Education Manager, Professional Learning

The Museum of the City of New York fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world’s most influential metropolis. It engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city’s past, present, and future.

The Education Manager, Professional Learning is an essential member of the Museum’s Frederick A.O. Schwarz Education Center and will be responsible for developing curriculum and leading high-quality, interactive, and learner-driven workshops, courses, and tours for K-12 educators and teachers that are aligned with best practices in history, art, and/or civics education. The ideal candidate will have direct experience facilitating professional learning programs and developing content for K-12 educators in a museum, school, or educational non-profit setting. They will demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, a passion for advancing equity and addressing structural racism within nonprofit organizations, and a familiarity with Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CRSE) or similar frameworks. In a highly collaborative role, they will work closely with colleagues in the Education Center responsible for student, family, community, and youth programming, as well as with colleagues in the curatorial, collections, and marketing & communications departments and guest scholars, artists, and community advisors. This is a full-time, regular position will report directly to the Director, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Education Center.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead in-person and virtual programs for K-12 educators, including workshops, tours, and P Credit/A+ courses
• Develop lesson plans and supplemental curriculum materials for publication on the museum’s website and distribution to educators, in collaboration with content experts
• Continue to build a community of K-12 educators who feel valued, respected, supported, and excited by the Museum’s offerings
• Pilot a Teacher Advisory Committee and evaluate the utility and sustainability of the project
• Source and coordinate guest speakers, artists, and facilitators to ensure that a wide range of voices and expertise are represented in all materials and programs
• Maintain strong relationships with the New York City Department of Education, local schools, colleges, and partner organizations
• Maintain prompt, professional communication with constituents and manage the email inbox for professional learning
• Evaluate programs and adapt offerings in response to participant feedback
• Supervise and mentor fellows and staff assigned to professional learning
• Serve on exhibition planning teams for ongoing and special exhibitions
• Write program reports and contribute to proposals and reports prepared by the Development department
• Perform other duties as needed

A successful candidate will have:

• Demonstrated success in working directly with educator/teacher audiences

• Experience developing curriculum or educational materials for K-12 audiences
• Experience editing and/or providing feedback on lesson plans, essays, and written assignments
• Advanced Degree or commensurate experience in Museum Education, Public History, Education, History, American Studies, Art History, or relevant field
• The ability to adhere to deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously

• A commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and a passion for advancing equity and addressing structural racism within nonprofit organizations
• The desire to work in a collaborative, supportive environment
• The adaptability to work flexibly, including taking the lead on certain projects, working independently on others, and asking for guidance and assistance
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Microsoft Office preferred
• Bilingual/multilingual skills welcome

Physical Requirements & Work Environment

While performing the essential functions of the job, the employee is regularly required to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time and be able to traverse through the office and museum gallery environment. Operate standard office equipment including computers and keyboards for extended periods of time, including substantial movements of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and extensive reading. Occasionally work outside events with weather conditions including heat and cold. Travel to offsite locations throughout the five boroughs, including schools. Exert up to 25 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Candidates must be available to work a fixed five-day week schedule, Monday-Friday, with occasional weekend or evening work required.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

BENEFITS

The salary for this position is $65,000, commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits package, including a defined benefit pension plan as well as a 401K savings plan.

HOW TO APPLY

Please email your resume and cover letter to the Museum of the City of New York Attention: Human Resources Department to jobs@mcny.org. To be considered, please include Education Manager, Professional Learning within the subject line of your email.

Please note that all educators will be required to be fingerprinted through the New York City Department of Education. This cost is covered by the Museum.

The Museum of the City of New York is committed to fostering a collaborative and respectful work environment with a staff as diverse as New York City and the audiences who are curious about learning more about its history and engaging in contemporary urban issues. Our staff members are dedicated to working towards a common goal: creating the most dynamic and inspiring city museum in the world.

The Museum of the City of New York is an equal opportunity employer. As such, the museum provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants without unlawful discrimination with respect to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, gender identification, marital status, military status or veteran, national origin, political association, political/personal convictions, predisposing genetic characteristics, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, geographic location, philosophies, or any other classification protected by federal, state or local laws, in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, demotion, transfer, lay-off, and termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment. All employment-related decisions are based solely on relevant criteria including training, experience, and suitability.

About Overdeck Family Foundation:

Overdeck Family Foundation (“the Foundation”) was founded in 2011 by John and Laura Overdeck with the goal of providing all children the opportunity to unlock their potential. The Foundation focuses exclusively on enhancing education, funding efforts both inside and outside of school in the areas of early childhood, informal STEM education, and K-9 programs that include supporting educators and student-centered learning environments. Our grantmaking and strategic support focus on unlocking innovation, evidence, and growth opportunities for organizations that are committed to accelerating key academic and socioemotional outcomes for all children. The Foundation funds both direct impact organizations and ecosystem efforts that clear the path to scale for our grantees and the work that they do.

At the Overdeck Family Foundation, we achieve our impact through collaboration, fostering a culture of curiosity and learning, and living our core values to drive meaningful change. Visit www.overdeck.org for more information.

The Portfolio Associate Position:

Overdeck Family Foundation seeks to hire a full-time Portfolio Associate to support its grantmaking focused on out-of-school learning, with a primary focus on the Inspired Minds portfolio and a secondary focus on the Early Impact portfolio. Reporting to the Portfolio Manager, Inspired Minds, the Associate will source new grantees; analyze and synthesize research, data, and field trends to facilitate learning; support grantee data collection and analysis; and efficiently manage the grantmaking workflow of the portfolio. The ideal candidate is results-driven, enthusiastic, a keen learner, flexible, proactive, and collaborative. They should possess strong analytical skills and be able to compile and analyze data effectively to support insights and learning. 

The Inspired Minds portfolio seeks to build the next generation of creative problem-solvers by expanding access to engaging and challenging STEM learning experiences that deepen family engagement, build STEM mindsets, and inspire students with joyful and rigorous learning. 

What You’ll Help Us Do:

Facilitate continuous learning, improvement, and data-informed decision-making 

• Analyze and visualize data to inform decision-making, develop grant recommendations, and facilitate learning with external partners 
• Maintain an up-to-date, complete database of all current and potential grantees to support analysis, learning, decision-making, and reporting 
• Synthesize and elevate research, trends, and changes in the national landscapes surrounding STEM, out-of-school time, and philanthropy, to inform portfolio strategy 
• In partnership with the Foundation’s Strategic Impact and Learning (SIL) team, deepen understanding of grantee impact by creatively and rigorously applying evidence, grantee data, insights from research, and input from experts

Ensure portfolio operations run smoothly

• Efficiently manage the logistics of the portfolio, including grantmaking, grantee support, and events
• Utilize the CRM system (GivingData) and internal goals tracker to ensure timely and accurate data management
• Proactively identify and act on opportunities for operational improvements in collaboration with peer Portfolio Associates
• Support Portfolio Manager with grantee check-ins, events, and meetings

Find and fund impactful, scalable organizations 

• Help us develop a more open and diverse pipeline of potential grantees that expand access to engaging and challenging STEM learning experiences 
• Conduct due diligence research on potential grantee organizations, use your critical thinking and analytical skills to examine organizations’ impact and scale potential, and make recommendations to Portfolio Manager about strategic alignment and organizational fit
• Contribute to concise and clear grant recommendations to the Foundation’s Board

Support Portfolio Manager to help grantees grow their impact 

• Partner with internal colleagues and external contractors to plan and coordinate the execution of capacity-building support for our grantees
• Drive new approaches to support meaningful knowledge sharing and collaboration among our grantees and partners

Who You Are:

Results-driven and reliable. You’re goal-oriented and do what it takes to get the job done well, and consistently seek to improve and grow. You say what you mean with excellent verbal and written communication. You balance attention to detail with big-picture thinking to prioritize effectively.

A strategist with a high capacity to compile and analyze data. You are able to adeptly understand a problem, identify potential solutions, and narrow those solutions through a cost-benefit analysis lens. You are able to analyze complex datasets to tell clear and accurate stories.

Enthusiastic. You have a passion for innovation and excellence in education. You enjoy learning, collaborating, and having fun while working hard to improve outcomes for kids. You’re motivated by the Foundation’s mission of unlocking every child’s potential and its approach to funding promising ideas and solutions.

A smart, eager learner. You take a nuanced and rigorous approach to your work, both able to act on well-informed hypotheses and willing to change your mind. You use your critical thinking and quantitative analysis skills to see patterns, guide smart decision-making, and evaluate opportunities. You’re comfortable with data and enthusiastic about what the data can teach us.

Flexible and proactive. Your flexible, self-starting style helps you move quickly from one task to another and manage multiple projects at once. You take ownership of your work and aren’t afraid to solve problems creatively. You’re open to new projects and opportunities and get excited by the possibility that comes with ambiguity.

Collaborative. While you work well independently, you thrive as part of a team. You’re comfortable building relationships, both within and beyond the organization, because you are kind, thoughtful, and curious. You ask insightful questions and listen with a desire to empathetically understand. 

What You’ve Done:

Required experience:

• Minimum of two years of work experience
• Work experience in education, consulting, data analysis, impact investing, research and/or product management is preferred
• Subject matter proficiency in out-of-school time learning, STEM, early childhood, or family engagement is preferred
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Working at Overdeck Family Foundation:

The base pay for this role is $80,000-$90,000, with potential additional compensation and benefits, including discretionary bonuses, health and dental plans, wellness programs, and 401(k) contributions. The compensation range aligns with our expectations, reserving the top end for qualified candidates who fully meet the required skills, qualifications, and experience. 

Overdeck Family Foundation requires all employees to live within a commutable distance from the office in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. Each week, employees must work in the office on Tuesdays and additional “team days” for collaboration, with the option to work remotely on all other days. Perks of being in the office include on-site gyms with laundry service, wellness classes, snacks and beverages, and a casual dress code in our beautiful office.

About us:

The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is a global Jewish human rights organization that confronts anti-Semitism, hate, stands with Israel, defends the safety of Jews worldwide, and teaches the lessons of the Holocaust for future generations.  It is an accredited Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) at the United Nations, UNESCO and the OSCE, the Organization of American States, the Latin American Parliament, and the Council of Europe.  The SWC is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York, Chicago, Miami, Toronto, Paris, Jerusalem and Buenos Aires. The Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles, founded in 1993, is the educational arm of the SWC. Moriah Films is the Center’s two-time Academy Award®-winning film division and the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem is scheduled to open in 2024.

About the role:

The Simon Wiesenthal Center (or) The Museum of Tolerance is seeking an experienced, energetic part-time facilitator to deliver Combat Hate workshops in New York City and surrounding regions, to grades 5-12. Combat Hate is a dynamic program that engages students in critical thinking for decoding and rejecting online hate.

About you:

You are passionate about working with students to understand their experiences and build lasting social change.

This position will report to the Associate Director of Education Programs and is based in New York City. Travel to school sites is a requirement. This a part-time position eligible for up to 29 working hours/week.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver Combat Hate workshops in-person (and virtually as needed) in 5^th – 12^th grade classrooms in New York City and surrounding areas.
• Communicate with Associate Director of Education Programs and other staff to provide feedback on program delivery.
• Participate in mandatory facilitator training and ongoing professional development opportunities.
• Must be available to travel to New York City school sites and surrounding areas. Hours are flexible and work day can begin as early as 7.30am.

Experience and Skills:

• Two years experience working in a classroom setting, ideally with late elementary, middle school and/or high school students.
• Demonstrated dialogue facilitation skills.
• Ability and desire to work with young people and educators, helping them navigate challenging topics and issues.
• Comfort and experience as a social media user
• Knowledge of how the internet is used to spread hateful ideologies, and how this impacts our communities in the USA (preferable).
• Bachelor’s degree in social science, history, English language arts, human rights or associated fields preferred.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and adapt quickly to last-minute changes.
• Foreign language skills, particularly Spanish, a bonus.

Our Benefits:

We value our people and offer a collaborative and engaging culture. As a SWC employee, you will enjoy work/life balance, generous time off and comprehensive benefits and programs.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit and business need. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Community Roots is hiring:  A Middle School Social Worker and Coordinator of Middle School Adolescent Programming who will be both innovative and inspiring in the pursuit of meeting the needs of all students, families and faculty in grades 6-8.  This position will report to the Middle School Co-Directors.

About Community Roots:  Community Roots Charter School (CRCS) is a K-8 school in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. As a diverse by design school, we are committed to being inclusive and centering anti-bias/anti-racist education. We provide all students with an educational environment where learner variability is acknowledged, valued and supported. We view this variability as an inherent strength of our community and use it to inform classroom practices and lesson design. We also establish a strong sense of community where students reflect on their identities, learn from each other, develop critical reading and thinking skills, and are equipped with strategies to take action on issues they care about.

Teaching and learning at CRCS is embedded in a meaningful real world context, where we teach children to see the connections between school and the world. Through a rich social studies focus and a social-emotional curriculum, we aim to equip all of our students with the skills and perspectives that will support them in developing into fully engaged members of their communities.  

Please visit our website for more information about our school: www.communityroots.org  

Benefits and Compensation:

• Competitive salary scale based on years of experience with a 403b employer match of retirement contributions 
• Single and family dental, vision, and health care
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Available funding for professional development opportunities
• Community of teachers and staff who are driven, compassionate and supportive

Community Roots seeks individuals who:

• Believe that all children have the right to an exceptional education, understand that children learn in different ways, and work hard to provide/create the support each student needs
• Believe that working and educating children in a diverse and inclusive environment is essential
• Are committed to anti-bias/anti-racist education, professionally and personally
• Are capable of building a safe, nurturing, supportive and high achieving school culture
• Believe that communicating and building relationships with children’s families is essential
• Believe that a combination of creativity and research generates engaging curriculum
• Believe in and are capable of high levels of collaboration and communication
• See themselves as active learners committed to ongoing professional development
• Are reflective and embrace feedback 

Required Qualifications: 

• Belief in CRCS mission and philosophy
• Strong belief in collaboration and ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
• Ability to prioritize and problem solve independently
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment 
• Extensive knowledge of adolescent development
• Experience in therapeutic modalities related to children and families from the communities CRCS serves, including assessment and treatment of trauma
• Experience working within a school environment or extensive work with teenagers and young adults
• MSW or Master’s degree in counseling-related discipline
• Preference for Seminar in Field Instruction completion

The Middle School Social Worker and Community Programming Coordinator will be responsible for: 

• Work with Children:
  • Provide direct services to the school community, which includes:
    • coordinating referrals for counseling 
    • co-creating caseloads for Middle School social work department
    • carrying a caseload of up to 15 students for counseling
    • providing regular one-on-one counseling or group counseling to students and families, including mandated counseling for those students who are to receive services as stated on their IEPs
    • crisis intervention as needed for students and families 
    • managing, tracking, and documenting student interactions and counseling schedule
    • setting goals with students and tracking progress towards those goals
  • Support new students in their transition to the middle school, as needed 
    • Insure that new students adjust to the community through activities  like  “new student” lunch
  • Co-teach 8th grade sexual health class
  • Support high school placement for students on caseload as needed 
  • Support work with alumni as needed

• Work with Families: 
  • Reach out to organizations to provide families with outside therapy in place of or in addition to school services
  • Work as a middle school social work department to co-organize and facilitate mental health related sessions for families with middle school 

• • Work with Faculty:
    • Collaborate and communicate regularly with supervisors, colleagues, and teachers to meet students’ needs
    • Participate in any relevant meetings- kid talk, student support team, family meetings, attendance
    • Provide recommendations to the staff and leadership team around approaches to working with struggling students
    • Organize and facilitate mental health related professional development sessions for faculty

• Collaborate with the ES Social Worker to ensure that staff community building activities include a cross section of the community and communication is clear for all activities

• • Work as middle school social work department to organize and provide check in support for new staff and new teaching teams as needed

• Serve as a part of the MS Restorative Practice Team, which includes: 
  • Resolving student conflicts using a restorative approach
  • Support students struggling to meet classroom expectations using a restorative approach
  • Communicate with families around restorative approach to conflict resolution
  • Participating in restorative circles and suspension conferences as needed
  • Facilitating restorative circles and conferences as needed 
  • Collaborating with the RP Team  to plan and facilitate professional development for faculty around restorative practices (6-8 and k-8)

Adolescent Programming: 

• Student Community Building and Leadership Opportunities: 

• • Maintain and supervise existing community programming for students (ie. Ambassadors, Morning Reads, PRISM, Girls Club etc.)
  • Outreach to staff for participation in existing and new programs (eg PRISM needs two faculty facilitators)
  • Develop programs that connect students to each other and to school outside of the classroom and create opportunities for student leadership.
  • Support faculty facilitators of adolescent programs as needed

Community Roots Middle School staff serve as co-Crew Leaders. Responsibilities of a Crew Leader include:

• Collaborating with co-Crew leader to develop and implement Crew curricula that support students’ learning and is aligned with the school’s mission, core values, priorities and structures, including facilitating a daily Crew of 12-15 students
• Serving as the academic advisor to a small group of students, supporting their academic and leadership development through the Crew curriculum, and acting as a liaison between the school and their families

Equality Charter School, a nonprofit charter school focused on individual academic and personal success through a nurturing, scholar-centered approach, is seeking an Assistant Principal of Culture to become a member of its educational leadership team.  This is an exciting opportunity to join a prominent and growing charter school in the Bronx providing high-quality education to a diverse community of scholars.

