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Job Number: 260002OP
Posting Date: Nov 10, 2026, 10:16:19 AM
Primary Location: Central-42 West Madison Street (Adv Learning and Specialty Prg)
CPS Non-Union Job Grade: SG1
Estimated Annual Salary Range: 90,000.00 - 106,000.00
Position Type: Non-Union Position
Overtime Status: Exempt
Final salary offers are dependent upon candidate qualifications.
JOB DESCRIPTION -
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is a district on the rise, serving over 300,000 students in 500+ schools and employing over 45,000 people, most of them teachers. CPS has set ambitious goals to ensure that every student, in every school and every neighborhood, has access to a world-class learning experience that prepares each for success in college, career, and civic life. Aligned with our transformed philosophy, we are steadfastly focused on ensuring that the District provides resources equitably to support every student, every school, and every community. Six core values guide the work we do every day for our students – student-centered, whole child, equity, academic excellence, community partnership, and continuous learning. Each role in the district supports our vision that every student deserves a rigorous, joyful, and equitable learning experience.
Located within the Office of Teaching and Learning, the Department of Advanced Learning and Specialty Programs (ALSP) serves as a catalyst to empower learners to be successful and positive contributors in their school community, post-secondary pathways, and life. Through programmatic support and collaborative partnerships, ALSP provides equitable access to high-quality, student-centered programs (Advanced Placement, Gifted, International Baccalaureate, Magnet, and Personalized Learning) that develop the interests, strengths, and talents of our learners.
The Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) is a grant that was awarded to support inclusive and whole-school integrated STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) programming across select schools. It is our commitment that every day, in every STEAM classroom at CPS, all students will actively make sense of and construct solutions to complex questions; productively contribute to the learning community to support a culture of collaboration, risk-taking, and innovation; and regularly reflect on and communicate their understanding of disciplinary ideas. Through these experiences and purposeful opportunities to face transdisciplinary challenges, students will graduate from CPS with advanced STEM literacies prepared to make the world a better place.
Job Summary:
Reporting to the MSAP Program Manager, the STEM Program Support Specialist, STEAM will ensure that the support provided by the Office of Teaching and Learning improves both the school-level conditions and the student experience and outcomes aligned to the CPS Instructional Core Vision through the lens of the programmatic focus area. The STEM Program Support Specialist will collaborate closely with other Program Support Specialists to ensure a coherent vision for STEAM teaching and learning is scaled throughout our MSAP grantee schools. This is a full-time, exempt position that will be paid for time worked on a salary basis.
The STEM Program Support Specialist, STEAM will be held accountable for the following responsibilities:
- Collaborate with classroom teachers, school-based instructional teams, school leaders, and external partners to design and execute a school-based vision, CIWP, and a robust plan for implementing the school’s program model.
- Monitor fidelity of school-wide implementation of program focus model.
- Consult with school leaders on problem-solving, change management, and the design of school-wide systems and structures that enable the adoption of the school’s specialty program.
- Identify trends and common needs across schools in order to inform the district-wide strategy for the specialty program’s support and adoption.
- Assist teachers and school leaders in aligning their school’s program model with the instructional core and other district-wide priorities.
- Support schools in preparation for successfully completing their respective certification processes.
- Design and facilitate professional learning for a variety of internal and external stakeholders that deepens their understanding of the CPS Instructional Core and program-specific practices to support it.
- Ensure that professional learning programs for teachers and teacher-leaders support them in effectively contributing to their schools’ Instructional Leadership Teams and build their capacity for leading their colleagues in program-specific learning and reflection grounded in student learning.
- Support the professional learning content for CPS Network Chiefs/Deputies, Instructional Support Leaders (ISLs), school leaders, central office instructional leaders, external partners, school-based staff, and other educators to successfully achieve the following:
- Development, implementation, and refined program-specific professional learning plans that ensure district-wide learning is prioritized and supported within each programmatic focus area.
- Improved capacity for supporting school leaders and teacher leaders with program-specific learning.
- Preparedness to lead school-based learning through coaching, team meetings, workshops, etc.
- Contribute to program-specific guidance, resources, and policy to ensure a consistent instructional vision is promoted within and across all schools within the programmatic focus area.
- Collaborate with other Program Support Specialists to support shared initiatives.
- Maintain program area expertise by staying abreast of current research, practices, and innovation in the field.
- Other duties as assigned.
