Specialist, Field Studies

Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running the largest, fastest-growing, and highest-performing network of public charter schools in New York City takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates and supporters alike. We would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure each child in NYC has access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through the doors of one of our 57 schools in NYC a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.

Job Description

As the fastest growing, highest-performing charter school network in New York State, Success Academy is reimagining K-12 public education. Nationally recognized for our innovative, whole-child school model and outstanding academic results, Success Academy educators are empowering children from all backgrounds with the knowledge, skills, and self-belief to succeed in college and in life. We now need a results-driven Field Studies Specialist to join our Schooling team. 

School quality is our short-hand for the sum total of factors that shape our scholars’ educational experience. Given our K-12 purview, we are continuously refining our vision of scholar preparedness and are on a journey to double the preparedness of our scholars in the next few years. Our vision of scholar preparedness is anchored in core values that we have distilled for educators and learners – Excellence, Environment, Outcomes, Curiosity, Thinking, Purpose and Autonomy. Achieving our vision of scholar preparedness will not only involve a step change in our teaching and learning in the classroom, but a step change in the promotion and offering of learning opportunities that extend beyond the classroom. Examples of such learning opportunities include field studies, summer enrichment experiences, summer school programming, and tutoring amongst others. 

Situated within the Schooling Department, the Field Studies Team operationalizes programs that enable excellent out of school learning opportunities and self driven learning for scholars. The team develops and codifies simple and scalable policies, processes, and systems that allow for efficient management of external enrichment learning programs that mirror the same quality and experience of our internal programming. The Field Studies Team ensures effective and efficient management of a growing scope of Field Studies.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Operationalize K-12 Field Studies programs by developing policies, processes, and systems that support the onboarding, implementation, and day-to-day management of a portfolio of Field Studies.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure flawless execution of enrichment programs for scholars from all of our 56 campuses. Excellent delivery of programs will be achieved through: 

  • Creation of annual project plans

  • Designing and facilitating a year-long training and support program for school-based staff 

  • Communicating deliverables and expectations to our school-based staff and to external vendors with clarity and precision

  • Development and maintenance of accountability systems and management systems 

  • Design an assessment tool to vet new potential vendors to support growth needed to scale the program

  • Managing processes for contracts and invoicing to ensure delivery of quality service, as well as on-time payment to vendors

• Innovate to provide the best possible programming to our scholars and to ensure maximum efficiency in the management of programs within scope. The Specialist will:

  • Create a feedback loop with school-based staff and spend time in schools to understand how programs are being implemented and to identify opportunities for improvement

  • Attend and observe Field Studies to evaluate quality of vendors and make recommendations for updates to our yearly scope and sequence

  • Produce data analyses and memoranda for management reporting

• Provide essential support to Field Studies leadership, including but not limited to:

  • Scheduling meetings and preparing outcomes-focused agendas

  • Assigning next steps and managing the follow-through 

  • Providing quarterly budget forecasting updates  

  • Additional administrative tasks as assigned 

Required Qualifications