Background:
Equality Charter School was founded to provide equal access to all scholars, providing a path to an excellent education regardless of prior academic performance or social-emotional needs.  It focuses on students with the greatest needs, with more than 25% of its population students with disabilities and 10% English language learners.  Equality is currently a 6-12 public school serving 650 scholars in 2 locations in the Bronx.  It is expanding to become a K-12 school and is in the process of securing a location for its elementary school for a Fall 2023 opening.  At full expansion, the elementary school will serve 540 scholars, with 1200 scholars across all three locations.

Equality Charter School’s values are a relentless pursuit of excellence, commitment to equality, equity and diversity, and a responsibility to ensure systematic growth. Its goal is to operate at the highest level with efficient and effective systems that allow teachers and principals to focus on instruction and academic achievement.

The Position:
Equality Charter School is seeking a smart, hardworking, and highly organized educational professional to join its team as the Assistant Principal of Culture.  This role will ensure that each scholar reaches individual academic and personal success by using a nurturing and scholar-centered approach.  The Assistant Principal will be someone committed to the goals and mission of the School, fitting in well with the professional team.

Specific responsibilities include:

Professional​ ​Leadership

• The Assistant Principal of Culture & Administration provides professional leadership within the school, community, and education profession to improve student learning and well-being.
• Builds positive relationships within and between school and community.
• Promotes leadership potential in colleagues.
• Participates in professional organizations and activities in all content areas.
• Contributes to the professional knowledge and expertise about teaching and learning.
• Practices effective listening, conflict resolution, and group facilitation skills as a team member.
• Demonstrates punctuality and good attendance for all duties.
• Adheres to school Board policies and administrative procedures.
• Seeks and obtains needed resources to support the school’s vision and mission.
• Maintains a record-keeping system for activities that is effective and efficient and in compliance with local, state, and federal policies.
• Maintains appropriate confidentiality regarding students’ behavior and performance.
• Models effective teaching and leadership techniques when conducting meetings, presentations, and classroom observations.

School​ ​Culture/Discipline​

• Leads the effective implementation of MTSS in collaboration with the leadership team.
• Uses, models, and assists with a variety of Tier 1 Supports that foster individual responsibility and cooperation.
• Communicates with and challenges colleagues and students in a supportive manner and provides colleagues and students with constructive feedback.
• Works with teachers and faculty to create, implement and improve effective Tier 1 supports as part of comprehensive behavior management plans through the Observation-Feedback process.
• Assists in the development, implementation, and dissemination of Parent Contracts, Student Handbook, and Code of Conduct.
• Develops and implements a school-wide discipline policy in all areas of the school including classrooms, hallways, cafeteria, and recreational areas in collaboration with administrators and teachers.
• Monitors and improves, as necessary, the arrival and dismissal systems for students.
• Oversees all Investigations of discipline issues that occur within the school and maintains current and accurate records of all such incidents.
• Oversees suspension determination for all incidences and writes/reviews suspension letters. Oversees return from suspension meetings with parents and students and staff
• Oversees consistent outreach to parents in regard to disciplinary/behavioral and social issues.
• Reviews, consistently, records of faculty contact with parents in regard to student disciplinary issues.

Administrative​ ​Duties

• Coaches and supervises all members of the school culture team (Deans, School Counselor(s), and Culture Support Staff).
• Serves as a member of the administrative team and may serve as the building administrator in the absence of the Principal.
• Oversees the system and processes related to school and student attendance data.
• Creates the master schedule and coordinates the scheduling of all students in PowerSchool. Manages all alternate schedules and daily bell schedules.
• Oversees the academic data entry process by teachers for report cards. Oversees the creation, editing, and distribution of report cards for all scholars.
• Supports the Principal in the revision and review of the school Safety Plan with staff as needed.
• Provides initial development of the school’s calendar and finalizes in conjunction with the Principal & Executive Director.
• Oversees the planning, coordination, and orchestration of school field trips.
• Assists with the implementation of school board policies and administrative rules and regulations.
• Oversees the scheduling and attendance monitoring of lunch and afterschool activities.
• Supports the Principal in gathering research to provide necessary reports to the city and state.
• Assists school operations in the process of requisitioning, distributing, and accounting for textbooks and instructional equipment.
• Leads the planning and supervision of Summer School in collaboration with the Instructional Leads and Principal (to include scheduling, staffing, and scholar assignment).

​Instructional Oversight

• Provides supervision of elective teachers within all four Domains of Danielson.
• Models and co-teaches instructional strategies in meetings with teachers/deans and in classrooms to support teachers (at teachers’ request or based on teachers’ needs).
• Conducts walkthroughs of all classes.
• Conducts formal observations of teachers within the department and documents performance.
• Holds individual and group coaching as per the Support and Collaboration Matrix.
• Creates lessons and assignments with, or for teachers (at teachers’ request or based on teachers’ needs).
• Reviews lesson plans and provide feedback by the approved deadline.
• Ensures feedback is focused on our school goals and instructional priorities and the differentiated needs of scholars, including scholars with disabilities and ELLs.
• Seeks the support of the Director of Scholar Services to identify methods of differentiating for both SWDs and ELLs.
• Develops common and consistent instructional strategies – to support academics and management.
• Collaborates with Directors of Instruction to align instructional strategies, based on lesson plan feedback and observations.
• Works with teachers to effectively implement consistent instructional strategies.

​External​ ​Data​ ​Collection​ ​and​ ​Analysis

• Supports database instructional decision-making, the Assistant Principal is responsible for the support of the external assessment process and the analysis of data from NYS exams, including Regents exams.
• Supports the creation of testing schedules and rosters.
• Supports the creation of testing protocols/procedures.
• Supports the analysis of state testing data on a school-wide level.
• Supports Instructional action planning.
• Remains current on all NYS testing requirements and supports the assessment coordinator with the implementation of NYS ELA, Math and Science assessments, and interim testing, including testing schedule, ordering of materials, etc.

School​ ​Goals

• Support the school in reaching the annual school goals.

Qualifications:

Applicants for Assistant Principal must meet the following educational, managerial, administrative, and pedagogic experience qualifications:

Master’s degree in education; appropriate licensure from the State of New York

Instructional Leadership

• Support implementation of rigorous, engaging and coherent curricula.
• Ensure research-based, effective instruction that yields high quality student work.
• Ensure that assessment practices are aligned to curricula and inform instruction.

School Culture

• Establish and maintain structures for positive learning environment, inclusive culture, and student success.
• Establish and support a culture of learning that communicates high expectations for all learners.

Structures for School Improvement

• Align resources to support school goals and meet student needs.
• Foster support for a school-wide theory of action and goals across the school community.
• Support and evaluate teachers through a research-based, common teaching framework.
• Engage teacher teams in collaborative practices using the inquiry approach to improve classroom practice.
• Regularly evaluate school level decisions with a focus on rigorous and engaging curriculum standards.

Prior Pedagogic Experience

• Assistant Principals must have at least five years of prior full-time experience in a pedagogic position.

Equality Charter School is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equality Charter School does not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, color, sex, age, gender identification, sexual orientation, veteran status, or disability. All qualified applications will be given equal opportunity and selection decisions are based solely on job-related factors.

Equality Charter School offers a salary competitive with the NYC DOE scale for Assistant Principals, which is currently between $139,958 and $163, 117, depending on years of experience.

For more information about Equality Charter School please visit their website at www.equalitycharterschool.org

Company Description
Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit network of high-performing, public charter schools providing an outstanding K-12 education in historically under-resourced communities. We have proudly built schools that reflect our student population, with more than 60% of our teachers and staff across our network identifying as a person of color. Uncommon currently manages 53 schools serving more than 20,000 students in five cities: Boston, Camden, New York City, Newark, and Rochester. We are proud that Uncommon graduates persist in and graduate from college at five times the rate of their peers nationally. We achieve this by offering strong academic, co-curricular, and social-emotional learning that prepares students for success in college and beyond.

Job Description
All Uncommon Schools teachers hold primary responsibility for the implementation of Uncommon’s curriculum and the success of our students. Therefore, Uncommon Schools seeks teachers who are committed to becoming best-in-class educators, who are continuously improving instructional practices through collaboration and targeted development within their school community. We are currently seeking both experienced and apprentice teachers for all grades and all subjects for the 22-23 school year.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Implement curricula and activities to meet our high academic standards
Analyze assessments that measure progress towards these standards and use this assessment data to inform and differentiate instructional practices
Focus constantly on student learning, thinking critically and strategically to respond to student learning needs
Create a positive, structured learning environment to ensure that students observe the school’s core values, high expectations, and code of conduct
Communicate effectively with students, families, and colleagues
Commit to continual professional growth, participating actively in our annual, three-week staff orientation training in August and instructional training throughout the school year
Participate and support grade-level activities and school-wide functions throughout the school-year

Qualifications
Strong applicants for all teaching roles (new and experienced) will possess the following:
Relentless drive to improve the minds, characters & lives of students both in and out of school
Unwavering commitment to urban youth achieving greatness
Belief in and alignment with Uncommon’s core beliefs and educational philosophy is a must
Mastery of and enthusiasm for relevant academic subjects
Evidence of self-motivation, willingness to be a team player, and a strong sense of personal responsibility
Ability and desire to implement feedback from school leaders and colleagues to become a more effective educator in service to our students.
A background in education is not required for new teachers, but strong candidates should show a demonstrated passion for working with K-12 students and prior experience working in schools and/or urban communities is preferred.

Additional qualifications for experienced teachers:
Proven track-record of high achievement in the classroom
Minimum of two years teaching experience in an urban public school or charter school setting preferred
Valid State Certification and Master’s degree are helpful but not required.

Minimum Qualifications:
Candidates must have received a Bachelor’s degree from a college or university before employment begins
Candidates must have also earned a cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) of 2.75 or higher by the time employment begins
Additional information
Our people are what makes us Uncommon. We believe our compensation philosophy and benefits should reflect our values—equity, transparency, and clarity—to enhance our ability to attract and retain talent and reward their expertise. Our staff receive best-in-class training, coaching, and support to develop and operate mission-driven schools that provide a high-quality education to our students and families.

Compensation for this position: The starting compensation for this role based in New York City is between $64,000 to $96,900. The starting pay will depend on various factors that may include but are not limited to professional experience, education, training, certifications, tenure with Uncommon Schools, and work location. Because we value staff tenure in each role, we do not currently cap salary ranges. Please note: ranges may differ for staff who work from a location other than New York City.

Benefits: We offer comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits that support the personal health, wellness, and finances of our staff and their families.

Uncommon believes in the importance of being a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization that enables our students and staff to thrive. We are committed to building an exceptional team that reflects the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our students. We also strive to ensure an inclusive community by creating a space for meaningful dialogue about issues of race and identity for our staff and students. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability. We also ensure that individuals with disabilities receive all privileges and benefits associated with employment and are provided reasonable accommodations for the interview process and to perform core job functions.

Einhorn Collaborative is looking for a passionate and impact-driven Strategy Lead (often referred to as a “Program Officer” in philanthropy). This role will be the driving force behind our Bridging strategy, which focuses on empowering Gen Z to actively engage in their communities to help repair our social fabric.  The ideal candidate to lead this portfolio has a deep understanding of the needs, aspirations, and potential of Gen Z, matched with strong strategy, execution, and communications skills.

Einhorn Collaborative is partnering with RCG Talent Solutions to support our search for the Strategy Lead position. Please direct all questions to the RCG team at openroles@rcgtalent.com.

Who we are:
Einhorn Collaborative is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to addressing America’s growing crisis of connection. At the core of our work is a deep commitment to collaboration and an unwavering belief that we can reverse the prevailing narratives of distrust, division, and dehumanization. To do so, as a small and dedicated team, we are driven by the following values:

• Relationships are paramount to us, and we prioritize human connection in all our endeavors. We approach others with curiosity, compassion, and respect, emphasizing the value of trust in building true partnerships and collaborations.
• We believe that collective efforts yield better outcomes, and we actively seek diverse perspectives to complement our skills and knowledge. By working together, we can find common ground and generate more impactful ideas.
• We embody the principles we promote in our interactions with funding peers and nonprofit partners. We offer support, resources, and networking opportunities while empowering our grantee partners to define their own actions and metrics for success.
• Our aim is to achieve transformational impact by spreading core insights about human connection and belonging across systems and communities. We prioritize learning and improvement, and we adapt our strategies based on real-world lessons.
• We’re committed to each other, the work, and the journey. In order to help build a culture of connection and belonging, we recognize the work we must do as individuals to reflect on our nation’s history, understand our biases, and routinely engage with perspectives different from our own to help inform, shape, and guide our work and our worldview. Read more about our commitment.

What’s the work?

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Strategy Lead will assume leadership of the Bridging strategy, developing deep relationships with peers and partners, and will identify, manage, and support all active and potential partnerships. This involves sourcing, recommending, and managing multi-year philanthropic partnerships, establishing co-funding opportunities with peers, developing and managing impact measurement strategies, and providing support to grantee partners to ensure they have what they need to succeed.

The current strategy focuses on increasing bridging experiences in three key areas: active civics in middle and high schools, community-engaged learning in higher education (with emphasis on our partnership with Cornell University), and national service as a model to develop future leaders. We seek to actively engage Gen Z across all these areas to amplify their voices and increase their interest, demand, and participation in these opportunities. After the first year or so, the Lead will have the opportunity to develop the strategy’s next iteration based on assessment across our current efforts.

Candidates who advance in the selection process will receive more detailed information about the organization and overall Bridging strategy.

Who You Are:

At your core, you are passionate about strengthening our social fabric and excited to join a small team that’s willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done, no matter the size or scope.

You’re a skilled communicator, relationship-builder, and project manager. You excel at engaging and informing stakeholders, ensuring seamless execution and impact.

You deeply believe in the potential of young people and their ability to tackle society’s challenges. You thrive on bringing people together to turn big ideas into reality. You’re analytical, pay attention to detail, and love setting goals and metrics to assess effectiveness and improve.

Continuous learning is important to you. You actively seek feedback, embrace new challenges, and contribute to the team’s growth and problem-solving. Being part of a tight-knit team is invigorating, where you thrive in collaborating but are also highly-capable and self-motivated to work independently.

You’re resourceful, adaptable, and eager to contribute. Time management is a strength, allowing you to prioritize tasks and handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

You are known as a great listener; you constantly seek to learn from others. You are deeply drawn to multiple and divergent perspectives, and seek to present ideas in ways that draw others into your thinking. You have an openness and willingness to change your mind.

You believe that addressing America’s crisis of connection is not only critically urgent, but possible — and already underway in communities across our country. And you are energized by helping to make it possible.

Key Qualifications:

• Experience that is proximate to Gen Z, either through lived experience or work/volunteer experience
• Experience engaging in service with others (e.g. volunteer commitments, year of service, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to work well with young people and effectively lift up and represent youth voice
• Demonstrated commitment to building social connection and social cohesion
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with demonstrated experience building authentic relationships and leveraging those relationships to work in concert toward shared goals
• Demonstrated experience gathering, analyzing, synthesizing, and effectively communicating key ideas (in writing and presenting) from multiple sources to inform short- and long-term strategies
• Experience bringing an idea to fruition and working with multiple people to make it happen
• Bachelor’s degree

Working at Einhorn Collaborative:

Einhorn Collaborative provides a competitive total rewards package, including a base salary of $175,000 to $200,000, fully paid medical and dental insurance, retirement contributions, professional development funds, and generous vacation time. Employees work in-person at least three days a week at the New York City office and enjoy perks like an on-site gym, lunch, snacks, and a business casual dress code.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Einhorn Collaborative is committed to equal employment opportunities and encourages diverse candidates of all backgrounds to apply. If you require reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact openroles@rcgtalent.com. By submitting this online application form, you consent to be contacted via email with important updates and other information from RCG Talent Solutions.

Background/IRC Summary:  Since 1999, the IRC has developed partnerships with New York City public schools, community-based organizations and local colleges and universities to support the positive development of refugee youth and their communities in New York City.  The Education and Learning Program provides year-round programming working directly with refugee youth, their parents and families, and their schools.

Job Overview/Summary: The Newcomer Youth Summer Academy (NYSA) is a five-week program that prepares newly arrived refugee youth to succeed at their grade level in the New York City public school system. Up to 130 students aged 5 – 21 from over 20 countries will participate in academic, creative arts, physical education, and social-emotional learning classes. Field trips are held on Fridays.

Academic Lead Teachers are responsible for lesson planning and delivery. At the Lower School levels (K-1^–5^th), the NYSA Academic Lead Teachers will instruct a self-contained classroom, teaching Phonics, Literacy, and Math. At the Upper School levels (6–12^th) Academic Lead Teachers will be responsible for specialized content instruction in one of three specific subjects: English Language Arts, Math, or Social Studies.

Each Academic Lead Teacher is expected to design pre- and post-assessments. Academic Lead Teachers are responsible for creating and submitting culturally relevant daily lesson plans and associated slide decks and materials. Given the student body’s varied English language acquisition levels, life, and formal education experiences. The Academic Lead Teacher must consistently plan for differentiated, trauma-informed instruction and apply a sheltered instructional approach to guiding English Language Learners. Throughout their classroom activities, the Academic Lead Teachers will be encouraged to contribute to the Program’s goals of fostering students’ social-emotional development and building a strong sense of community among the students and staff.

