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WE BELIEVE● Diverse schools provide greater opportunities for students to learn from one another.● Charter schools can and should contribute to solving the historic challenge of integrating ourpublic school system.● Diverse charter schools promote equality by ensuring that students from different backgroundshave the same high quality educational opportunities.● Diverse schools invigorate and strengthen urban neighborhoods by bringing communitymembers together.● Achieving diversity often requires deliberate efforts through recruitment, admissions policiesand school design.VISION, STRATEGY AND PLANNING● Develop and execute a clear strategy and regularly update plans to make progress towards achieving Coalition mission and growth goals;● Promote an organizational culture of reflection, equity, inclusion, curiosity, analysis, innovation,and open mutual feedback;● Lead performance management efforts to evaluate and measure progress against goals, andpromote a culture of high expectations and performance and continuous improvement;OPERATIONS● Oversee day-to-day operations, ensuring alignment with the strategic direction and progresstoward goals;● Manage vendor relationships and other services ● Lead efforts to implement systems of internal policies and systems FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT● Ensure the financial health of the organization by managing budget and monitoring financial systems ● Assist with grant processes, including grant writing and editing, submission and follow-up,award, processing, reporting and renewal;● Research, identify and solicit new foundation, corporation and government funding sources;PROGRAMMATIC LEADERSHIP● Support the Coalition in the design and implementation of its policy and advocacy strategies ● Engage in effective project management and project oversight;● Serve as a resource to the Board of Directors

San Francisco Bay Area

▪ Refined Enroll WCC initiative from Year 1 - Year 2 supporting all 12 charter schools in WCCUSD on online common application platform▪ Completed market research on Unified Enrollment programs across the country for strategic planning process at CFF▪ Managed product improvements in SchoolMint to ensure Enroll WCC initiative was deployed ontime and on-budget, met parent and school requirements, and functioned properly▪ Onboarded and trained all new school staff on common application procedures and student recruitment best practices▪ Organized and facilitated weekly foundation and consultant team meetings, quarterly Governance Council meetings

Bedford Stuyvesant Collegiate - Uncommon Schools

Oversees the ongoing operations at the school in conjunction with an Uncommon network’s Chief Operating Officer. Ensures implementation and maintenance of clear systems that allow principals and teachers to focus on students. Works closely with Uncommon’s Home Office Directors and with outside consultants and vendors.ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:1. School start-up and growth: Creates a detailed start-up checklist and ordering list to ensure that the school starts each year prepared and fully stocked.2. Facility: Manages and oversees the school’s physical condition.3. Technology: Works with Uncommon Chief Technology Officer to ensure that the school has a fully functioning technology infrastructure.4. Student Information:Manages student information database system and generates reports as needed.5. Food and Transportation: Manages food and transportation services.7. Regulations and Reporting: Ensures school-wide compliance with health and safety laws, charter contracts, state education mandates (including staff fingerprinting), teacher certification, and all federal and state workplace regulations.8. Finance and Purchasing: Ensures that school-based employees receive payroll and benefits in timely and accurate manner from Uncommon. Works with Uncommon to create and oversee the school’s budget, finances, and relationships with outside vendors.9. Scheduling: Works with appropriate staff to construct advisory and class rosters. Creates and manages teacher, student, and classroom schedules.10. External Relations and Development: Manages relationships with all outside organizations and partners.11. Student Recruitment: Maintains thorough list of local programs and organizations with which to correspond regarding student recruitment.Tracks student admission applications and maintains waitlist.12. Manages two Office Managers, Director of Special Projects and Operations Fellow

The Teacher Network Specialist supports maintaining effective structures and processes related to recruiting new and returning teachers across the country while working to improve efficiency and effectiveness through the improvement or adoption of stronger systems. Teacher Recruitment * Manage Breakthrough’s growing network of recruiters * Research and initiate new partnerships to increase the representation of key demographics in the organization’s applicant pool. * Serve as a voice of Breakthrough Collaborative in communications with potential partners.Teacher Engagement/Alumni Support * Build an active movement of Breakthrough teachers and alumni, as well as a pipeline to careers in educational leadership. * Write, edit, and maintain http://teachbreakthroughs.org, the Breakthrough Teacher Blog. * Execute data collection and reporting on teacher experience and support via Salesforce.com and surveys.

The Citizen Schools National Teaching Fellowship is a service program offering a two-year, leadership development experience, including service as a team leader at a Citizen Schools campus, professional development with a partner organization in the community, and the opportunity for optional enrollment in a pioneering Master's program in out-of-school learning.National Teaching Fellows are at the forefront of a new movement to improve American education through out-of-school learning. Designed for recent college graduates and mid-career professionals seeking to transform the out-of-school time education field into a true partner with national education reform initiatives, the Fellowship is paid, with full health benefits, and offers the opportunity to work in a highly collegial and entrepreneurial environment at a nationally recognized leader in the out-of-school time field.

Bachelor'S Degree

M.Ed., Education