Jobs at Rocketship Public Schools

Supports daily school operations, including cafeteria setup and records, meal payments, recess supervision, student arrival and dismissal, safety enforcement, behavior management, and reporting unsafe conditions. The role works with students, parents, and staff, follows school procedures and regulations, attends training, and helps maintain a safe, orderly, and culturally appropriate school environment.

Leads regional strategy and execution across annual planning, enrollment, attendance, family engagement, communications, board governance, charter compliance, growth initiatives, and crisis response. Partners with executive, school, network, legal, marketing, and community stakeholders to manage complex workstreams, monitor performance, ensure regulatory compliance, support school leaders, and advance regional sustainability and expansion.

Build and scale Rocketship Public Schools’ major gifts program by identifying, qualifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding high-net-worth donors. Manage a portfolio of up to 100 prospects, secure gifts of $25,000 or more, develop personalized proposals and engagement strategies, partner with executives, organize donor events, and establish scalable fundraising processes across California and the national network.

Leads financial planning and analysis for a nonprofit charter school network, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, long-range scenario planning, financial reporting, KPI tracking, and charter petition support. Partners with school, regional, network, and external stakeholders to provide actionable insights and improve financial sustainability. The role also advances Adaptive Planning integration, performs ad hoc analyses, and supports internal and external reporting.

Serves as a strategic HR partner to regional and school leaders across a multi-site school network. Leads workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, employee relations, investigations, performance management, compliance, change management, and HR process improvements. Uses workforce data and engagement feedback to identify trends, strengthen culture, mitigate risk, and improve retention. The role is primarily remote but requires consistent travel to supported schools near San Jose, California.

Leads Rocketship’s literacy and multilingual learner strategy across regions. Responsibilities include advising academic and school leaders, analyzing achievement and language data, supporting curriculum adoption, designing professional learning, coaching instructional staff, developing implementation tools, conducting school visits, and monitoring progress toward literacy goals. Requires significant collaboration, project management, and up to 25% travel.

Leads complex, high-risk employee relations investigations across a multi-state charter school network. Advises leaders on performance, terminations, conflict resolution, and workplace culture; ensures employment-law and student-safety compliance; oversees mandatory training, personnel records, audits, regulatory responses, and authorizer reporting. The role also identifies systemic concerns, recommends corrective actions, coaches leaders, and mediates sensitive workplace disputes. Travel of up to 25% is required for campus investigations and leadership workshops.

The Chief Talent Officer leads Rocketship Public Schools’ enterprise talent and HR strategy across talent acquisition, organizational effectiveness, employee relations, performance management, rewards, HR systems, and compliance. The role transforms recruiting and employee lifecycle systems, strengthens manager effectiveness and performance culture, oversees workforce analytics and Workday data, and partners with regional and school leaders across four regions. Regular nationwide travel is required, with an expected 40–60% travel commitment during the first year.

Leads talent acquisition for Rocketship’s DC region, developing proactive sourcing strategies and pipelines for educators and hard-to-fill roles. Partners with school and regional leaders on workforce planning, candidate assessment, hiring decisions, and manager coaching. Manages recruiting funnels, analytics, dashboards, events, referrals, internal talent pathways, offers, preboarding, and early retention. Uses hiring data to improve sourcing effectiveness, candidate experience, time-to-fill, offer acceptance, and retention outcomes.

Ensure smooth, safe daily operations for lunch, recess, and arrival/dismissal. Set up and clean food/service areas, collect payments, maintain cafeteria records, supervise students, implement site rules and safety, report hazards, apply disciplinary procedures, and attend required meetings and trainings.

Lead a K–5 school to drive academic achievement, build rigorous culture, develop and coach teachers, partner with families, manage school operations, and ensure data-driven personalized instruction.

Lead campus operations including arrival, lunch, recess, dismissal, facilities, safety, and food service. Hire and coach hourly Operations Specialists, run compliance and safety processes, manage procurement and budgets, serve as on-site IT contact, and partner with school leadership to ensure systems support teaching and student safety.

Lead regional STEM instruction across California schools by owning STEM outcomes, coaching school leaders and teachers, ensuring curriculum fidelity, analyzing assessment data, designing professional development, and partnering with regional and national teams to improve student proficiency, growth, and equity.

Lead instructional vision with the Principal, manage and coach grade-level teachers, run data-driven cycles, observe classrooms, provide feedback, co-plan curriculum, support special education inclusion, engage families, and help build school culture while occasionally teaching.

Lead instructional vision for assigned elementary grade levels, coach and evaluate teachers, run data-driven instruction cycles, support special education inclusion, build school culture and parent partnerships, step in to teach as needed, and collaborate with school leadership to drive student achievement and professional development.

Lead campus operations including arrival, meals, recess, dismissal, facilities, safety, procurement, and IT contact. Hire and coach Operations Specialists, run compliance and safety processes, manage budgets and vendor relationships, and support assessment logistics while partnering with school leadership and families.

Provide instructional leadership, coaching, and program implementation support for STEM across three DC schools. Coach school leaders and teachers, ensure curriculum fidelity, analyze assessment and implementation data, design professional development, and partner with regional and national teams to improve STEM outcomes and instructional practice.

Serve as an Assistant Principal-in-training, coaching and managing 3–9 instructional staff across 1–3 grade levels to drive student achievement. Lead observation cycles, co-plan units and lessons, provide real-time coaching, manage special education and enrichment collaboration, build parent partnerships, shape school culture, run professional development, and prepare to transition into a Principal role.

Support daily school operations by supervising arrival/dismissal, recess, and cafeteria activities; set up and clean food service areas; collect payments; maintain records; enforce safety and discipline; report unsafe conditions; attend trainings and staff meetings.

Lead and support Integrated Special Education (ISE) across Bay Area schools by coaching staff, ensuring IEP compliance, guiding instructional planning and MTSS implementation, coordinating with regional partners and contractors, facilitating professional development, and driving student academic growth and inclusion practices.