Dean of Fellows

The Dean of Fellows is a leadership position within the school that manages and supports the cadre of Great Oaks Legacy tutors including setting and maintaining a positive middle school culture. As the Dean of Fellows you will be driven to shape recent college graduates and emerging professionals into effective educators. You will also be mission-driven adaptable and have a collaborative team mindset.

Specifically Dean of Fellows at GOLCS are responsible for driving:

• Tutor culture across grades 5-8
• Tutor development and management
• Growth and achievement on iReady

Instructional Leadership

• Knows highly effective tutorial or small group strategies well enough to establish and maintain a standard and coach it; is able to readily adapt to leverage resources across ELA and Math
• Develops the capacity of tutors and achieves results through observations walkthroughs real time coaching and data analysis. This occurs in weekly 1:1 coaching meetings focused on student data and learning goals
• Foster and hold tutors accountable to high standards by observing evaluating and providing actionable feedback using the GO Tutor Framework
• Collaborates with Director of Tutorial & Fellowship to monitor achievement data intellectual prep of tutorial lessons and inform the development of tutors
• Manages the effective implementation of tutorial curriculum on their campuses including providing feedback to Tutors and on their internalization.
• Audits analyzes and progress monitors data weekly to inform strategic decisions and priorities
• Collaborates with Academic Deans to design and lead high quality professional development such that it results in improved tutor effectiveness

Student Culture

• Generally support tutors to acclimate to GOLCS school culture and procedures and to consistently reinforce high expectations for all students all the time
• Actively develops school culture where students find joy in learning and meaningfully engaged
• Creates a culture in which tutors build strong and lasting relationships with students especially those with the most challenges
• Builds an inclusive student environment ensuring that all student voices are heard and incorporated
• Speaks to violations of culture and holds staff accountable to values / professional infractions with interactions with kids

Staff Culture

• Celebrates and regularly shows appreciation for tutors
• Actively develops school culture where tutors find joy in tutorial and student learning
• Consistently models and reinforces high expectations for all staff at all times
• Develops clearly articulated systems and drives knowledge/practice through coaching department meetings and/or grade level meetings

Tutor Development & Management

• Ensures each tutor has regular observations is assigned weekly action steps and is provided thoughtful written weekly feedback and evaluations
• Identifies top performing tutors and works strategically to retain them
• Manages low performing tutors through goal setting and increased support.
• Work alongside the Director of Tutorial & Fellowship and members of the school leadership team to assign and oversee secondary duties that directly impact students. These duties may include providing in-class or curriculum support organizing or leading after school clubs and sports programming participating in weekend offerings or working with operations or culture teams.

• These Fellow duties also include morning entry and afternoon exit being present in the hallways during student transitions engaging with students during lunch supporting during school based events and generally being an active and present member in the school community
• Ensure that all tutors secondary duties are clear measurable reviewed and supported through observation and coaching as needed.

GO and GOLCS Network Academic Team Collaboration

• Participate in the GO Tutor selection process and engage prospective GO tutors (and prospective returning GO tutors)
• Provide outreach to community-based organizations in collaboration with the GO Recruitment Team to share information about the GO Tutor Program and GO Foundation
• Conduct in-person or video interviews and review work product tasks associated with applications
• Organize additional interviewers as needed
• Communicate with tutors who have accepted the offer to join the program to keep them engaged and to prepare them for the start of their tutor experience
• Send a monthly newsletter to tutors who have accepted an employment offer (January-July)

Qualifications

Must-Haves:

• College degree: has a Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university
• Teaching / Tutorial Experience: has served as a teacher or tutor for 3-4 years teacher leader or Corps Manager. As a leader for tutors in our organization the person in this role will ideally have walked the walk.
• Deep content expert: stays afloat of current research in school culture and small group instruction via reading and professional development.
• Strong data analysis skills: can look at tutor and student data sets diagnose challenges and immediately recommend clear next steps for their teams of tutors and teachers
• Visionary and dreamer: can develop and drive an inspirational and audacious vision for the tutors on their campus that will yield results for students.
• Detail-oriented and logistical: prioritizes the micro details as much as the vision and can take an idea from theory to practice.
• Excellent communication skills: can speak and write clearly specifically and cohesively about the discipline and all the fine-tuned details stakeholders will need to know in order to achieve results for students.
• Just do it: does not always need to be told what to do; has insight to determine what needs to be done based on ongoing gap assessments and probing questions; can manage multiple projects at once

Nice-to-Haves:

• An advanced degree (Masters or Doctorate) in Curriculum and Instruction or Educational leadership
• A state issued license as a teacher supervisor or principal

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Great Oaks Legacy Charter School offers competitive salaries commensurate with experience and a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Medical dental and vision insurance plans w/ comprehensive network coverage.
• Tax exempt student loan and tuition reimbursement per year.*
• Reimbursement for external professional development aligned to your role.
• Wellness reimbursement benefit including gym memberships spa services and more.*
• Online counseling services - for staff and their dependents - via top-rated therapy app.*
• Pre-tax state pension plan benefit w/ addl. options available via voluntary retirement plans.
• Pre-tax dependent care health and transit flexible spending plans available.
• Convenient health screening and telemedicine support via VitalCheck Wellness platform.

We offer a competitive and fair compensation package that increases based on years of relevant experience.

• The minimum base salary for this role is$68000.

ABOUT GREAT OAKS LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL

Great Oaks Legacy Charter School (GOLCS) is a free open-enrollment public charter school system in Newark New Jersey educating students from Pre-K to 12th grade. Our mission is to prepare every student for college success. GOLCS currently educates more than 2100 students across seven campuses in the greater Newark area.

We provide all children with the support they need - inclusive of resources that acknowledge and address systemic inequities - to be empowered to thrive. We bridge the educational opportunity gap by supporting rigorous academics with daily individualized tutoring within a community committed to supporting equity and diversity.

These three principles guide our work every day in support of our students and mission:

1. Creating a community that is built upon genuine and meaningful relationships;
2. Being surgical in our approach to differentiation of instruction and support of all students and team members;
3. Setting and exceeding high expectations for academic growth and character development for all students in preparation for success in college and beyond.

DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION & ACCESSIBILITY

GOLCS is committed to building a talented team that reflects the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our students. Furthermore we believe that racial justice and equity is critical to our mission of preparing students for success in college and beyond. We strive to be an organization that is diverse equitable inclusive and elevates our student voices in preparing them for life and college.

GREAT OAKS LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL VACCINATION POLICY

Great Oaks Legacy Charter School is committed to ensuring healthy and safe working and learning environments and maintaining our educational commitment to GOLCS students and families - with minimal disruption to instruction. With this in mind as of October 2021 Great Oaks Legacy requires vaccination against COVID-19 for all employees. Candidates who would like to apply for a reasonable accommodation from this policy based on a qualifying disability or sincerely held religious belief should reach out to for more information.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT

Great Oaks Legacy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.