About the Role
Community School Director is responsible for the implementation, integration, alignment, and coordination of the community school strategy through relationship building and linking community resources to the school. The director will work directly with students, school staff, and families, identifying barriers that limit student success, and will develop strategies and resources to improve attendance, reduce behavior incidents, assist in the coordination of mental health and behavioral health services, promote family and community engagement, and increase student attendance and achievement. The school is located in the Concourse Village area of the Bronx.
What You’ll Do
- Oversee all Community School activities.
- Provide supervision and support to Community School staff.
- Serve on school Principal’s Cabinet, providing leadership for coordinating the work of different partners within the school, and aligning the work of partners with the school faculty.
- Work in strong collaboration with the school’s Principal and School Leadership Team.
- Chair and coordinate Collaborative Planning Meetings.
- Coordinate with Rising Ground Finance staff and Paths to Success Senior Director to develop an annual budget, ensure all spending aligns with the approved budget, track expenses, and propose budget modifications as needed.
- Coordinate with school leadership to maintain a focus on results and track progress.
- Organize and oversee assets and needs assessments and seek input from teachers, school staff, parents, and students to determine ongoing needs of students and families.
- Serve as a point person for agencies and programs interested in partnership with the school and help to broker new partnerships that aligned with school goals and needs.
- Work with the Parent Coordinator to ensure that families have meaningful opportunities to participate in the school.
- Participate in all meetings and professional development activities associated with the Community School's initiative as required, i.e., PBIS., DOE related forums, etc.
- Assist with data collection, research, and prepare relevant data to bring to meetings.
- Utilize student level data to guide decision making.
- Identify high need students, coordinate with teachers to target interventions, and track and monitor impact of interventions.
- Build relationships and mechanisms to effectively link the school day to expanded learning opportunities.
- Facilitates alliances and partnerships with City agencies and non-profit partners to establish a continuum of services for students.
- Provide training and technical assistance to ensure cultural and linguistic appropriateness of services, programs, and communication efforts.
- Assist school and partner agencies with resource management and development, including fund development and grant maintenance.
- Coordinate the allocation of space for student and family support services, and for special events.
- Performs other related work as assigned by the Senior Director.
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s Degree preferred.
- Bi-lingual Spanish & English required.
- Ability to work effectively with students, educators, families, and communities from a wide range of cultural, social, and economic backgrounds.
- Experience working in school-based settings, with knowledge about tenants of community organizing, student support services, and children/youth development theories.
- Requires a commitment to a team-based work environment.
- Ability to work collaboratively, with strong relationship building skills.
- Excellent verbal, written communication, and organizational skills are essential.
- Knowledge and ability to perform on basic computing platforms (work processing, spreadsheets, Internet, email, databases.)
- DOE and Rising Ground fingerprinting and background clearances.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Supervisory Responsibility: Yes
Work Environment: School-based Setting
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: Mon-Fri, 35 hours / week in schools located in the Concourse Village area of the Bronx.
Additional Requirements:
- Authorized to work in the U.S.
- Ability to work in-person in New York City (NY) for at least 3 days per week.
- Ability to travel to other Rising Ground sites (if required)
- Ability to travel within the community and do visits
Benefits Offerings Includes:
11 Paid Holidays
Paid Sick Time
Paid Vacation
Paid Personal days
Insurance Coverage
Medical - 3 plan options
Dental - 2 plan options
Vision - 1 plan option
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
It is the policy of Rising Ground that the Agency wholly complies with equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to an individual’s perceived or actual race, creed, color, national origin, alienate, citizenship status, gender, age, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or veteran status in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, layoff and termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree required; Master's Degree preferred
- Bi-lingual Spanish & English required
- Experience in school-based settings
- Strong relationship building skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Knowledge of basic computing platforms
- DOE and Rising Ground fingerprinting and background clearances
What We Do
Driven by the belief that each of us can thrive when life has hope and opportunity, Rising Ground provides caring support and proven paths to positive change, helping children, adults, and families rise above adversity. With an annual budget of $203 million and 101 programs at 138 sites throughout the New York City and lower Westchester area, we deliver dedicated support to promote safe environments for children and help families thrive through our family stabilization, family foster care and adoption programs; innovative special educational programs that advance learning from early childhood through high school; result-focused programs that help court-involved youth change the trajectory of their lives; caring services that promote independence for children and adults with developmental disabilities; and pro-active community health initiatives that foster well-being. Across programs, we continually engage new, innovative techniques and implement evidence-based models to increase our impact and promote better outcomes.
