Operational Fellow 2025/2026 School Year

Enterprise Charter School (ECS) Overview:

Enterprise is a public charter school in Buffalo, New York educating children in kindergarten through eighth grade. Founded in 2003, ECS is committed to "Engaging young minds through projects and partnerships."
We pursue our mission through our Charter's key design elements, with our primary focus on highly engaging project-based learning, comprehensive arts education, and individualized instruction for enrichment and acceleration. We celebrate diversity and inclusion and engage a variety of partners to support our students academically, socially, emotionally, and culturally.

Enterprise Charter School is seeking an Operational Fellow that is visionary and is relentlessly looking for new ways to improve and grow as an operational leader. The Operational Fellows' actions must always be aligned with our school's mission and possess a genuine love and concern for the success of our school, the teachers, and the students. A Bachelor's Degree is required; Master's Degree preferred.

SCHOOL-WIDE COMPETENCIES:

• Articulates and applies historical context of racism and understands the current reality of students and communities of color in order to support racial equity
• Accountable for students' success and believes Enterprise's students must receive the highest quality education possible in order to close the achievement gap
• Relentless commitment to mission of educating Enterprise's students
• Actively demonstrates a commitment to supporting diversity, equity and inclusion
• Serves as an advocate for racial equity with the school's colleagues, parents, students, community, and external stakeholders to promote equity in education and closure of the achievement gap
• Demonstrates a racial equity mindset through awareness of biases and leads with a racial equity lens

Essential Functions

• Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
• Serving as a member of the school's leadership team collaborating with other leaders to ensure that the school achieves all of its operational and cultural goals
• Creating and maintaining a positive school culture for students and staff that aligns to our school's mission
• Experience leading or supporting charter school operations is preferred including but not limited to school budgets and required school compliance through NYSED

Qualifications

• Strong organizational skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and to effectively lead teams to complete complex projects over time
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people
• Ability to take initiative to create new systems where necessary and to work independently
• A commitment to doing whatever it takes to ensure the success of Enterprise Charter School
• Proficiency in working with computers, commonly used software (like Google Documents) and Excel.

Enterprise Charter School offers a competitive salary, health benefits and is a member of the NYS Teacher Retirement System. Position starts at $60,000 higher rate based on experience.

Enterprise Charter School is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the community we serve. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals.