Chief Community Impact Officer

PENDERGAST SCHOOL DISTRICT

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Chief Community Impact Officer

EXEMPT: YesJOB CODE:

SALARY LEVEL: Administrative DEPARTMENT: Community Impact

LOCATION: District Office TERM OF EMPLOYMENT: 12 Month

REPORTS TO: SuperintendentDATE APPROVED: February 3 2026

POSITION LEVEL: Cabinet

SUMMARY:

The Chief Community Impact Officer (CCIO) serves as the districts senior executive responsible for the districts external-facing enterprise including communications marketing branding recruitment and community engagement. Working collaboratively with the Superintendent and district leadership the CCIO ensures the districts public narrative outreach strategies and engagement systems are aligned to instructional priorities academy pathways and long-term district goals.

The CCIO leads a comprehensive portfolio that includes strategic communications and branding family and student recruitment community partnerships family learning systems and the strategic use of community alignment with the districts strategic plan and social enterprise operating model the CCIO designs scalable systemsnot isolated eventsthat strengthen trust build awareness and position the district as a destination of choice for families staff and partners.

Beyond communications and outreach the CCIO cultivates high-impact partnerships that expand student opportunity deepen family agency and strengthen the districts connection to the broader community. Through cluster-aligned partnerships and enterprise thinking the CCIO ensures community engagement efforts reinforce instructional and academy goals while contributing to long-term sustainability shared value creation and community confidence in the district.

Builds trust demand and partnership through strategic communications branding and community engagement that expand opportunity and strengthen the districts public value.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in communications marketing public relations public administration education community development or a related field.
• Progressive senior-level leadership experience overseeing external-facing systems such as communications family engagement community partnerships or public affairs in a complex organization.
• Demonstrated expertise in strategic communications and public engagement including brand management messaging stakeholder engagement and reputational risk management.
• Experience designing and leading scalable family engagement or community impact systems with a clear focus on outcomes rather than isolated events.
• Strong collaborative leadership skills with demonstrated ability to partner effectively with executive leaders school leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to clearly convey complex ideas to diverse audiences and represent the organization publicly with credibility and professionalism.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams including setting expectations coaching and fostering shared accountability.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity inclusion ethical leadership and public accountability in community-facing work.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Masters degree in communications public administration education marketing or a related field.
• Senior leadership experience in a K12 public school district or public-sector organization with familiarity navigating governance community accountability and public trust.
• Experience leading family learning systems including parent education adult learning or family capacity-building initiatives tied to student learning and achievement.
• Experience working with early childhood partners including collaborations with organizations such as First Things First or similar agencies.
• Experience cultivating and sustaining high-impact community partnerships that expand student opportunity and shared value.
• Experience overseeing recruitment enrollment or positioning initiatives that strengthen organizational demand and community confidence.
• Experience leveraging community facilities or shared-use agreements as strategic assets for engagement partnership or sustainability.
• Demonstrated success integrating communications engagement and partnerships into a coherent enterprise strategy.
• Experience using data and feedback to evaluate impact refine systems and guide continuous improvement
• Demonstrated commitment to ethical leadership transparency and accountability in the stewardship of public resources.
• Ability to lead through influence rather than authority modeling professionalism humility and shared ownership of outcomes
• Arizona Superintendent or Administrative Certification or demonstrated eligibility.

Such alternatives to the above required & preferred qualifications as the Superintendent/ Designee may find appropriate and acceptable.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Chief Community Impact Officer (CCIO) provides executive leadership for the districts external-facing enterprise ensuring communications engagement partnerships and family learning systems operate as coherent scalable structures that support student success organizational sustainability and community trust. Essential duties include but are not limited to the following:

1. Design lead and continuously improve districtwide systems for communications marketing branding and recruitment that strengthen the districts public narrative and position the district as a destination of choice for families staff and community partners.
2. Ensure all external-facing strategies messaging and engagement efforts are aligned to instructional priorities academy pathways and long-term district goals.
3. Support the creation and deployment of crisis communications to ensure timely transparent communication to all stakeholders at critical moments.
4. Design and oversee comprehensive family learning and engagement systems including the Pendergast Family Resource Center (PFRC) in partnership with First Things First to build family capacity agency and meaningful partnership in student learning.
5. In partnership with the Chief Learning and Innovation Officer (CLIO) develop and implement a coherent family learning pathway that spans early childhood through the elementary years intentionally connecting family learning parent engagement and the student experience to improve student learning and achievement.
6. Lead districtwide parent engagement and adult learning systems that move beyond participation toward measurable impact ensuring efforts are inclusive culturally responsive and aligned to school cluster and academy needs.
7. In partnership with schools and internal teams facilitate the design and delivery of family and student experience supports that strengthen belonging access and continuity across the student journey.
8. Establish feedback loops and data-informed practices to assess the effectiveness of family learning engagement and student experience systems and continuously refine approaches.
9. Cultivate steward and evaluate high-impact community partnerships that expand student opportunity extend learning beyond the classroom and reinforce instructional and academy goals.
10. Align community partnerships to cluster-based priorities to ensure coherence relevance sustainability and shared value creation.
11. Provide strategic oversight of community-facing use of district facilities ensuring community facilities operations function as mission-aligned assets that support engagement partnership development and long-term sustainability.
12. Partner with the COO CFO and executive leadership to ensure community-facing initiatives partnerships and facilities operations are well-governed fiscally responsible and aligned to district priorities.
13. Work in close partnership with the CLIO CTO COO and CFO to align community impact efforts with learning priorities talent strategies operational systems and financial stewardship.
14. Remove silos by coordinating messaging timelines and engagement strategies across departments to improve coherence and the family and student experience.
15. Establish metrics data systems and evaluation practices to assess the effectiveness of communication recruitment family learning partnerships and engagement strategies.
16. Use data and stakeholder feedback to inform decision-making prioritize improvement efforts and ensure innovations are practical scalable and sustainable.
17. Ensure all community-facing systems comply with applicable laws regulations policies and ethical standards including proactive management of reputational risk through transparency and responsive engagement.
18. Provide principled respectful counsel and candid feedback at all levels of the organization including upward; ensuring alignment with district values brand integrity and public transparency.
19. Serve as a member of the District Leadership Team and Superintendents Cabinet contributing to enterprise-wide leadership and decision-making.
20. Model relationship-centered servant leadership that builds trust shared ownership and accountability.
21. Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Superintendent or designee.

EVALUATION:

At least once annually in accordance with Governing Board Policy.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Strong systems-thinking and strategic planning skills
• Knowledge of Arizona employment law certification benefits and compliance requirements
• Ability to lead change and build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups
• Strong communication collaboration and problem-solving skills
• Data-informed decision-making and continuous improvement mindset

REASONING ABILITY:

Ability to define problems collect data establish facts and draw conclusions; ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several concrete variables.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read analyze and interpret education materials and programs; ability to write reports procedure manuals and correspondence; ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of teachers students administration and the community.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to work with mathematical data such as probability and statistical inference; ability to apply concepts such as fractions percentages ratios and proportions to practical situations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand walk sit and use hands to handle or feel objects or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop kneel crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

SUPERVISION:

Community Impact Division Employees Pendergast Community Center WestVentures

Required Experience:

Chief