Job Description

Staffing Boutique is pleased to share a new direct hire job opportunity.

Role: Chief Academic Officer

Organization Type: Charter School

Work Location: New York, NY

Schedule: Monday - Friday

Salary: $220,000 - 250,000 plus benefits

Requested Start Date: ASAP

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday

Position Overview:

Seeking a Chief Academic Officer (CAO) to lead the design and implementation of the instructional vision and quality across all schools in the organization. This position reports to our Executive Director, and serves as the organization’s senior instructional leader who oversees the Central Office Academics team and school-based instructional leaders.

The CAO is responsible for spearheading a vision of and strategy for instruction, curriculum, assessment and school advancement that translates into consistently quality learning experiences for students across all campuses. The CAO has the primary authority and accountability for evaluating for the continuous improvement of both academic performance and the teaching and learning across the network, to ensure our students meet their fullest potential.

The CAO will co-lead the organization’s day-to-day work alongside the Chief Operating Officer, ensuring that our academic priorities and operational systems reinforce one another, and supports school leaders in executing with clarity and consistency. The CAO will directly manage our Principals and partner with them to ensure coherence, rigor, and whole-child development across the organization. As we grow into a Pre-K - 12 academic home for the Washington Heights and Inwood communities, coherence across instructional design and the student experience will starve as an anchoring principle for the CAO.

Together with the Principals, the CAO will set expectations for high quality teaching and learning, build school-based leader capacity, and drive measurable student outcomes. The CAO will also directly manage the Deputy Chief Academic Officer(s), who leads organization-wide instructional initiatives in close partnership with the academics team and consultants.

Competencies and Attributes:

• Strategic thinker who has a proven track record of resolving complex problems anchored in a high level of integrity and judgment.
• Highly organized, conscientious and execution oriented, including exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable and successful in navigating ambiguity and complexity.
• Collaborative mindset where they use strong emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills to actively partner with peers and stakeholders to share ideas and listen to diverse perspectives to align on and make decisions.
• Deep alignment with organizational values and mission.

Experience and Background:

• At least 10 years of experience in K-12 education, with significant experience in NYS charter schools.
• Master’s Degree in education, education leadership, curriculum and instruction, or other related focus. Doctorate is strongly preferred.
• Proven success as a Principal and network-wide instructional leader.
• Demonstrated experience improving academic outcomes across multiple schools.
• Experience leading and managing senior instructional leaders at the network level of an organization.
• Deep expertise in curriculum, instruction, assessment, and instructional coaching.
• Strong data literacy and experience leading data-driven improvement cycles.
• Exceptional people leadership, coaching, and change-management skills.
• Familiarity with state accountability systems, charter renewal processes, and authorizer expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Academic visionary who, in partnership with their Principal Cabinet, sets and implements a clear, compelling PreK-12 academic vision that is data-driven and embodies the school's mission and values.
• This includes but is not limited to setting, implementing, and continually evaluating the quality of a cohesive organizational wide instructional framework - curriculum, assessment and school culture systems vision - that includes the integration of Spanish language K-12, special education and culturally responsive and inclusive instructional practices.
• Directly manages and coaches each school Principal to execute on organization-wide priorities, including but not limited to academic performance, school culture, teacher development and community engagement.
• Directly manages the Deputy Chief Academics Officers to lead the academics team of staff and consultants on high quality execution of organization-wide instructional initiatives.
• Sets and implements organization-wide teacher professional development.
• This includes but is not limited to coaching expectations and systems that measurably improve instruction over time.
• Monitors and improves academic performance across all schools using advancement strategies that diagnose root causes and improves student performance with differentiation.
• Collaborate with the Chief Operating Officer to ensure the day-to-day organizational-wide and school-based operations teams effectively support academic priorities.
• Lead and facilitate external and board-facing academic initiatives, including Academic Committee and board presentations and serving as the primary academic liaison with the NYS charter authorizers to support compliance, reporting, renewals and site visits.

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