We're redefining what's possible in public education. We set out to tackle this education crisis with a groundbreaking school design that delivers a rigorous, whole-child education to students from all backgrounds. Today, as the fastest growing, highest-performing charter school network in New York, our network of 47 K-12 schools outperforms every district in the state, proving irrefutably that all children are capable of excellence.

Job Description

A great education consists of more than just rigorous academics. Our unwavering commitment to educating the whole child, by fostering intellectual independence, creativity, and curiosity, continues to set us apart. Success Academies delivers on this commitment through our distinctive school design that features a fully integrated and sequenced K-12 curricula built upon a progressive pedagogical foundation. Our distinctive school design also emphasizes experiential learning that offers extended opportunities to deepen scholars’ understanding, encourages scholars’ exploration and cultivation of untapped talents and/or interests, and enables scholars’ development of lifelong skills and attributes. Such skills and attributes include adaptability, problem-solving, decision-making, leadership and resiliency. Our schools offer a robust selection of Scholar Talent courses that may include Performing Arts (Music, Dance, Theatre), Visual Arts, Debate, Chess and Athletics.

The Experiential Learning department supports educating the whole child through two primary teams. The External Enrichment team manages our externally provided enrichment offerings such as Field Studies, summer programs, and after school events and programming. Our Scholar Talent team designs and curates the instructional content and supporting programming for both in school and after school scholar learning. The Scholar Talent team also supports teacher development through targeted content and pedagogical trainings, observations and performance assessments. Content design includes the development of a scope and sequence of teaching units with scholar learning objectives by grade, associated assessment tools to check for scholar understanding, and supporting resources to reinforce learning objectives. Supporting programming includes Performing Arts performances, Visual Arts exhibits, and Athletic, Debate, and Chess competitions.

At Success Academy, we are intently focused on achieving and sustaining extraordinary school quality with experiential learning being an important element. Our Education Institute is leading our pursuit of extraordinary school quality by setting our vision, core values, and standards for excellence in teaching, inclusive of instructional design and management and instructional development. What we do in Experiential Learning, in particular Scholar Talent, must uphold these core values and adhere to the standards for excellence to fully enable extraordinary school quality. We now need a results-driven Scholar Talent Program Lead to join our Experiential Learning team to accomplish this.

Reporting initially to the Head of Experiential Learning, the Scholar Talent Program Lead will work in partnership with our Education Institute to align our Scholar Talent vision and content with our core values and standards for excellence. The Scholar Talent Program Lead will build out and manage a requisitely skilled and experienced team of Scholar Talent content managers that develops and updates content, assessments, and other instructional resources across the content areas, as well as support teacher development in partnership with school-based Scholar Talent Managers. Eventually, Scholar Talent will become part of the Education Institute and the Scholar Talent Program Lead will work closely with our Chief Learning Officer, Executive of Education Institute and the Head of Experiential Learning to effect this transition.

A successful applicant will have the following experiences and characteristics:

• Strives for excellence in all aspects of teaching, inclusive of our scholar talent events and competitions, as well as what happens in the classroom;
• Continuously desires to take stock of outcomes to drive further improvement;
• Works with purpose and intent towards increasing the quality of teaching practice as demonstrated by scholar learning outcomes and teacher performance;
• Has extremely strong writing and proofreading skills
• Has a strong work ethic and ability to work flexibly
• Has a strong entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to establish protocols and processes
• Demonstrates an ability to design and lead projects that produce strong learning outcomes; and
• Has strong attention to detail.
• B.S. or B.A. degree as well as personnel management experience is required.
• Teaching experience is a plus.

To join our team, please upload a cover letter and resume that outlines your candidacy. Your cover letter should explain in detail your qualifications for the position. Resumes without cover letters will not be reviewed.

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/.

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.