide consultation and for program administration.
  • May require teacher licensure.
RESULTS
  • Positive agency image and successful long-range educational initiatives and strategies.
  • Program participation, revenue, funding, and accreditation are supported.
  • Academic standards are maintained, and use of technology and parent and community involvement are enhanced.
  • Safe environment is fostered within education facilities and sites.
ACCOUNTABILITY
  • Independently plans and executes programs for a division unit or serves as the agency director.
  • Effective long-range, strategic planning and direction of agency or division resources, facilities and programs.
  • May provide overall management of administrative and business functions for a facility or agency.
 

Education Administrator IV

Code: 29136

Pay Band: 7

SOC: 11-9030*

The Education Administrator IV role provides career tracks for executive administrators who provide leadership to increase student learning and achievement and to improve delivery of essential education services in the Commonwealth. Responsibilities are unusually complex and include executive leadership across agency operational lines.
COMPLEXITY
  • Applies knowledge of statewide education administration and of federal and state statutes affecting educational programs.
  • Contacts include state and local boards and educational organizations, all levels of government and school officials, higher education officials, legislators, and state and federal budget officials to enhance the delivery of educational programs.
  • May require teacher licensure.
RESULTS
  • Positive agency image and successful statewide educational initiatives.
  • Program funding is obtained and approximately utilized.
  • Academic and accreditation standards are developed and achieved.
ACCOUNTABILITY
  • Directs development of agency strategic plan.
  • Independent decision-making with significant authority and agency-wide and/or statewide scope and impact.
  • Directs operations for a division(s).
  • May act on behalf of the agency head.
 
*Statistical Reporting
 

This Career Group includes, but is not limited to the following Standard Occupational Classifications:

 
11-9030 Education Administrators
11-9039 Education Administrators, All Others
25-0 Education, Training, & Library Occupations
25-9099 Education, Training, & Library Workers, All Others
   
History
 

Previous class titles (listed by new role title).

 

Education Coordinator I

CLASS

CODE

CLASS TITLE

GRADE

28082

Transportation Safety Program Supervisor

12

35061

Health Education Supervisor

12

31021

Education Assistant Specialist

12

36204

Planetarium Program Manager

12

36207

Science Museum Astronomy Program Coordinator

12

31083

Higher Education Council Program Coordinator A

13

31011

Education Program Assistant State Supervisor

13

31054

Community College Educational Program Coordinator

14

31012

Education Program State Supervisor

14

31022

Education Associate Specialist

14

33037

Correctional Education Program Supervisor

14

28087

Transportation Safety Program Manager

14

 

Education Coordinator II

CLASS

CODE

CLASS TITLE

GRADE

31084

Higher Education Council Program Coordinator B

15

31023

Education Principal Specialist

16

 

Education Administrator I

CLASS

CODE

CLASS TITLE

GRADE

36296

Museum Assistant Director

11

 

Education Administrator II

CLASS

CODE

CLASS TITLE

GRADE

33045

Retarded Children’s School Principal

12

36297

Museum Assistant Director Senior

12

36212

Science Education Program Manager

12

36298

Museum Associate Director

13

34022

Scholarship and Placement Director

13

33039

Correctional Education Assistant Principal

13

31138

Deaf and Blind School Principal B

13

36201

Science Museum Presentations Director

13

35062

Health Education Director

14

33038

Correctional Education Principal

14

 

Education Administrator III

CLASS

CODE

CLASS TITLE

GRADE

31013

Education Program Associate Director

15

33036

Correctional Education Principal Senior

15

31137

Deaf and Blind School Superintendent

16

33035

Correctional Education. Assistant Superintendent of Schools

16

31024

Education Lead Specialist

17

 

Education Administrator IV

CLASS

CODE

CLASS TITLE

GRADE

31031

Education Division Chief

19

31032

Education Assistant Superintendent

20