Innovative Schools Fellow
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About the Opportunity Trust
Our Big Why
The worlds economy and job markets are changing and St. Louis has to get in the race. Our community is filled with the people knowledge and resources to actualize endless possibilities for all children to thrive. Our education system is becoming increasingly disconnected from our communities and children. Existing approaches to solving regional problems are not yielding the results we need.
Its time to chart a new path forward.
The Opportunity Trust is putting plans into action by bringing new resources insights and support to individuals and organizations that are already effecting change launching new initiatives when needed and fostering collaboration across the region toward shared goals.
Opportunity Trusts mission is to ensure every child in St. Louis is prepared to lead a life of choice and dignity as an adult by supporting organizations and advancing initiatives that seek measurable progress toward educational equity.
Opportunity Trust envisions a St. Louis where every single person is able to find success in a rapidly changing world and a region that draws people from all backgrounds because of its renewed sense of possibility growing economic opportunity and safe just and joyful communities.
Fast Facts
- Established: 2019
- Employees: 10
- Annual Budget: $12mm
Why Opportunity Trust
We have a school system built for 100000 children that now serves just over 30000. We have too many schools and yet too few quality options. Just 10 of children in St. Louis currently attend a school that is preparing them to thrive in the 21st century. Our children deserve schools that will set them up for success and our community needs a workforce for our changing economy. Research is clear that designing new schools alongside a community coalition from the ground up is the most likely path to increase high quality and innovative school options.
About the Position
Your Job
As a fellow in the Innovative Schools Fellowship you will:
- Build partnerships and alliances with families community leaders and organizations in St. Louis committed to transformational outcomes for children.
- Mobilize this coalition to advocate for expanded high quality public school options.
- CoDesign an innovative school model that ensures that children are set up for success alongside a community coalition and a cabinet of national experts in various aspects of teaching learning and design.
- Launch the school by securing authorization for opening a new public school which may include charter sponsorship.
- Recruit and onboard families and teammates aligned to the vision for the new school(s)
- Implement the necessary systems and structures in place to bring the vision of excellence and equity developed in the design process to life in a school on a daily basis.
Your Team
- You will ultimately be accountable to yourself in meeting the benchmarks to launch this school in partnership with a community coalition. Multiple stakeholders will support you as accountability partners including The Opportunity Trust team national partners former and current ISF fellows and eventually your board of directors.
Your Life
- Location: St. Louis
- Start date: Summer 2023
- Salary range: $90k$125k
Your Future Legacy
- Hundreds of graduates who are living lives with greater choice and opportunity and committed to building a more just and equitable St. Louis
- You built and sustained a worldclass school or network that became a proof of possibility helping to combat implicit and explicit racism and bias through its very existence.
- You set and achieved a standard of academic excellence that would make any parent proud to send their child to your school and changed the consciousness of our community.
- You attracted and developed a team that is representative of students served from the Board of Directors to junior staff who are equipped to grow and sustain the impact.
About You
While we are actively seeking diverse profiles of leadership successful applicants must demonstrate:
- An unwavering bar for excellence and a track record of results
You are obsessed with exceeding the bar for rigorous and relevant learning and can show results achieved. School leadership experience is preferred.
- Commitment to equity
You regularly reflect on identity and power and are poised to cocreate schools representing a commitment to diversity equity and inclusion.
- Curiosity and selfdirection
You are humble and continually seek out broad inspiration. You drive development and are prepared to take the reins of your EIR journey. You effectively manage your time and execute tasks to completion.
- Strong people leadership
You have experience leading diverse thriving teams and supporting the growth and development of others.
- Effective communication
You have the ability to connect with diverse audiences and convey compelling messages through verbal and written communication.
- A promising vision for a new school
While this will evolve through the program you have an initial school vision that speaks to an authentic community need and represents an engaging rigorous relevant learning environment for students.
Believing that the wide array of perspectives resulting from diversity and inclusion allows all organizations to be more effective we are deeply committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. We know that a broad diverse coalition of people is necessary to effect systematic change in St. Louis. We are dedicated to greater diversity and inclusion within our own organization and provide equal opportunity to people of all races ethnicities religions genders sexual orientations gender identifications abilities incomes marital statuses ages geographic locations philosophies and veteran statuses in all levels of staff and governance.
Priority Deadline: December 15 2023
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis after December 16 2023 until January 19 2024.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
