Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running the largest, fastest-growing, and highest-performing network of public charter schools in New York City takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates and supporters alike. We would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure each child in NYC has access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through the doors of one of our 53 schools in NYC a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.

Job Description

Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running the largest, fastest-growing, and highest-performing network of public charter schools in New York City takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates and supporters alike. We would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure each child in NYC has access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through the doors of one of our 49 schools in NYC a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.

Over the past decade, Success Academy has grown faster than any charter network in the nation, building a vibrant network of 49 elementary, middle and high schools. Our 20,000 children are outperforming students at top city and suburban schools across New York State. Our goals for our second decade are even more ambitious: to grow to 100 schools and to educate 50,000 children across New York City in a uniquely holistic pre K-12 system, bringing transformational change here and across the country. At 100 schools, we will graduate 3,000 scholars each year who are prepared to enter, persist and graduate from college and eventually to lead in business, government and civic realms.

To support these goals, we now need a results-driven Associate, Real Estate to join our Real Estate Team .

Reporting to the Leader, Real Estate this is a multi-faceted role that supports the business, administrative, and financial functions of Success Academy’s real estate team, with a strong focus on our current and future private facilities.

Under the guidance of our space planning, renovations, and facilities leaders, your would principle responsibilities include:

• Site acquisitions

  • Review sites that have potential for school use, either lease or ground up development

  • Coordinate demand analysis with scholar recruitment team

  • Prepare analysis using existing financial models on various scenarios (lease, purchase, development, etc)

  • Visit sites in person to understand neighborhood and sub-market

• Budget / Financial Management Support

  • Update and manage site-specific financial models, factoring in all costs associated with private real estate

  • Incorporate site-specific annual budgets for private facilities OpEx & CapEx for the financial models

  • Draft expense forecasts for future private facilities sites

  • Manage creation and processing of POs and invoices

  • Track actual expenses on internal tracker

  • Report on expenses against budget on a monthly basis

• Research, Reporting, and Other Support

  • Perform in-depth research and analysis on specific issues as assigned; develop and prepare comprehensive communications and/or reports based on analysis and interpretation of issues

  • Support RFPs, bid-leveling, and procurement of facilities goods and services

  • Support other real estate administrative, business, and finance functions as needed

You will be confident and successful in this role if you:

• Possess a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and at least three years professional experience in one or more of the following areas:

  • Business Administration

  • Accounting / Finance

  • Facilities or Property Management

  • Operations

  • Construction or Project Management

  • Real Estate Strategy

• Love conducting research, crunching numbers, and presenting clear, persuasive recommendations and reports;

• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and demonstrated ability to draft professional-level documents and spreadsheets to be shared with Executive Leadership;

• Are adaptable and flexible to a fast-paced, high-intensity environment, with the ability to manage competing priorities and use good judgment in moments of ambiguity;

• Are relentlessly driven by high expectations for quality of work and a reflex to leverage data to improve with urgency and achieve exemplary results;

• Are truly dedicated to our mission and will be an innovative and strategic problem solver; and

• Are eager for feedback and to independently drive your own learning and growth in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment

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, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to flourish in a multicultural world. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.

Learn more about our philosophy, benefits, and team at https://jobs.successacademies.org/working-here/.

Compensation Range

Annual Salary: $60,000.00 - $70,000.00

Exact compensation may vary based on skills and experience.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to flourish in a multicultural world. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth. Learn more about our philosophy, benefits, and team at https://jobs.successacademies.org/working-here/ .

Success Academy Charter Schools does not offer employment-based immigration sponsorship.

Our dual mission is to: Build exceptional, world-class public schools that prove children from all backgrounds can succeed in college and life; serve as a catalyst and national model for school reform, and help change public policies that prevent children from having access to opportunity.