Classroom Culture Lead Teachers play an important role, leading classroom culture, rituals, and routines. Classroom Culture Lead Teachers work with a single class level throughout the program (K-12), providing support and continuity for their class throughout the program. Classroom Culture Lead Teachers are responsible for planning and leading daily mindfulness, facilitating small-group instruction as per the Academic Lead Teacher’s plans, working with students one-on-one, and providing additional sheltered instruction support for multilingual learning.

Classroom Culture Lead Teachers are directly responsible for behavior management in alignment with Academy philosophy and classroom guidelines.  They are primarily responsible for leading their classroom Peer Mentors, and they play a critical role in ensuring consistent, timely communication among Academic Lead Teachers, Peer Mentors, Administration, and students’ families.

Classroom Culture Lead Teachers are responsible for observing, assessing, recording, and monitoring students’ individual progress.  This requires an understanding of the IRC School Readiness indicators, gathering input from other staff to assess individual students’ school readiness assets and needs.

The Social Emotional Learning Teacher will lesson plan for the daily instruction of Social-Emotional Learning content. They will adapt and implement curriculum across all grade levels in support of students’ social-emotional development. The Social Emotional Learning Teacher will instruct 12 lessons each week: two SEL lessons per week per student group (three Lower School groups plus three Upper School groups.) The three, daily, hour-long lessons are held between 12:30 pm and 3:30 pm, Monday – Thursday.

Following pre-program training, the SEL Teacher will be expected to understand how their contributions fit into the larger Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) model for supporting students at the Academy and liaise with other professionals accordingly, especially the classroom teaching staff and the Student Support Team.

The Physical Education Teacher will design and implement a six-week curriculum that builds students’ knowledge, skills, and interest in physical education. The Physical Education Teacher will contribute to the Program’s goals of fostering students’ social-emotional development and building a strong sense of community among the students and staff.

Program Information:

• Training: July 5^th, 6^th, 7^th,2023: Up to 24 hours of training, 9:00AM – 5:00PM
• Foundational online training modules to be completed independently ahead of synchronous staff training dates
• Main Program: July 10^th– August 11^th, 2023
• Location: Avenues the World School, 259 10^th Avenue, New York, NY 10001

Working Environment:  NYSA takes place in a centrally located school (TBD) in New York City.  All applicants must be willing to relocate to the New York City area for the entirety of the Academy.

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement: In accordance with IRC’s duty to provide and maintain a workplace that is free of known hazards and our commitment to safeguard the health of our employees, clients, and communities, IRC requires candidates who are selected for interview to furnish proof of vaccination against COVID-19 in order to be considered for this position.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity: IRC is committed to building a diverse organization and a climate of inclusivity.  We strongly encourage applications from candidates who can demonstrate that they can contribute to this goal.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Why WHIN?

WHIN Music Community Charter School is the first school of its kind! Built on the principles of El Sistema, WHIN is a place where children learn, grow, and make music together. At WHIN, we are building a nucleo, a community where staff, families, and students work together to make a powerful shift in public education that puts learners’ needs first.

Our Mission:

To provide our diverse student population with rigorous academic instruction, intensive music education and a positive learning environment so that every student can thrive academically and socio emotionally.

We believe…

• that all children deserve a high quality education, with access to academic rigor, music creation, and a holistic approach to developing character.
• that a collaboration with families ensures the greatest success for our learners.
• that restorative justice, inquiry-based hands on learning, and authentic learning experiences provide the most effective environments for growth, success, and joy.

We are looking for teachers who are…

• looking to grow and prosper in a collaborative work environment, including in co-taught classrooms.
• excited about teaching in a school and neighborhood where diversity is central.
• highly qualified and certified in Special Education, English as a New Language, and/or Early Childhood Education.

We support teachers by…

• coaching and professional growth to deepen instructional practices.
• peer-to-peer observations, feedback, and support as well as ongoing professional development.
• having two teachers co-teaching to ensure all learners’ needs are met and teachers can work collaboratively to be at their best.

In action, our mission looks like caring deeply about all aspects of our young learners’ potential. We make academics a priority while also ensuring students’ character and personal growth. With music at our core, students experience working together to create something bigger than their individual skills every single day, and this approach extends to our classrooms where project-based, hands on learning cultivates curious, creative, and hardworking learners.

WHIN is currently seeking high performing elementary teachers who are ready to help grow a unique school community where compassion, kindness, and curiosity drive each and every day.

Specifically, ICT Special Education teachers at WHIN are responsible for:

• Creating and maintaining a fun, engaging, and inclusive classroom culture where all students love to learn
• Differentiating instruction to meet learners needs to improve development of sensory and perceptual motor skills, language, cognition, and memory
• Developing, modifying, and implementing curriculum and assessments for students with disabilities as determined in a student’s IEP and/or 504 plan
• Implement Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs) as needed
• Driving academic outcomes for all students by analyzing data, differentiating instruction, and supporting each learner’s unique needs
• Contributing to the Child Study Team’s assessments of student needs
• Collaborating with colleagues to implement an effective integrated co-teaching model to serve all students in an inclusive classroom
• Implementing a music-infused academic curriculum with support from the Director of Music and Directors of Curriculum and Instruction.
• Inspiring students and fellow staff to perform at his or her highest potential
• Developing and maintaining strong and professional relationships with WHIN families

Qualifications for the Elementary Special Education Teacher positions are:

• Bachelor’s Degree in education or related field; Masters preferred
• NYS or equivalent Special Education Teaching Certification
• Urban elementary teaching experience
• Experience teaching 3^rd Grade
• Demonstrated success raising achievement levels of all students
• An unwavering belief that all students can achieve at a high level
• Proven commitment and success working with students and families
• The ability to thrive in a startup environment
• The ability to excel in a fast-paced, dynamic, and exciting school
• A sense of humor and kindness towards your colleagues

Advanced proficiency in one or more of the following areas is strongly preferred

• Bilingual (Spanish)
• Music performance
• Early Childhood teaching experience and/or certifications
• Project Based Learning and Inquiry Based Learning
• Responsive Classroom, Love & Logic Student Management, and Restorative Justice models

Compensation and Benefits: WHIN Music Community Charter School offers a competitive salary and benefits, fun and professional working environment, as well as ongoing development opportunities.

Who We Are

New Visions for Public Schools is the leading non-profit organization dedicated to the improvement of public education in New York City.  Today, we support over 1,050 public schools and thousands of teachers, serving 700,000 students, in their most critical work: deciding what and how to teach, helping keep students on track to graduation, and preparing students for success beyond high school.  New Visions directly manages a network of 10 charter high schools across the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. 

Who You Are

You’re a dedicated educator who is committed to serving students from all backgrounds.  You approach learning via a growth mindset and have a proven track record of engaging students.  You are reflective, seek and effectively apply feedback, and strive to learn from those around you.  You make informed decisions about lesson planning based on data and have demonstrated success in tailoring instruction to the needs of diverse learners. You work collaboratively with others to achieve common goals and are passionate about the mission of New Visions.

What You’ll Do

You’ll guide students in applying their subject matter knowledge and skills through evidence-based scientific explanations and arguments, and by challenging them to address real-world problems that impact the community students live in. You’ll prepare all students for success with New York State Regents Science exams and place an equal emphasis on developing scientific thinkers by inviting students to ask questions, develop models, carry out investigations, and analyze data. You’ll help students see the relevance of Science in their everyday lives, as well as equip their students with the tools necessary to be critical consumers and innovative problem solvers within modern day society. 

Why New Visions?

You can expect to receive enhanced instructional support, a range of professional development opportunities, access to flexible data tools and the opportunity to be part of a passionate team of colleagues. You’ll be empowered to meet each of your student’s needs through a collaborative and innovative learning environment. And most importantly, you’ll continue to inspire and make a difference in students’ lives.

Pay Range 

$67,250 minimum to $132,406 maximum

While the majority of new hires’ starting salaries shall be expected to be placed in the first half of the range(s) to allow space to grow in the job, for those who already have significant relevant experience at that level of the job, placement at the higher end of the range(s) is possible.

Apply Now! 

To apply and read the comprehensive job description, check out our careers site!

EEO

New Visions for Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that our people and teams should reflect the diverse communities we serve, and that our culture and internal structures should be inclusive and equitable for all prospective and current employees.

Who We Are

New Visions for Public Schools is the leading non-profit organization dedicated to the improvement of public education in New York City.  Today, we support almost 2,000 public schools and thousands of teachers, serving over a million students, in their most critical work: deciding what and how to teach, helping keep students on track to graduation, and preparing students for success beyond high school.  New Visions directly manages a network of 9 charter high schools across the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. 

Who You Are

You’re a dedicated educator who is committed to serving students from all backgrounds.  You approach learning via a growth mindset and have a proven track record of engaging students.  You are reflective, seek and effectively apply feedback, and strive to learn from those around you.  You make informed decisions about lesson planning based on data and have demonstrated success in tailoring instruction to the needs of diverse learners. You work collaboratively with others to achieve common goals and are passionate about the mission of New Visions.

What You’ll Do

You’ll develop accessible curriculum through team co-planning, co-teaching and co-assessing. You’ll collaborate with teachers, families and school-based support teams to meet your students’ needs. You’ll build students’ academic and socio-emotional skills while advocating to ensure that they receive appropriate supports. You’ll create plans for post-high school transition to ensure quality of life after high school.

Why New Visions?

You can expect to receive enhanced instructional support, a range of professional development opportunities, access to flexible data tools and the opportunity to be part of a passionate team of colleagues. You’ll be empowered to meet each of your student’s needs through a collaborative and innovative learning environment. And most importantly, you’ll continue to inspire and make a difference in students’ lives.

Apply Now!

To apply and read the comprehensive job description, check out our careers site!

https://grnh.se/ff6d126f1us

Salary

$67,250 minimum to $132,406 maximum

While the majority of new hires’ starting salaries shall be expected to be placed in the first half of the range(s) to allow space to grow in the job, for those who already have significant relevant experience at that level of the job, placement at the higher end of the range(s) is possible.

EEO

New Visions for Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that our people and teams should reflect the diverse communities we serve, and that our culture and internal structures should be inclusive and equitable for all prospective and current employees. 

South Bronx Literacy Academy (SBLA) is looking for general and special elementary school educators with structured literacy experience or those with a growth mindset who would like to learn to become Founding Teachers at a new district public school.

P.S.642 – The South Bronx Literacy Academy (SBLA) is the first stand-alone public school in New York City specifically designed to serve students with diagnosed dyslexia and/or language-based learning difficulties. SBLA is designed to meet the unique needs of students who are struggling to learn to read. Aligned with recommendations from the International Dyslexia Association, SBLA will offer intensive, tier 1 instruction in structured literacy – providing highly explicit, systematic, and multi-sensory teaching of the foundational skills and other important literacy components including vocabulary, comprehension, and writing. Additionally, SBLA will embed consistent and purposeful practices to support social-emotional learning and executive functioning skill development to meet the needs of our student population.

For further information go to www.literacyacademycollective.org

• Active member of the Bed Stuy New Beginnings High School Planning team, which will engage in a planning year for 2023-24 and open the high school with our first ninth grade in 2024-25. 
• With the High School Planning team, design the curriculum and instructional framework for high school, developing strong academic, social-emotional and interpersonal relationships with our class of 2028, who will be 8th graders in 2023-24.
• Partner with the schoole Special Education team to develop IEPs, annuals and triennials for students with disabilities and work closely with special education teachers and administrators to support the needs of all students.
• Follows and maintains knowledge of all BSNBCS policies and procedures.
• Partner with co-teacher(s) to design, create and implement lesson plans for appropriate instruction in accordance with students’ needs, BSNBCS curriculum, Common Core and state standards.
• Practice classroom management that is conducive to providing a positive learning environment for all students and that is aligned with BSNBCS positive behavior intervention support (PBIS) using restorative justice and responsive classroom management methodology.
• Plan a program of study that meets the individual needs, interests and abilities of students.
• Uses a variety of instructional techniques and instructional media, consistent with the needs and capabilities of the individuals or student groups involved.
• Assist in the selection of books, equipment and other instructional materials.
• Assign relevant homework.
• Grade papers, assignments, and assessments promptly and accurately.
• Prepare and administer subject/topical specific tests to measure student abilities and progress.
• Prepare report cards and progress reports.
• Facilitate conferences with students and parents.
• Complete required paperwork in specified time and manner.
• Conduct appropriate assessments of students’ work and maintain accurate and regular data on students in areas of attendance, grades and IEP progress, if applicable.
• Supervise students in hallways and in all school areas outside of the classroom environment before, after and between classes.
• Assist administration in implementing policies and rules governing student life and conduct.
• Work to establish and maintain open lines of communication with students and their parents concerning the academic and behavioral progress of their students through conferences, written messages, telephone calls and/or e-mail.
• Promptly report any serious accident or illness affecting students in the teacher’s charge or any incident which might affect the school, teachers or students therein.
• Assess the accomplishments of students on a regular basis and maintain such records as required by law and by BSNBCS policy.
• Take all responsible precautions to provide for the health and safety of the students and to protect equipment, materials and facilities.
• Appropriately maintains and secures confidential records and inquiries.
• Maintain appropriate certifications and training hours, as required.
• Cooperate with other members of the staff in planning instructional goals, objectives, curriculum and instructional methods.
• Professionally represent the school in interactions with parents, community, staff and students.
• Comply with applicable state, local and federal laws, rules and regulations.
• Take an active role in community outreach.
• Possess a strong understanding of and ability to implement the BSNBCS2 Mission, Vision and Values
• Attend work regularly and be punctual.

Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Bronx Community Charter School (BxC) is seeking an Assistant Director for the middle school grades.

BxC is a small, K-8 learning community founded on the principle that children learn best when they are active participants in their own learning.  Our students raise questions about the world around them, engage with a wide range of materials, and learn through their interactions with each other and all of the adults in the school community.  Children learn to use their minds well, cultivating strong intellectual habits and skills to become self-directed learners with clear passions and ambitions.  Teachers know children deeply and develop powerful curriculum to meet the needs and interests of their students.  All members of our school community are committed to making thoughtful choices, advancing democratic values, and effecting change in the broader community.

BxC is located in the Norwood neighborhood of the Bronx and serves children and families from Community School District 10.  85% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 22% receive special education services, and 19% are classified as English Language Learners.

BxC teachers are deeply committed to collaboration and collective decision-making.  Every class is co-taught and most have a special educator and a general educator.  Through a two-week Summer Institute, weekly grade team and staff meetings, schoolwide committees, and more, BxC staff members’ voices and ideas are fundamental to the success of our school.  BxC is proud to be one of the few charter schools in NYC with a unionized staff.

Highlights of BxC’s middle school include

• All-school Black Lives Matter and Latinx Culture and History studies
• Deep and critical studies of gentrification in the Bronx, the school-to-prison pipeline, colonialism and resistance, and more
• Math curriculum that uses Illustrative Mathematics along with teacher-designed units to balance deeper understanding with computational fluency
• Investigative science, including dissecting cows’ eyeballs, studying forensic evidence, learning the science behind the spread of infectious diseases, and more
• Studies of whole-class novels such as The Hate U Give and The Poet X, complemented by independent reading supported by extensive classroom libraries
• Specialization in dance, drumming, spoken word, visual art, or technology, based upon student preference
• A strong emphasis on social and emotional learning, grounded in advisory
• Coaching from both school staff and outside consultants
• 1:1 support with the high school placement process, resulting in over 95% of our students getting matched with one of their top three choices
• Overnight trips in each grade, culminating in an 8th grade trip to Puerto Rico

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership:

• Inspire a culture of collaboration, thoughtfulness, and quality in students and staff
• Promote BxC’s mission and the priority it places on helping its students develop their voice, choice, independence, and collaboration
• Cultivate a focus on supporting students’ social and emotional lives
• Unify diverse constituencies toward a common mission and vision
• Work to create a culture of engagement and participation among families
• Ensure a safe and stimulating environment for students, staff and families

Supervision:

• Facilitate and encourage collaboration among middle school staff
• Support co-teachers to develop effective collaboration, planning, and instruction 
• Observe instruction daily and conduct both informal and formal observations of staff
• Supervise, provide feedback to, and evaluate middle school staff
• Determine assignments and schedules for each middle school staff member
• Continue to improve structures for middle school professional development and collaboration

Collaboration:

• Support and help to implement the Co-Directors’ vision in all aspects of the middle school structures and program
• Work closely with other members of leadership on promoting an inclusive culture and ensuring the effective provision of special education services
• Collaborate with instructional coaches to define and guide the implementation of curriculum based on instructional priorities and school’s vision
• Report directly to the Co-Directors of the school

Academic Achievement:

• Foster a culture of critical thinking and demonstrable achievement and growth for students
• Lead initiatives to support and challenge all students, regardless of where they are on the academic spectrum, through rigorous and creative differentiation strategies
• Use a variety of data effectively to refine and improve teaching and learning
• Ensure that curriculum is highly engaging, social justice-oriented, and aligned with the Common Core Standards and reflective of the demands of state assessments
• Make sure that the needs of students with IEPs and English language learners are met throughout the day 

Supporting Students

• Be present and engaged with students throughout the school day, including supervising during arrival, hallway transitions, lunch, recess, and dismissal
• Strengthen supports for students, including advisory, counseling, and explicit training in executive functioning
• Provide opportunities for students through the arts, clubs, and athletics
• Proactively and reactively maintain a responsive and restorative system of discipline

QUALIFICATIONS

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience teaching middle school
• Demonstrated leadership experience through grade team leadership, mentoring colleagues, leading professional development, etc.
• Masters Degree in Educational Leadership, or current enrollment in a program

Preferred:

• Special education certification
• Proficiency in Spanish

COMPENSATION

• Salary to be determined based on experience
• Medical and dental benefits
• 401K plan with a match of up to 6% of salary after a year of service

Integration Charter School is dedicated to providing innovative pathways to college that fully integrate students living with emotional challenges and others with special needs. In building a family of associated schools that share this common mission, ICS strives to fill gaps in public education. When fully realized, ICS, in conjunction with local public schools, will provide Staten Island parents of special needs children with an array of options which is richer than that enjoyed by any other community in the United States.

