SY 25 - 26 Assistant Principal of Operations
6 days ago
Ascend is a network of high-performing public charter schools serving students across Brooklyn. Our mission is to ensure that all students, regardless of background, have access to an education that empowers them to unlock their full potential, achieve academic excellence, and pursue a future of boundless opportunity. We cultivate rigorous learning environments where students develop critical thinking skills, confidence, and a lifelong love of learning.
At Ascend, educational equity is a driving force. We are committed to closing the achievement gap by delivering high-quality instruction, fostering a culture of high expectations, and equipping every student with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in college and beyond. Through this unwavering commitment, we prepare students not only to succeed academically but to seize every opportunity that lies ahead.
Assistant Principal of Operations Responsibilities
- Operational management
- Creates and executes systems and processes to support the short- and long-term goals of the school and supervises the effective use of resources
- Owns and executes all systems and processes to drive smooth day-to-day operations
- Ensures compliance with health and safety mandates, emergency protocols, and state and federal workplace regulations
- School culture
- Partners in leading a culture that results in a love of learning, student agency, and full range of student learning and growth
- Builds an engaged, diverse, and inclusive school community
- Plans events and systems aligned to the principal's vision that celebrate scholars, families, and staff
- Racial equity mindset
- Creates and sustains a race equity culture, including skill building and leading self and others through awareness, growth, and development
- Continuously strengthens personal and staff knowledge and expertise in effective operational practices with diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism considerations
- Strategic leadership
- Leads all aspects of school's operational management in partnership with the principal
- Works collaboratively and thinks flexibly to support and improve systems and decision-making processes that strengthens outcomes
- Supports the school's vision for achieving goals and positive student outcomes
- Supports and strengthens a data-driven culture that relentlessly seeks continuous improvement
- Creates, strengthens, and maintains academic and culture systems and procedures
- Effective teaming
- Establishes, manages, and develops strong teams that collaborate, communicate, and work together for Ascend students and community
- Fosters and facilitates positive relationships and collaboration with network and school-based leaders to advance efforts that support achievement for all students and to advance Ascend's mission and goals
- Observes and coaches operations staff leading to professional growth and student achievement
- Sets high expectations and holds team accountable while creating a culture of valuing team feedback
- Executes and evaluates diagnostic assessments, plans, coaching, and evaluations to ensure development of operations staff
- Whole student focus
- Fosters and sustains a culture of academic success and social-emotional development through partnerships with students, families, and community
- Fosters and sustains a warm, welcoming, and inclusive environment for scholars, families, and staff
- Engages families and the community in support of each child's learning and the school's learning goals
- Partners with principal in launching, strengthening, and sustaining partnerships with community-based organizations
- Bachelor's degree, with advanced degree (MPA, MBA, or equivalent experience) is preferred
- Three to five years professional experience, preferably in an educational organization or a school
- A hunger for feedback and self-improvement
- Relentless drive to set and achieve ambitious achievement goals
- A high level of ownership over the overall outcomes of the scholars they lead
- Strong collaboration, interpersonal, and communication skills, including working effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and with diverse perspectives
- Strong organizational, self-management, and problem-solving skills with the ability to handle many responsibilities simultaneously
- Self-awareness, demonstrating an accurate idea of one's own strengths and weaknesses and an ability to treat all members of the school's community with respect
- Strong project management skills
- Dependable, with excellent follow-through
- Alignment with the educational philosophy and core beliefs of Ascend Learning
Staff and reporting relationships
The Assistant Principal of Operations reports to the principal and supervises the operations staff. Network directors of operations (NDOs) have a dotted line coaching relationship with APOs.
Compensation
Salary Range: $90,000 - $120,000, determined based on experience and education level using an equitable compensation scale.
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