County Administrator at Plumas Unified School District

Job Summary

Job Summary

FCMAT invites applications of interest from qualified candidates to serve as the county administrator at the Plumas Unified School District (Plumas). At the request of the governing board, the district entered state receivership on June 27, 2025, with an emergency appropriation of up to $20 million to avert fiscal insolvency. FCMAT is the agency designated to identify and vet candidates to serve as county administrators or trustees for districts in receivership. The final selection of a candidate for Plumas will be made by the Plumas county superintendent of schools, with the concurrence of the state superintendent of public instruction and the president of the State Board of Education. The county administrator serves under the direction and supervision of the county superintendent and provides day-to-day governance and administrative leadership. The administrator is not a superintendent, but rather serves as a hybrid of governing board, superintendent, fiscal expert, turnaround specialist, systems developer, master communicator, advocate for students, and strategic implementer, called upon to lead the district through the challenging initial steps of recovery in all operational areas. The ideal administrator will have the ability to lead the district’s continuous improvement process to increase all measures of student achievement, restore fiscal solvency, strengthen and balance the district’s fiscal, human and facility resources, and design and strategically implement policies, procedures, systems and structures — all with an eye to sustainability and a return to local governance.

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