The successful candidate will serve as the PowerSchool Analyst and oversee PowerSchool operations, create custom reports, dashboards and pages, as well as provide training and support.

Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Manage and maintain Student Information System (PowerSchool)
• Sets and provides training and support for PowerScheduler
• Provide information and/or training to staff on the use of the student information system and application of data from the system
• Coordinate with school staff to facilitate smooth operations and processes when collecting and reporting on student information. Provide feedback, coaching and developmental opportunities to ensure the team’s successful performance
• Develop custom reports and dashboards within PowerSchool
• Create customizations within PowerSchool
• Anticipate and address user concerns; create viable solutions to meet business requirements
• Provide technical assistance and support for PowerSchool and all linked programs/applications
• Monitoring of the student information system and audit for compliance with applicable requirements; implement recommendations and ensure that the system is flexible to meet user needs; incorporate user input and feedback to develop plans to enhance the system
• Complete annual system backup
• Systems setup (annual and as needed)
• Run regular audits to maintain accuracy

Candidate should possess the following:

• • College/technical degree
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to meet established deadlines
  • Ability to work with a high degree of accuracy
  • Skills in the use of graphic user interfaces
  • Ability to troubleshoot hardware and software problems
  • Ability to exercise independent judgment in correcting data errors or omissions
  • Experience with developing standards and managing audits against standards
  • Experience with developing and delivering end user training on data systems
  • Experience in K-12 education
  • Experience with APEX and creating Plugins
  • Proficient in HTML, SQL

ICS is an Equal Opportunity Employer

ICS offers a competetive salary and benefits package.

2023-2024-002

Salary Range: $75,000 – $89,000

Integration Charter School is dedicated to providing innovative pathways to college that fully integrate students living with emotional challenges and others with special needs. In building a family of associated schools that share this common mission, ICS strives to fill gaps in public education. When fully realized, ICS, in conjunction with local public schools, will provide Staten Island parents of special needs children with an array of options which is richer than that enjoyed by any other community in the United States.

The successful candidate will serve as the PowerSchool Analyst and oversee PowerSchool operations, create custom reports, dashboards and pages, as well as provide training and support.

Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Manage and maintain Student Information System (PowerSchool)
• Sets and provides training and support for PowerScheduler
• Provide information and/or training to staff on the use of the student information system and application of data from the system
• Coordinate with school staff to facilitate smooth operations and processes when collecting and reporting on student information. Provide feedback, coaching and developmental opportunities to ensure the team’s successful performance
• Develop custom reports and dashboards within PowerSchool
• Create customizations within PowerSchool
• Anticipate and address user concerns; create viable solutions to meet business requirements
• Provide technical assistance and support for PowerSchool and all linked programs/applications
• Monitoring of the student information system and audit for compliance with applicable requirements; implement recommendations and ensure that the system is flexible to meet user needs; incorporate user input and feedback to develop plans to enhance the system
• Complete annual system backup
• Systems setup (annual and as needed)
• Run regular audits to maintain accuracy

Candidate should possess the following:

• • College/technical degree
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to meet established deadlines
  • Ability to work with a high degree of accuracy
  • Skills in the use of graphic user interfaces
  • Ability to troubleshoot hardware and software problems
  • Ability to exercise independent judgment in correcting data errors or omissions
  • Experience with developing standards and managing audits against standards
  • Experience with developing and delivering end user training on data systems
  • Experience in K-12 education
  • Experience with APEX and creating Plugins
  • Proficient in HTML, SQL

ICS is an Equal Opportunity Employer

ICS offers a competetive salary and benefits package.

2023-2024-002

Start Date: 7/3/2023

Salary Range: $75,000 – $89,000

Integration Charter School is dedicated to providing innovative pathways to college that fully integrate students living with emotional challenges and others with special needs. In building a family of associated schools that share this common mission, ICS strives to fill gaps in public education. When fully realized, ICS, in conjunction with local public schools, will provide Staten Island parents of special needs children with an array of options which is richer than that enjoyed by any other community in the United States.

The successful candidate will serve as the Data Instructional Coach and will work closely with school and network leaders to allow for data driven decision making and monitoring the health of the organization.

Reporting to the Director of Program Evaluation, the Data Instructional Coach will analyze and present data, create dashboards and track implemented programs. The individual will manage all network and State assessments. In addition to working with leaders, the individual will work closely with other members of the program evaluation team, as well as other shared services.

Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Analyze and present data to school and district leaders
• Track school and district programs and provide data related updates
• Development and maintenance of school performance dashboards that are aligned to the organization’s performance management framework key metrics
• Run monthly district and school data meetings
• Convenes regular meetings with school-based data managers to provide professional development
• Compile longitudinal data sets linking historical standardize test score data, internal assessments, and other academic or non-academic data elements
• Order, print, and scan all network assessments
• Create testing groups based on student need and school parameters

Candidate should possess the following:

• Master’s degree with at least 9 credits in STEM
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to meet established deadlines
• Ability to work with a high degree of accuracy
• Ability to interpret and explain data
• Experience in K-12 education
• Proficient in MS Excel/PowerBI
• Proficient in Google Suites

ICS is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Salary Range:  $100,000 – $110,000

Start Date: 7/3/2023

2023-2024-001

Integration Charter Schools (ICS) located on Staten Island is seeking full-time Licensed Master Social Workers (LMSW) or Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW) for the 2023-2024 school year.

Responsibilities for the School Social Worker will include, but not be limited to:

• Working within a clinically experienced counseling team;
• Working with middle school students on the high end of the Autism Spectrum in an integrated school setting;
• Computer and documentation skills.

Prior clinical mental health experience with students in grades K-12 is required.

Supervision and training will be provided.

Spanish speaking candidates preferred.

ICS offers a highly competitive salary, commensurate with experience, and a great benefits package.

ICS is an Equal Opportunity Employer

2023-2024-014

Start Date: 8/21/2023

Salary Starting at $70,000

What are Affinity Partner Schools?

New Visions partners with 71 district high schools in all five boroughs as part of our Affinity Network. These schools receive support from New Visions with school management tools, instructional resources, extensive coaching through our continuous improvement models, and more!  In 2021-22, graduation rates in our Affinity partner schools reached 92% and our support for postsecondary readiness has expanded exponentially.

Why Teach With Us?

We seek the most talented and dedicated educators to bring their skills, experience, and energy to a collaborative and innovative learning environment where teachers are empowered to meet each student’s unique learning needs and open the doors to new and rich opportunities. Our teachers are dynamic and innovative pedagogues who are committed to urban students and the issues they face every day.

Advantages of teaching at a New Visions Affinity Network school (employed by the NYC Dept of Education) include:

• Emphasis on knowledge sharing practices, frequent training, and targeted professional development opportunities
• Eligibility to apply for grants and fellowships to support the personal and professional development of exceptional teachers
• Access to leadership development programs and career opportunities from the classroom to school administration to educational reform
• Support with data tools needed to effectively support students

Who You Are

You’re a dedicated educator who is committed to serving students from all backgrounds.  You approach learning via a growth mindset and have a proven track record of engaging students.  You are reflective, seek and effectively apply feedback, and strive to learn from those around you.  You make informed decisions about lesson planning based on data and have demonstrated success in tailoring instruction to the needs of diverse learners. You work collaboratively with others to achieve common goals and are passionate about driving student success.  NYS content certification is required for all DOE positions.

What You’ll Do

Our teachers work with a diverse range of students to develop content knowledge and skills through collaborative classroom work, reading, writing, discussion, and authentic exploration/experimentation.   Our vision is that all learners have equal access to educational opportunities where barriers to learning are reduced and learner diversity is recognized, supported, and embraced.

Apply Now!

To apply and read the comprehensive job description, visit our careers site:

https://grnh.se/0549b7b51us

Network with DOE Affinity Partner Schools hosted by New Visions – May 4, 2023 4:30-7pm

We are hosting an in-person recruitment event for our 70+ DOE Affinity High School Network to support hiring for the upcoming school year. Meet representatives from our schools to discuss opportunities for SY23-24. The event will take place in our central office near Grand Central from 4:30-7pm.

Register here:

https://sites.google.com/newvisions.org/newvisionsaffinityevents2023/home

Salary Information

We follow the DOE and city salary schedules found here: https://www.uft.org/your-rights/salary/doe-and-city-salary-schedules

Pay Range

$61,070—$128,657 USD

New Visions is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of New Visions that all employees and applicants for employment will be treated in all respects on the basis of their merit and qualifications and without regards to their race, color, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, gender, military status, marital status, ancestry, or any other reason prohibited by law.

POSITION: Math-SETSS Interventionist (Middle School)

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Education or similar required
• Master’s degree preferred
• Required NYSED Certification: Students with Disabilities or Special Education
• 3+ years teaching experience preferred (K-12)
• Bilingual (Spanish) desirable

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide and plan units of study from the Illustrative Mathematics curriculum
• Uses the curriculum to create lessons that are inquiry-based and student-centered
• Incorporate various math centers/manipulatives to develop and monitor content growth
• Extensively checks for student understanding and utilizes various scaffolded tasks to help students who need enrichment or struggling with concepts
• Uses research-based and impactful instructional strategies to engage students in learning mathematical content
• Conduct comprehensive assessments that measure growth as well as help prepare students on how to navigate questions and language on standardized tests
• Demonstrates knowledge of the New York State Next Generation learning standards
• Lead an advisory group
• Actively participate, advocate, and collaborate with staff members during grade level/department meetings and professional development sessions
• Collaborate with student support coordinator and teachers to create remedial math plans
• Maintain strong and effective communication and relationships with teachers, administration, and families

The ideal candidate is:

• Dedicated to the AoC mission and an anti-racist curriculum/education
• Aligned to AoCMS core values
• Able to ensure our students have the tools they need to attend high school/college and help instill a perseverance attitude
• A “go-getter” that has a sense of urgency in closing the achievement, opportunity, and digital gap
• A team player that has a desire to work in a team-oriented environment and collaborate with colleagues
• Able to keep a growth mindset, they are able to receive frequent feedback with humility and has a strong desire to reflect, grow, and develop as an educator
• Able to analyze student data, be an advocate for student academic needs, and have collaborative discussions with teachers
• Willing to work in an ever-changing environment and face challenges head-on with a positive and professional attitude
• Believe in restorative justice practices and is able to implement an interdisciplinary and holistic approach to meeting students’ needs

SALARY: Commensurate with experience (Range begins from $60,000)

BENEFITS: This is a union position. AoCMS teachers are part of a United Federation of Teachers (UFT) chapter. The candidate will receive a comprehensive benefits package which includes programs like TransitChek, a retirement 403(B) plan, and UFT dental/vision & medical benefits. Free parking for employees is available on site.

ACADEMY OF THE CITY CHARTER SCHOOL IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF RACE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION ETHNIC ORIGIN, SEX, OR DISABILITY IN ITS EMPLOYMENT POLICIES.

About the Position:

We are looking for a Middle School Math/Science teacher for the upcoming 2023-2024 school year. This position will be an Integrated Co-Taught (ICT) class.

About Us:

Community Roots Charter School (CRCS) is a K-8 school in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. As a diverse by design school, we are committed to being inclusive and centering anti-bias/anti-racist education. We provide all students with an educational environment where learner variability is acknowledged, valued and supported. We view this variability as an inherent strength of our community and use it to inform classroom practices and lesson design. We also establish a strong sense of community where students reflect on their identities, learn from each other, develop critical reading and thinking skills, and are equipped with strategies to take action on issues they care about.

Teaching and learning at CRCS is embedded in a meaningful real world context, where we teach children to see the connections between school and the world. Through a rich social studies focus and a social-emotional curriculum, we aim to equip all of our students with the skills and perspectives that will support them in developing into fully engaged members of their communities.  

Please visit our website for more information about our school: www.communityroots.org  

Benefits and Compensation:

• CRCS’ salary scale for 2022-23 ranges from $63,648.00 to $118,681.80

• Salary works to be competitive with the DOE salary scale
• 403b employer match of retirement contributions 
• Single and family dental, vision, and health care
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Available funding for professional development opportunities
• Community of teachers and staff who are driven, compassionate and supportive

Qualifications:

• Preference for New York State Teacher Certification
• Prior teaching experience with demonstrated success
• Preference for dual certification in Teaching Students with Disabilities (Special Education) and a content area

Community Roots seeks individuals who:

• Believe that all children have the right to an exceptional education, understand that children learn in different ways, and work hard to provide/create the support each student needs
• Believe that working and educating children in a diverse and inclusive environment is essential
• Are committed to anti-bias/anti-racist education, profesionally and personally
• Are capable of building a safe, nurturing, supportive and high achieving school culture
• Believe that communicating and building relationships with children’s families is essential
• Believe that a combination of creativity and research generates engaging curriculum
• Believe in and are capable of high levels of collaboration and communication
• See themselves as active learners committed to ongoing professional development
• Are reflective and embrace feedback 

How to apply: Please apply online at www.communityroots.org/jobs

About the Position:

We are looking for a Spanish teacher for our middle school 7th and 8th Spanish classes for the upcoming 2023-2024 school year. 

About Us:

Community Roots Charter School (CRCS) is a K-8 school in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. As a diverse by design school, we are committed to being inclusive and centering anti-bias/anti-racist education. We provide all students with an educational environment where learner variability is acknowledged, valued and supported. We view this variability as an inherent strength of our community and use it to inform classroom practices and lesson design. We also establish a strong sense of community where students reflect on their identities, learn from each other, develop critical reading and thinking skills, and are equipped with strategies to take action on issues they care about.

Teaching and learning at CRCS is embedded in a meaningful real world context, where we teach children to see the connections between school and the world. Through a rich social studies focus and a social-emotional curriculum, we aim to equip all of our students with the skills and perspectives that will support them in developing into fully engaged members of their communities.  

Please visit our website for more information about our school: www.communityroots.org  

Benefits and Compensation:

• CRCS’ salary scale for 2022-23 ranges from $63,648.00 to $118,681.80

• Salary works to be competitive with the DOE salary scale
• 403b employer match of retirement contributions 
• Single and family dental, vision, and health care
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Available funding for professional development opportunities
• Community of teachers and staff who are driven, compassionate and supportive

Qualifications:

• Preference for New York State Teacher Certification
• Prior teaching experience with demonstrated success
• Preference for dual certification in Teaching Students with Disabilities (Special Education) and a content area

Community Roots seeks individuals who:

• Believe that all children have the right to an exceptional education, understand that children learn in different ways, and work hard to provide/create the support each student needs
• Believe that working and educating children in a diverse and inclusive environment is essential
• Are committed to anti-bias/anti-racist education, professionally and personally
• Are capable of building a safe, nurturing, supportive and high achieving school culture
• Believe that communicating and building relationships with children’s families is essential
• Believe that a combination of creativity and research generates engaging curriculum
• Believe in and are capable of high levels of collaboration and communication
• See themselves as active learners committed to ongoing professional development
• Are reflective and embrace feedback 

How to apply: Please apply online at www.communityroots.org/jobs

We’re excited about special education elementary school teachers who are fired up about their lessons—who want to spend their time discussing, preparing, and immersing themselves in the rich content they teach. We value teachers who truly listen to what students are saying—who create a space for students to think their way through to answers, and who praise their insights and curiosities along the way. We value educators with a hunger for feedback and professional growth, and a dedication to excellence.

Our teachers embrace a rigorous liberal arts program and a positive approach to discipline, believe in the power of family and community partnerships, and commit to helping students succeed in college and beyond.

Why Ascend

Ascend is the largest Brooklyn-based public charter school serving nearly 6,000 K-12 students in 16 schools. We exist to serve every student – to help them embody their inherent excellence by providing rich, joyful learning experiences that unlock a life of boundless choice.

Access to education is a social justice issue. As educators, we center justice and live out our commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism (DEIA) by ensuring that our students have the skills, tools, and confidence they need to thrive today and in the future. We are proud to have a workforce that mirrors the diversity seen in our students. Working at Ascend provides a community focused on developing an environment of support and belonging. Educators collaborate closely and encourage each other to achieve great outcomes.

Our schools honor, nurture, and challenge the whole child. Ascend fosters critical thinking skills and a love of learning through an inquiry-based learning approach, Responsive Classroom model, and anti-racist education. Students at Ascend benefit from a rich and rigorous liberal arts curriculum that nurtures natural curiosity about the world and guides them to think critically and independently.

Ascend invests in employees by providing ongoing professional development, coaching, and career pathways in our schools. We are proud to provide a generous benefits package, which includes flexibility in our healthcare plan, and 403(b) matching starting at year one. At Ascend, we care about our workforce’s mental health and offer services covered by insurance and additional time off for our staff to utilize for their personal care.

