Chief of Staff - Brooklyn, United States - Ascend Public Charter Schools

Ascend Public Charter Schools
Ascend Public Charter Schools
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Brooklyn, United States

1 week ago

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Overview:
About Ascend

Ascend is the largest Brooklyn-based public charter school serving nearly 6,000 K-12 students in 16 schools.

We exist to serve every student - to help them embody their inherent excellence by providing rich, joyful learning experiences that unlock a life of boundless choice.

Access to education is a social justice issue.

As educators, we center justice and live out our commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism (DEIA) by ensuring that our students have the skills, tools, and confidence they need to thrive today and in the future.

We are proud to have a workforce that mirrors the diversity seen in our students. Working at Ascend provides a community focused on developing an environment of support and belonging. Educators collaborate closely and encourage each other to achieve great outcomes.

Our schools honor, nurture, and challenge the whole child.

Ascend fosters critical thinking skills and a love of learning through an inquiry-based learning approach, Responsive Classroom model, and anti-racist education.

We are deeply committed to advancing educational equity for all of our students.

Students at Ascend benefit from a rich and rigorous liberal arts curriculum that nurtures natural curiosity about the world and guides them to think critically and independently.

Ascend invests in employees by providing competitive compensation, benefits, and ongoing professional development programs.

Total compensation includes a generous benefits package with flexibility in healthcare plan choices, including mental healthcare services, and a 403(b) match.

Our paid time off includes Wellness Days set aside for employees to focus on their personal care.

We also believe in bringing joy to the office, with committees focused on employee programs and events to foster collaboration.

For more information on Ascend Public Charter Schools' model, approach, and core values, please visit our website.

Overview

Ascend is seeking to hire a strategic, analytical, and highly organized individual as its Chief of Staff.

This individual will support the strategy function and partner with the President and executive team to influence and scale the organization as it embarks on its next chapter.

The Chief of Staff's primary responsibility will be to support the executive team to ensure that Ascend sets and achieves its strategic objectives in support of Ascend's mission.

The Chief of Staff will ensure efficiency and alignment among the executive team, lead strategic planning and progress monitoring, manage cross functional projects, and engage in strategic stakeholder communication.


The Chief of Staff will facilitate collaboration across the Ascend network and school teams as they work together efficiently, and urgently in their drive to end educational inequities.


Responsibilities:

Executive team planning

  • Serve as a thought partner and strategic advisor to the President
  • Lead and manage all executive team meetings with a clear arc of year, purpose and facilitation of meeting topics,and establish strategic plans and establish clear ownership of work streams
  • Support the President in supporting the org accountable for team and org commitments and ensuring communication between AL team members is timely, collaborative, and results oriented
  • Support executive team leaders in managing priorities and responsibilities by monitoring progress towards goals, proactively anticipating challenges, and providing tactical support
  • Serve as the knowledge keeper of all executive team initiatives and identify opportunities for cross functional collaboration and increased efficiencies within teams
  • Own all logístical components of leadership team meetings including agenda creation and notetaking to ensure executive and extended leadership team meetings are conducted efficiently and effectively
Strategic planning

  • Drive the implementation of the multiyear strategic plan and communicate regular status updates to the executive team, boards, and organization at large.
  • Oversee monitoring and communication of progress on strategic plan with line of sight into longer term vision.
  • Ensuring oversight of key performance indicators to measure and improve team performance and lifting up risks or areas of focus given the data provided.
  • Develop and maintain the organizational tools required to monitor progress towards goals including dashboards to monitor key performance indicators.
  • Conduct research and synthesize information on complex topics resulting in clear and concise recommendations to CEO and executive team.
Special projects

  • Draft communications for internal and external stakeholders including staff, volunteers, board members, and other stakeholders as needed
  • Develop strategic content for AL and ACS board meetings including executing on a roadmap to communicate Ascend's strategic progress in line with annual board priorities and meeting content while driving strategic board initiativ
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