Director of School Operations - Houston, United States - YES Prep Public Schools

YES Prep Public Schools

Verified Company

Houston, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

POSITION:
Director of School Operations (2 positions available)

REPORTS TO:
Managing Director of School Operations

POSITION TYPE: 12-month

START DATE: 7/1/2024

COMPENSATION:
$89,648 - $109,820, Home Office Grade 9

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.

Our campuses are advancing educational equity.

Some quick stats about us:

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 4Year 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.

THE OPPORTUNITY

YES Prep needs a dynamic Director of School Operations, with a diverse set of experiences to make our mission a reality. As a YES Prep employee, you will achieve jawdropping 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 play an integral role in providing guidance, leadership coaching, and mentoring to campusbased operations leaders. Additionally, you will be adding project management and implementation capacity to Home Office strategic projects, strategic initiatives, and providing thought leadership on systemwide operations policy issues.

THE ROLE

When you join the YES Prep team, some of the exciting work and responsibilities will include:
Driving the two main revenue sources for the district, student attendance and enrollment for your cohort of campuses;
Partnering with Heads of Schools to colead campuses in an identified annual portfolio;
Acting as School Operations leaders to lead incident command as a key effort as part of Response Team;
Leading operational strategy for all school operations efforts including final decision making rights to ensure business continuity and risk mitigation;
Accelerating and lead master scheduling efforts to ensure every student has access to the necessary coursework to reach student achievement goals;
Provide direct oversight of campus discretionary spending to minimize loss and optimize resources;
Identifying process improvements at the systemlevel to gain organizational efficiency;
Conducting onsite audits, process improvement analyses and ground level support at all sites as needed
Performance managing front office sites including evaluation, growth, and accountability
Leading the hiring and onboarding process for operations leaders on campus;
Managing between 6 to 8 Directors of Campus Operations in collaboration with Principals;
Generating creative solutions to drive business continuity at all sites given external and internal challenges;
Providing ongoing coaching, training and mentoring to campus operations leaders;
Providing strategic advice, thought partnering and policy recommendations and development to Home Office Operations team leadership;
Providing assistance to campus operations leaders with inspections, schedules, maintenance of student information systems and related work duties;
Liaising with the Home Office team to problem solve and provide solutions for campusbased operational needs and concerns;
Providing campus Operations support as needed during campus operational role transitions;
Acting as a liaison with appropriate District departments to support campus operations on projects and deadlines related to the daytoday operations of the schools;
Performing regularly scheduled coaching sessions with campus operations leaders to achieve excellence in their role;
Assisting in the development of standard operating procedures, codification of operational best practices;
Additional duties as assigned.

THE PERSON

We seek staff with diverse backgrounds, talents, interests, and ideas.

Certain traits consistently shine through for our most successful employees:
passion for the mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, and humility.

Other traits needed and desired for this role are:

THE MUST HAVES