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We would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure each child in NYC has access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status.

When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through the doors of one of our 53 schools in NYC a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.

Job Description

As the fastest growing, highest-performing charter school network in New York State, Success Academy is reimagining K-12 public education.

Nationally recognized for our innovative, whole-child school model and outstanding academic results, Success Academy educators are empowering children from all backgrounds with the knowledge, skills, and self-belief to succeed in college and in life.

We now need a results-driven Senior Specialist to join our Special Education (Sprint) team.

Success Academies has a profoundly innovative schooling model that achieves outstanding results at scale, and our approach to children with Special Education services is just as radical.

We begin with the core belief that disability does not mean an inability, that no child should be written off because of learning differences.

Fifteen percent of our scholars receive Special Education support, and we designed and launched the Sprint program to ensure we provide these scholars with an outstanding education.

While the identification of scholars in need of Special Education supports and the execution of the necessary interventions are carried out at the school-level, a supporting Network capability has shared responsibility and accountability for these scholars.

Reporting into the Lead of the Sprint Compliance team, this Senior Specialist will be responsible for navigating DOE-related service agency contracts in order to staff 100% of schools with Speech and Occupational Therapy (OT) as well as other service providers.

They will work closely with external players like the Office of Related Services and district-specific related service agencies.

They will also work collaboratively within the Sprint Compliance team to ensure that school teams are held accountable and conform to all legal and regulatory requirements of the Special Education process.

The Sprint Compliance team leads on critical initiatives, including coordination of 504s, accuracy of testing accommodation implementation, DOE invoicing, escalations to and relationship building with the Committees on Special Education (CSEs), high stakes case support, and generalized school support.

This team works closely with and serves as a resource for Instructional Services, Advisory, Operations, Technology, and Finance for all departmental crossover that involves Network or School Sprint.

Sprint Compliance also works with multiple offices from the NYC DOE including the district-specific CSEs, the Charter School Office (CSO), and the Office of Related Services (ORS).

Key responsibilities include :

Year long management of Related Service provider staffing through agency / DOE contracts including :

Liaising with related service agency supervisors, the ORS, and the D75 at the DOE

Interviewing, placing, and supporting related service providers working in SA schools inclusive of professionalism

Managing school Sprint teams to execute related service schedules and management of providers

Strategic planning for year-over-year staffing

School Sprint management against key metrics and KPIs, including identifying outlier schools and developing / implementing support and accountability measures

Sprint training and development on Related Services as well as general Sprint role topics as needed

A successful applicant will have the following experiences and education :

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree

Minimum of 2 years of experience in education

Minimum of 1 year managing other people, including giving role / performance feedback

A successful applicant will have the following traits :

Required Traits

Experience in interviewing / staffing

Strong data management skills

Fluency with Google Suite / Microsoft Office including Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, and able to easily create clean / useful spreadsheets / trackers

Ability to effectively collaborate / liaise with a broad base of constituents at all levels, including senior organizational leadership

Extremely detail-oriented

Strong judgment, strategic thinking, communication, project management, and creative problem-solving skills

Excellent written skills

Understanding of student information systems and other educational technologies

Team player and willingness to learn outside the immediate scope of work

Preferred Qualifications & Traits

Clinical experience in Speech or OT

Experience with special education technology systems within New York City

Compensation Range

Annual Salary : $70,000.00 - $80,000.00

Exact compensation may vary based on skills and experience.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to flourish in a multicultural world.

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Success Academy Charter Schools does not offer employment-based immigration sponsorship.

Last updated : 2024-05-30