For more information on Ascend Public Charter Schools’ model, approach, and core values, please visit our website.

Responsibilities

The lower elementary special education ICT teacher will develop and teach engaging lessons that follow the rigorous, Common Core aligned Ascend curriculum and provide individual or small group instruction for students who require additional academic support. Additionally, the special education ICT teacher will:

• Differentiate small group instruction for students with special needs
• Prepare student individualized education plans in consultation with staff and families to ensure success for all scholars
• Utilize formal and informal assessment data to drive instruction and ensure student mastery of standards
• Build a warm and inclusive classroom environment, implementing the practices of Responsive Classroom
• Create and maintain strong relationships with students and families
• Actively participate in grade-level meetings, collaborative planning, and professional development, including an annual summer institute
• Accept ultimate responsibility for the academic progress of his or her students, and work to actively overcome setbacks

Staff and reporting relationships

The special education ICT teacher reports to the assistant principal and also works closely with the student services coordinator.

Qualifications

• A master’s degree and NYS charter certification required
• NYS certification in any subject/grade level OR meets one of the four uncertified criteria for charter school teachers:
  • TFA alumni
  • 3+ years K-12 teaching experience
  • 3+ years adjunct professional teaching experience
    exceptional professional in the content area he/she will be teaching (e.g. published writer applying for ELA)
• The ability to create a classroom environment where students feel safe, supported, and challenged
• Passion and commitment to teaching scholars in underserved areas and to closing the achievement gap
• Relentless drive to set and achieve ambitious goals
• Strong collaboration and teamwork skills
• Growth mindset and ability to use feedback to improve practice
• Experience teaching in underserved areas a plus

Compensation

Initial salary offers for this position range from $60,000-$90,000. Salaries are determined using an equitable compensation scale that accounts for years of experience and levels of attained education.

Early Hire Bonus

If you receive an early offer to join us for the 2023-24 School Year after undergoing our talent processes, and sign prior to May 1st, 2023 you are eligible to receive a one-time $5,000 bonus.

*see further details below

Diversity at Ascend

Ascend is committed to building a diverse and inclusive community, both through our hiring practices and our focus on creating a culture and environment where diverse perspectives, ideas, and identities are valued and integrated into our way of working and educating students. Ascend staff represent a wide diversity of racial, socio-economic, gender, religious, and national identities—opening a window to the entire Ascend community on the richness of humanity. We welcome all applicants who share our mission and vision to join us in our deeply consequential work.

*the early hire bonus is conditional and subject to all required taxes and withholdings, good standing status, to be paid within ninety (90) days following your first day of work.

The Academy for Careers in Television and Film (TvF) is a Career & Technical Education high school that opened in 2008 in Long Island City, Queens. While TvF is non­selective in its admissions, the school has a deeply rooted commitment to providing all its students with an engaging and high quality educational experience comparable to the most selective programs throughout New York City. Since graduating its first cohort in June 2012, TvF has maintained a graduation rate of 96% or higher every year. TvF greatly values its faculty and staff, who are always supported in strengthening their practice and skills and to grow into leadership roles within the school. Read more about the school and the school’s team here!

TvF is seeking a Social Worker to join our team for the 2021-2022 school year.

Interested candidates should send a resume and cover letter to employment@actvf.org 

Qualifications:

• Licensed Master’s level degree in Social Work
• NYS certification (or in process of reciprocity)
• Experience meeting the social, emotional, and behavioral needs of adolescents in a diverse community 
• Knowledge of evidence-based practices, different counseling modalities, and crisis management
• Effective interpersonal communication skills when working with colleagues, parents, students, and community stakeholders
• Familiarity with the IEP process and relevant documentation

About Overdeck Family Foundation

Overdeck Family Foundation (“the Foundation”) was founded in 2011 by John and Laura Overdeck with the goal of providing all children the opportunity to unlock their potential. The Foundation focuses exclusively on enhancing education, funding efforts both inside and outside of school in the areas of early childhood, informal STEM education, and K-9 programs that include supporting educators and student-centered learning environments. Our grantmaking and strategic support focus on unlocking innovation, evidence, and growth opportunities for organizations and researchers that are committed to accelerating key academic and socioemotional outcomes for all children. The Foundation funds both direct impact organizations and ecosystem efforts that clear the path to scale for our grantees and the work that they do. 

The Portfolio Manager, Inspired Minds Position

The Foundation is seeking a full-time Portfolio Manager to lead the Foundation’s Inspired Minds portfolio, which seeks to build the next generation of creative problem-solvers by expanding access to engaging and challenging STEM learning experiences that deepen family engagement, build STEM mindsets, and inspire students with joyful and rigorous learning. The ideal candidate is passionate about the power of STEM as a vehicle to unlock the potential for children in this country and is energized to source, secure, and support grantees to drive this work.

Reporting to the Associate Program Director, and managing an Associate, the Portfolio Manager will work collaboratively to refine investment strategy, build and nurture relationships across the out-of-school STEM ecosystem, and support early stage and growth stage ventures, aiming to cost effectively and sustainably scale programs that improve academic and socioemotional outcomes for kids  Given the nature of this work, the Portfolio Manager should expect 10-20 percent of this role to include travel for grantee site visits, conferences, and funder meetings. 

Visit www.overdeck.org for more information. To learn more about our Inspired Minds portfolio, visit the websites of some of our partner organizations: EiE, Learn Fresh, Camp/Club Invention, FIRST, Almost Fun, and Afterschool Alliance. 

What You’ll Help Us Do: 

• Design, monitor, and evolve a portfolio strategy: 

• • Lead the development of a coherent portfolio strategy, which evolves from setting ambitious portfolio goals that are grounded in the analysis of evolving market opportunities, trends, and gaps in the education and philanthropic landscapes
  • Define a clear and differentiated position for Overdeck Family Foundation within the portfolio strategy issue area that is grounded in evidence, research, and efficiency of investment
  • Measure, evaluate, and capture lessons from investments to inform strategy iteration and to build strong pattern recognition for how to best provide strategic support to portfolio investments to achieve stated goals

• Propose investments in early and growth stage nonprofit organizations: 

• • Identify organizations aligned to the portfolio strategy and conduct rigorous diligence on prospective investments that are grounded in the foundation’s investment criteria
  • Form a hypothesis and narrative for each investment to create actionable, written grant recommendations and present these to the Board of Trustees
  • Build a balanced portfolio of investments grounded in the potential of each organization to spur innovation, build evidence, and grow to deliver impact while also ensuring that the overall portfolio realizes ecosystem-level impact with minimized risk

• Provide strategic support to grantees: 

• • Serve as a strategic advisor to grantees by developing a strong and trusting partnership—inclusive of providing support, coaching and/or taking on board roles when appropriate—to help grantees understand their organizational needs and achieve their vision for impact
  • As a credible and valuable partner to grantee organizations, manage and prioritize allocation of strategic supports in service of grantee and portfolio goals, grounded in an understanding of the holistic needs of individual grantees and the portfolio, including direct supports, third-party supports, and portfolio-wide learning experiences 
  • Knowledgable in program or product evaluation and can both understand and advise on an organization’s ability to be cost-effective, scalable, impactful, and sustainable

• Influence the field: 
  • Build momentum for positive change related to the portfolio strategy by proactively developing relationships with influential stakeholders
  • Develop and maintain an extensive and diverse network of partnerships across nonprofit, philanthropic, public, and private sectors to advance the mission and goals of the portfolio grantees
  • Partner effectively with peer funders to build awareness of the Foundation’s strategy, identify ways to support each other, and elevate promising grantees to attract additional funding
  • Build awareness of the portfolio strategy and learnings while elevating and amplifying high-performing grantees through strategic public engagement and thought leadership, including speaking at conferences, hosting and participating in key meetings, and engaging in thought leadership writing 

• Manage and coach Associate: 
  • Support Associate to identify a pipeline of prospective investment opportunities and conduct due diligence of those opportunities against Foundation investment criteria
  • Collaborate with Associate to create their professional development plan; regularly revisit progress on growth by taking an active and supportive coaching role to ensure Associate has a clear path to recognize and expand their strengths, while also addressing opportunities to improve
  • Support Associate to navigate obstacles using effective problem solving, as well as discussing and identifying connections, networks and/or opportunities to advance portfolio or grantee goals
  • Engage in joint decision making around grantmaking, including measurement, reporting, and monitoring targets

Who You Are:

An outcomes-oriented strategist who is able to synthesize information to arrive at an evidence-based approach to making investments and supporting grantees. You have experience with early stage and growth stage organizations and understand the challenges they face as they clarify and scale their models. You can build deep relationships across grantees, understand their challenges, observe patterns of need, and build and nurture meaningful and efficient supports to help them succeed. You are analytically natured, curious, and learning oriented. You leverage data and evidence to drive strategic decisions around investments and portfolio support in service of goals. You are comfortable with ambiguity—confidently exploring your hypotheses while remaining flexible and viewing learning from failure as a path to success. 

An authentic and empathetic leader who builds deep and candid relationships with ease. You possess a strong presence and gravitas and can clearly communicate a message tailored to your audience. You build trusting relationships internally and externally because you are authentically you and you value candor and kindness in your interactions. You operate with a high level of self-awareness, humility, and emotional intelligence and you value the same in your colleagues. You engage in conflict confidently and with kindness and navigate tensions by seeking understanding and valuing multiple perspectives. You are able to hold and honor values and perspectives that are different from your own.

Someone who understands STEM education sector. You understand and have developed relationships within the relevant ecosystems and can serve as a credible advisor to organizations. You are familiar with current trends, emerging issues, policy interventions, and innovations focused on joyful and rigorous learning opportunities beyond school hours. You understand product market fit, business/revenue models, and scale and distribution channels specific to work outside and adjacent to the K-12 school system. You are able to evaluate an education intervention to understand if it is cost-effective, scalable, impactful, sustainable, and grounded in educator and student needs.

A team leader who enjoys managing, coaching, and developing direct reports. A colleague who seeks reciprocal learning and growth from colleagues at every level. You deeply believe in the potential of all professionals to learn and grow. You look forward to building and sustaining an effective, growth-oriented, and inclusive team. You are able to collaboratively set a clear vision for the Inspired Minds investment portfolio and you can map individual roles and responsibilities in service of this vision across your team.

Someone who is comfortable in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. You can successfully manage numerous priorities and projects. You are excited about working in an environment where complex problems are being considered and can proactively develop creative solutions. You value innovation and can see potential in new ideas and bring them to life. 

What You’ve Done:

Required experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 10 years of work experience, including time spent leading teams to deliver results in or adjacent to early and/or growth stage organizations
• Direct experience and content expertise in STEM education or STEM related focus within a youth development, nonprofit management, philanthropy, or research or policy role or organization
• Demonstrated experience growing an organization, including formulating and executing strategy, identifying challenges, and implementing solutions
• Demonstrated strength in quantitative analysis and data-driven decision making
• Demonstrated management experience, focused on staff development and growth

Preferred experience:

• Master’s degree in relevant field of education, policy, business, law, statistics, math, science, nonprofit management, or engineering
• Venture philanthropy experience supporting organizational growth and development through informal and formal support (i.e. grants, board experience, consulting, providing capacity-building support)
• Experience conducting cost benefit analysis and/or cost effectiveness analysis

How to Apply:

Overdeck Family Foundation is partnering with RCG Talent Solutions to find our next Portfolio Manager, Inspired Minds. Please follow this link to submit your application and direct all questions to openroles@rcgtalent.com.

Working at Overdeck Family Foundation:
Overdeck Family Foundation is committed to providing a total rewards package (both base salary and benefits) that is competitive within the philanthropic sector. The base pay for this role is anticipated to be between $112,500 and $165,000. The anticipated base pay range is based on information as of the time this post was generated. Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on a number of factors, including their skills, qualifications, and relevant work experience. Additionally, employees are eligible for a discretionary annual performance bonus.

We offer competitive core benefits, including fully paid medical and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents, competitive 401(k) match, $3,000 annual professional development funds, tuition reimbursement, generous vacation time, unlimited sick days, and employer-paid life and disability insurance. Overdeck Family Foundation requires all employees to live within a commutable distance from the office in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. Each week, employees must work in the office on Tuesdays and additional “team days” for collaboration, with the option to work remotely on all other days. Perks of being in the office include on-site gyms with laundry service, wellness classes, snacks, and a casual dress code in our beautiful office in SoHo.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Overdeck Family Foundation is dedicated to the work of unlocking every child’s potential. We are committed to creating a workplace where employees thrive both personally and professionally. We also believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the children in the education system we aim to support—in race, gender, age, culture, and beliefs—and we support this diversity through all of our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.

This summer, be part of a transformative experience for students from low-income and historically marginalized communities with exceptional potential in math.

Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM), a project of the Art of Problem Solving Initiative, Inc., is seeking enthusiastic mathematics instructors for a 5 week long summer day camp. Faculty teach at least one course of their own design (pre-packaged courses designed by BEAM are available to teach as a second course if desired) to curious middle school students from low-income and historically marginalized communities and help us to build a community of math-lovers. Ideal Faculty candidates are middle school and high school teachers interested in enrichment math. We also welcome applications from college or university professors with strong teaching backgrounds. Junior faculty positions are also available for graduate students and early career teachers.

Covid-19 Note:  While our intention is to hold our programs in person, we reserve the right to hold our programs virtually for the Summer of 2023 depending on community spread of COVID-19. We will continue to monitor the situation and give updates as needed. All employees that work in-person at Summer Away sites must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to their first day of work  as a term and condition of employment at BEAM.  In addition to being fully vaccinated, BEAM requires all eligible employees to receive a booster. Proof of vaccination will be required.

For more information, please review our Safety Policies.

What You’ll Do:

As a Faculty member, you are a key component of the structure of our program. It is important to us that students are presented with challenging mathematical topics and that they are at the center of the math that happens in the classroom.  Our students are inquisitive and enjoy working hands-on, discovering deep mathematics to grow as mathematicians. In a BEAM classroom, students work to discover patterns, connect with each other over their discoveries, make conjectures, and share arguments in favor of or against those conjectures with classmates and their instructor. You’ll support that by:

• Teaching interesting mathematics courses to engaged middle school students. Full-time faculty members teach two 5-week courses that run concurrently (one in the morning, one in the afternoon) and have two sections each. Part-time faculty members teach just one 5-week course with two sections (both in either the morning or the afternoon). Courses at BEAM Discovery can be:
  • Logical Reasoning introduces logical reasoning including deductive logic, case analysis, working methodically, and proof by contradiction
  • Math Fundamentals leads students to understand mathematics from school (especially foundation, elementary topics) on a deeper, more conceptual level
  • Creative Problem Solving exposes students to problems that require creativity, often through math contest problems (or topics that appear often in middle school math contests)
  • Applied Math introduces students to applications of math, such as programming, astronomy, mathematical biology (such as predator and prey models, or genetics), or estimation and Fermi problems
• Preparing class materials that allow students to do mathematics (rather than hear about mathematics)
• Leading classes designed to provoke student curiosity and inquiry; ideally, this would be done via activities built to allow students to explore/develop the math directly through their work (as opposed to copying examples and applying them) and where students are given time and space to  productively struggle and to get through that struggle
• Supporting student learning, growth, and love of mathematics by fostering positive relationships and being an engaged member of the community during camp activities, such as working with students during Open Math Time, judging Relays,  and/or (optionally) eating lunch with students
• Attending staff meetings (typically 1-2 times a week) that include time for building community amongst summer staff, engaging in professional development, and aligning on upcoming priorities

BEAM Discovery is a day camp, so it isn’t necessarily a typical teaching job, but we think that’s one of the great things about working with us! Our faculty teach courses they are passionate about and our students have the ability to choose which classes they take: this fosters a strong, positive relationship between enthusiastic learners and faculty who get to share their love of mathematics with them each day.

Who You Are:

Strong candidates will work well on a close-knit team and will be able to bring unique curriculum perspectives to the program. Experience with mathematics curriculum design for middle school audiences, with students from low-income or historically marginalized backgrounds or at Title 1 schools, and with other extracurricular outreach programs (such as math summer programs or math circles, MATHCOUNTS, programming workshops, or similar) are all beneficial. We will provide mentorship, textbooks, and other resources as needed. Beyond the classroom, we expect that faculty will create a fun and inclusive community with the students.

We’re interested in hiring people who are committed to growth. Faculty often return to work with us for multiple summers, and the feedback we get is that working for us allows them to identify and tackle growth opportunities that translate to their year-round jobs. We believe that we have as much to learn from our students as they do from us!

Details:

Location: BEAM Discovery’s Los Angeles campus is in the Pico-Union/Koreatown area. The exact names of the campus location will be provided later.

Program dates:

• The LA dates will be June 20 – August 1, 2023*
• The NYC dates will be June 30 – August 15, 2023 (with July 3-4 off)*

* These dates are inclusive of the 5-week camp as well as pre-camp training and set-up and post-camp wrap-up. During this period, you would work Mondays – Fridays.

Compensation: $5,670 for Faculty for the time that the program runs. Part time positions are available and paid hourly with an expected compensation rate of around $3360. We do have a Senior Faculty position with $7,350 compensation for candidates who have grown with us over multiple summers or are exceptionally strong fits for the role. Eligibility for the Senior Faculty position will be assessed during the Faculty hiring process.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visa at this time. International graduate students able to obtain CPT or OPT are welcome to apply.

