Deputy Director of Operations
Grade Level: K1-8
Start Date: November 2019
Locations: Boston, MA

Role
The Deputy Director of Operations will support in leading the operations of the school alongside the Director of Operations. The DDO will be a member of the leadership team and will be charged with ensuring effective operational management of the school.

Specific Responsibilities

• Operationalize and manage non-instructional times, including but not limited to arrival, dismissal, lunch, recess, breaks, and hallway transitions
• Audit and problem-solve school wide operational system challenges
• Manage operations ticketing system
• Manage school facility's needs, expectations, and upkeep/beautification initiatives
• Oversee student attendance initiatives and data management
• Provide support to and oversite of the operations manager, operations coordinator, and office managers
• Manage the execution of student and family joy events
• Partner with the network technology team to manage school based technology equipment and infrastructure
• Manage school wide testing and administration
• Ensure district and state compliance across multiple departments

Qualifications

• A strong belief in UP Education Network's core values: Students, Community, Humility, Resilience, and Humor
• Bachelor's degree is required
• At least three years of experience in school-based operations
• Current authorization to work in the United States - A candidate must have such authorization by his or her first day of employment

Compensation and Benefits
Your salary is commensurate with experience; UP Academy follows the salary scales of each UP Academy's host school district. As an employee of UP Academy and your respective school district, you will receive the same access to personal and sick days, health insurance, and dental insurance as others within your union.

Working at UP Education Network
We know that great staff members directly lead to the success of our students. At UP, your career is shaped byOpportunities for immediate impact: UP offers a chance to bring best practices found in high-performing schools to students previously enrolled in struggling schools, and to rapidly unlock the potential of these students

• Talented, mission-driven colleagues: Our staff is enthusiastic, dedicated, and willing to do "whatever it takes" to put every student on the path to college
• Collaboration and teamwork: Staff members collaborate and work closely together on grade-level or content area teams, using data to track student performance as well as guide instructional practice
• Consistent professional growth and development: Members of our staff typically have bi-weekly check-in meetings with their managers where they receive targeted coaching and support and the entire staff participates in weekly professional development sessions during the school year, kick-started by extensive training in August.

We encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply for any open position in which they feel qualified. We believe that we have a responsibility to recruit, retain, develop, and reward a diverse and talented staff. Our students must be exposed on a daily basis to a diverse group of powerful role models - in their teachers, their school leaders, and their supporters in the network office. With this in mind, we are committed to recruiting the most talented individuals from the widest possible range of backgrounds to join our creative, mission-driven team.