School Approval and Enrollment Specialist (State Education Representative)

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

OFFICE OF SCHOOL AND STUDENT SUPPORTS

Opening Date: July 1 2025

Closing Date: July 16 2025

Job Class Code: 3032
Grade: 28
Salary: $60569.60 - $90230.40
Position Number:

Purpose:

The School Approval and Enrollment Specialist represents a team within the Office of School and Student Supports. This specialist needs to be self-motivated and flexible to meet needs in a timely fashion from questions around school approval procedures to interpreting enrollment statute to supporting home instruction. Many of the concerns that come to this specialist are sensitive and need to be handled with the utmost professional manner and with transparent and effective communication. This specialist also needs to build relationships and understanding across the Maine DOE as approval and enrollment processes encompass details across the entire spectrum of Maine education.

The primary purpose of the position is to approve State public and private schools; to plan develop organize and administer the systems and to provide internal and external stakeholder guidance related to public and private school approval and student alternative compulsory attendance and enrollment options; and to broker relationships and provide individual technical assistance related to enrollment. The position serves as the subject matter and policy expert on school enrollment requirements for schools Maine DOE and other agencies and families/communities throughout the State. The position performs high level legal analysis regarding student enrollment eligibility and school approval/inspection and serves as primary client subject matter decision maker for school approval and home instruction data information system design. Policy recommendations and authoring legislation and rules are also within the realm of this position.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Strong project management skills
• Collaborative spirit and passion for helping schools families coworkers and others involved in the field of education
• Knowledge of and background in database management in order to correctly and efficiently apply policy to communicate data needs
• Analysis of data
• Ability to bring respectful honest and accurate information to bear on sensitive situations
• Knowledge of state and federal data requirements and of laws rules and regulations regarding collection utilization and student information privacy rights
• Ability to identify and analyze issues reach logical conclusions and make sound recommendations/decisions
• Ability to work independently and efficiently
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing
• Ability to establish and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships
• Participation in policy decision-making processes knowledge of state education statute and ability to interpret apply and explain statutory requirements regarding student eligibility and school approval to all Maine DOE constituencies
• Knowledge of legislative process and ability to draft legislative language and rules and legislative testimony and reports
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and supporting programs and the ability to create data extracts and reports from these programs

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced education training and/or experience inEducation Human Resource Development Psychology Business Administration or a related field with demonstrated experience in staffing training multimedia promotions and/or business planning.

Benefits of working for the State of Maine:

No matter where you work across Maine state government you find employees who embody our state mottoDirigo or I leadas they provide essential services to Mainers every day. We believe in supporting our workforces health and wellbeing with a valuable total compensation package including:

• Work-Life Fit Rest is essential. Take time for yourself using 13 paid holidays 12 days of sick leave and 3 weeks of vacation leave annually. Vacation leave accrual increases with years of service and overtime-exempt employees receive personal leave.
• Health Insurance Coverage The State of Maine pays 85%-95% of employee-only premiums ($11196.96 - $12514.32 annual value) depending on salary. Use this chart to find the premium costs for you and your family including the percentage of dependent coverage paid by the State.
• Dental Insurance The State of Maine pays 100% of employee-only dental premiums ($387.92 annual value).
• Retirement Plan The State contributes the equivalent of 13.29% of the employees pay towards the Maine Public Employees Retirement System (MainePERS).

State employees are eligible for an extensive and highly competitive benefits package covering many aspects of wellness. Learn about additional wellness benefits for State employees from the Office of Employee Health and Wellness.

Note: Benefits may vary somewhat according to specific collective bargaining agreements and are prorated for anything less than full-time.

Theres a job and then theres purposeful transformative work. Our aim is to create a workplace where you can learn grow and continuously refine your skills. Applicants demonstrate job requirements in differing ways and we appreciate that many skills and backgrounds can make people successful in this role.

As an Equal Opportunity employer Maine State Government embraces a culture of respect and awareness. We are committed to creating a strong sense of belonging for all team members and our process ensures an inclusive environment to applicants of all backgrounds including diverse race color sex sexual orientation or gender identity physical or mental disability religion age ancestry national origin familial status or genetics.

If youre looking for a great next step and want to feel good about what you do wed love to hear from you. Please note reasonable accommodations are provided to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request.

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