Director of School, Family Community Relations

Director of School, Family, & Community Relations

Albemarle County Public Schools Community Engagement - Charlottesville, Virginia Open in Google Maps

Job : 5562140

Final date to receive applications: Mar 18, 2026 5:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Posted: Mar 02, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Jul 1, 2026

Director of School, Family, & Community Relations

Community Engagement

Full-time, 12 months/year

Start date: 07/01/2026

In Albemarle County Public Schools, we work together as a team to end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high-quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student!

ACPS employees enjoy competitive pay and benefits, including health & dental coverage, retirement, flexible spending accounts, paid time off, wellness program, discounts on gym memberships, and more! Be sure to check out our website to learn more about our Division and our Schools.

The Director of School, Family, and Community Relations provides division-level leadership to strengthen meaningful partnerships among schools, families, and the broader community in support of student success. The role does not directly implement instructional equity initiatives; rather, it supports transparency, engagement, and accountability by ensuring that families, schools, and community partners understand and can respond to division-wide trends and outcomes. The Director leads and coordinates family and community engagement strategies, communication structures, and collaborative practices that promote trust, shared responsibility, and responsiveness to the needs of students and families.

This position works in close partnership with the Educational Equity Data Scientist to explore, examine, and track division-level trends and educational issues and to apply data-informed insights to engagement strategies, programs, and practices. The Director also collaborates closely with the Executive Director of the Albemarle Foundation for Education (AFE) and the Work- and Community-Based Learning Coordinator to align family engagement, community partnerships, and workforce-connected learning efforts across the division.

The Director participates in division-level planning and decision-making and ensures that family and community engagement efforts are aligned with division priorities, school improvement plans, and evidence-based practices.

Value Statement:
To seek and achieve a vision whereby educators with multiple titles from principal, guardian, teacher, school board member, student, and citizen are collaborating with a common purpose of identifying and tracking evidence that every student experiences growth that is aligned to identifiable and intentional educational pedagogy and outcomes through school, home and community partnerships.

• Plans, guides, and advises the Assistant Superintendent for School and Community Engagement in the development, implementation, and evaluation of division-wide school, family, and community engagement strategies aligned with division priorities.
• Designs, implements, and monitors systems that strengthen communication, collaboration, and trust among schools, families, businesses, workforce partners, and community organizations in support of student success.
• Collaborates with the Educational Equity Data Scientist to analyze and monitor division, school, and community level data; study educational issues; track trends over time; and serve as an accountability and feedback loop to inform engagement strategies.
• Translates data-informed findings into actionable strategies, tools, and best practices that support school administrators, staff, families, and community partners.
• Collaborates with the Executive Director of the Albemarle Foundation for Education (AFE) and the Work and Community Based Learning Coordinator to align family engagement initiatives, community partnerships, and workforce-connected learning opportunities across the division.
• Supports school leaders and staff…