Sy2023-24 Operations Manager I

NOTICE: All Ingenuity Prep employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before their start date. All persons offered a position will be required to provide valid proof of vaccination prior to starting employment or must be approved for a medical or religious exemption.

Ingenuity Prep prepares PreK - 8th grade students in Ward 8 to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civic leaders. Our innovative instructional model promotes small group learning for students, collaborative teaching teams, and robust coaching and professional development opportunities for teachers and staff.

We are looking for an outstanding and emerging operations professional to serve as Ingenuity Prep's Operations Manager I. The Operations Manager I will work closely with the Director of Operations and the rest of Ingenuity Prep's Operations Team.

What We're About

• Results: Our students are defying expectations. Ingenuity Prep's students outperform their neighborhood peers on rigorous, national, college-track assessments. Already out-performing many of their more privileged peers around the city, in the coming years, Ingenuity Prep's students will provide an expectation-defying and achievement-gap-closing proof point — showing what our kids are capable of when we provide the right opportunities, expectations, and support.
• Model: We pair high expectations with high support. Too often, our students are underestimated. At Ingenuity Prep, an innovative teacher development model, paired with best-in-class training from strong instructional leaders, allows us to grow great teachers who, ultimately, lead high-expectation and high-support classrooms.
• Mission: We're closing the opportunity gap. Students and families in Southeast D.C. have too few options for high-quality elementary, middle, and high schools. Ingenuity Prep aspires to right this systemic injustice providing an exemplary educational option for Southeast D.C.'s students and families.

What You'll Do

The core responsibilities of the Operations Manager I role at Ingenuity Prep include:

School-Wide Events

• Planning and executing school-wide events including field trips, back to school celebration, holiday celebration, picture day, Black History Month celebration, community health and wellness events, field day, and end-of-year ceremonies
• Serving as the operational lead for staff events, including summer training, the start of school logistics, monthly staff professional development, and culture events
• Managing communication with staff, students and families around schoolwide events

Technology

• Managing our student Chromebook program, including asset inventory and management
• Leading the day-to-day management of our 3rd party technology support provider
• Supporting staff onboarding and offboarding around technology

Finance Operations

• Owning the ongoing procurement of school-wide curriculum and supplies as well as playing a key role in summer procurement to prepare for each new school year Managing all vendors to outcomes, including establishing and maintaining positive vendor relationships and engaging in follow-up as needed
• Establishing and maintaining strong processes for vendor invoice submission and monthly credit card coding, promoting strong financial practices, and helping to inform the school's monthly budget forecast efforts
• Coordinating all staff and student travel

Student Health Services

• Managing relationships with contracted school nurses
• Serving as operational lead for Ingenuity Prep's relationship with school health service providers, ensuring that we are in compliance with all relevant legal requirements, and acting as the point-person for health-related communications to the school community

General Operations

• As a member of the operations team, working to provide outstanding operational support to students, families, and staff
• Supporting daily arrival and dismissal as well as front desk operations

Who We're Looking For

This role may be the right fit for you if:

• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You have superior initiative - you take instruction well, but do not wait for it
• You have 2-3 years of school-based experience - preferred
• You will thrive in a fast-paced, high-performing, but sometimes unpredictable environment
• You prioritize your own continuous learning and desire feedback
• You are a systems thinker who has successfully built or refined processes to increase efficiency and efficacy
• You have previous experience in school operations - preferred
• You are proficient with MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint or google suite alternatives
• You are able to work effectively with multiple stakeholders, including Ingenuity Prep's families; you consistently treat others with dignity and respect
• You are meticulously detail-oriented, and are driven to meet deadlines, and have used that skill set to plan or support the planning of events
• You believe deeply in Ingenuity Prep's mission and in our ability to achieve ambitious goals

More About Us

Ingenuity Prep offers among the strongest compensation and benefits packages of any public charter school in Washington, D.C. Our compensation and benefits package includes:

• A minimum of two weeks' maternity/paternity leave at 100% pay for all staff -- regardless of gender. Over time, that increases to as much as six weeks -- all at 100% pay.
• A 100% match -- up to 3% -- on your 401K retirement plan.
• A 100% Ingenuity Prep-paid cell phone plan. You can even bring your current number into our plan.
• Highly competitive compensation.
• MacBook Air computer for professional and personal use
• 100% of medical and dental premiums for employees paid for by Ingenuity Prep, along with 100% of dependent premiums and 50% of spouse's or domestic partner's premiums.
• 100% of employee's short and long-term disability and life insurance plans paid for by Ingenuity Prep.

Salary: $71,683 - $89,522 (commensurate with 1-10 years of experience)

Ingenuity Prep does not make hiring decisions on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, disability, veteran status, religion, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.