Job Description

Foundation Academies Promise: To Equip all scholars to Excel in learning and Empower them to Lead purpose-filled lives.

Purpose: Foundation Academies exists to close the opportunity gap for youth in our community of Trenton, NJ.. Dismantling systemic injustice requires a strong team of highly talented people who have the skills, capacity and passion our scholars deserve.The Vice Principal of Culture and Community leads the charge for Equipping our teachers and staff with the skills to excel in creating a sense of belonging to empower our students to become future leaders and agents of change in the community.

What is in it for you:

You will gain a sense of purpose and pride knowing you are empowering opportunities for scholars society too often overlooks due to the color of their skin or their zip code. You also will join a community that values wellness and receive a competitive salary, comprehensive medical benefits. Learn more here!

Reports to: School Principal

Responsible: (Tasks you are responsible for. Tasks are subject to change)

Data driven decision making and coaching

• Model and teach how to build strong, appropriate, and mutually respectful relationships with scholars.
• Drive fidelity of culture systems across the school, including classroom and behavior management, attendance, and more.
• Track, analyze and utilize school-wide culture data and make adjustments to ensure equity in systems. Provide feedback directly to teachers and leaders.
• Coach a portfolio of teachers. Observe classrooms daily and deliver targeted feedback to teachers to build and maintain a nurturing a culture of learning.
• Facilitate excellent, practice-changing professional development in response to scholar and teacher data, grounded in school/network goals and priorities. (SEL, Addressing Tier 2 and 3 Behaviors, Creating a Culture of Learning, and more.)

Serve as an active member of the school leadership team:

• Be a liaison between families and teachers to effectively build relationships in support of scholars.
• Actively participate and engage in regular leadership team meetings, walkthroughs, and monthly leadership development training.
• Work closely with the Vice Principal of Academic Coaching and Success to ensure character development and a positive school culture for scholars and staff.

Demonstrate exceptional leadership skills:

• Demonstrate the ability to be self-aware in stressful situations and model exceptional self-management skills.
• Lead with accountability, empathy, emotional intelligence and empowerment. Lead by example.
• Engage in Promise Driven accountability conversations when equity is not being exhibited.
• Collaborate with the K-12 VPoCC to norm on practices, learn from each other, and improve scholar achievement across the network.
• Model FA professional and core values at all times; be a visible and highly engaged leader in the school community.
• Remain current on best practice and differentiate approaches for teachers

Accountable: (What you are accountable for. What you are accountable for does not change, You are the decider on these things)

• Effectively develop and execute a high-performance culture plan that creates and maintains a school-wide culture of structure and pride (i.e. implementation of incentive systems, club and enrichment activities, clear schoolwide expectations). Thus achieving:
  • 95% student attendance rate
  • 80% or more of all behaviors are Tier 1
• Partnering with teachers to creatively and strategically establish and maintain high standards of team performance by developing clear long-term and annual goals, actively monitoring performance, providing actionable feedback, ongoing development and resources to continuously improve thus retaining 90% of teachers.

Consulted: (You should be deeply knowledgeable about the following. As a result, your input will be considered when overlapping decisions are made due to your expertise and brilliant perspective)

• Family engagement
• Special Services programming: I&RS, Behavior Intervention Plan, Paraprofessional Crisis Management Development
• Retention of high-quality staff

Informed: (Ensure you are abreast on the influence of these systems on what you are accountable for)

• Performance Management and Evaluation Systems for Teacher and Leader Development

• All things Scholar and Staff Culture: PBIS, Culture and Climate, Attendance

Educational Background and Work Experience:

• Bachelor's degree; master's degree and Principal CE or eligibility required within the first two months of employment.
• At least 3 years of exceptional teaching experience with a record of high student achievement.
• At least 2 years of successful experience leading and managing adults.
• If not currently certified, obtaining the necessary state certification is required within the first two months of employment.

Salary: 97,500-110,000

Want to join our FAmily?

We are Foundation Academies: Trenton, New Jersey's largest and highest-ranking K-12 free public charter school. Our mission is to ensure that all of our students secure the academic knowledge and skills to prepare them for the nation's finest colleges, and to instill in them the core values of caring, respect, responsibility, and honesty. We serve more than 1,000 of the city's K-12 population across four schools on two campuses. We admit students by lottery, irrespective of gender, race, household income, or academic ability.

Our team of experienced and mission-driven urban educators values growth mindsets, lifelong learners, and individuals who believe that every child deserves an excellent education. We hold ourselves, our students, and our city to high standards because that's what our families deserve.

We are conveniently located a quick car ride to downtown Princeton, a 45-minute SEPTA ride to Philly's Center City, and a hop on the NJ Transit Express to New York City.

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