How Do People Get Education Jobs with Unique Titles Like 'Director of Innovation'?

Did you know you can often create your own job description?

If you ever see people with interesting sounding job titles like director of innovation or instructional coach or lab teacher, like there are all these kind of specialized roles that are not super widespread and may even be unique.

And the way that people often get those roles is they ask for them.

They create them in response to a school level need.

So you don't have to wait for some job like that to get posted.

And often if you see a job like that posted, it's kind of already filled with somebody in mind because they were the one who asked for it.

So if you want a job like that, if you want a job where maybe you're partially released from teaching duties or you have just very different duties from someone typically in your position so that you can do some interesting and much needed type of work in your organization, you are probably going to have to create that job.

You're going to have to ask for it to be created.

So this is a topic that I'm adding to my free annual Black Friday job search webinar every year.

The day after American Thanksgiving, I do an in-depth webinar on the admin job search.

And this year, I'm broadening it to any kind of instructional leadership job, teacher leadership job.

I've actually written a book on teacher leadership as instructional leadership that'll be coming out next year.

I'm going to share some strategies from that book on how you can propose a job to be created for you.

Now, you may still have to go through a formal hiring process for that job, but you can have a job created for you.

and often those are the kinds of jobs that keep people from moving on because they're ready for a new challenge like that's the big benefit to the organization is you get to hang on to a great person by giving them the opportunity that they would otherwise have to leave for so if you're a principal and you have someone who's coming to you wanting a job like this if it meets an organizational need and if you can swing it i would say go for it and you know design it well we'll talk about how to do that on the webinar You can find more about the webinar at PrincipalCenter.com and you can go directly to PrincipalCenter.com slash Black Friday to register for the webinar.

We'll talk about how to set this up, how to make it work so that you're meeting an organizational need.

And one of the keys is that need has to cost money.

It can't just be like a nice to have thing.

it needs to solve a problem that is worth spending money on because it's costing money.

Like there's some sort of inefficiency, there's some sort of missed opportunity that is costing the school.

So spending the money on this will be a good investment, right?

We don't want to just be theoretical about that investment.

We want to be able to say, hey, we're having to spend all this money on, say, remediation, or we're spending all this money on outside presenters when we could do you know, these same things better in-house with a dedicated or at least part-time dedicated position.

So join me on Black Friday, principalcenter.com slash Black Friday for all the details and it's free.