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

As the fastest growing, highest-performing charter school network in New York State, Success Academy is reimagining K-12 public education. Nationally recognized for our innovative, whole-child school model and outstanding academic results, Success Academy educators are empowering children from all backgrounds with the knowledge, skills, and self-belief to succeed in college and in life. We now need a results-driven Program Manager to join our Sprint team.

Success Academies has a profoundly innovative schooling model that achieves outstanding results at scale, and our approach to children with the highest educational needs is just as radical. We begin with the core belief that disability does not mean an inability, that no child should be written off because of learning challenges. Fifteen percent of our scholars receive special education support, and we designed and launched the Sprint program to ensure we provide these most vulnerable scholars an outstanding education. While the identification of scholars demonstrating a need for special education services and execution of the necessary interventions and supports are carried out at the school-level, a supporting Network capability has shared responsibility and accountability for supporting our scholars.

Reporting into the Lead of Sprint, the Program Manager, Social Emotional Learning Specialist is responsible for the direct management and oversight of SA’s Social Emotional Learning Specialists. This Program Manager will design and implement all systems necessary for ensuring SA comprehensively supports the mental health and social-emotional development of all scholars. This Program Manager must display strong leadership as well as a deep understanding of child and adolescent mental health. This Program Manager will champion the development and implementation of social-emotional learning opportunities for scholars.

Key responsibilities include:

• Continuous improvement/innovation of SA SEL program

• End-to-end management of SEL Specialist staffing process for all SA Schools, including:

  • Interviewing and approving candidate offers

  • Determining appropriate placement locations

  • Liaising with network partners to manage new hire process

  • Collaborating with network partners to support new hire onboarding & training

  • Ensuring appropriate certification of all new and current SEL Specialists

• SEL Specialist professional development/team training

  • Leading/managing SEL Specialist team training program, ensuring robust system for continuing education and professional development

  • Ensuring SELs have appropriate tools, resources, and skills to manage behavior support at a high level within their schools and deliver against SEL KPIs/role outcomes

  • Manage approval and implementation of external professional development opportunities

  • Provide supervision as necessary for employee certification

• Ownership of SEL Specialist performance management, including:

  • Designing and implementing robust systems for feedback and accountability

  • Partnering with Senior Leaders in the development, management, and evaluation of SEL Specialists

  • Development of, and management against SEL KPIs and SEL Specialist Performance Evaluation Criteria

  • Partnering with talent management teams to create and implementing performance process review process

  • Supporting with ongoing performance concerns

• Identifying, designing, and implementing pathways to provide social-emotional learning opportunities to scholars K-12

• Managing inventory and external partnerships and programs (ex: Second Step curriculum, partnership with Uwill or other similar organizations) to support scholar social-emotional and mental health

• Liaising with School Managers and Senior Leaders for high-needs scholar cases at schools, including risk assessments, safety threat assessments, and significant mental health concerns

• Supporting school teams in response to scholar, family, and community crises (ex - death in the community, family loss of housing, hospitalization)

• Creation of standard work around staffing, external partnership/inventory management, performance evaluations, and other aspects of SA’s SEL program

Required Qualifications

• All degrees and certifications required of a New York State School Social Worker or certified School Psychologist- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or New York State licensed PhD Psychologist with child/adolescence experience strongly preferred

• Minimum 4 years of experience providing school-based mental health services

• Minimum 2 years experience implementing school-based social-emotional learning programs

• Minimum 1 year experience people management

• Demonstrated alignment with Success Academy’s school design

Required Traits

• Effectively collaborates with a broad base of constituents at all levels, including senior organizational leadership; Ability to gain buy in and cooperation from management

• Strong people and performance management skills; adept at providing feedback and developing rising talent

• Fluency with Google Suite/Microsoft Office including Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, and able to easily create clea/useful spreadsheets/trackers

• Strong strategic thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills

• Demonstrates initiative and perseverance to achieve desired outcomes in an innovative and fast-paced environment

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a fast paced, high-pressure environment

• Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

• Excellent planning and time management skills

• Excellent written skills

• Extremely detail-oriented

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.

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.

Compensation Range

Annual Salary: $100,000.00 - $110,000.00

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.