About the Opportunity
The mission of our schools is to ensure that our scholars receive the most rigorous education. Core to achieving this mission is smooth operations that support all stakeholders’ ability to educate our scholars. Reporting to the School Leader, and also working closely with a Director of Operations (DOO), the Operations Manager will ensure systematic, proactive, and efficient operations within the school, and between school and external stakeholders.
Who You Are
- An education equity advocate with an unwavering commitment to the Democracy Prep mission of college success and authentic civic engagement for our scholars.
- An experienced manager of a team with two or more like-minded individuals, or someone who is ready to transition into management.
- A data-driven leader who is comfortable with handling the research and communication necessary to find or create the perfect system.
- An exceptional project manager who can take an idea and turn it into a complete and detailed plan, considerate of all stakeholders and context.
- An exceptional organizer who can keep track of short- and long-term plans to make challenging decisions of prioritization on a daily basis.
- Classroom teaching experience and/or teacher training preferred
- A graduate of a Bachelor’s Degree program (required). *Please note that we request transcripts as a part of our onboarding process.*
What You’ll Do
- Lead a school operations team to ensure that the operations of the school facilitate its ability to ensure a high quality education to scholars and respectful relationships with its families and communities.
- Directly supervise at least operations team members through weekly coaching meetings, schedule creation, goal setting, and task management.
- With the School Leader and DOO, design, establish, maintain and partner with stakeholders to execute daily operational systems to ensure the smooth running of the school (systems include: arrival/dismissal, attendance, transportation, emergency preparedness, enrollment, family engagement, master scheduling , and campus beautification).
- Support the operational aspects of key school systems managed by other stakeholders to ensure school remains in compliance and day-to-day operations run efficiently (systems include: meal service, test administration, field trips, tech management).
- Creates detailed itineraries, coordinates meals, transportation and communication for beginning, middle and end year field trips.
- Design and manage staff coverage systems including tracking days submitted by staff and upkeep of the appropriate calendars and systems.
- Build respectful and professional relationships and partnerships with other stakeholders in the building, community, and CMO that represent the best interests of our scholars.
- Monitor the accuracy of your school’s data within state-required databases and internal information systems.
- Manage and execute data systems pertaining to internal and state assessments, report cards and promotional status, enrollment, attendance, and more.
- Create and execute detailed event plans, factoring information on the physical facility, event goals, backgrounds and experiences of participants and stakeholders, communication and marketing, and connection to the overall mission of the school.
- Ensure that systems, protocols and policies are well documented and easily accessible to all stakeholders. Clear communication is essential in ensuring smooth operations!
- Design and deliver professional development to the school community on operational systems.
- Other school operations tasks as assigned by the School Leader and Director of Operations.
Compensation
Salary range is commensurate with your experience. Democracy Prep employees are provided with a benefits package that includes medical, vision, and dental insurance, parental leave, a smartphone, and a laptop.
Democracy Prep is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Our mission is to educate responsible citizen-scholars who will change the world. We strongly believe that by building a DREAM team that represents numerous perspectives, backgrounds, and expertises, we can achieve this goal together. This is a value we highly support and strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
