Positions Report to: Principal
Start Date: Immediate
Hours: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM + some out of school time responsibilities
Compensation: $93,600 - $125,791. We believe in compensating staff members fairly in relation to each other. We take into consideration qualifications, credentials, years of experience, and one's impact on behalf of the organization - internal and external equity is taken seriously. EHTP offers a comprehensive benefits package.
FLSA Status: Exempt
Who We Are
East Harlem Scholars Academies are community-based Pre-K to 12 public charter schools operated by East Harlem Tutorial Program (EHTP). EHTP began in 1958 as a children's reading group and has since grown into a multi-site after-school program for traditional public school students and a network of public charter schools focused on significantly increasing the college graduation rate in East Harlem. We are on track to serve at least 25% of East Harlem students by 2025, with enrollment for this year at approximately 2200 students in our schools and after school programs. In 2020, 99% of our seniors were accepted to college, and our current scholars in college are on-track to graduate at eight times the national average of their peers.
At EHTP we also aim to serve as an agent of change and thoughtfully contribute to the national fight for racial equity. Through our organization-wide commitment to anti-racism work, we prepare our scholars to effect change, challenge the status quo, and thrive in the world around them. As staff members, we face our own racial identities and conscious and unconscious biases. With this in mind, all of our professional development, curriculum, organizational materials, and processes are designed with a goal of racial justice. Read our racial equity statement here.
We ground all of our work in racial equity, in our core values, and in our four guiding pursuits: the Revolutionary Pursuit of Love, the Radical Pursuit of Knowledge, the Responsive Pursuit of Healing, and in the Relentless Pursuit of Results. These pursuits inform and are reflected in our current four key strategic priorities: to increase high-impact, high-quality academic curriculum, programming content, staff capacity, and coaching; to embrace and advance our use of technology; to deepen our embodiment of ethical and equitable radical humanity; and to efficiently operationalize teaching, learning, community, and care.
For more information about EHTP's mission, model, and programs, please visit EHTP.org
About the Opportunity
We believe that a positive school culture is critical to fostering student success and we behold family members as full educational partners in our work. As a member of the School Leadership Team, the Director of School Culture & Family Engagement works at the right hand of the Principal, playing a critical role in the success of East Harlem Scholars Academy by overseeing the implementation and refinement of policies and programs that promote school culture and family involvement.
What Success Looks Like
School Culture & Program Support
- Drive the vision and implementation of school culture
- Conduct regular school culture walkthroughs to maintain a high bar of excellence
- Encourage supportive classroom communities that maintain East Harlem Scholars Academies high academic and social expectations for students
- Management and instructional support
- Help lead recognition and celebration events (e.g., for perfect attendance or academic achievement) and other school-wide culture-building activities
- Oversee Scholars Academy After School program to ensure consistency with Scholars Academy procedures and expectations (optional - additional stipend provided)
Family Engagement
- Drive the vision and implementation of family engagement
- Build relationships with families of East Harlem Scholars Academy II scholars through frequent communication
- Create and lead a schedule of events throughout the year to involve families in school community
- Engage families in support of the school's goals by communicating student progress, upcoming events and programmatic changes at Scholars Academy
- Lead onboarding process for new families, potentially involving home visits with new parents
- Coordinate the activities of the Family Leadership Council.
- Establish protocols and best practices to ensure that teachers communicate regularly with parents.
Student Behavior
- Drive the vision and implementation of school-wide and class-based behavior management systems
- Write, update and maintain systems and policies for attendance, entry, breakfast, class transitions, cafeteria usage, lunch, bathroom usage, dismissal and homework.
- Create meaningful incentives to reward good behavior and effective consequences to correct misbehaviors.
- Analyze school-wide trends in attendance, behavior, homework and class transitions, communicate these trends to staff and lead initiatives to address challenges.
- Work with teachers to create individual plans for students with behavior challenges; partner with teachers to provide extra interventions.
Reflection and Continuous Improvement
- Actively work to improve own practice, to acquire and enhance the skills and knowledge necessary for excellent instruction and to generally increase effectiveness in the school community
- Assume responsibility for all scholars' success by holding staff and oneself accountable to expectations set by the East Harlem Scholars Academy community
Who You Are
- You hold yourself to high professional and ethical standards
- You enjoy and/or have experience working with diverse populations of students and communities
- You believe that every student can and will learn when provided with a quality education
- You have demonstrated success in raising the achievement levels of traditionally at-risk students
- You are willing to be flexible in your role and adapt to school and student needs
- You are committed to continuous improvement and learning through professional development
- You have experience leading professional/staff development
- You have strong clinical skills and experience providing crisis intervention and short-term treatment to children and their families
- You have a minimum of five-year's experience in relevant educational positions
- You have Master's Degree in Education, Social Work or related field (preferred)
- You have the ability to successfully manage a wide range of student behaviors and effectively address their socio-emotional needs
Please note that many do not meet 100% of the desired qualifications. If much of this describes you, we encourage you to still apply.
Overview of Hiring Process
- Application
- One-way Video Interview
- In-Person Interview with Task
- Reference check
- Decision
Thank you in advance for taking the time to apply to East Harlem Scholars Academy.