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 59 schools in NYC a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.

About Success Academy

Success Academy is the fastest-growing and highest-performing charter school network in New York State. We are reimagining public education by designing, implementing, and scaling rigorous, whole-child learning models that deliver exceptional results. With 59 schools and more than 20,000 scholars, we aim to grow to 100 schools and educate 50,000 scholars in a uniquely holistic K-12 system that prepares every student for college and beyond.

About the Education Institute

The Education Institute drives our instructional and academic design-building the K-12 program that defines scholar preparedness. The Institute is leading a multi-year change management effort to advance the quality of teaching and learning across the network and achieve transformational outcomes. Within this, the Education Institute Planning and Management function ensures that strategic priorities are effectively planned, executed, and delivered to achieve our scholar learning goals.

About the Role

The Project Manager of Education Institute Planning and Management works under the direction of the Lead of Education Institute Planning and Management, to plan, manage, and execute cross-functional initiatives that advance the Education Institute’s strategic goals. This individual will manage high-impact projects across instructional designs. Acting as a connector across teams, the Project Manager ensures clear alignment, disciplined execution, and continuous improvement of systems that enable world-class education delivery at scale. This role is ideal for a systems thinker and project leader who thrives in complex, mission-driven environments and excels at both strategic planning and operational delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive strategic project execution: Project manage the design, planning, and implementation of critical Education Institute initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned to institutional priorities.

• Support annual planning and workstream coordination: Partner with the Lead to develop and manage the Institute’s annual roadmap, ensuring effective coordination across all departmental workstreams.

• Support change initiatives: Support the structured design change processes for key academic initiatives-supporting adoption, training, communications, and stakeholder alignment.

• Integrate data-driven decision making: Develop project tracking systems and performance dashboards that leverage both quantitative and qualitative insights to evaluate outcomes and identify improvement opportunities.

• Collaborate cross-functionally: Facilitate alignment and collaboration between Education Institute teams, Network leadership, and schools-driving clarity, coordination, and execution across multi-team efforts.

• Continuously improve processes: Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, propose process redesigns, and test inventive, systems-level solutions that enhance service delivery and educational impact.

Why You Should Join Us

As a Project Manager in the Education Institute, you’ll help shape the systems and initiatives that power one of the nation’s most ambitious K-12 education school systems. You’ll work on projects that directly impact scholar learning, teacher development, and organizational excellence-partnering with visionary leaders to deliver bold, scalable solutions. Success Academy offers a competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to make a lasting impact in public education.

Exact compensation may vary based on skills and experience.

Compensation Range

$70,000 - $80,000 USD

Success Academy Charter Schools is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.

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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.