Assistant principal

Description

Role Mission : The Assistant Principal of Operations (APO) manages campus operations for each IDEA site (two schools) and is responsible for achieving operational excellence across non-instructional areas, including front office management, student information systems, child nutrition, transportation, health services, business office, facility maintenance, new construction management, technology coordination, student recruitment and enrollment.

It will be required to work long hours and weekends.

What We Offer

Compensation

Salaries for people entering this role typically fall between $94,771 and $111,356 commensurate with relevant experience and qualifications and in alignment with internal equity.

This role is also eligible for a performance bonus based on organizational performance and goal attainment.

Other Benefits :

We offer a comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse / domestic partner and children.

Some of the special benefits we offer at IDEA include :

• Paid Family Leave : Eligible staff may receive up to 8 weeks of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child, based on their tenure with the organization and caregiver designation.


• Tuition Reimbursement : Staff members may apply for up to 50% of tuition paid toward a qualifying degree program, up to $5,250 maximum per year subject to manager discretion and budget availability.


• Employer-Paid Mental / Behavioral Health : 5 face-to-face counseling sessions within a year, unlimited 24 / 7 telephonic counseling, and other work-life services available at no cost.

Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, generous vacation time, referral bonuses and professional development.

IDEA may offer a relocation allowance to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.

What You Bring Competencies :

Qualifications :

• Education : Bachelor’s degree required


• Experience : Experience managing and developing others to achieve ambitious results

Supervisory Responsibilities :

Year 0APOs directly manage 4 staff members. During the year, they select their foundingstaff, who start work on campus the summer before school opening.

What You’ll Do Accountabilities :

85% Operations Staff Retention

• Responsible for ensuring top performers occupy every seat across all operations roles


• Institutes operating mechanisms that facilitate the ongoing coaching and support of team members (check-ins, tactical meetings, regular observation and feedback sessions, high-quality talent review process and staff development cycle)


• Leverages the APO Priorities Calendar; routinely assesses team members based on progress toward goals as well as principal and HQ feedback;

prioritizes support accordingly

100% Projected enrollmentfor Academy and College Prepschools bythe first day of school

• Develops and executes student recruitment efforts that target families with school-aged children immediately surrounding each school


• Leads team to recruit new families with specific applicant goals per grade level 3 : 1 ratio (open grade levels) while ensuring applications are high quality andultimately leadto enrollment


• Ensures all new families are effectively onboarded and persist through their first year


• Complies with all federal, state, and organizational student registration requirements throughout the enrollment process (. transfers, testing,

100% ofnew parents are onboarded and enroll prior to the first day of school

• Ensures all new families are effectively onboarded and registered by June, so that they persist through their first year in our schools


• 100% over enrollment goal for summer registration in June

Campus safe and operationalone weekbefore the first day of school

• Responsible for managing allBeginning of Year (BOY)efforts with a specific focus on :


• 100% of employee positions filled, staff onboarded and in attendance at summer training


• 3.5 average score on both the parent and staff BOY surveys


• 90 score on Beginning-of-Year quality scorecard

We look for Team and Family who embody the followingvaluesand characteristics :

• Believes and is committed to our missionand being an agent of change : that all studentsare capable of gettingto and through college


• Has demonstrated effectiveoutcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them


• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improvequickly



• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change


• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization


• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationshipsin order toachieve outcomes


• We believe in education asa professionand hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students



Last updated : 2024-03-25