Managing Director of SEL and Culture

Originally founded in 1991 as Harlem RBI, DREAM has grown to annually serve more than 2,500 youth across East Harlem and the South Bronx through a network of six PreK-12, extended-day, extended-year DREAM Charter Schools and community sports-based youth development programs. Through our commitment to rigorous academics, social-emotional learning, deep family and community engagement, and health and wellness, we create lifelong learners who are equipped to fulfill their vision of success in and out of the classroom. We dream big, as well, with an aggressive five-year plan to expand to serve 3,500 students across seven schools—growing our organization’s impact and leveling the playing field for all children. To learn more, visit wearedream.org.
The Managing Director of SEL and Culture will be responsible for creating and driving the Grow-the-Whole Child Model to drive exceptional outcomes for students, families, and staff. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who has a track record of driving results, developing senior leaders, and launching and seeing through ambitious initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Effective Teaming
• Collaborate with network leaders to plan and execute summer institutes for school leaders, new teachers, and returning staff on social-emotional learning, culture and community initiatives;
• Collaborate with peers and the Management Team to refine, articulate, and continuously improve DREAM’s Grow the Whole Child model to achieve targeted results;
• Provide positive, collaborative leadership and participate in collegial problem-solving in a variety of situations and departments;
• Work closely with the Chief Education Officer and Managing Director Curriculum & Instruction to ensure the curriculum and pedagogical approach, effectively supports the Grow the Whole Child model and approach to SEL.


• Program Quality and Curriculum 
• Ensure high-quality SEL Programming by creating systems and structures for curriculum codification and implementation;
• Working with the Schools Team, establish dosage guidelines and criteria for success for advisory, morning meeting, RULER, Tier 2 intervention, summer and Afterschool SEL programming, and adult SEL programming;
• Establish and ensure successful implementation of network vision for positive, responsive & restorative culture practices and systems to build a positive community among staff, families, and students (community gatherings, family events, staff SEL, student incentive systems, responsive interventions, behavior intervention plans);
• Lead monthly walkthroughs of all SEL programming across all school sites.


• Development of Dean of SEL & Community + Dean of Culture 
• Provide coaching support to Principals around student culture, as needed;
• Provide dotted-line coaching and development of Deans of SEL & Community and Deans of Culture;
• Build capacity in Deans of SEL and Community and Deans of Culture in creating individual behavioral supports for students, including BIPs and FBAs;
• Progress monitor SpEd and RTB across DREAM’s schools and address areas in need of improvement with Deans of SEL & Community and Deans of Culture;
• Work with Deans and Principals to plan and deliver professional development sessions for staff;
• Monitor and support IEP meetings chaired by Deans and develop Deans in running effective IEP meetings;
• Provide monthly reports to school leaders that include SEL progress monitoring data, school discipline data, and staff performance updates of the DSC and DOC; 
• Promote positive family relationships and provide guidance in complex cases;
• Create network-wide performance goals that get cascaded to Principals, Deans of SEL and Community, and Deans of Culture;
• Lead training and professional development for Deans of SEL & Community, Deans of Culture, and teachers, including but not limited to Leader Institute, Summer Institute, and monthly professional development;
• Lead implementation visits monthly with Deans of SEL & Community and Deans of Culture.


• Data, Evaluation, and Infrastructure
• Collaborate with Data team to ensure fidelity of all program data systems and high-quality data collection;
• Execute design and implementation of program innovation initiatives (including developing partnerships, logic models etc.);
• Oversee Deans of SEL & Community to drive the execution of SEL data systems, including SEL data administration and collection, data analysis, continuous improvement, and action planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, required; Masters Degree in Education and/or School Administration, preferred;
• Extensive leadership experience with a record of achievement in SEL for all children. Principal and/or charter school network leadership exper