Application Process and Deadline:

The initial step is to submit your application, including resumé and responses to a few short application questions, via our online portal. When your application is complete, we will follow up with next steps.

Next steps in our process will include submitting a course proposal that outlines the objectives and a sample lesson from a course you would like to teach at BEAM this summer.  We believe in the importance of demonstrated ability and providing opportunities that allow candidates to demonstrate relevant skills for the role throughout our process. For more specifics on what we’re looking for in this next stage, you can refer to this document. The final step of our process is a final interview with the hiring lead for Faculty positions.

We are still accepting applications for BEAM Discovery positions! We will review applications on a rolling basis until all positions are full.

For more information and the application, contact us at emily@beammath.org or visit our website at www.beammath.org/beam-discovery-faculty-info. For information on working at our residential summer camps, check out our BEAM Summer Away postings!

The New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO), a nonpartisan city agency, is seeking an experienced and self-motivated budget and policy analyst to join our public education team. The City Charter and State Education Law directs the IBO to provide analyses and issue public reports on the city’s public education budget, policy, and outcomes and to enhance official and public understanding of such matters.

A successful candidate for this position will evidence a deep understanding of public budgeting and finance as well as awareness of the range of issues related to public education in an urban setting. Experience with analysis of the New York City budget and federal or New York State funding streams for education, and knowledge of the New York City Department of Education budget or budgeting processes, or the city’s Financial Management System, are definite pluses. The successful candidate will also demonstrate strong awareness of the relationship between budgeting and policy.

Qualifications:

Candidates should be detail-oriented, analytic, demonstrate skills necessary to work with large data bases of individual and school level data, and have experience with public budgeting systems. Candidates should have experience in quantitative research and rigorous policy analysis, demonstrate strong writing skills to convey complex content clearly and simply for a wide range of audiences, and be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Commitment to impartial and independent research is essential. Ability to take initiative and meet deadlines is critical, as is the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Experience with SAS, R, or similar statistical package is a plus.

A graduate degree in public policy, administration, economics, or a related area of social science research, along with two to five years of experience, is preferred; equivalent work experience may substitute.

Salary range: $70,000-$85,000, depending upon experience.

Other Information:

New York City residency must be established within 90 days of appointment and is required for the first two years of city service, after which employees may reside in Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, or Westchester Counties. You must be legally eligible to work in the United States.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual’s sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

As a current or prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. Please review the notice to see if you may be eligible for programs and how to apply at nyc.gov/studentloans.

IBO allows for hybrid work schedules.

Overview

Youth Communication (YC) is growing and seeking a dynamic and experienced Director of Partnership Development to deepen YC’s impact and develop partnerships with schools, districts, government agencies, and community-based youth programs. YC provides curricula and professional development based on true stories written by teens. Our programs enable schools and other youth-serving organizations to create supportive, culturally responsive learning communities. We are committed to teens of color and other young adults whose voices need to be heard.

The Director of Partnership Development will be responsible for building deep and broad relationships with school leaders and other decision-makers. The position requires knowledge of (and the ability to discover) school and agency funding streams and curriculum adoption timelines. It also requires the ability to build relationships with decision-makers at the school, agency, and district levels.

As an ideal candidate for this position, you are energetic, entrepreneurial, highly self-directed, and hands-on, with a proven track record of securing customers and closing sales. You possess strong relationship building skills, the capacity to establish a strong rapport with YC’s existing partners, and a deep passion for YC’s mission to amplify youth voice.

Given the complex nature of the curriculum adoption and professional development purchasing process, this job will require frequent virtual and in person meetings with principals and district staff both in NYC and nationwide. Occasional regional and national travel may also be required. They will also work closely with our Executive Director, Managing Director of External Relations, Marketing Director, and the YC education team to identify potential school partners and funding sources, determine their needs and how YC’s programs and services can meet them, and enlist them in supporting or purchasing YC programs.

Youth Communication is pursuing ambitious growth goals for our culturally responsive, social and emotional learning programs. Over the next three years, we aim to scale our programs across New York City public schools and build roads to expansion across the country. This role is a crucial element of that plan. The Director of Partnership Development must be agile and ready to adapt to these new opportunities for growth.

YC is operating with a hybrid model, with an expectation of at least two days of in-person work a week.

About Youth Communication

YC elevates the power of youth voices to improve the lives of young people who are the furthest from opportunity, including youth of color, youth living in poverty, experiencing housing instability, and in foster care. We provide powerful, teen-written stories and professional development that help educators and youth workers connect with teens and build their social and emotional skills.

Our professional development and curricula are based on true stories written by teens in YC’s intensive writing program. These stories make YC’s professional development programs and services unique in the field and exceptionally engaging for teens.

Youth Communication currently has a $1.9M+ operating budget, with 90% funded through philanthropic support and 10% through earned income from our PD services. This year, our goal is to secure $400K in earned income.

The ideal candidate will be both highly collaborative and self-directed. We are looking for a teammate who brings an outcomes-oriented approach to providing solutions that authentically center youth voice and lead to the creation of safer, more supportive, and inclusive schools and communities.

The Director of Partnership Development will be expected to fully engage in Youth Communication’s diversity, equity, and inclusion work. This will include regularly reflecting on their own intersectional identities, infusing their own work with an equity mindset, and holding themselves and their colleagues accountable.

Responsibilities

Sales (65%)

• Identify and cultivate new potential partners among schools, school districts, community-based organizations (CBOs), and government agencies for YC’s professional development services and curricula.
• Research relevant sources of public funding and identify potential customers for cultivation.
• Cultivate relationships with existing partners and maintain those relationships through a high level of service and professional empathy.
• Research and identify third-party payers (e.g foundations or intermediary organizations), that recognize the value in YC’s programs and services.
• Meet or exceed annual revenue goals. This year, that goal is $400,000.
• Secure payment commitments, manage invoicing, and draft contracts.
• Ensure maintenance of accurate records of sales and prospecting activities in Salesforce (CRM), tracking sales goals on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.

Marketing Collaboration (20%)

• Represent YC to the public in meetings and speaking engagements, marketing our revenue-generating services.
• Collaborate with both Marketing and Education on sales-specific external communications opportunities as well as YC’s convention strategy–seeking to attend at least three conferences each year with the purpose of generating leads.
• Work collaboratively and creatively with YC’s marketing and communication staff to create and disseminate messages that convey the value of our programs and services— via YC’s websites, social media, brochures, and other collateral.

Program Collaboration (15%)

• Collaborate with YC program directors to:
  • ensure that program services are aligned with sales and organizational goals;
  • identify new customer needs to inform curriculum development and training services that are aligned with our strategic direction.
• Assess reports from program evaluations and customer testimonials and integrate them into sales efforts.

Qualifications

• Passionate about YC’s mission to elevate the power of youth voice to improve the lives of youth in New York City and beyond, particularly teens of color and other young adults whose voices need to be heard. Able to communicate that passion to school-based staff, district leaders, community-based organization decision-makers, city agency leaders, etc.
• Sales and marketing experience and track record of closing sales and/or securing revenue and the ability to represent the organization to a wide range of stakeholders and constituencies.
• Knowledge of the NYC educational and youth development landscape.
• Knowledge of broad educational trends and the national market for social and emotional programs and services.
• Familiarity with the complex challenges that educators face in their work to support youth who are the furthest from economic and educational opportunity. Service-minded, supportive, and demonstrates care and empathy for students and teachers.
• Adaptive, flexible, and highly focused, demonstrating a readiness to support organizational growth.
• Strong public speaking and presentation skills.
• Comfortable tracking revenue and managing a pipeline in Salesforce (or comparable CRM).
• Familiarity with software systems for managing contacts, projects, and revenue-generation activities (e.g. Google Suite, Salesforce, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom).
• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in education and experience.
• 3-5 years of educational sales or similar experience leading communities of educators and/or equivalent experience working in public education and/or youth development in NYC.

Salary

• $75,000-$85,000, based on experience.

Benefits

• Youth Communication offers a generous health care plan (paid 85% by the organization); three weeks of paid vacation in the first year, 11 paid holidays, and other benefits. The office operates on a hybrid model with a mix of work-from-home/in-person.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) is a dynamic social justice organization that strives to ensure a high-quality education for New York students who face barriers to academic success, focusing on students from low- income backgrounds. AFC works on behalf of children and youth who are at greatest risk of academic failure due to poverty, race, ethnicity, disability, homelessness, immigration status/limited English proficiency, or involvement in the child welfare or juvenile/criminal legal systems. We use uniquely integrated strategies to advance systemic reform, empower families and communities,
and advocate for the educational rights of individual students. For more information on AFC, see www.advocatesforchildren.org.

AFC seeks a Staff Attorney for its Immigrant Students’ Rights Project (ISRP). ISRP works to protect the education-related rights of underserved immigrant families. Immigrant families face unique obstacles in NYC public schools related to their linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

The Staff Attorney will report directly to ISRP’s Project Director.

RESPONSIBILITIES
The attorney will primarily serve immigrant families of children with special needs and English Language Learners (ELLs).

Responsibilities include:

• Representing parents at special education administrative hearings;

• Participating in school meetings and school visits;

• Assisting families with school related issues such as school enrollment, locating bilingual
programs, and addressing bullying;

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Please e-mail one document that includes a resume and cover letter to ISRPstaffattorney@afcnyc.org with “Staff Attorney – Immigrant Students’ Rights Project” in the subject line. Candidates should highlight why they are interested in this role at AFC and how their experience aligns with the Staff Attorney position, including any personal or professional experience that demonstrates your connection to the populations AFC serves. Due to the high volume of applicants, only complete applications from
qualified candidates will be contacted.

EXPECTED START DATE
The position is available immediately, and resumes will be considered on a rolling basis.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
This is a full-time position, with a salary in the $73,000 – $81,000 range, depending on experience, and includes a comprehensive benefits package. AFC’s current compensation package includes medical and dental insurance, with a plan option that covers full payment of medical plan premiums for staff and their qualified dependents. AFC has generous time-off policies that include 10 federal holidays, office closure between Christmas and New Year’s Day, and 15 vacation days and 15 paid time off days in the first year of employment. AFC also offers a 403(b) plan with a fully vested employer match and coverage of the premium cost of life insurance and long- and short-term disability insurance.

OTHER INFORMATION
Currently, all AFC positions are expected to work at least 2 days a week in the office and remotely on the remaining days. COVID vaccination is required prior to the first day of employment.

AFC is an affirmative action employer that actively seeks to recruit and retain a diverse staff and especially encourages applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, parents of persons with disabilities, persons of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities or gender expressions and persons of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.

AFC is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability or other protected characteristic. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process. For more information and to request an accommodation, contact Human Resources at HR@advocatesforchildren.org.

• Providing know-your-rights trainings to families, community organizations, and service providers;

• Supporting ongoing policy advocacy efforts focusing on ELLs, immigrant students, and access to translation and interpretation services in schools;

• Researching and conducting outreach to organizations that provide services to immigrant
communities; and

• Drafting and updating informational materials for immigrant parents;

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• Law degree required and admission to the NYS bar preferred;

• 0-4 years of legal experience required;

• Spanish language fluency required;

• Ability to effectively engage across cultures, identities, and ethnicities, particularly Latinx and immigrant families;

• Strong presentation skills and comfort with public speaking;

• Able to engage with a variety of audiences that include parents, community partners, and NYC DOE staff;

• Organized, detail oriented, and able to work independently on tasks and deliverables;

• Strong writing ability;

• Understanding of and alignment with AFC’s mission. Please review AFC’s work at
www.advocatesforchildren.org; and

• Desire to learn, both as an individual and as part of an organization, and apply diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism principles.

Position Description

About Inwood Academy for Leadership

Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School is a tuition-free public charter school that began as an idea among community members who longed to see more educational choices offered to the children of Washington Heights and Inwood.

Strategy Lead, Bridging (Program Officer)

Einhorn Collaborative is seeking a Strategy Lead (similar to the “Program Officer” role at peer foundations) to drive our Bridging strategy and portfolio. The Strategy Lead will be responsible for advancing a long-term strategy to identify, fund, and support organizations that are helping members of Gen Z become more civic-minded and gain skills to build strong collaborative relationships across lines of difference.

Einhorn Collaborative is partnering with RCG Talent Solutions to support our search for the Strategy Lead position. Please direct all questions to the RCG team at openroles@rcgtalent.com.

About Einhorn Collaborative:

Einhorn Collaborative is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to addressing America’s growing crisis of connection. We work with a wide range of researchers, community leaders, cultural influencers, and funders to help Americans build stronger relationships, embrace our differences, and rediscover our shared humanity — so we can solve our most urgent challenges together.

To advance this mission, Einhorn Collaborative’s strategy focuses on four interconnected, mutually reinforcing areas of human connection:

• Bonding: Developing our capacity to nurture healthy relationships by fostering emotional connection between babies and their parents/caregivers.
• Bridging: Equipping young people with the skills and experiences to build relationships across lines of differences.
• Building: Building systems and institutions that strengthen social connection and cohesion.
• Belonging: Amplifying narratives that foster a culture of empathy, trust, collaboration, and belonging.

As a foundation, our approach is grounded in collaboration and collective impact. We believe in making impactful investments by bringing together field leaders and peer funders across varying ideological, racial, religious, socioeconomic, and geographic differences to listen, learn, and take on shared challenges and opportunities. We fuel the conditions for collaboration among these actors to harness collective wisdom and develop joint efforts to achieve more lasting outcomes.

More information about the foundation can be found here: www.einhorncollaborative.org.

About Einhorn Collaborative’s Bridging Strategy:

To help cultivate a more socially cohesive society, we need many more bridge-builders – people who have the motivation, skills, values, and behaviors to help others navigate divides and work together to address civic problems. Adolescence (12-25 years of age) is the ripest developmental stage where identity and values are formed. Young people have an openness to new people and ideas. By participating in high-quality bridging experiences, young people have the opportunity to become bridge-builders and gain the skill sets and lifelong habits needed to address community needs and repair our social fabric now and in the future.

Our current Bridging strategy seeks to increase the quality and quantity of bridging experiences in three key settings that reach young people:

• Civic learning as the universal preparation across middle and high schools, with an emphasis on New York State.
• Community-engaged learning (CEL) as an effective pedagogical approach in higher-education, with an emphasis on Einhorn Collaborative’s partnership with Cornell University as an exemplar institution committed to providing all students with high-quality CEL opportunities.
• National service as a high-dosage model to develop future leaders committed to bridge-building.

We also seek to shift American culture to incentivize, resource, and celebrate bridging as a critical component of positive youth development and recognize the need and opportunity to effectively elevate youth voice.

In the spirit of the collaboration we wish to see in the world, our staff seeks to engage a wide range of stakeholders including grantee partners, industry leaders, peer funders, community members, young people, and many others to shape and influence the approach we take with our work. We seek to build deep, supportive relationships with our grantee partners –offering resources, time, and networking opportunities to them in support of our shared work.

Candidates who advance to the semi-finalist and finalist rounds will receive more detailed information about the Bridging strategy.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Strategy Lead will implement and refine our Bridging strategy and serve as an active participant in several collaborative efforts to provide more young people with high-quality bridging experiences. In future years, the Strategy Lead will have the opportunity to develop the next iteration of the Bridging strategy, informed by insights from Einhorn Collaborative’s current work.

In their first year, the Strategy Lead will assume leadership of our existing strategy as outlined above, build strong relationships across relevant ecosystems, and connect with our existing team and culture. In 2024, the Strategy Lead will take learnings from their first year in the role to set the long-term strategy for our Bridging work in partnership with our Executive Director and other staff members.

Given that Einhorn Collaborative is a very small and talented team of seven committed to effecting positive social change, we have established a culture and routine centered on advising and supporting each other. In addition to energy spent leading the Bridging work, the Strategy Lead will also spend substantial time collaborating across our team and will assume leadership and support roles in internal, cross-portfolio initiatives, and organization-wide priorities in a fully emergent way.

The ideal Strategy Lead is an experienced strategist driven by impact and relationships. The Strategy Lead will need to successfully communicate with and inspire partners at every level – from middle schoolers to University Presidents. Most importantly, the Strategy Lead will need a deep understanding of and passion for Gen Z and will bring a deep belief in their potential to be a bridge-building generation.

Role Responsibilities:

Manage and Evolve Bridging Strategy:

• Assume leadership of the Bridging strategy theory of action.
• Leverage an emergent strategic approach and an expansive learning orientation to support active investments and efforts in the Bridging strategy.
• After the first year or so in the role, develop recommendations for continuation and/or new partnerships that will most effectively advance the Bridging Strategy.
• Develop deep, collaborative, and reciprocal relationships with a wide range of peers, partners, researchers, and prospects to better inform the Bridging Strategy.

Identify, Manage, and Support Grantee Partnerships:

• Source, evaluate, recommend, and manage multi-year philanthropic partnerships to advance concrete projects that complement collaborative efforts.
• Establish and nurture co-funding partnerships with peer philanthropic organizations to aggregate capital toward collaborative projects.
• Create and execute impact measurement strategies to track progress at the project and strategy level while minimizing unnecessary reporting burden on grantee partners.
• Support grantee partners in meaningful ways that help them realize their impact goals including offering coaching, connecting them to resources, connecting them to people, and otherwise rooting for their success.
• Build connections across grantee partners, when mutually advantageous, in meaningful and efficient ways.

