Position Type:
CERTIFICATED (NON-ADMIN)/CENTRAL OFFICE SPECIALIST
Date Posted:
7/14/2026
Location:
STUDENT LEARNING
Date Available:
09/01/2026
Closing Date:
07/26/2026
Position Information:
Position FTE:
1.0 FTE, Employee Calendars
Position Type:
Certificated (HEA);
Contract
(Continuing or Non-Continuing contracts based on organizational requirements)
Annualized Salary:
25/26 SY $71,962-$140,638*/ year
prorated based on FTE and contract length
Contract Start Date:
09/01/2026
The Highline Public Schools Student Learning Department is seeking a Central Office Specialist (World Language) to join our team of educators for the upcoming 2026-2027 school year!
SUMMARY: The Central Office Specialist is an accomplished teacher who serves in a leadership role at the system level. A specialist provides expert consultation through facilitating collaboration, instructional coaching, and serving as a system leader across a variety of roles. The Central Office Specialist sees their ongoing learning and development as essential to achieve equitable results for all students.
PROFILE:Central Office Specialists provide instructional guidance, professional learning, and program implementation across the system. This position focuses on secondary World Language. In addition to supporting World Language instruction, this role includes a major role of implementing a World Language Credit by Proficiency testing program for secondary students. This position includes content-specific leadership roles including making recommendations on materials, course design, and updating guidance as policy and pedagogy evolves. Additionally, this role support dual language and multilingual programming.
The World Language Specialist will have a strong background in designing and facilitating professional development, consulting with schools, and supporting ongoing, job-embedded adult learning. The ideal candidate will have experience in instructional coaching for World Language teachers and a strong understanding of equitable systems practices, including the use of data, instructional differentiation, and support for high-functioning teams that engage in collaborative planning, analysis of student work, and continuous improvement.
The candidate will be a systems thinker: Collaborative, reflective, and skilled at navigating change. They will demonstrate strong communication and organizational skills and the ability to be adaptive and responsive to both systemwide and school-level needs. Additionally, they will apply an anti-racist lens to innovative learning practices, instructional materials, professional learning structures, and coaching. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience designing and facilitating adult learning that advances equitable outcomes in science education and builds educator capacity to provide rigorous, identity-affirming learning experiences for every student.
A successful candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of teaching experience, significant experience with large scale assessment administration, heritage world language instruction, and standards based instruction. This position requires a World Language endorsement in Spanish and ELL.
Required Qualifications:
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WA State Teaching Certificate with endorsements appropriate to subject area and grade level of assignment
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Three years successful teaching experience
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One year successful experience as a specialist or similar role
Preferred Qualifications:
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Endorsement in content-specific area
For a full job description, please see the attachment.
BENEFITS ELIGIBILITY: Eligible Highline Public School employees are offered a comprehensive benefits package. Check them out here!
NOTE: Individual positions may be filled via one the following processes: external hires, internal hires, internal displacements, or internal voluntary transfers. Highline Public Schools, District #401, reserves the right to privilege current employees in the hiring process.
OUR PROMISE: Every student in Highline Public Schools is known by name, strength and need, and graduates prepared for the future they choose.
The Highline Strategic Plan is centered on Our Promise. In 2023, the strategic plan was updated to prioritize our work through 2026, identifying four bold goals:
Culture of Belonging: A culture where all are welcome, valued, and safe.-
Innovative Learning: Academic experiences that engage, empower, and challenge every student.
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Bilingual & Biliterate: Multicultural skills that enable students to live, work, and communicate across cultures.
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Future Ready: Students explore possibilities and develop mindsets that prepare them for a changing future.
Highline Public Schools, District #401, complies with all federal rules and regulations as well as state laws on discrimination and does not discriminate in admission, access, treatment, or employment in education programs or hiring practices on the basis of race, ethnicity, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, homelessness, immigration or citizenship status, marital status, honorably-discharged veteran or military status, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, neurodivergence, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability. This holds true for all students who are interested in participating in educational programs and/or extracurricular activities. Highline Public Schools also provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. For the purposes of nondiscrimination, "neurodivergence" shall be defined as neurological differences including, but not limited to, autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Neurodivergent individuals may or may not identify as disabled. Any person having inquiries should contact: Age Discrimination Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Affirmative Action, and Civil Rights Act (employees): Executive Director of Human Resources, 206.631.3008; Civil Rights Act (students) and Title IX: District Ombudsman, 206.631.3104,
[email protected];
[email protected]; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act: Health & Social Services Compliance Manager, 206.631.3011,
[email protected]; Address: 15675 Ambaum Blvd. SW, Burien, WA 98166.
Attachment(s):
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Specialist.Central.Office 2024-07-18 (6).pdf
