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As the Principal Coach, your specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Planning and leading monthly meetings to provide an opportunity for post-Residents to share promising practices, problem-solve common challenges, and support each other; ensuring skill development in topics most critical to the Post-Residents’ success including, but not limited to:
o Entry planning
o Modifying/creating and using Interim Assessments
o Observation and Supervision of Instruction
o Adaptive leadership (including interpersonal dynamics and difficult conversations)
o Time management
• Conducting school visits to observe New Leaders Post-Residents at work, coaching and supporting the Post-Resident in their role as school leader
• Working closely with the local Executive Director to support those Post-Residents who are Assistant Principals in seeking placement as Principals
• Attending Leadership Coach retreats where coaches come together to share promising practices, problem-solve difficult Post-Resident cases, and gain essential coaching skills and program info
• Attending the first week of the NLNS Summer Foundations in order to become familiar with the curriculum. This requires spending one week at the Summer Foundations Institute in June/July, where the Leadership Coach will learn about the Foundations curriculum.
• Where there is more than one Post-Resident Leadership Coach for the city, working closely with the other Leadership Coach in the planning and execution of bi-monthly meetings and other skill development and social activities for Residents.
• Building a sense of community within the local city cohort, across the national cohort, and within the larger organization.
• Assisting the national program team in curriculum development or refinement in areas of expertise
• Assisting the local program office in the interviewing and admissions process for new Residents coming into the program.

Qualifications:
The Leadership Coach will be an experienced, successful urban school leader or school leadership coach that is dedicated to the New Leaders for New Schools mission of preparing, developing and supporting the next generation of outstanding school leaders.

This individual needs to bring together a rare combination of passion, experience, and talent and will also:

• Have a demonstrated record of improving student outcomes as a practitioner or principal supporter for at least five years, preferably in the Baltimore/PG county area
• Be dedicated to using insights and experiences as a catalyst to assist the next generation of school leaders come to their own understandings and success in school leadership
• Have experience in leading/advising high-quality coach/coachee relations, whether between teachers or administrators.
• Be skilled at inquiry-based coaching and able to help Principals “think out loud” about decision-making and challenges.
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills, as well as inter- and intra- personal skills.
• Be resourceful, collaborative and hard working.

Compensation
Compensation package is commensurate with experience and includes competitive benefits package and 401K.

To Apply
Please visit our career website http://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=nlns&cws=1

Additional information about New Leaders for New Schools can be found at our website: www.nlns.org.

Important Application Notes:

If you are planning to apply for more than one position,
Please specifically address each position you are applying for in your cover letter.
If after submitting materials you decide to apply for an additional position, please re-write your cover letter to reflect this and resubmit. If you do not indicate your interest in a position, you will not be considered for it.

Although we encourage you to apply for any positions you are both interested in and consider yourself qualified for, we ask you to be careful when attaching yourself to more than one requisition.

Your cover letter should include:

• An explanation of your interest in the New Leaders for New Schools mission
• An explanation of your interest in the position for which you are applying
• An explanation of anything unusual in your resume (more than one year employment lapse or a major shift in your career interest)

New Leaders for New Schools is an equal opportunity employer. New Leaders for New Schools evaluates applicants for employment on the basis of qualifications, merit and work-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, mental or physical disabilities, pregnancy, childbirth, medical condition, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.