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The Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (RIDE) is seeking a dynamic, strategic, results-driven, and collaborative leader to serve as the Director, Office of Instruction, Assessment and Curriculum. This high-impact leadership position offers a unique opportunity to shape statewide educational policy and practice, ensuring that every student has access to high-quality instruction, rigorous curriculum, meaningful assessment, and equitable opportunities to succeed. The position provides strategic leadership for Rhode Island's assessment systems while advancing statewide initiatives in curriculum, instruction, and professional learning Pre K- 12. The successful candidate will lead efforts that influence teaching and learning across all districts and schools, driving educational excellence and improved student outcomes from Pre-K through Grade 12. The successful candidate is a strategic thinker who can translate vision into action, build strong partnerships, and use data to drive decision-making and improve outcomes for students. The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in standards-based instruction, curriculum implementation, and large-scale educational assessment, along with a demonstrated commitment to educational equity, collaboration, and student success. GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES: To serve as a private secretary to a director or assistant director of a state department or agency; to relieve such official of important administrative details; to handle correspondence and other routine matters; and to do related work as required. SUPERVISION RECEIVED: Assignments and instructions are given in broad outline with specific instructions only in unusual or unprecedented situations; only important and/or complicated assignments are reviewed upon completion. SUPERVISION EXERCISED: May supervise and review the work of a small clerical staff, but normally this class will serve in an advisory or consulting capacity to this staff. ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES OF WORK PERFORMED: To serve as a private secretary to a director or assistant director of a state department or agency. To relieve such official of important administrative details such as: arranging his conferences and meetings with other state officials as well as representatives of other public, private, professional organizations; answering all types of verbal and written inquiries of an administrative nature which do not involve complex interpretations of departmental or agency policies and procedures; and reviewing correspondence, memoranda, statements, forms and records for content and compliance, with administrative policies and procedures, signing all such documents as authorized on his behalf. To be responsible for routine office matters such as: composing, independently, all kinds of correspondence not requiring administrative judgement and interpretation of the policies and rules and regulations of the department or agency and signing such correspondence; obtaining information or material needed by the department or agency head in answering correspondence, conducting telephone conversations, preparing speeches or in formulating new methods or procedures; initiating and receiving personal and telephone contacts with the responsibility of making appointments, answering requests for administrative information, interviewing callers and referring them through the proper channels and conferring with other employees in the department or agency to solve problems relating to coordination of work and other matters in order to relieve the administrative official of as much detail as possible; and maintaining confidential departmental or agency files. To perform complex word processing and data entry functions utilizing sophisticated word processing software programs including but not limited to, Excel, Access, and other advanced word processing programs and data entry methods and procedures. To generate reports, documents, letters and other materials using appropriate software applications. To organize data and formulate methods for data presentation based upon needs and requirements. As required, to supervise and review the work of a small clerical staff or act in an advisory or consulting capacity to this staff. To perform other routine clerical tasks incidental to the work of the office. To do related work as required.