Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) Promise Academy – a top-performing K-12 charter school within HCZ’s cradle-to-career pathway of comprehensive services – seeks a K-12 Educational Training and Development Coaches for Promise Academy Elementary, Middle, and High School. When students enter HCZ Promise Academy Charter Schools, we make a promise to help each and everyone get to and through college. Everything we give our students—from world-class instruction and exceptional extracurricular activities to social emotional support and healthy meals—is aimed at fulfilling that promise.

The ideal candidate will bring a passion for the mission of HCZ Promise Academy, an understanding and respect for the culture of all residents of Harlem, and a desire for working in a school setting that fosters a love for children.

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Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree with 6 years of teaching experience required
• Must have at least 3 years of experience in an administrative/supervisory position
• Must have a valid New York State Teaching Certification
• Must be able to demonstrate successful teaching experience and administrative experience
• Extensive coursework experience in curriculum development

What You’ll Do

• Responsible for training and developing a caseload of new and existing K-12 teachers.
• Identify areas of alignment, misalignment, and how we can transfer effective ideas occurring in isolation across all schools.
• Model effective teaching practices for staff.
• Collect observation data to provide targeted feedback and support to teachers.
• Compile survey data from staff regarding their training needs and interests.
• Compile informal and formal observation data directly and from principals regarding the strengths and weaknesses of their staff.
• Help design effective training programs and materials that align with the team’s goals and school vision.
• Provide additional follow-up workshops for those in need of additional support.
• Create tiered support for teachers.
• Provide intellectual development to staff on targeted areas as diagnosed by the principals, education directors, and curriculum team (book studies, speaker events, online resources, texts, articles, etc.).
• Organize and recommend information about external workshops attended by staff.
• Build strong relationships with teaching staff.
• Compile survey data from staff regarding feedback on workshops.
• Generate key points from each internal and external training opportunity.
• Collaborates with Principals and Education Directors to develop staff
• Oversees the development and support of teaching assistants and teaching fellows.
• Provides supplemental instruction to scholars in need during extended learning opportunities.

Special Considerations

• Support content-specific teams in the development and implementation of
• curriculum materials and assessments on a need basis.
• Support the monitoring and evaluation of state assessments administered by
• the schools.
• Support the effective collection/warehousing of student performance data as
• Have an active role in ad hoc committees related to teacher development.

Benefits

To achieve these exceptional outcome, we hire the best and brightest educators and administrators and offer one of the most competitive benefits packages in the industry. We believe they earn it and deserve it. 

Our exceptional benefits include:

• Highly competitive base salaries
• Up to $30,000 Student Loan Forgiveness
• Paid time off 
• Employee referral bonus 
• Career advancement
• No-cost health insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short-and long-term disability
• Additional voluntary benefits
• Wellness discounts
• Commuter benefits
• Financial wellness perks
• Additional Benefits (Discounts on flights, hotels, theme parks, concert tickets, and more.)

Reports to: Director of Training and Development

Supervises: No direct reports

The salary range for this position is $120,000-$130,000 per year. To be considered, interested applicants must apply online or submit a cover letter and resume. No telephone inquiries or recruiters please. Replies will only be sent to qualified applicants.

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