Director of School Quality

Summary:

The “Director of School Quality” at National Heritage Academies (NHA) will provide day to day operations support for assigned National Heritage Academies (NHA) schools located in WI, IN, and W MI. NHA school Principals will report directly to the Director of School Quality. 

Candidates of interest must reside in one of the following markets Milwaukee, WI, IN, or West Michigan to support NHA schools.

Company Information:

National Heritage Academies (NHA) partners with communities to build and operate public charter schools. Founded in 1995, today NHA serves over 100 schools in nine states, with more than 65,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Our schools are designed to eliminate the achievement gap and provide school choice to families so their children are prepared for success in college, career, and life. A majority of our schools consistently outperform their local district on the state test. According to the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, NHA is a leading performer among charter schools and management organizations, outperforming both conventional district schools and other charter school operators. In addition, according to our employee survey, over 90% of respondents agree that the work they do is meaningful to them. Join our team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate good practice, recognize it and create training programs that work to ensure great teaching is being conducted in each classroom.
• Provide continual leadership coaching to our deans and principals, and responsible for the development of these individuals in all aspects of school leadership.
• Utilize knowledge, skill and enthusiasm to cause and/or accelerate a school’s success in achieving our mission.
• Possess a growth mindset to independently improve personal and professional skills.
• Establish annual performance goals for each principal and review their performance during weekly one on one meetings.
• Act as a liaison between the Service Center and school principals, helping garner resources when needed to enhance quality of multiple school functions.
• Collaborate and communicate with Service Center departments to develop training and support when needs arise.
• Utilize data from myNHA to monitor and support school success in key school areas.
• Critically think to understand and personalize to the context and key areas of each school.
• Ensure equity in student outcomes via data review in areas such as student performance, discipline data, and other key school measures.
• Conduct classroom and school visits with school teams to assess quality, ensuring alignment to the Classroom and Schoolwide Framework.
• Participate in school-based trainings to check for quality and engagement.
• Collaborate with other DSQs to share ideas and develop each other as leaders.
• Organize regional principal and dean professional development.
• Be actively involved in dean hiring, and ensure teacher hiring process is of high quality and consistent.
• Partner with local teacher and leader preparation programs to create a pipeline of talent.
• Review and approve operational items such as schools’ master schedules, investment plans, school budgets, School Improvement Plan, etc.
• Act as a liaison to each school’s Board of Directors when needed, supporting and preparing the principal, and attend board meetings as needed.
• Look for trends of success and problems organizational-wide, communicating feedback to Service Center to improve outcomes for all schools and students.
• Model and ensure adherence to the NHA core values.
• Frequent travel to schools and collaborative meetings with other DSQs and Service Center employees.
• Other duties as directed.

Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in education related field.
• Minimum 3 years of principal experience.
• Proven track record of student academic success or significant gains in a principal role.
• Must have K-8 or K-12 experience.
• Outstanding communication skills with the experience to be an outgoing spokesperson and relationship builder.

 

This is an in-person position at our NHA Service Center located at 3850 Broadmoor Ave., Grand Rapids, MI.

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National Heritage Academies is an equal-opportunity employer.