SY25-26 Emergence Academy Post Secondary Senior Analyst

Position type: Full Time

Start Date: July 1, 2025

Salary: TBD; commensurate with experience

About the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership:

While Massachusetts is consistently ranked as one of the top states for education results in the country, we have one of the highest and most persistent opportunity gaps. The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) - established in 2015 as a collaboration between Springfield Public Schools (SPS), the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and the Springfield Education Association (SEA) – seeks to improve the longitudinal life outcomes of the more than 5,000 students in our 16 middle and high schools.

As a “zone” of schools within the city of Springfield, SEZP’s approach draws on a deep and embedded partnership with the school district and local teachers’ union, while harnessing the flexibility and innovation found in autonomous school models. As a result, each school within SEZP is accorded significant school-based autonomies - in curriculum, talent, calendar, schedule, and budget – while being held accountable for realizing achievement gains for historically marginalized students. In all of our work, SEZP is in pursuit of equity and anti-racism acknowledging the systemic oppression our students and families encounter daily and working to disrupt these provision gaps urgently and courageously.

Program Details
The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) is committed to building anti-racist schools by ensuring the work of equity is fully inclusive of and focused on our students of color, exceptional learners, emerging bilinguals, and all families across our schools. A central SEZP strategy for disrupting institutionalized racism lives in our innovation around Early College for high school students. The SEZP pioneered the “fifth year” graduation deferment option for high school seniors to provide enough time for scholars to earn an Associate’s degree or to amass an equivalent number of college credits, thereby significantly increasing the odds of college matriculation and retention, and drastically reducing the financial burdens of higher education on families. The SEZP supports multiple models of early college programming, including wall-to-wall, dual enrollment, and pathways-focused options. This deeply impactful work is made possible through the most robust college partnership strategy in the state, engaging multiple institutions of higher education in course delivery and degree attainment. Our partners include Worcester State University, Springfield Technical Community College, Quinsigamond Community College, Westfield State University, and Holyoke Community College. 

The SEZP calls upon skilled and passionate professionals to trailblaze a new model of early college instruction in which they are dually employed as both an adjunct faculty member of Worcester State University and our SEZP high schools. 

The Postsecondary Senior Analysis will support students to and through college and career preparation programming.

Job Responsibilities

The Postsecondary Senior Analyst will accomplish the following:

• Develop our SchoolLinks plan, determining the progression of SchoolLinks tasks from grades 6-12 and supporting grade level teams to implement coursework
• Leading SchoolLinks sessions for students
• Support students applying to college or other post-secondary job training programs
• Track and support completions of FAFSA
• Plan college visits and help complete fundraising as needed
• Support the Early College Team in ensure students currently enrolled in classes are successful
• Provide support sessions (including after school), advising, and office hours to ensure enrolled students have access to college resources, intervention and additional resources to ensure success
• Support 5th year and beyond programming for students to ensure endurance through postsecondary experiences
• Enact anti-racist instructional practices that ensure students own the learning 
• Work closely with a team of student support team members, mentors, and interventionists to amplify student success 
• Engaging with families as partners in the learning around successes, challenges, and problem-solving on behalf of our scholars

Position Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree preferred but not required
• Strong commitment to the philosophy and efficacy of providing early college access to scholars in marginalized populations required
• Experience in advising in a higher education context preferred
• Experience working with high school-age students preferred
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred
• Experience as an active anti-racist or advocate for equity preferred

If you meet some of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply or reach out for more information. We know that historically marginalized groups – including people of color, women, people from working class backgrounds, and people who identify as LGBTQ – are less likely to apply unless and until they meet every requirement for a job. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from educators with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities. 

We encourage you to reach out to Kelley Gangi at gauthiera@springfieldpublicschools.com if you have questions about the role or your qualifications. We are happy to help you feel ready to apply!

Benefits
Selection as a coordinator in the SEZP recognizes an individual for their outstanding vision, capacity, and commitment to anti-racist school communities.

NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, age, disability or military service or marital status. The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in admission to, access or treatment in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, disability or homelessness.

NOTICE OF SEX NONDISCRIMINATION

Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination, including sex-based harassment, in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and its regulations, including in admission and employment.

Inquiries about Title IX may be referred to the Springfield Public Schools’ Title IX Coordinator, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights at https://ocrcas.ed.gov/contact-ocr, or both.

The Springfield Public Schools Title IX Coordinator is Katie O’Sullivan, Senior Administrator of Human Resources, 1550 Main Street, Springfield, MA 01103, 413-787-7100 ext. 55428, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com.

Springfield Public School’s sex nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedures can be located on the Springfield Public Schools website, www.springfieldpublicschools.com/non-discrimination

To report information about conduct that may constitute sex discrimination or make a complaint of sex discrimination under Title IX, please refer to titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com

Salary : $66,114 - $93,466