Director of Culture and Learning
Director of Culture and Learning
Description
Full-time employment
Location: Sacramento, California (Periodic Statewide Travel Required)
Reports To: Chief Learning and Programs Officer
Status: Full-Time | Exempt | Executive Leadership Team
About Umoja
Umoja is a community of educators and learners committed to the academic success, personal growth, and self-actualization of African American and other students. The Umoja Community seeks to educate the whole student—body, mind, and spirit. Informed by an ethic of love and its vital power, the Umoja Community will deliberately engage students as full participants in the construction of knowledge and critical thought. The Umoja Community seeks to help students experience themselves as valuable and worthy of an education.
Position Summary
The Director of Culture and Learning is a senior leadership role within the Programs and Learning division responsible for advancing culturally responsive pedagogy and African-centered teaching and learning across the Umoja Community Education Foundation. This role leads the design, development, and cultivation of curriculum, professional development, and organizational culture grounded in African-centered practices, ways of knowing, and ways of being.
Unlike a traditional curriculum and instruction role, this position is designed to cascade acros