Thought Leadership:

In partnership with Einhorn Collaborative’s Belonging Lead,

• Raise the profile of Einhorn Collaborative, the Bridging strategy, and the work of grantee partners through traditional media, social media, and speaking engagements.
• Represent Einhorn Collaborative and effectively communicate Einhorn Collaborative’s core mission and vision and the Bridging strategy specifically to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Identify and participate in opportunities to connect with others in philanthropy to advance the Bridging strategy’s efforts and goals.

Cross-Portfolio Support:

• Design and lead organization-wide internal projects to advance Einhorn Collaborative’s commitment to connection, progress, and learning.
• Review peer funding recommendations from other strategies to support cross-portfolio emergent learning, due diligence, etc.

Who You Are:

You’re passionate about reweaving our social fabric: You are excited about being part of a small team that works with incredible nonprofits and stakeholders that are advancing the power and possibility of human connection to bridge our divides. This mission reflects your values and your own personal approach to working with others.

You’re an exceptional communicator, relationship-builder, and project manager: You are people-driven, ensuring internal and external stakeholders are engaged and informed at key moments across the arc of an initiative–knowing what is needed of them and when–to ensure high-quality, seamless execution and impact.

You believe in the power of young people: You are committed to helping young people thrive as critical assets in addressing society’s greatest challenges and opportunities.

You love big ideas and bringing people together to make them happen: You are exceptional at building vision, recruiting others to join, co-developing strategy, connecting the dots, and rolling out on-time execution.

You have excellent analytical skills and remarkable attention to detail: You enjoy setting goals and developing the analytics and metrics to assess effectiveness and performance in order to improve; you routinely identify gaps and opportunities for new projects and programs to ensure we achieve maximum impact.

You are always learning: You actively seek feedback, are intellectually curious and motivated to tackle new challenges, and contribute to the team’s continuous learning and improvement by modeling it in your own approach to professional growth and problem-solving.

You thrive being part of a small, tight-knit team: You work both collaboratively and independently and effectively create structures to manage ambiguity and deliver clarity and focus for our team and external partners.

You do what it takes to get the job done: No project or task is too big or too small; you are clever and nimble, helping find solutions, willing to roll up your sleeves and jump in when and where needed. You are a self-starter and have strong time management skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and coordinate multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

What You’ve Done:

Required experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Work experience that includes organizational leadership or cross-organizational leadership
• Time spent working in one or more of these social impact contexts:
  • Youth development with a focus on socioemotional development
  • National service
  • Civic education
  • Secondary education
  • Student life in higher education
  • Workforce development that is focused on character development
• Experience interfacing with donors, ideally in a fundraising context
• Demonstrated experience in a role that required sophisticated strategic and tactical planning and execution at the organizational level or across an organization
• Demonstrated experience developing and stewarding external relationships and leveraging those relationships to work in concert towards shared goals
• Demonstrated experience gathering, analyzing, synthesizing, and effectively communicating key insights (in writing and presenting) from multiple sources to inform short- and long-term strategy evolutions
• Demonstrated ability to build meaningful and authentic relationships through interpersonal skills such as listening, engaging, seeking to learn from others with an assets-based approach, seeking to understand multiple and divergent perspective, and presenting ideas in ways that draw others into your thinking while also holding an openness and willingness to change your mind

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience facilitating and/or participating in collaborative or collective impact efforts
• Either:
  • Grantmaking experience including evaluating, recommending, and stewarding partnerships
  • Fundraising experience including work identifying, qualifying, pursuing, cultivating, securing, and stewarding funding opportunities
• Familiarity with advocacy, policy, and systems change best practices
• Demonstrated ability to work well with young people and effectively lift up and represent youth voice

Einhorn Collaborative Values:

• We’re driven by our mission: We’re a small and dedicated team who believe that addressing America’s crisis of connection is not only critically urgent, but possible. We believe the prevailing narratives of distrust and division are not only flawed, but reversible if we are willing to sit down, listen, learn, and share different perspectives.
• We put relationships first: We put human connection at the center of everything we do. We treat others with open-hearted curiosity, compassion, and dignity. We are relational, not transactional, because trust is at the heart of true partnership and collaboration.
• We believe we are better together: We actively seek opportunities to work among diverse groups of people to complement individual skillsets, knowledge, and expertise—both lived and academic. Working together, we find common ground and generate better ideas that can achieve more lasting outcomes.
• We practice what we preach: We bring a spirit of mutuality to our relationships with funding peers and nonprofit partners. We provide perspective, a vast network, and resources, while our grantee partners determine key actions, metrics, and the support they need to achieve outcomes we both care deeply about.
• We focus on a few key levers: We prioritize a few key levers that address critical aspects of today’s crisis of connection within a large, growing ecosystem. By providing targeted support, we believe we will make concerted advances toward our long-term vision.
• We seek transformational impact: We seek out opportunities with the potential for outsized impact. Our collaborators learn, adapt, and spread core insights about human connection and belonging across settings and institutions that together transform systems and communities.
• We’re always learning and improving: We define success for ourselves and our partners by what we learn together. We revisit assumptions, examine what’s working for whom and why, and pivot as necessary. We know even the best laid plans will change due to lessons learned on the ground.
• We’re committed to each other, the work, and the journey: In order to help build a culture of connection and belonging in America, we recognize the work we must do as individuals to be students of our nation’s history, reflect on our hidden biases, and routinely engage with perspectives different from our own, to help inform, shape, and guide our work and our worldview. Read more about our commitment here.

Working at Einhorn Collaborative:

Einhorn Collaborative is committed to providing a total rewards package (both base salary and benefits) that is competitive within the philanthropic sector. The base pay for this role is anticipated to be between $175,000 and $200,000. Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on a number of factors, including their skills, qualifications, and relevant work experience. Additionally, employees are eligible for a discretionary annual performance bonus.

We offer competitive core benefits, including fully paid medical and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents, generous employer-paid retirement contribution after the first full calendar year of employment, $5,000 annual professional development funds, and three weeks’ vacation time plus the last week of the year off. Einhorn Collaborative requires all employees to live within a commutable distance from the office near Grand Central in New York City. Employees must work in the office at least three days a week (per current policy, subject to change). Perks of being in the office include an on-site gym, lunch, snacks, and a business casual dress code.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Einhorn Collaborative is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified candidates and employees pursuant to applicable law. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact openroles@rcgtalent.com.

Who We Are
New Visions for Public Schools is the leading non-profit organization dedicated to the improvement of public education in New York City. Today, we support almost 2,000 public schools and thousands of teachers, serving over a million students, in their most critical work: deciding what and how to teach, helping keep students on track to graduation, and preparing students for success beyond high school. New Visions directly manages a network of 10 charter high schools across the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens.

Who You Are
You’re a dedicated educator who is committed to serving students from all backgrounds. You approach learning via a growth mindset and have a proven track record of engaging students. You are reflective, seek and effectively apply feedback, and strive to learn from those around you. You make informed decisions about lesson planning based on data and have demonstrated success in tailoring instruction to the needs of diverse learners. You work collaboratively with others to achieve common goals and are passionate about the mission of New Visions.

What You’ll Do
You’ll develop accessible curriculum through team co-planning, co-teaching and co-assessing. You’ll collaborate with teachers, families and school-based support teams to meet your students’ needs. You’ll build students’ academic and socio-emotional skills while advocating to ensure that they receive appropriate supports. You’ll create plans for post-high school transition to ensure quality of life after high school.

Why New Visions?
You can expect to receive enhanced instructional support, a range of professional development opportunities, access to flexible data tools and the opportunity to be part of a passionate team of colleagues. You’ll be empowered to meet each of your student’s needs through a collaborative and innovative learning environment. And most importantly, you’ll continue to inspire and make a difference in students’ lives.

Apply Now!
To apply and read the comprehensive job description, check out our careers site!

Salary
$72,702 minimum to $132,715 maximum

While the majority of new hires’ starting salaries shall be expected to be placed in the first half of the range(s) to allow space to grow in the job, for those who already have significant relevant experience at that level of the job, placement at the higher end of the range(s) is possible.”

EEO
New Visions for Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that our people and teams should reflect the diverse communities we serve, and that our culture and internal structures should be inclusive and equitable for all prospective and current employees.

VOICE Charter School (http://www.voicecharterschool.org/) is an elementary and middle school located in Long Island City, Queens that serves about 650 students across grades K-8.  We are located just minutes from Manhattan (two stops outside of Manhattan on the F, N, and W train lines) and Long Island City’s growing waterfront district, thriving arts community, and rapid residential growth. We are looking to identify extraordinary educators and administrators committed to urban education who wish to join a dynamic professional learning community.

Our mission is to create a safe and healthy learning environment that will nurture, motivate and challenge all of our children to achieve the highest level of academic excellence and to develop into mindful, responsible, contributing participants in their education, their community and the diverse society in which we live.

What makes VOICE different?

At VOICE, it’s not just about the music. It’s about the people. It’s about what you can be. It’s about using your passion. It’s about relationships. It’s about having the opportunity to choose. It’s about caring enough. It’s about each individual child and adult.

We believe in efficacy. At the core of our academic culture is the idea that all students are capable of doing well in any discipline. At VOICE, all students will learn – being smart is not something that you are, it is something you become.  At VOICE, you will be pushed to become more.

We support and develop the effectiveness of our teachers. We believe that teachers need time to collaborate to build their practice, so we provide our team with over two hours of planning time a day as well as additional days for collaborative thought partnership and planning during the school year.

We promote participation in music and the arts. As music and art help develop problem solving and critical thinking skills and open children’s imaginations, all VOICE students participate in and learn from daily activities in the arts including rigorous choral training. We design our arts-integrated curriculum to bring joy and wonder to the lives of our children, providing them with the skills necessary to forge their own path.

All Staff at VOICE:

• Love and nurture all of our students as they become deeply caring and responsible individuals;
• Take personal responsibility and work collaboratively to ensure that all students achieve and grow, understanding that the performance and progress of our students is directly under our control;
• Ask questions and empower students to exercise curiosity and wonder about the world around them;
• Hold themselves to the highest standards;
• Push and support themselves, their students, and their colleagues;
• Proactively seek and incorporate feedback;
• Help each individual child gain the opportunity to choose what his or her future will be.

________________________________________________________________________

Position Responsibilities:

Position Qualifications:

Behavioral Qualifications

• Unwavering commitment to VOICE mission, vision, and values
• Models high standards of integrity, trust, openness, and respect for others
• Demonstrates integrity by honoring commitments and promises
• Operates and follows through on assigned tasks and projects under specific time constraints and by specified deadlines
• Is productive and carries fair share of the workload; focuses on quality and expends the necessary time and effort to achieve goals
• Seeks to understand and meet and/or exceed the needs and expectations of customers and clients; treats customers and clients with respect
• Builds and maintains excellent positive relationships with and between team members
• Recognizes the constructive value of and embraces feedback
• Responds and adapts to developing challenges and obstacles when under pressure calmly and logically to develop working solutions in a timely manner
• Identifies and seeks to resolve and prevent problems
• Approaches new challenges as opportunities to improve skills and abilities, seeking advice and feedback to constantly improve
• Seeks opportunities for personal and professional learning

Skills and Knowledge

• Exercises discretion regarding sensitive personal and legal information
• Effectively prioritizes tasks in order to meet deadlines
• Responds to requests in a professional manner, even in difficult circumstances; provides accurate and timely service
• Works effectively and cooperatively with others to achieve goals
• Writes clearly and concisely; listens attentively to others and responds appropriately; takes into account the audience and nature of the information
• Verbally articulates progress against tasks clearly and concisely; communicates ideas, suggestions and concerns as well as outcomes and progress throughout the course of a task or project
• Regularly applies feedback and training outcomes to the work to grow continuously in and add value to the role
• Ensures that all problems encountered are addressed at the appropriate level and communicates all relevant information on a timely basis with accuracy and completeness
• Manages up and laterally by proactively providing supervisors and clients support and solutions to move work and projects forward
• Delegates tasks clearly and concisely, holding others accountable to deadlines and outcomes
• Identifies and seeks to resolve and prevent conflicts with team members
• Monitors workloads and provides feedback
• Demonstrates proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Google Drive applications
• Familiarity with office operations and event planning

Educational Background and Work Experience

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university preferred.
• 1-2 years of experience working in an office environment
• Clear understanding of office organization
• 1-2 years of increasing responsibility tied to events and/or operations
• 1-2 years of experience working in a nonprofit organization or school preferred
• Experience managing multiple large projects preferred
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred

Compensation and Benefits: Compensation is competitive and based on experience.  We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including participation in the TransitChek program and partial reimbursement for monthly commuting expenses, gym reimbursement, cultural enrichment reimbursements and many opportunities to get to know your VOICE colleagues!

VOICE Charter School is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In its employment decisions, VOICE does not discriminate on the basis of an applicant or employee’s race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.

VOICE Charter School (www.voicecharterschool.org) is an elementary and middle school located in Long Island City, Queens that serves students in grades K-8. We are located just minutes from Manhattan (two stops from the last subway stop in Manhattan on the F train) and Long Island City’s growing waterfront district, thriving arts community, and rapid residential growth. We combine rigorous academics with daily instruction in choral singing, thereby encouraging creative and critical thinking while improving academic performance. We are looking to identify extraordinary educators and administrators committed to urban education and high academic achievement who wish to join a dynamic learning community.

Our mission is to create a safe and healthy learning environment that will nurture, motivate and challenge all of our children to achieve the highest level of academic excellence and to develop into mindful, responsible, contributing participants in their education, their community and the diverse society in which we live.

What makes VOICE different?

At VOICE, it’s not just about the music. It’s about the people. It’s about what you can be. It’s about using your passion. It’s about relationships. It’s about having the opportunity to choose. It’s about caring for each individual child. Our teachers, administrators, students and parents come together to support our children’s education. We operate as part of a professional learning community that promotes collegiality, shared work, and unending reflection and growth. At VOICE, you will be pushed to become more.

We believe in efficacy. At the core of our academic culture is the idea that all students are capable of doing well in any discipline. At VOICE, all students will learn.

We support and develop the effectiveness of our teachers. We believe that teachers need time to collaborate to build their practice, so we provide them with over two hours of planning time a day, as well as additional days for curriculum development and training during the school year.

We promote participation in music and the arts. As music and art both help to develop problem solving and critical thinking skills and open children’s imaginations, all VOICE students participate in daily activities in the arts, including rigorous choral training. We design our arts-integrated curriculum to bring joy to the lives of our children in order to provide them with the skills necessary to forge their own path.

All Faculty and Staff at VOICE:

• Love and nurture all of our students as they become deeply caring and responsible individuals
• Take personal responsibility for the performance and growth of each individual student as we understand that the progress of all students is directly under our control
• Work collaboratively
• Hold themselves to the highest standards
• Push and support themselves, their students, and their colleagues
• Proactively seek and incorporate feedback
• Help each individual child gain the opportunity to choose what his or her future will be

________________________________________________________________________

Position Responsibilities:

The Middle School Classroom Assistant supports teachers in providing students in grades 6-8 with a safe and healthy learning environment that will nurture, motivate and challenge all children to achieve the highest level of academic excellence and to develop into mindful, responsible, contributing participants in their education and communities.

Educational Activities

• Provide behavior management support
• Work with students one-on-one or in small groups to reinforce instruction
• Proactively identify student growth areas and implement collaborative problem-solving plans to address student lagging skills
• Serve as a substitute for teachers as necessary

School Culture Activities

• Support dean team by investigating incident reports, guiding students to solve their own problems, and holding students accountable for consequences and restorative work
• Supervise out of classroom settings such as arrival, transitions, lunch, and dismissal
• Lead activities during daily recess periods in all weather conditions
• Ensure playgrounds are safe and free of ice and snow by supporting snow removal and shoveling snow
• Support select after school opportunities such as concerts, ceremonies, dances, athletics, and detention
• Fully participate in opportunities for individual and school-wide professional development

Administrative Activities

• Correspond with families via telephone, written notes, and in-person communications
• Distribute classroom materials and complete other clerical tasks as needed by teachers and support staff

Position Qualifications:

Behavioral Qualifications

• Unwavering commitment to VOICE mission, vision, and values
• Models high standards of integrity, trust, openness, and respect for others
• Demonstrates integrity by honoring commitments and promises
• Operates and follows through on assigned tasks and projects under specific time constraints and by specified deadlines
• Is productive and carries fair share of the workload; focuses on quality and expends the necessary time and effort to achieve goals
• Seeks to understand and meet and/or exceed the needs and expectations of customers and clients; treats customers and clients with respect
• Builds and maintains positive relationships with team members
• Recognizes the constructive value of and embraces feedback
• Responds and adapts to developing challenges and obstacles when under pressure calmly and logically to develop working solutions in a timely manner
• Identifies and seeks to resolve and prevent problems
• Approaches new challenges as opportunities to improve skills and abilities, seeking advice and feedback to constantly improve
• Seeks opportunities for personal and professional learning

Skills and Knowledge

• Exercises discretion regarding sensitive personal and legal information
• Effectively prioritizes tasks in order to meet deadlines
• Responds to requests in a professional manner, even in difficult circumstances; provides accurate and timely service
• Works effectively and cooperatively with others to achieve goals
• Writes clearly and concisely; listens attentively to others and responds appropriately; takes into account the audience and nature of the information
• Verbally articulates progress against tasks clearly and concisely; communicates ideas, suggestions and concerns as well as outcomes and progress throughout the course of a task or project
• Regularly applies feedback and training outcomes to the work to grow continuously in and add value to the role
• Exhibits ability to identify and address issues
• Manages up and laterally by proactively providing supervisors and clients support and solutions to move work and projects forward
• Identifies and seeks to resolve and prevent conflicts with team members

Educational Background and Work Experience

• Associates or Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university preferred. Highschool Diploma required.
• Willingness to pursue NYS assistant certification
• Ability to lift at least 40 pounds

Applications are enhanced if candidates:

• Have one year of experience working in an office environment preferred
• Speak Spanish
• Have previous experience working with students
• Have previous experience working in contexts involving high-needs communities

Compensation and Benefits: 

Salary is $22 per hour.  Compensation is competitive and based on experience and education.

