Managing Director of Talent

Managing Director of Talent

Managing Director of Talent



Location: US-NY-New York
Category: Instructional Leadership

Start Date: Immediately
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
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Overview:

Success Charter Network (SCN) is a not-for-profit charter management organization that operates public charter schools in economically-disadvantaged communities with high concentrations of minority students. In August 2006, SCN opened its first elementary school in Harlem, serving 165 kindergarten and first graders. After seeing dramatic gains in student achievement, and in response to high parent demand, SCN opened three more elementary schools in Harlem in August 2008. Encouraged by their continued success and buttressed by groundbreaking research that proves the efficacy of its approach, SCN opened three additional elementary schools (two in the Bronx and one in Harlem) and its first middle school in August 2010. In 2011, SCN added two elementary schools: one in Brooklyn and one on the Upper West Side. Currently, Success Charter Network operates ten schools, serves 3,500 scholars, and has an annual operating budget of $60mm. Over the next ten years, SCN will grow to 40 schools serving more than 20,000 scholars.

Success Charter Network’s mission is two-fold: to offer children in New York City an exceptional public education that prepares them to graduate from college; and to forever alter the educational prospects for ALL public school children by creating a “tipping point”—moving a nation where educational failure is the norm to a nation that expects and offers high quality public school options for all children. SCN does this by creating a world class education for its scholars and through active advocacy work throughout New York City, the state and nationally. To SCN, advocacy and education are intertwined—victory on one front advances the other and success at either is not possible without the other. To that end, founder Eva Moskowitz has been front and center pushing to create equal access for all children. She and SCN have received national attention and have been featured in the acclaimed documentaries:Waiting for SupermanandThe Lottery.

Success Approach
Success Charter Network is a charter management organization. Like its peers, SCN operates no-excuses college preparatory schools. However there a number of unique attributes that set SCN apart from other operators. First, SCN’s explicit dual commitment to education and advocacy is one-of-a-kind. Employees at all levels of the organization know that they are part of something bigger than just closing the achievement gap for their own students. Second, SCN has made a commitment to being an employer of choice for teachers and school leaders, offering bonuses based on world class performance and freeing school leaders to have a singular focus on instruction by removing business and operation functions from their purview. Third, as an organization, SCN’s focus on detail and execution is pervasive across its network and is felt immediately upon walking into an SCN classroom or wing in their co-located academies in New York City Public School buildings. Seemingly small decisions about things such as placing sight words on the floors of the hallways, the professional look of their upper grade and middle school classrooms, and the uniforms of the scholars are approached with the same weight as large decisions about instructional approach and the intensive summer leader and teacher training. Finally, SCN prides itself on innovation and educational productivity, incorporating data and technology into their educational approach. Taking advantage of technological advancements, SCN scholars are equipped with Kindles or iPads loaded with textbooks and level-reading. This provides them an opportunity to learn from and interact with cutting-edge technology, while literally lessening the load of book-heavy backpacks for the upper elementary and middle school students. SCN moves quickly, taking calculated and thoughtful risks to improve the efficiency of education for their students. While SCN is heavily grounded in data, they also embrace thoughtful, coordinated change and improvement based on a gut feeling of “something’s not right here, let’s make a change and see if we can do it better.”

Results
Success Charter Network (SCN) operates their academies with a simple premise: every student can succeed. SCN’s commitment to success demands that all scholars not only meet but also exceed New York State and Common Core standards in all subjects. The laser-like focus that the principals and the teachers have on this goal has paid off—by all standards, Success Academy scholars are reading, writing, and calculating ahead of both their neighbors and their more affluent peers. SCN’s results on Fountas and Pinnell (F&P) assessments consistently top the charts, student performance on the nationally-normed tests demonstrate that SCN scholars are reading and calculating at a level higher than their peers, the writing samples consistently rival the work seen by affluent school districts. According to the 2010-2011 state testing data, Harlem Success Academy 1, 2, 3, and 4 are at the top the charts.

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Responsibilities:

Opportunity
Success Charter Network is seeking to hire a skilled Managing Director of Talent to provide the leadership necessary to make Success Charter Network an employer of choice where people are motivated and excited to come to work each day. The Managing Director of Talent will serve as a thought partner and internal consultant to the organization’s executive team and school leadership on issues and decisions related to talent management, employee relations, and compensation. S/he will be responsible for promoting positive relationships and fostering a workplace environment consistent with the values and mission of SCN. In this newly created position, the Managing Director of Talent will work skillfully and thoughtfully to create a strategic human resources function that can eventually serve and support several clusters of schools across New York City.

