MESA Charter High School Founding Director of School Operations

OPPORTUNITY

The Director of Operations reports directly to the Principal and is responsible for ensuring the effective management of the noninstructional functions of the school. The Director of Operations manages admissions facilities student records food services Human Resources Vendors as well as all academic scheduling and grades. The Director of Operations serves on the Leadership team and supervises the operations team as it grows over time.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities of the Founding Director of School Operations include:

• Maintains system to address facility needs.
• Manages all classroom spaces including setup and breakdown at beginning and end of year respectively.
• Oversees school environment to ensure that it is ready and safe for students on a daily basis.
• Works closely with the Principal and finance team to ensure development of and adherence to annual budget.
• Ensure Operations team maintains warm customer service atmosphere welcoming to teachers families and visitors.
• Oversees all standardized testing at school.
• Oversees all scheduling and programming of classes manages all academic data generates report cards.
• Works closely with the Principal to organize and analyze academic data.
• Manages contracted services including finance and technology. Owns relationships with these partners and is responsible for ensuring that MESAs standards of quality are maintained.
• Manages all student records including enrollment and lottery protocol.
• With School Director and CoExecutive Directors manages MESAs annual report.
• Serves as MESAs lead on annual audit working with contracted finance office and accounting services.
• Manages school meals.
• Ensures compliance with Department of Health standards.
• Oversees all compliance report via NYCDOE and NYSED including BEDS reporting. Tracks information and announcements from Charter Schools Weekly email and ensures prompt followthrough on those.
• Owns relationship with Powerschools efile cabinet or any other SIS vendor working closely with Senior Manager of Data and Analytics. Responsible for all exporting of data maintenance of data systems and troubleshooting.
• Oversees handling of all Human Resources administration including all paperwork for new hires and exit interviews and paperwork for terminations.
• Selects and manages relationships with vendors/brokers and manages enrollment of health plans and retirement plans for all staff.
• Selects and manages relationships with vendors/brokers for schoolwide insurance policies per approval by the CoExecutive Directors.
• Manages all compliance responsibilities including Titles IV teacher certification and fingerprinting safety fire drill coordinator health software compliance COBRA letters student lottery annual Sexual Harassment seminar and any legal issues.
• Manages compliance related to ByLaws and charter renewal.
• Other duties as assigned by the Principal.

In order to fulfill these responsibilities the ideal Founding Director of School Operations candidate will be/have:

• Minimum Bachelors degree Masters Degree or other advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 35 years of experience in operations leadership roles with direct experience in NYC school operations.
• Selfstarter with unparalleled sense of initiative. You welcome the opportunity to solve thorny problems that have bedeviled others.
• Deep sense of personal accountability and willingness to foster accountability in others. Eagerness to own all of MESAs operations across all domains.
• Strong ability to communicate and develop relationships.
• Strong strategic thinking and problemsolving skills with the ability to work collaboratively across multiple campuses and teams.
• Proven trackrecord of leading and developing employees and teams.
• Proven trackrecord of high achievement across operational functions (e.g. HR finance compliance) and commitment to accountability.
• Belief in and alignment with MESAs core beliefs and educational philosophy.
• Spanish Mandarin Cantonese and Fujianese speakers are a strong plus.

This position offers a competitive salary range $100000 $125000 based on experience. More details can be provided upon request.

TO APPLY

Please submit a resume online at For technical assistance or support with the application process please contact

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