 We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including participation in the TransitChek program and partial reimbursement for monthly commuting expenses, gym reimbursement, participation in the 403B retirement program, cultural enrichment reimbursements and many opportunities to get to know your VOICE colleagues!

How to Apply: Please submit an electronic application (including a VOICE-specific cover letter and resume) here.

VOICE Charter School is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In its employment decisions, VOICE does not discriminate on the basis of an applicant or employee’s race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.

VOICE Charter School (http://www.voicecharterschool.org/) is an elementary and middle school located in Long Island City, Queens that serves about 650 students across grades K-8.  We are located just minutes from Manhattan (two stops outside of Manhattan on the F, N, and W train lines) and Long Island City’s growing waterfront district, thriving arts community, and rapid residential growth. We are looking to identify extraordinary educators and administrators committed to urban education who wish to join a dynamic professional learning community.

Our mission is to create a safe and healthy learning environment that will nurture, motivate and challenge all of our children to achieve the highest level of academic excellence and to develop into mindful, responsible, contributing participants in their education, their community and the diverse society in which we live.

What makes VOICE different?

At VOICE, it’s not just about the music. It’s about the people. It’s about what you can be. It’s about using your passion. It’s about relationships. It’s about having the opportunity to choose. It’s about caring enough. It’s about each individual child and adult.

We believe in efficacy. At the core of our academic culture is the idea that all students are capable of doing well in any discipline. At VOICE, all students will learn – being smart is not something that you are, it is something you become.  At VOICE, you will be pushed to become more.

We support and develop the effectiveness of our teachers. We believe that teachers need time to collaborate to build their practice, so we provide our team with over two hours of planning time a day as well as additional days for collaborative thought partnership and planning during the school year.

We promote participation in music and the arts. As music and art help develop problem solving and critical thinking skills and open children’s imaginations, all VOICE students participate in and learn from daily activities in the arts including rigorous choral training. We design our arts-integrated curriculum to bring joy and wonder to the lives of our children, providing them with the skills necessary to forge their own path.

All Staff at VOICE:

• • Love and nurture all of our students as they become deeply caring and responsible individuals;
  • Take personal responsibility and work collaboratively to ensure that all students achieve and grow, understanding that the performance and progress of our students is directly under our control;
  • Ask questions and empower students to exercise curiosity and wonder about the world around them;
  • Hold themselves to the highest standards;
  • Push and support themselves, their students, and their colleagues;
  • Proactively seek and incorporate feedback;
  • Help each individual child gain the opportunity to choose what his or her future will be.

Function:  The Dean provides coaching and supervision to faculty to provide students with a safe and healthy learning environment that nurtures, motivates and challenges them to achieve the highest level of academic excellence and to develop into mindful, responsible, contributing participants in their education and communities

Major Responsibilities:

1. Instructional Support, Coaching, and Supervision
   1. Observe and provide feedback to teachers
   2. Develop and implement coaching plans that are measurable and goal-driven
   3. Model instructional strategies as needed
   4. Coordinate internal and external professional development activities for teachers
   5. Design and implement teacher professional development based on identified needs

1. Curriculum Implementation
2. Provide feedback and support for the development of curriculum maps and lesson plans
3. Analyze data to plan reteaches with teachers and help improve curriculum
4. Facilitate selected team meetings to model and strengthen intellectual preparation
5. Lead specific curriculum initiatives to improve lesson delivery school-wide
6. Coordinate vertical alignment across grade levels in content areas
7. Conduct instructional walk-throughs and follow-up support for particular initiatives

• Team Management
  1. Employ strategies in developing supervisees and cultivating team culture, which may include but is not limited to leading team check-ins and participating in 1:1 meetings
  2. Supervise and support individual supervisees’ professional development and job responsibilities, which may include but is not limited to providing coaching, feedback, training and helping to manage conflicts as appropriate
  3. Provide supervisees with regular performance evaluations through VOICE’s formal mid-year and end-of-year performance evaluation processes
  4. Ensure general coverage as appropriate

1. School Leadership
   1. Inspire and rally behind a shared vision and high standards of excellence, including but not limited to fostering staff culture and relationships across teams and divisions
   2. As member of school leadership team, contribute to the development and implementation of school-wide policies and procedures, which may involve but is not limited to engaging in other teams’ and divisions’ priorities, goals, and activities
   3. Exercise external awareness; serve as liaison for other teams, departments, partners.

1. Staff-Wide Professional Expectations
   1. Embrace and be an ambassador of VOICE’s mission, vision and values
   2. Collaborate communicate and maintain effective and professional relationships as member of an interdisciplinary team of educators, support staff, and administrators
   3. Participate in required meetings and events, which may include student events, school concerts, parent-teacher conferences, on- and off-site conferences and trainings, others.
   4. Meet expectations related to punctuality and professionalism including but not limited to reporting to work on time, following the appropriate call-out and lateness procedures, timely responding to emails, consistently meeting deadlines and communicating appropriately on progress on projects and goals.
   5. Proactively and appropriately seek assistance and/or guidance when faced with challenges appropriately provide and receive feedback to/from students, parents, faculty, classroom assistants, support staff, and administration
   6. Reflect on professional practice through self-reflection and engagement in informal and formal feedback processes

Position Qualifications:

Educational Background and Work Experience

• Bachelors and Master degrees from accredited college or university
• Valid NY State Teacher Certification
• 3+ years of classroom teaching experience with improvements in student achievement
• – Strong knowledge of best practices in early childhood literacy development
  – Experience training teachers in multi-sensory phonics instruction, guided reading, close reading and writing
  – Demonstrated ability to raise reading achievement data
• Preferred: 2+ years of leadership experience (e.g. instructional coach, team leader)
• Preferred: Experience working in an urban school setting

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• VOICE’s mission, vision, values and culture
• Effective skills in self-management including but not limited to meeting deadlines, effective prioritization of tasks, self-organization, managing up, and efficient time and task management
• Ability to gather and analyze data using defined and differentiated processes
• Tact and sensitivity, including but not limited to adhering to confidentiality obligations such as mandated reporting as part of child protection
• Ability to build strong and effective collegial relationships as part of an interdisciplinary team of educators and administrators
• Ability to build warm individual relationships with students
• Ability to communicate and build relationships effectively and appropriately with diverse range of individuals, including but not limited to current and prospective children and families, colleagues, and external partners
• Teaching and classroom
  • VOICE Teaching Framework
  • Common Core and other content area standards
  • Curriculum design principles
  • Child learning theory and behavioral approaches, teacher techniques
  • Differentiation strategies (conferencing; small group work); basic understanding of English as a Second Language and SpEd approaches and procedures
  • Elements of effective classroom environment and management
• Building effective sequential long-term plans and mastery-oriented short term plans
• Maintaining high academic expectations through purposeful building of thinking skills, standards-aligned independent practice, questioning and discussion techniques, high standards for language and evidence, and structured support for students
• Staff-Wide Competencies for Supervisors:
  • Effective Self-Management, including but not limited to: Prioritizes time and tasks effectively; Builds relationships with others; Practices continual self- development; Demonstrates effective problem solving; Exercises complete ownership over tasks; Takes initiative; Navigates ambiguity with ease
  • Effective Project Management, including but not limited to: Manages up; Proactively engages clients and consultants; Reflects on and incorporates feedback; Engages in thoughtful, strategic, and creative envisioning; Exercises complete ownership over projects; Delegates and holds project helpers accountable for results; Focuses on product and process
  • Effective People and Team Development, including but not limited to: Sets clear and stretch outcomes for team; Assesses team progress and holds team accountable for results; Manages conflict within and across teams; Provides continuous support and coaching to team; Motivates and inspires others; Builds relationships across team; Maximizes team resources effectively
• Content-Specific:
  • Proficiency in MS Office, Google calendar, Salesforce and other software and apps
  • Deep understanding of and ability to write and deliver curriculum in classroom
  • Deep understanding of classroom management strategies, including but not limited to Love & Logic language, proactive procedures, transitions, recovery, restorative justice
  • Adult learning theory/best practices for Professional Development

Behavioral Characteristics

• Wonder, care, and efficacy
• Commitment, authenticity, and passion
• Critical thinking, including communication, analytical and strategic strengths
• Grit and constant learning, including resilience and perseverance
• Strong sense of personal responsibility, including discipline, self-accountability, self-initiative
• Sensitivity to environment, including humility, empathy and kindness

[Please note: All offers of employment are contingent upon the employee meeting all prerequisite job qualifications by the first day of employment.]

Compensation and Benefits:  

Salary range is $87,000 to $105,000. Compensation is competitive and based on experience and education.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including participation in a pre-tax commuter benefits program and partial reimbursement for monthly commuting expenses, gym reimbursement, cultural enrichment reimbursements, participation in the Teachers Retirement System pension program, and many opportunities to get to know your VOICE colleagues!

VOICE Charter School is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In its employment decisions, VOICE does not discriminate on the basis of an applicant or employee’s race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.

Elementary Creative Arts Teacher

Who we are:

VOICE Charter School (www.voicecharterschool.org/) is an elementary and middle school located in Long Island City, Queens that serves students across grades K-8.

Our mission is to create a safe and healthy learning environment that nurtures, motivates and challenges all of our children to achieve the highest level of academic excellence and to develop into mindful, responsible, contributing participants in their education, and communities. Through rigorous academics and daily instruction in music, we cultivate students’ creative and critical thinking abilities.

What you’ll be doing:

• 1. Teach interdisciplinary artistic skills in the areas of performance arts, visual arts, and creative writing
  2. Coordinate with faculty to integrate content areas such as reading and writing into creative arts education topics that may include but are not limited to expressive speaking, performance skills, and creative writing
  3. Work with students to develop effective means of creative expressive and performance skills that integrate ELA skills and standards
  4. Develop and coordinate learning opportunities outside of the classroom, including but not limited to student performances and field trips to art museums/institutions
  5. Build a culture of creative self-expression, and utilize discourse and critique to develop students’ critical thinking about visual, and performance art
  6. Anticipate and identify equipment or other material needs, work with support staff to procure items, and may transport materials/supplies to/from classrooms

About you:

• Deep belief in VOICE’s mission, vision, and values
• Open to collaborating with and learning from colleagues who have a variety of backgrounds, experiences, strengths, and talents
• successfully able to handle multiple projects concurrently in a fast-paced environment, and ability to be self-directed and take initiative
• Attentive to detail
• Have a knowledge and understanding of basic principles of curriculum design, child learning theory and behavioral approaches
• Value and are committed to diversity in the workplace and classroom
• Effective skills in self-management including but not limited to meeting deadlines, effective prioritization of tasks, self-organization, managing up, and efficient time and task management
• Ability to establish communication and build warm individual relationships with students and families, colleagues, and external partners

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required
• New York State teaching certification required. VOICE will also consider (a) strong candidates who are completing or have recently completed a NY State teacher training program and who can show that they will be fully certified by the first day of employment, and (b) strong candidates with teacher training or credentials/licenses from another state who can demonstrably commit to working toward and achieving NY State teaching certification by a reasonable deadline.
• Teaching or student teaching experience in a school required
• Training and/or academic coursework in art history, art technique, and/or art education, and familiarity with state and national standards for arts education required
• Experience with and interest in working with high needs students preferred
• Experience in teaching rigorous arts units to young children; experience engaging students in the creative process, cultivating their artistic talents, and deepening their knowledge and understanding of art, design, and art history preferred
• Experience with and/or interest in designing and coordinating student art installations preferred
• Familiarity with and/or interest in utilizing or collaborating with museums and cultural institutions to engage student learning, including but not limited to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and others preferred
• Familiarity with and/or interest in using a variety of instructional techniques, media and materials, including but not limited to technology preferred
• NY State teaching certification in Visual Arts or exceptional experience in fine arts preferred

What you’ll enjoy:

• A competitive total rewards package that values your experience and credentials, your work-life balance and sustainability to serve VOICE students and families to your best abilities, as well as your learning and development as a person and professional, including:

Participation in the New York City Teachers Retirement System pension program

3 or more prep periods per day to ensure you have time to collaborate with your colleagues, develop/adjust your lessons for your students, and other miscellaneous tasks

Comprehensive benefits package, including participation in a pre-tax commuter benefits program and partial reimbursement for monthly commuting expenses

Gym reimbursement

Cultural enrichment reimbursement

Access to tickets at a free or reduced cost to numerous events throughout New York

Generous leave policies

Benefits options include: Choice of four (4) Medical plans, FSA/HSA and Dependent Care FSA accounts, vision insurance as well as fully paid dental, life and disability insurance

Many opportunities to get to know your VOICE colleagues!

How to Apply: Please submit an electronic application (including a VOICE-specific cover letter and resume) at https://voicecharterschool.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx

VOICE Charter School values diversity and inclusion in our community of adults and children.

Essential to the actualization of VOICE’s mission, vision and values is a commitment to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, creativity, innovation, unique capabilities and talents represents a significant part of VOICE’s successes as a school and organization.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. In its employment decisions, VOICE does not discriminate on the basis of an applicant or employee’s race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.

Why Teach With Us?
New Visions seeks the most talented and dedicated educators to bring their skills, experience, and energy to a collaborative and innovative learning environment where teachers are empowered to meet each student’s unique learning needs and open the doors to new and rich opportunities. Our teachers are dynamic and innovative pedagogues who are committed to urban students and the issues they face every day.
Every New Visions teacher can expect to receive enhanced instructional support, a range of professional development opportunities, the data tools they need to succeed and the opportunity to be part of a passionate team of colleagues.
Advantages of teaching at a New Visions school include:

• Emphasis on knowledge sharing practices, frequent training, and targeted professional development opportunities
• Eligibility to apply for grants and fellowships to support the personal and professional development of exceptional teachers
• Access to leadership development programs and career opportunities from the classroom to school administration to educational reform
• Highly competitive compensation and benefits

Who You Are
You’re a dedicated educator who is committed to serving students from all backgrounds. You approach learning via a growth mindset and have a proven track record of engaging students. You are reflective, seek and effectively apply feedback, and strive to learn from those around you. You make informed decisions about lesson planning based on data and have demonstrated success in tailoring instruction to the needs of diverse learners. You work collaboratively with others to achieve common goals and are passionate about the mission of New Visions.

What You’ll Do
New Visions for Public Schools’ vision for student support services is that all learners have equal access to educational opportunities where barriers to learning are reduced and learner diversity is recognized, supported, and embraced. Students with Disabilities teachers at New Visions schools will:

• Develop accessible curriculum through team co-planning, co-teaching and co-assessing
• Build students’ academic and socio-emotional skills
• Work with students one-on-one or in small groups
• Advocate to ensure that students receive appropriate supports
• Meet with families and the school-based support team
• Create plans for post-high school transition to ensure quality of life after high school

Pay Range
$65,291 minimum to $128,549 maximum
The New Visions faculty career ladder is highly competitive and designed to be a leader in the education space. Our innovative approach rewards high performance and supports fair and equitable pay practices across the New Visions Charter High Schools. Placement on our faculty ladder accounts for a combination of experience, credentials, and the faculty member’s expertise and impact on students (including review of lesson and unit plans, live demo lessons, and examples of student achievement data). Once employed at New Visions, faculty that exemplify high performance are able to advance through our career ladder quickly, and there are additional opportunities for teachers to increase their pay through the acquisition of additional certifications and through various leadership opportunities (such as Lead/Master Teacher and SPED Coordinator roles).

New Visions for Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer. 

The Academy for Software Engineering (DOE) is seeking a qualified Language other than English (LOTE) instructor specializing in Spanish who holds a New York State Teacher License in foreign language instruction (Spanish).  Please review our website (afseny.org) for information about our school and offerings.  Qualified candidates should email a current resume and letter of interest to sraeke@afsenyc.org.

Advocates For Children (AFC) is a dynamic social justice organization that strives to ensure a highquality education for New York students who face barriers to academic success, focusing on students from low- income backgrounds. AFC works on behalf of children and youth who are at greatest risk of academic failure due to poverty, race, ethnicity, disability, homelessness, immigration status/limited English proficiency, or involvement in the child welfare or juvenile/criminal legal systems. We use uniquely integrated strategies to advance systemic reform, empower families and communities, and advocate for the educational rights of individual students. For more information on AFC, see www.advocatesforchildren.org.

The Early Childhood Education Project provides direct representation, community education, and policy advocacy to improve access to early childhood education for young children from low-income backgrounds so they can enter kindergarten prepared to succeed. We are looking for an advocate to join our team to help families navigate the early childhood education systems and admissions processes, secure developmental and special education services for young children, and empower families to advocate on behalf of young children by leading community workshops and trainings. This position will report to the Director of the Early Childhood Education Project.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES