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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>The Iowa Commission for the Blind is seeking applications for the position of Director of the Iowa Department for the Blind.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>The incumbent functions as the director of the Department for the Blind, an executive branch agency of Iowa state government. The director heads the state agency providing services to blind persons. These services include vocational and independent living rehabilitation, adult orientation center training, the business enterprises program, and library services for the blind and physically disabled. The director is exempt from the merit employment system of Iowa state government and serves at the pleasure of the commission, which seeks applicants with a positive philosophy of blindness, high expectations of blind persons, and commitment to providing an array of services which includes rehabilitation that leads to work and other services empowering blind persons to discover and maintain self-reliant independence. <br><br>It is the policy of the Department for the Blind to conduct background checks on all finalist candidates prior to any offer of employment. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red'>*</span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Minimum Qualification Requirements: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>This is a non-merit position. Candidates must have graduated from an accredited four-year college or university and have at least five years' experience in management level work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><br>Salary Range: $63,690 - $97,460 annually, plus comprehensive benefit package. <br><br>For further information, contact Tiffany Bickell at 515-281-1336 or 800-362-2587.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Applicants should not apply through BrassRing/Department of Administrative Services<br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>***Applications through BrassRing/Department of Administrative Services only will not be accepted, please follow below instructions***</span></strong><br><br>Persons who wish to be considered for this position must submit a resume and letter of application to Tiffany Bickell via email @ Tiffany.Bickell@blind.state.ia.us no later than the closing September 5, 2016 at 11:00 pm CST.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Director, Professional Development and Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Institute on Blindness<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Louisiana Tech University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>210 Woodard Hall <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>PO Box 3158<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Ruston LA 71272<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Office: 318.257.4554 Fax: 318.257.2259 (Fax) Skype: edwardbell2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:dotted windowtext 3.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:ebell@latech.edu">ebell@latech.edu</a> <a href="http://www.pdrib.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>www.pdrib.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>**************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>-- Stephen Jay Gould<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Tiffany Bickell [mailto:Tiffany.Bickell@blind.state.ia.us] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 29, 2016 9:05 AM<br><b>To:</b> ebell@latech.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Iowa Department for the Blind Director's Position<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dr. Bell,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Iowa Department for the Blind is re-posting the job announcement for the director position. Could you please send out the attached announcement to your list serve?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you so much,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tiffany Bickell<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Executive Assistant to the Director<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Commission Board Secretary<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>