Details **Open Date** 02/26/2025 **Requisition Number** PRN41303B **Job Title** Manager, Program **Working Title** Manager, Program **Job Grade** D **FLSA Code** Administrative **Patient Sensitive Job Code?** No **Standard Hours per Week** 20 **Full Time or Part Time?** Full Time **Shift** Day **Work Schedule Summary** Hours are somewhat flexible and will involve observing Bridge Program high school courses. **VP Area** Academic Affairs **Department** 01499 - 2nd Language Teach & Res Ctr **Location** Campus **City** Salt Lake City, UT **Type of Recruitment** External Posting **Pay Rate Range** 31600 to 62000 **Close Date** 03/07/2025 **Priority Review Date (Note - Posting may close at any time)** 03/01/2025 **Job Summary** The Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC) supports research on Second Language (L2) Acquisition and works with L2 teachers at all levels of instruction. L2TReC serves as the administrative hub for the Utah Bridge Program team. L2TReC is seeking a .5 Program Manager to serve as Bridge Program Spanish Coordinator with a start date of **July 1, 2025** . The Coordinator will work as team members under the direction of the Bridge Program Manager. Coordinators work across languages as needed in order to support program implementation, including conducting regular high school site instructional coaching visits, coordinating team meetings and curriculum revision, and designing professional learning for high school and university instructors. L2TReC is open to coordination with the Department of Languages and Cultures to create a combined full time position (e.g., .5FTE Coordinator and .5FTE Spanish adjunct faculty teaching Bridge Program courses), which involves a separate application and interview. **Responsibilities** Attend regular team meetings and collaborate with the state Bridge team, including Bridge director, and L2TReC Director to support the grades 10-12 program. + Collaborate, communicate, and attend meetings between Bridge and state DLI teams. + Facilitate and lead university curriculum development teams ensuring input from state universities. + Communicate with diverse stakeholders (e.g. print and email, parent nights). + Contribute to and lead state professional development, (e.g. Summer Bridge Institute and fall and spring PD workshops). + Conduct regular classroom visits; communicate with and support high school and university co-instructors; provide regular updates to state team on visits. + Organizes, directs and controls all aspects of a site, project or program within an academic, research or administrative unit. This job description is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job. **Work Environment and Level of Frequency typically required** Nearly Continuously: Office environment. **Physical Requirements and Level of Frequency that may be required** Nearly Continuously: Sitting, hearing, listening, talking. Often: Repetitive hand motion (such as typing), walking. Seldom: Bending, reaching overhead. **Minimum Qualifications** Bachelor’s degree in a related field plus two years of related experience or equivalency (one year of education can be substituted for two years of related work experience). Demonstrated human relations and effective communication skills also required. Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description. **Preferences** The ideal candidates will have a Master’s or higher degree in the field of education and prior instruction or involvement in the State of Utah Bridge Program. Other preferences include teaching certification; advanced proficiency in Spanish; demonstrated familiarity with K-16 second language curriculum development and program articulation; demonstrated familiarity with state level language policy development and implementation; experience developing and managing ongoing professional development projects; experience conducting fidelity studies and curricular evaluation in K-12 classrooms; and experience managing proficiency assessment in K-12 contexts. **Type** Benefited Staff **Special Instructions Summary** **Additional Information** The University is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems (“URS”). Eligible new hires with prior URS service, may elect to enroll in URS if they make the election before they become eligible for retirement (usually the first day of work). Contact Human Resources at (801) 581-7447 for information. Individuals who previously retired and are receiving monthly retirement benefits from URS are subject to URS’ post-retirement rules and restrictions. Please contact Utah Retirement Systems at (801) 366-7770 or (800) 695-4877 or University Human Resource Management at (801) 581-7447 if you have questions regarding the post-retirement rules. This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen. The University of Utah values candidates who have experience working in settings with students and patients from all backgrounds and possess a strong commitment to improving access to higher education and quality healthcare for historically underrepresented students and patients. 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