2025-26 Manager or Director of Academics (New Orleans, LA)

The internal priority application deadline is January 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM.

About this role: The Manager or Director of Academics supports schools in making teachers and instructional leaders better. Success in this role means that all Collegiate Academies Schools and Postsecondary Programs hit their academic goals. This role works to ensure that teachers and instructional leaders are stronger classroom leaders, are more able to improve student outcomes, and can cultivate strong student identity in service of students graduating with access to college and beyond. Self-directed, creative, tenacious and thorough, a Manager or Director of Academics thrives when dropped into the middle of complex situations and asked to improve outcomes for our students.

Our Approach to Supporting Schools: Our schools are constantly adapting to the needs of their specific students. Despite their shared foundations, this means that each of our schools is different from the others, and that each of our schools itself changes and adapts over time. The network-wide Academic Program Team (APT) offers individualized support to schools: we learn each school’s context and design plans that develop capacity, helping each school to use its people and assets to best serve its students.

About Collegiate Academies and the Academic Program Team: Collegiate Academies builds world-class public schools that prepare all students for college success and lives of unlimited opportunity. The network—and the Academic Program Team—exists to help our schools reach that mission. We provide curriculum, content-specific teacher training, and support for instructional leaders, but most of all, we do whatever it takes to ensure our schools have what they need to serve their students.

Founded in 2008, Collegiate Academies serves over 3,000 students in five public high schools and two postsecondary programs in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. We serve a dramatically higher proportion of students with special needs, students who are English language learners, and students who are from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. We see the individual greatness of every student who comes through our doors.

Role And Responsibilities

Directly Coach a Cohort of Teachers:

• build a strong relationship and partnership with each teacher and learn their context--their strengths and areas of growth, their students, and their school team
• use data from observations and student assessments to craft a long-term development plan for each teacher
• drive each teacher’s growth using a range of coaching tools, including observation/debriefing, real time coaching, data meetings, and anything else your teachers need to grow and hit their goals
• create an organizational system that allows you to support teachers with diverse needs across five high school campuses without missing a beat
  
  

Support Instructional Leaders

• build a strong relationship and partnership with each instructional leader, get to know their strengths and areas of growth, as develop a deep understanding of how their school is structured and how the team gets work done
• develop a plan for each instructional leader that both equips them to drive toward short-term goals and builds their long-term capacity to be leaders in the network for years to come
• collaborate with the instructional leaders you support and with the rest of their leadership and school teams, so that your work is seamlessly integrated into the life of the school
  
  

Plan And Run Pre-service Training Institutes For New Teachers

• plan, rehearse and run week-long or multi-week institutes for new teachers, both for teachers who are new to Collegiate Academies and to teachers considering a job at CA
• collaborate with partners on the CA Talent Team and at every school--before, during and after the institute--to ensure that the institutes meet their needs and prepare teachers to be strong teammates from Day 1
  
  

Execute Ad Hoc Projects

• recognizing that there will always be unpredictable needs at our schools--and that the APT meets the needs of our schools, whatever they may be--plan and execute ad hoc projects throughout the year with excellence, tenacity and joy.
  
  

Mindsets And Beliefs

• Believe to the core that all kids are capable of and deserve an excellent education.
• Operate with the core values of Collegiate Academies in all interactions. Make decisions with the mission of the school at the forefront of your mind.
• Hold all people (adults and students) to the highest expectations at all times.
• Exemplify a growth mindset (with yourself and others). Make constant, critical growth each day.
• Be thrilled to do what you do.
• Do whatever it takes to accomplish your goals and ensure those you support accomplish their goals.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 5 years teaching and leading in a K-12 school
  
  

Salary

• The salary scale for a Manager position is $55,000 to $70,000.
• The salary scale for a Director position is $70,000 to $85,000.
  
  

Additionally, CA Provides The Following Benefits

• Industry-leading comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• 403(b) Plan with a 3% match
• 6 weeks of breaks per year (plus additional federal holidays) for all employees, with an additional 6 weeks for most school-based roles.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary and 6 weeks of secondary
• Up to $2,500 for out-of-state moving expenses
  
  

To Apply

Please submit a resume and your answers to the following questions. You may want to plan your answers in advance. Though not required, you may also include a cover letter. In your cover letter, please explain how you heard about Collegiate Academies and your interest and qualifications for the position.

• Why are you drawn to the mission of Collegiate Academies?
• Describe a time in your career where you had to grow dramatically in your mindsets and skills to ensure student performance. What was challenging about this? How did you do?
• What gives you energy at work on a daily basis and what at work drains your energy on a daily basis?
  
  

Disclaimer: Collegiate Academies encourages individuals of all identities and backgrounds to apply for this position. We are an equal opportunity employer fully committed to hiring a talented and diverse group of individuals. Collegiate Academies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin or ancestry, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable law. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Being authorized to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment. Collegiate Academies does not sponsor employment visas.