Middle School Director

Company: CAL-WEST EDUCATORS PLACEMENT
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: January 15, 2021

Job Description:

Junior High/Middle School Director - Division Head (CONFIDENTIAL) Greater San Francisco Area
Start date: July 2021

• Rich experience teaching and working closely with young adolescents and their families
• Experience observing, coaching, and evaluating teachers toward continued growth
• Experience successfully leading teams
• Experience developing and managing program-level budgets
• Even-keeled, mature, responsive temperament to model steadiness for the highly energetic adolescent community, busy faculty, and sometimes anxious parents
• Passion for and experience with interdisciplinary, experiential, place-based educational models
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks within a variety of demands
• Discretion and candor, and unquestionable ability to maintain confidentiality and act ethically and professionally
• Supervisory experience
• Growth mindset: a love of brainstorming ideas, collaborating, learning through feedback, always striving for excellence and growth
• Must be able to lift and carry 25 pounds
• Must have a clean driving record Preferred Qualifications:
  • Certificate of Completion of the AMI/NAMTA Orientation to Adolescent Studies
  • California Secondary teaching credential Key Responsibilities:
    • Ensure that faculty have the tools and skills required to deliver the highest quality learning experience for students
    • Support continued cross-curricular programming opportunities, weaving robust academic learning with land based experiences and projects on our acre farm, gardens, and apiary
    • Take an active interest in parent perceptions, questions and concerns. Proactively address these with the goals of positive parent relationships and faculty's trust and agency
    • Support Admissions in attracting, admitting, and retaining mission-appropriate families and students--
    • Manage operations at the Junior High, including but not limited to Learning Support Services, schedule, Creative Expression and Physical Education specialists, and class offerings
    • Serve as a pedagogical ambassador: In writing and speech communicate effectively the value and rationale of adolescent education in the 21 st century
    • Ensure students are well prepared for high school and support students, families, teachers and High School Consultant in the high school admissions process
    • Work closely with the Head of School in planning and executing strategic initiatives The successful candidate will be: High Functioning:
      • Skillful in managing the multi-faceted, fluid needs of the day-to-day operations of the program, along with other administrative and long-term strategic visioning, planning and implementation needs
      • Highly organized, detail oriented, punctual, and with a demonstrated track record of independently managing and meeting deadlines
      • Fully reliable: does what s/he says, and says what s/he does
      • Superlative writer, discussion facilitator, and public speaker High Integrity
        • Inspires self and others to continually strive for excellence, possessing the vision, empathy, and humor needed to make the hard work energizing and unifying
        • Maturely self-possessed and self-aware: doing what is right for the school and students is key source of satisfaction (rather than adoration from or popularity with students, faculty, or families)
        • Direct communicator: eschews gossip, triangulating, and "venting," and models direct, compassionate, forward-looking communication and problem solving
        • "Radical Ownership" attitude: takes full responsibility and actively and resiliently strives to affect positive change, regardless of the level of challenge; resonates with the motto, "Don't blame the world; find a solution."
        • Rock solid inner-ethical compass and core; habitually honest High Warmth:
          • Infectious enthusiasm for education, and for the foibles, fun and potentials of young adolescents
          • Compassionate and patient with parental anxieties, without over-indulging entitled parental behaviors
          • Exceptionally positive interpersonal and communication skills, including mature conflict resolution capacities, a generally optimistic attitude, and a strong capacity to create warm connections with others
          • Emotionally intelligent, with the ability to convey a non-anxious presence and access both vulnerability and strong, decisive leadership to connect and inspire
          • Transparent with motivations and thinking.--Confident, not arrogant. Humble, not meek. Inclusive and kind to all High Process-Oriented
            • Skillful in collaborating with colleagues through inclusive, thoughtful, and consistent processes, while also knowing when his or her decisiveness is called for-even should the decisions be unpopular
            • Systems thinker: can identify root causes of challenges and smart strategies for creating systemic improvements and solutions
            • Powerfully "growth mindset" oriented in all s/he does

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