[Immediate Hire] Elementary School Assistant Dean of Culture

Responsibilities

• Respond to students in crisis, support students through crisis, and provide de-escalation intervention;
• Provide input and insight regarding effective strategies for positive school culture and supporting specific scholars;
• Monitor class transitions, lunch, recess, and students otherwise out of class
• Facilitate community building in the school
• Support the implementation of restorative circles
• Input school culture data into information systems
• Monitor and track school-wide systems such as positively based incentive systems and individual support plans
• Partner with families around student support plans
• Implement school-wide expectations, behavior systems, routines, and procedures through daily, weekly, and monthly review of individual student, class, grade and school culture practices
• Uphold all school-wide expectations and behavior management systems, ensuring all students’ social emotional development

Qualifications

• Associate’s Degree required, Bachelor’s Degree, preferred;
• Experience working directly with elementary students, preferably in a school-based environment, required;
• Special education degree or training, preferred;
• Experience using responsive classroom or restorative practices, strongly preferred;
• A deep sense of urgency to increase student achievement;
• Ability to foster open communication with the school community and effectively convey high expectations for student learning and behavior;
• Success in working collaboratively with staff on culture and instruction;
• Strong work ethic and solutions-oriented mindset, with a desire and ability to solve problems;Strong organizational skills, including attention to detail;
• Bilingual (English/Spanish), preferred;
• A strong belief in the mission and values of DREAM, including the desire to make a difference in the lives of our students, families, and community.

Benefits and Paid Time Off

• We offer comprehensive benefits including:
• Flexible Medical Health Plans, subsidizing the majority of costs for the employee, their spouse/domestic partner and children;
• The ability to select between a variety of medical plans according to what best suits the employee’s needs;
• Dental and vision plans;
• Disability benefits;
• Life insurance;
• Up to 12 weeks fully paid of Parental Leave;
• Flexible spending account options;
• Pre-tax commuter benefits (parking and transit);
• Fitness and entertainment discounts;
• A variety of support through our employee assistance program (EAP);
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer match starting at 4% after one year, with increases tied to DREAM tenure;
• Referral, performance, and tenure milestones bonuses;
• Discounted school meals through our in-house Scratch Food Program;
• Tuition reimbursement support (All FT Roles);
• Access to a professional development fund (NEST Roles);
• School-based 12-month employees have approximately 48 days off throughout the school year including holidays, school breaks, personal days, and wellness days;
• Benefits are subject to change.

Compensation

• DREAM offers a competitive salary commensurate with relevant experience with the potential for an annual performance-based increase. The incoming salary range for this position is $65,000 to $75,000 per year. New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary closer to the start of the range depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the role. All staff are eligible for annual performance-based increases. Because we value staff tenure in each role, we do not currently cap salary ranges.