In order to be successful and achieve the above responsibilities, the STEM Program Support Specialist, STEAM must possess the following qualifications:
Education Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study from an accredited college or university, required.
- Valid teaching certificate issued by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) with appropriate grade level and content level endorsement is required.
- LBSI, ESL, or Bilingual Endorsement, preferred.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field of study preferred.
Experience Required:
- Minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional experience, including the following, is required:
- Minimum of five (5) years of classroom teaching experience, including STEAM instruction. Three (3) years of teaching experience will be considered in combination with two (2) years of experience in a comparable content or program specialist role.
- Minimum of three (3) years of teacher leadership experience, such as leading school teams in the development of curriculum and assessments, analyzing student performance data, etc.
- Minimum of three (3) years working with adult learners, including creating, organizing, and facilitating professional learning experiences to meet the needs of participants.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Expertise in planning, designing, facilitating, and evaluating professional learning.
- Deep knowledge and understanding of K-8 STEAM instructional best practices.
- Exceptional organizational skills; ability to effectively manage several workstreams simultaneously.
- Capable of building and sustaining positive, productive relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Exceptional communication skills (written and verbal); Ability to communicate and collaborate with diverse audiences.
- Commitment to the CPS Instructional Core Vision.
- Ability to build consensus and leverage expertise with educators across the district.
- Excellent technology skills including Google Suite.
Benefits:
Health & Wellness: Your Care, Your Choice
CPS is committed to providing comprehensive health coverage to our employees and their eligible dependents. You'll have access to a variety of choices to best fit your needs:
- Medical Plan Options
- Pharmacy
- Dental
- Vision
- Behavioral Health & EAP
- Employee Wellness Program
Financial Security: Planning for Today and Tomorrow
We understand the importance of financial stability, which is why CPS offers strong retirement and savings options:
- Basic Life Insurance
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Pension Plans
- Supplemental Retirement Plans (403(b) and 457(b))
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Spot Pet Insurance
Work-Life Balance: Supporting Your Personal and Professional Life
CPS values the well-being of its employees and offers competitive paid time off policies:
- Paid Leave
- Sick Leave
- Vacation Days
- Parental Leaves
- Short-Term Disability
- Religious Holidays
- Leaves
Reference the Chicago Public Schools: A Comprehensive Benefits Overview or the benefits handbook for comprehensive details.
Conditions of Employment
As a condition of employment with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), employees are required to:
- Establish/Maintain Chicago Residency - Employees are required to live within the geographic boundaries of the City of Chicago within six months of their CPS hire date and maintain residency throughout their employment with the district. The Chicago residency requirement does not apply to temporary/part-time positions, however, all CPS employees must be residents of Illinois.
STEM Program Support Specialist
Job Number: 260002OP
Posting Date: Nov 10, 2026, 10:16:19 AM
Primary Location: Central-42 West Madison Street (Adv Learning and Specialty Prg)
CPS Non-Union Job Grade: SG1
Estimated Annual Salary Range: 90,000.00 - 106,000.00
Position Type: Non-Union Position
Overtime Status: Exempt
Final salary offers are dependent upon candidate qualifications.
JOB DESCRIPTION -
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is a district on the rise, serving over 300,000 students in 500+ schools and employing over 45,000 people, most of them teachers. CPS has set ambitious goals to ensure that every student, in every school and every neighborhood, has access to a world-class learning experience that prepares each for success in college, career, and civic life. Aligned with our transformed philosophy, we are steadfastly focused on ensuring that the District provides resources equitably to support every student, every school, and every community. Six core values guide the work we do every day for our students – student-centered, whole child, equity, academic excellence, community partnership, and continuous learning. Each role in the district supports our vision that every student deserves a rigorous, joyful, and equitable learning experience.
Located within the Office of Teaching and Learning, the Department of Advanced Learning and Specialty Programs (ALSP) serves as a catalyst to empower learners to be successful and positive contributors in their school community, post-secondary pathways, and life. Through programmatic support and collaborative partnerships, ALSP provides equitable access to high-quality, student-centered programs (Advanced Placement, Gifted, International Baccalaureate, Magnet, and Personalized Learning) that develop the interests, strengths, and talents of our learners.
The Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) is a grant that was awarded to support inclusive and whole-school integrated STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) programming across select schools. It is our commitment that every day, in every STEAM classroom at CPS, all students will actively make sense of and construct solutions to complex questions; productively contribute to the learning community to support a culture of collaboration, risk-taking, and innovation; and regularly reflect on and communicate their understanding of disciplinary ideas. Through these experiences and purposeful opportunities to face transdisciplinary challenges, students will graduate from CPS with advanced STEM literacies prepared to make the world a better place.
Job Summary:
Reporting to the MSAP Program Manager, the STEM Program Support Specialist, STEAM will ensure that the support provided by the Office of Teaching and Learning improves both the school-level conditions and the student experience and outcomes aligned to the CPS Instructional Core Vision through the lens of the programmatic focus area. The STEM Program Support Specialist will collaborate closely with other Program Support Specialists to ensure a coherent vision for STEAM teaching and learning is scaled throughout our MSAP grantee schools. This is a full-time, exempt position that will be paid for time worked on a salary basis.
The STEM Program Support Specialist, STEAM will be held accountable for the following responsibilities:
- Collaborate with classroom teachers, school-based instructional teams, school leaders, and external partners to design and execute a school-based vision, CIWP, and a robust plan for implementing the school’s program model.
- Monitor fidelity of school-wide implementation of program focus model.
- Consult with school leaders on problem-solving, change management, and the design of school-wide systems and structures that enable the adoption of the school’s specialty program.
- Identify trends and common needs across schools in order to inform the district-wide strategy for the specialty program’s support and adoption.
- Assist teachers and school leaders in aligning their school’s program model with the instructional core and other district-wide priorities.
- Support schools in preparation for successfully completing their respective certification processes.
- Design and facilitate professional learning for a variety of internal and external stakeholders that deepens their understanding of the CPS Instructional Core and program-specific practices to support it.
- Ensure that professional learning programs for teachers and teacher-leaders support them in effectively contributing to their schools’ Instructional Leadership Teams and build their capacity for leading their colleagues in program-specific learning and reflection grounded in student learning.
- Support the professional learning content for CPS Network Chiefs/Deputies, Instructional Support Leaders (ISLs), school leaders, central office instructional leaders, external partners, school-based staff, and other educators to successfully achieve the following:
- Development, implementation, and refined program-specific professional learning plans that ensure district-wide learning is prioritized and supported within each programmatic focus area.
- Improved capacity for supporting school leaders and teacher leaders with program-specific learning.
- Preparedness to lead school-based learning through coaching, team meetings, workshops, etc.
- Contribute to program-specific guidance, resources, and policy to ensure a consistent instructional vision is promoted within and across all schools within the programmatic focus area.
- Collaborate with other Program Support Specialists to support shared initiatives.
- Maintain program area expertise by staying abreast of current research, practices, and innovation in the field.
- Other duties as assigned.
In order to be successful and achieve the above responsibilities, the STEM Program Support Specialist, STEAM must possess the following qualifications:
Education Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study from an accredited college or university, required.
- Valid teaching certificate issued by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) with appropriate grade level and content level endorsement is required.
- LBSI, ESL, or Bilingual Endorsement, preferred.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field of study preferred.
Experience Required:
- Minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional experience, including the following, is required:
- Minimum of five (5) years of classroom teaching experience, including STEAM instruction. Three (3) years of teaching experience will be considered in combination with two (2) years of experience in a comparable content or program specialist role.
- Minimum of three (3) years of teacher leadership experience, such as leading school teams in the development of curriculum and assessments, analyzing student performance data, etc.
- Minimum of three (3) years working with adult learners, including creating, organizing, and facilitating professional learning experiences to meet the needs of participants.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Expertise in planning, designing, facilitating, and evaluating professional learning.
- Deep knowledge and understanding of K-8 STEAM instructional best practices.
- Exceptional organizational skills; ability to effectively manage several workstreams simultaneously.
- Capable of building and sustaining positive, productive relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Exceptional communication skills (written and verbal); Ability to communicate and collaborate with diverse audiences.
- Commitment to the CPS Instructional Core Vision.
- Ability to build consensus and leverage expertise with educators across the district.
- Excellent technology skills including Google Suite.
