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Acceleration Academies is passionate about improving student outcomes. We provide two capabilities that drive student success. Our dropout recovery and student re-engagement program (Acceleration Academies), is an innovative education partner helping young adults overcome real-life challenges to earn their high school diploma tuition-free through partnerships with state or local school districts across the country. Our technology platform (Incite®) enables data-driven teaching and learning. These offerings are both rooted in our belief that every student deserves access to the best instruction, tools and resources possible.
Position Title: Academy Director
Reports to: Regional Vice President
Location: Los Angeles Acceleration Academies
Compensation: $130,000 to $150,000 with immediate salary increases based on reaching enrollment targets
Signing/Retention Bonus: $6,000 bonus!!! paid out as follows: $2,000 after 3 months of employment, $2,000 after 6 months of employment, and $2,000 after 12 months of employment
Benefits: Great benefits package (Medical, Dental, Vision) 401(k) with 4% Company match, flexible PTO!
Job Description
The Academy Director serves as the leader of their designated district and maintains primary local responsibility for carrying out the organization’s mission, including (1) establishing expectations, providing support and managing accountability for all site-based instructional and non-instructional staff, (2) ensuring equity in programming for the academies’ diverse learners, (3) establishing connections within the broader community to expand services for Graduation Candidates (GCs),(4) managing all program operations to ensure fiscal sustainability and legal compliance, and (5) leveraging available resources to increase enrollment and improve Graduation Candidates' outcomes, ensuring overall program success.
Job Requirements
Highly Preferred Qualification
Core Competencies
The following core competencies define what the organization requires of its employees to succeed and how we expect overall goals to be accomplished each and every day.
Role-Specific Competencies
These competencies are specific to an Academy Leadership position.
Job Responsibilities
Enrollment
Retention
Academics
Advocacy
Additional Qualifications
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
Work Environment and Work Demands
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally be exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is consistent with that of a collaborative school environment.
Acceleration Academies is an Equal Opportunity Employer
The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work to be performed and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. It is understood that other related duties may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform all aspects of the position, described above satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Full Time
$157k-232k (estimate)
01/18/2024
05/19/2024
accelerationacademy.org
Chicago, IL
50 - 100
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