Post-Secondary Learning Teacher

Who We Are

Comp Sci High is a new public charter high school serving the South Bronx, enrolling its founding 9th grade class in August of 2018.

Our founding team came together to start CSH because we believe that students in the Bronx can and will join the next generation of programmers, tech entrepreneurs, computer scientists, and overall become leading professionals with tech skills for any industry. We wanted to build a new kind of high school--a high school that truly prepares kids for their lives after graduation. We also wanted to build a community of adults with strong connections to each other, to kids and families, and to the Bronx community.

We are looking for an inspiring, talented, visionary, and educator to join our amazing team, help us continue to build our school, and, one day, lead one of the city’s best and most innovative high schools.

Our Mission

To ensure every student graduates with a college acceptance letter, high tech skills, real work experience, and a robust plan to turn those opportunities into a successful career where they will achieve the median income of the U.S. by the age of 25.

Our Values and Beliefs

At CSH, we value diverse views and ideas. But, we believe that every adult in our community needs to share a core set of values and beliefs in order to give our students and families the school they deserve.

What Our Post-Secondary Learning Teacher Will Do

Mission: The Post-Secondary Learning (PSL) department delivers career readiness, college access, and alumni success programming that supports our students and alumni until the age of 25. This Post-Secondary Learning Teacher role calls for a flexible, experienced problem-solver who can manage multiple projects and tasks at once, and who can take initiative in the absence of direct supervision, at times. Our team is looking for a dynamic candidate who brings relevant skills in a variety of areas such as economics, finance, entrepreneurship, and/or technology, and has knowledge of the greater job market.

Ideal Candidate: This person must be mission-driven and justice-focused with a deep connection to equity and the successes of students from the Bronx. People who consider themselves a research practitioner would be best fit for this position. Someone who can take the framework Comp Sci has already developed, and elevate it to integrate additional employability assets unique to and/or prevalent in first-generation communities of color that are known to correlate with career readiness and/or workforce entry and advancement. Someone will be able to successfully thrive in this position if

you possess strong cultural respect for the Bronx and have a deep passion for its evolution through the youth.

The Position

This is a year-long opportunity to be part of a team expanding an innovative program model that will impact the lives and futures of South Bronx residents. This is a unique opportunity for an exceptional data driven team member to provide facilitation, counseling, curriculum enhancement and community awareness to a growing and evolving school. Although a majority of this role is in the classroom, the best candidate will know the Bronx and help students navigate and change the land as the future property owners, politicians, investors, service workers, etc.

The Post-Secondary Learning Teacher will directly report to the Director of Work-Based Learning and work collaboratively across different departments such as the Culture, Operations, and Instructional teams to support the career development goals of the organization. The person will lead the PSL department in the creation and instruction of career readiness curriculum while counseling a diverse student population in the areas of work-force development. This position will play a supportive and operational role in organizing special events & family engagement. This is an opportunity to join an engaged, collaborative, mission-driven staff and to take part in the vital process of improving the lives of Bronx students.

Job Description

Career Training Curriculum:

• Collaborate with the Director of Work-Based Learning to create high quality curriculum targeting career development skills while incorporating culturally relevant pedagogy across 4 grades;

• Facilitate dynamic and creative career readiness classes and workshops for students across all grade levels;

• Assist with enhancement, modification, and customization of materials and resources from partnership organizations to be utilized in PSL instruction

• Own the career counseling program which includes career counseling lessons and a senior capstone presentation;

• Communicate and plan with College Access & Success team to align curriculum delivery

• Represent the WBL team at Grade Team and Instructional Staff meetings;

• Understand the labor market and connect PSL lessons to reflect that market and trends; and

• Using data collected in WBL class to support partnership management and internship programming.

Internships and Work-Based Learning Experiences:

• Assess partner organization needs and work with PSL team to identify “best fit” students based on in-school evaluations;

• Conduct student outreach and follow-up one-on-one support for various components of internships (applications, attendance, parental consent, etc.);

• Collaborate with PSL team to review PSL instructional data to target students for potential opportunities; and

• Organize in-person and remote check-ins with students and employers to track internship progress.

• Overall Program Assistance:

• Work with PSL team to coordinate a caseload of existing and new external partners

• Support the PSL team develop and enhance partnership outreach materials

• Assist in the facilitation of special events such as Summer Opportunities Fair, Mock Interviews, Job Shadows, and more.

Teachers’ hours will be 8:15am-4:30pm daily, with the student academic day running from 9:00am-1:30pm on Wednesdays, and 9:00am-4:30pm on other days. Teachers may elect to lead an after-school extra-curricular club or coach a sport for an additional stipend. In the summer of the upcoming school year new teacher PD will begin around July 25th, and the school year will begin in late August.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: $70,000 - $90,000. We offer very competitive benefits, commensurate with experience, and great opportunities for professional and career development.

Who We’re Looking For

Mindset

We believe students succeed when adults build a close, collaborative community and strive relentlessly for excellence. We are also building a new school. With those things in mind, we are looking for educators:

• who strive for excellence--who constantly push themselves, their colleagues, their school leaders, and their students to be better;

• who thinks out of the box to problem solve;

• who understand the job market to make recommendations to students on their academic and career journey;

• who is excited to assist students in navigating life post high school; and

• who is personable; someone students can relate and confine in.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting or counseling people and/or coordinating events and activities;

• who want to see Black and Brown communities thrive;

• who see and respect BIPOC students, different cultures, and kids from the Bronx;

• who are willing to learn and grow from students, staff, managers, and coaches;

• who possess an entrepreneurial or founder’s mentality and is excited by the idea of founding something new and innovative;

• who often find themselves frustrated by the stagnate progression of POC;

• who believes in dismantling systems of oppression and rebuilding systems of equity;

• A demonstrated commitment to working with kids and having standards for them;

• Ability to communicate clearly, take initiative, hit or exceed deadlines, and pay attention to detail;

• Excellent time, task and project management skills; and

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three to five years of work experience, preferably in teaching, facilitation, employee/staff training, or program delivery (youth development, executive training/coaching, or career workforce development);

• Willing to make connections with students and organization to your network;

• Diverse work and/or community involvement experience;

• Experience writing/designing curriculum; and

• Experience differentiating for and working with students of many abilities and career paths.

• Demonstrated ability to connect with staff, students and families from historically underserved and underrepresented communities.