Benefits:
Health & Wellness: Your Care, Your Choice
CPS is committed to providing comprehensive health coverage to our employees and their eligible dependents. You'll have access to a variety of choices to best fit your needs:
- Medical Plan Options
- Pharmacy
- Dental
- Vision
- Behavioral Health & EAP
- Employee Wellness Program
Financial Security: Planning for Today and Tomorrow
We understand the importance of financial stability, which is why CPS offers strong retirement and savings options:
- Basic Life Insurance
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Pension Plans
- Supplemental Retirement Plans (403(b) and 457(b))
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Spot Pet Insurance
Work-Life Balance: Supporting Your Personal and Professional Life
CPS values the well-being of its employees and offers competitive paid time off policies:
- Paid Leave
- Sick Leave
- Vacation Days
- Parental Leaves
- Short-Term Disability
- Religious Holidays
- Leaves
Reference the Chicago Public Schools: A Comprehensive Benefits Overview or the benefits handbook for comprehensive details.
Conditions of Employment
As a condition of employment with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), employees are required to:
- Establish/Maintain Chicago Residency - Employees are required to live within the geographic boundaries of the City of Chicago within six months of their CPS hire date and maintain residency throughout their employment with the district. The Chicago residency requirement does not apply to temporary/part-time positions, however, all CPS employees must be residents of Illinois.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Program Support Specialist
Align your degree to administrative systems work
Pull the O*NET profile for Program Support Specialist and map your degree coursework to its listed tasks, business administration, public administration, or information systems degrees strengthen the specialty occupation case USCIS reviews in your I-129 petition.
Verify the LCA wage level before accepting offers
Run your target city and job title through the OFLC Wage Search to confirm whether the offered wage meets at least the Level I prevailing wage. Employers who underbid on wage are common rejection points during LCA certification, so catch this before you sign.
Target agencies and contractors with active LCA histories
Federal contractors, nonprofit program administrators, and university research offices regularly file H-1B LCAs for program support roles. Use Migrate Mate to browse verified H-1B sponsoring employers in this category, filtered by location and role type.
Request a written specialty occupation justification early
Ask hiring managers during the offer stage how they define the degree requirement for the role. A documented internal job description tying duties to your specific field gives your employer's immigration counsel stronger material if USCIS issues a Request for Evidence.
Confirm each worksite gets its own certified LCA
If the role involves working across multiple client sites or agency locations, each distinct worksite address requires a separately certified LCA from DOL before work begins there. Confirm with your employer's attorney that multi-site arrangements are covered before your start date.
Track your 60-day grace period between jobs carefully
If a sponsoring employer terminates your position, USCIS allows a 60-day grace period within your authorized H-1B status period to find a new sponsor. Use that window actively: a new employer must file a cap-exempt transfer petition before the grace period expires.
H-1B Visa Program Support Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Program Support Specialist role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
It can, but it isn't automatic. The role qualifies when the employer structures the position around duties that normally require at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field, such as business administration, public administration, or information systems. Employers filing the I-129 petition must demonstrate this degree requirement is genuine and not simply preferred. Vaguely written job descriptions that accept any degree in any field are the most common reason USCIS challenges the specialty occupation determination.
Which types of employers most commonly sponsor H-1B visas for Program Support Specialist roles?
Federal contractors, nonprofit organizations managing government grants, healthcare systems, and universities are the most active sponsors for this title. These organizations typically have established immigration counsel and repeat LCA filing history, which makes the sponsorship process smoother for the applicant. You can browse employers with verified H-1B sponsorship history for program support roles on Migrate Mate, searchable by city and industry.
How long does H-1B status last for a Program Support Specialist?
USCIS grants initial H-1B status for up to three years. Your employer can file an extension before that period ends, bringing the maximum stay to six years. Beyond six years, continued H-1B extensions are only available if you have an approved I-140 immigrant petition or a PERM labor certification that has been pending for at least 365 days. Planning for that threshold early matters if you intend to stay long-term.
What happens to my H-1B if my Program Support Specialist employer loses a government contract?
Contract loss is a recognized termination event. If your employer ends your position as a result, USCIS provides a 60-day grace period within your remaining authorized status to secure a new H-1B sponsor. The new employer must file a cap-exempt transfer petition before that window closes. If you have a multi-year contract assignment, confirm with HR whether a contract transition clause is built into your offer so you have lead time before any gap occurs.
Can my H-1B LCA cover multiple work locations for a Program Support Specialist role?
No. Each distinct worksite address where you perform H-1B work requires its own certified LCA on file before work begins at that location. This matters for program support roles that involve regular work at client agencies, satellite offices, or government facilities. Your employer's immigration attorney must file a new or amended LCA each time a material change in worksite occurs. Failing to do so puts both the employer and your status at risk.