At YES Prep, work for a mission that impacts the life trajectory of students and their families. YES Prep creates pathways to extraordinary opportunity through best-in-class development, competitive compensation and benefits, and recognition for your impact. Grow as an authentic leader and be part of an equity driven, team-oriented culture.

• 19,500 Students
• 2,100 Team Members
• 15 Secondary Campuses
• 9 Elementary Campuses
• 92% Students Who Qualify for Free/Reduced-Price Lunch
• 96% Hispanic & African-American Students
• 90% Students Who Are Accepted to a 4-Year University
• 88% First-Generation College Students
• Ranked in the Top 100 High Schools in the Nation, U.S. News & World Report

We serve the students of Houston, Texas, the 4th largest city across the United States. There are over 20 public-school districts and other great public charter school options within Houston’s city limits serving our increasing population. We are a rapidly growing organization, committed to creating life-changing opportunities for over 23,000 students by 2025.

YES Prep needs a dynamic Director of Program Success- Elementary with a diverse set of experiences, to make our mission a reality. As a YES Prep employee, you will achieve jaw-dropping results, create pathways to opportunity for our students, build transformative relationships, and eliminate educational inequities to advance social justice.

To put it simply, you will support campus leaders to build their skills, capacities, and mindsets to execute the YES Prep program, effectively ensuring every student has the opportunity to learn and grow in a college ready education.

• Collaborating with the Managing Director of Program Success- Elementary to ensure high fidelity to and maximum impact of the campus implementation of the YES Prep Academic and Culture Programs.
• Designing and delivering professional development for school-based teams that is responsive to campus data in order to increase their capacity to implement the YES Prep Program and respond to staff, family, and community needs.
• Providing robust, strategic, targeted support to a cohort of focus elementary campus Assistant Principals and Deans of Instruction, alongside their campus leadership.
• Providing weekly on the ground development, real-time coaching, and professional development to a cohort of focus school elementary campus leaders that results in rapid, data-based growth.
• Collaborating with the student culture team and the externals team to design and support the elementary family experience to increase engagement and persistence so that every child can access a college-ready education.
• Collaborating with Elementary Content Directors and Content Specialists to align campus support to academic and instructional priorities.
• Collaborating with the Special Populations team to ensure Assistant Principals are prepared to lead initiatives for students served in Special Education, 504, Emergent Bilingual Programming, and MTSS.
• Training, monitoring and responding to compliance data points assigned by the Assistant Principal role to ensure high accuracy and compliance.
• Leading highly effective communication with Assistant Principals resulting in increased impact and retention.
• Serving as the point of contact for all Home Office leaders who assign projects and tasks to Assistant Principals
• Coaching and developing Assistant Principals and Elementary DoIs to maintain a culture grounded in increasing positive student outcomes to ensure college readiness and access to excellent educational opportunities so that all Sparks can live choice-filled lives
• Collaborating with Leadership Development team to support the selection and development of Resident Assistant Principals so that YES Prep Elementary Schools have a strong “bench” of leadership for the future.
• Working in partnership with other members of EPT, Heads of Schools and other Home Office leaders to provide leadership development opportunities for elementary campus leaders
• Synthesizing academic and culture team initiatives to ensure internalization and hold elementary leaders accountable for implementation
• Facilitating professional development for campus and home office leadership to maximize impact of the elementary program and ensure highly effective schools.
• Additional duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university recognized by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)
• Minimum of 5 years as an effective classroom teacher
• Minimum of 3 years of experience as an effective elementary instructional leader
• Have extensive knowledge of elementary programming for EB students, and students served under Special Education, Section 504 and MTSS.
• Experience coaching teachers and instructional leaders
• Strong ability to navigate web-related applications and technology
• Ability to create processes and systems to analyze data and inform data-driven decisions.
• Ability to work outside of normal hours and on weekends

• Belief in and commitment to the mission and core value of YES Prep Public Schools
• Openness to giving and receiving frequent feedback
• Ability to maintain emotional control under stress
• Ability to work urgently in a fast-paced and results-oriented environment
• Ability to create and maintains positive working relationships on a team and/or in a highly collaborative environment
• Ability to work with urgency to respond to opportunities and possible threats to goals
• A dedication to learn, grow, and develop as a professional
• Ability to build strong relationships in service of improving outcomes for teachers and students.
• Strong knowledge of best practices in elementary instructional strategy
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Self-directed, detail-oriented work ethic

• Believe that every student can and must grow!
• Believe that teacher coaching is the most important leverage to increase student outcomes
• Belief in and commitment to the mission and core values of YES Prep Public Schools
• Desire to disrupt systemic status quos in education
• Willingness to go above and beyond to disrupt said status quos
• Passion to develop resiliency through a relentless pursuit of jaw-dropping results
• Conviction that high expectations high accountability = high performance and high growth

• Master Degree in Education or related field
• 5 - 10 years of experience coaching instructional leaders
• Principal Certification
• Specialty work experience for the role
• Bilingual – Spanish
• Ability to juggle multiple tasks and initiatives at once

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  Compensation – This position is an exempt, salaried position; offers commensurate with experience.

• Health and Supplemental Insurance – A $0 monthly medical option that includes $600 towards a Health Savings Account, in addition to a variety of supplemental benefits including Dental, Vision, Disability, Life, etc. Employees must work 20 hours a week to be eligible for a full spectrum of benefits, and 10 hours a week minimum for medical benefits.

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  Retirement Plans – Participation in Teacher Retirement System of Texas and a 457b Retirement Plan.

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  Paid Time Off – Employees working 20 hours a week receive 15 days of Paid Time Off in addition to the system closures during the Academic Calendar.

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  Paid Leave Programming – In the event you need to be out due to medical needs (including maternity and paternity leave), YES Prep offers paid leave, paid out at 100%, based on eligibility and tenure.

• Professional Development - YES Prep values longevity and performance over time. We invest in developing leaders through high-quality programs, effective coaching, and ongoing professional development.

• Award Winning Culture– The strong cultures of our campuses and Home Office are just one of many reasons we were named Houston’s Best Place to Work in 2018, 2019, and 2021. We won the 2012 Broad Prize for Excellence in Urban Educationand were a 2016 finalist as well.