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Senior Director of Culture & In Lak’Ech

Though 9 in 10 Latino young adults say a college degree is important for success in life, fewer than 15% age 25 or older hold a bachelor’s degree. Voices College-Bound Language Academies exists to change that.

Voices is a public charter school network with a mission to prepare all students for the challenges of higher education through the context of an academically rigorous dual-language program. Every student, regardless of home language, graduates bilingual and biliterate in English and Spanish. As we expand to serve more traditionally underserved students, Voices seeks additional team members who share a commitment to its mission and believe joyful learning and world-class academic preparation are not mutually exclusive.

Role Summary
Voices’ founding Senior Director of Culture & In Lak’Ech will bring our core values, particularly our value of In Lak’Ech to life. He or she will be an avid relationship-builder and strategic thinker, able to connect with others meaningfully and translate a vision into action. The Director will foster a mission-driven culture across the organization through constant monitoring, planning, and relationship-building. Reporting to the CEO, the Director will work with teams across the organization to strengthen organizational culture and support Deans of Culture establish and maintain student culture.  

This role will train and oversee Deans of Culture and Parent Liaisons.

Responsibilities

Support CEO in setting vision and strategy for organizational culture
  • Gather the stories, traditions, systems, and rituals from founding staff members who are now spread across the network
  • Codify and institutionalize best practices and explicitly describe how these are in service of the mission for staff and student culture at Voices
  • Build meaningful and authentic systems that reflect these best practices
  • Develop stronger systems for building adult culture aligned with student/school culture
  • Train school-based Deans of Culture (with principal support) in delivering and adding to these systems

Cultivate a strong staff and student culture
  • Defines organizational goals and monitors and analyzes the evolution of organizational culture and initiatives on a regular basis
  • Lead and tailor culture-building activities at the network office
  • Assess current staff recognition program and communication systems and recommend improvement and new strategies for developing and maintaining a values-aligned organizational culture at new schools, growing schools, and across the region
  • Develop relationships with various staff groups to measure the health of organizational culture and support in cross-collaboration and communications, particularly relating to staff retention
  • Develop a comprehensive set of cross-level communication systems across the organization including newsletters, surveys, and working groups to inform, engage and build trust
  • Support school-site Deans of Culture and Parent Liaisons in establishing and maintaining a values-driven staff culture
  • Coach Deans of Culture with developing, executing, and monitoring school culture plans, including discipline and attendance trends
  • Build the capacity of Deans and Parent Liaisons for planning and encouraging parent leadership, parent participation, and fostering a partnership that contributes to a strong school culture
  • Foster Voices pillars of character, values and discipline and behavior philosophy

Lead and support key onboarding and professional development activities
  • Support and train managers and teams to ensure tools, methods, techniques and systems that have significant impact on our culture are aligned to organizational values
  • Lead Dean of Culture and Parent Liaison onboarding and training, including planning and executing regular cross-campus learning opportunities, knowledge sharing, and ideation
  • Support with teacher culture-building professional development
  • Celebrate Voices’ diverse community by bringing a lens on equity and inclusion to our culture, management, and talent practices
  • Be a role model for Voices values

Voices Academies Senior Director of Culture & In Lak’Ech candidates will have the following:

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • Demonstrated passion for the mission, vision and values of Voices Academies with a deep commitment to improving the lives of students from low-income communities
  • Minimum 5  years experience in people management or other relevant function, with a minimum of 3 years managing others, preferably managers of managers
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, preferably in both English and Spanish
  • Experience interacting with a broad range of stakeholders, expertly navigating team dynamics, across teams, levels, and lines of difference
  • Ability to align and motivate people and teams around common visions and goals
  • Excellent emotional intelligence and strong skills in establishing authentic, emotional connections
  • Outstanding  project management skills with the ability to navigate big picture and detailed analytical thinking
  • Ability to work well independently and within a team environment; working efficiently, and exercising excellent judgment in making decisions
  • Experience planning and executing professional development and events
  • High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Google Apps

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Knowledge of and experience working with low-income communities preferred
  • Understanding of organizational design and the unique characteristics of public charter schools is a plus

Working Conditions:

  • Regular requirement to stand, sit, walk, talk, hear, see, read, speak, reach, stretch with hands and arms, stoop, kneel and crouch
  • Tolerate high levels of stress
  • Lift and carry objects weighing up to 50 lbs.
  • Occasional evening and or weekend work
  • Occasional travel
  • Willingness to be trained as needed

Prior to Employment: Once an offer has been extended, a candidate must meet the following criteria to receive a final contract:
  • First Aid/CPR Certification
  • Clear Criminal Background Check
  • Valid TB Clearance

Key Compensation:

  • Annual Salary Range $105,000 - $115,000
  • Medical benefits
  • Exceptional growth opportunities
  • Retirement plan

Contract:

  • Reports directly to CEO
  • Salaried, Exempt Position
  • At-Will Contract

If you have any questions about this position, please contact our hiring team by email at jobs@voicescharterschool.com.  Thank you.


Voices College-Bound Language Academies is an equal opportunity employer.                                                                                              It is the policy of Voices to afford equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, citizenship status, medical condition, or any other legally protected status.