The opportunity to be part of the leadership team at SCN is exciting for a number of reasons. First, SCN’s consistently high academic achievement has garnered national attention. SCN’s Founder and CEO, Eva Moskowitz aggressively pushes the envelope with an unflinching goal to provide access to an outstanding public education for all children. Second, Success Charter Network is on the brink of exploding growth as it is focused on running 40 high-performing elementary and middle schools serving more than 20,000 scholars over the next ten years. Their impressive results and rapid growth trajectory will enable them to provide high quality educational options to thousands of underserved families in New York City.
This Managing Director of Talent will report to the Chief Operating Officer and will hire and manage a staff of human resources specialists.

Responsibilities
Specifically, the Managing Director of Talent will be responsible for the following:

Talent Management
Recruitment and selection
* Developing, implementing and overseeing the approach for recruiting high quality employees by working collaboratively with recruiters, developing relationships with organizations and individuals to enhance the candidate pipeline, and managing ad generation and placement;
* Ensuring the selection of top employees for SCN; reviewing and updating selection protocols and interview practices for all employee groups (teachers and network staff);
Compensation
* Implementing and annually updating a compensation strategy; conducting job analyses to establish specific requirements of individual jobs and creating job descriptions as necessary; conducting annual market analysis and developing salary structures, bands and salary budget;
* Managing salary benchmarking process and employee classifications; advising hiring managers on market rate increases and salary offers;
Performance Management
* Developing and coordinating performance evaluation process and employee salary adjustments;
* Creating process and calendars for employee goal setting, reviews, improvement plans, retention decisions, and bonuses;
* Ensuring effective roll-out and communication of plan and improvements; training all managers and employees on evaluation process and conducting quality assurance to ensure that process is implementing effectively across the organization;
* Effectively interfacing with Managing Director of Learning and Managing Director of Schools to ensure that talent management outcomes and identified areas of strength and weaknesses are incorporated into organizational training and professional development.
Employee Relations
* Developing an effective onboarding program that emphasizes the importance of integrating new employees into the culture;
* Coordinating job development and training opportunities for network staff;
* Setting expectations for employer support throughout the organization and ensuring appropriate and
timely resolution of all employee relations issue and addressing escalations as needed;
* Handling employee relations counseling; advising management regarding all employee terminations;
and overseeing all aspects of terminations;
* Assisting supervisors and employees in resolving employee relations issues; utilizing proactive
mediation of employee-related issues and concerns;
* Advising management in appropriate resolution of employee relations issues.
Payroll and Benefits
* Working with the HR Generalist to ensure benefit plans that are competitive and cost effective for the organization;
* Supervising all payroll processes to ensure efficiency, compliance & accuracy; providing back-up payroll processing in the absence of the HR Generalist;
* Developing and maintaining compensation systems for all staff.
Policies, Procedures, and Compliance
* Ensuring compliance with federal and state laws and education codes, through development and application of policy and procedure;
* Ensuring that personnel policies and the company employee handbook reflects Success Charter Networks’ adherence to statutory and mandatory requirements and reflects the organization’s culture and values;
* Maintaining current knowledge and understanding of all applicable laws, industry trends and best practices;
* Supporting teacher credentialing and visa processing, as needed;
* Overseeing reporting of personnel information and records as required by law or local governing bodies.
Qualifications:

The ideal candidatemustbringexperience and skillsin the following areas:
* A minimum of ten years of experience in a human resources generalist or similar role;
* Deep experience in at least two of the following HR areas: compensation & benefits, recruiting, employee relations, and performance management;
* Proven ability to attract talent and build and manage a high-performing team- effectively cultivating and developing managers;
* Experience working in a start-up, fast paced, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment;
* Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to handle confidential and sensitive issues with diplomacy and even-handedness and the ability to work effectively with teammates at all levels;
* Demonstrated ability to speak and write clearly and persuasively such that expectations are clear, timelines are delineated, and excellence is defined;
* Ability to manage multiple priorities from a variety of sources, organizing and prioritizing effectively to impact areas of greatest need;
* Experience organizing and running effective meetings across an organization;
* Ability to deconstruct complex problems and develop coherent, actionable strategies;
* A bachelor’s degree with a preference for a graduate degree in a related field.
Candidates for the positionmustpossess the followingpersonal characteristics:
* A relentless drive for excellence
* Unwavering determination to be better today than you were yesterday
* A sense of humor—a must in the world of education
* Be a good, yet demanding team member—we all need to push for excellence
* A love of learning
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