Director Of Operations Jobs

About the Opportunity

The mission of our schools is to ensure that our scholars receive the most rigorous education. Core to achieving this mission is smooth operations that support all stakeholders' ability to educate our scholars. Reporting to the Regional Superintendent, the Director of Operations ensures systematic, proactive, and efficient operations within the school, and between school and external stakeholders.

Who You Are

• An exceptional organizer who can keep track of short- and long-term plans to make challenging decisions of prioritization on a daily basis.
• A data-driven leader who is comfortable with handling the research and communication necessary to find, create, or guide others to the perfect system.
• A graduate of a Bachelor's Degree program (required).
• An education equity advocate with an unwavering commitment to the Democracy Prep mission of college success and authentic civic engagement for our scholars.
• An exceptional project manager who can take an idea and turn it into a complete and detailed plan, considerate of all stakeholders and context.
• An experienced manager of a team who can strategically balance direct support, motivation, and accountability.
• An operational expert who can effectively develop and leverage relationships with leaders and peers.

What You'll Do

• Lead a school operations team to ensure that the operations of the school facilitate its ability to ensure a high quality education to scholars and respectful relationships with its families and communities. This includes setting goals with the Regional Superintendent and coaching and managing your team to accomplish both individual and team goals.
• With the Regional Superintendent, School Leaders and Operations Manager, assess, develop, improve, and monitor school-based operations systems that efficiently support staff, scholars, and families.
• With the Regional Superintendent and School Leaders, design, establish, and maintain procedures for day-to-day operations of the school, including arrival, dismissal, food service, attendance, transportation, emergency preparedness, enrollment, family engagement, facility cleanliness and decor, assessment administration, and supply and technology management.
• Prepare and analyze data reports for school and operations leaders, and train operations leaders to do the same as needed.
• Actively monitor the accuracy of school data within state-required databases and internal information systems, and urgently problem-solve issues.
• Research, build relationships, and create sustainable systems to maintain school compliance with relevant federal, state, and local non-instructional statutes, including but not limited to enrollment, student health, attendance, and school safety.
• Prepare and analyze data reports for the Regional Superintendent and School Leaders.
• Create and execute detailed event plans, factoring in information on the physical facility, event goals, backgrounds and experiences of participants and stakeholders, communication and marketing, and connection to the overall mission of the school.
• With the Regional Superintendent and key network teams, work to ensure that the school is operating in a way that is fiscally and legally responsible and that there are school-based systems that support these priorities
• Ensure that systems, protocols and policies are well documented and easily accessible to all stakeholders. Clear communication is essential in ensuring smooth operations!
• Proactively manage relationships with important vendors and partners, including support of necessary escalations by the school team.
• In coordination with an external vendor and your team, develop systems of preventative maintenance for school technology, including, but not limited to, laptops, copiers, printers, smartphones, projectors, interactive whiteboards, and other classroom technologies.
• Author and lead professional development sessions and training for operations staff that drive the vision and goals of the school and the network operations team.
• Build respectful and professional relationships and partnerships with other stakeholders in the building, community, and network that represent the best interests of our scholars, and ensure all other operations team members are equipped and coached to do the same.
• Other tasks as assigned by the Regional Superintendent.

Compensation

Democracy Prep staff members are provided with a competitive salary, full benefits, and a working environment that includes all the necessary technology and resources to succeed.

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Democracy Prep is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Our mission is to educate responsible citizen-scholars who will change the world. We strongly believe that by building a DREAM team that represents numerous perspectives, backgrounds, and expertises, we can achieve this goal together. This is a value we highly support and strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.