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Director of Regional Operations

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Director of Regional Operations is a capacity builder that works to equip, enable and empower school sites to operate at the highest levels. The DRO leads the team that optimizes processes and systems, provides training, coaching and ongoing support and professional development to school-based operations staff, and support school sites with operations compliance and reporting. Because of the DRO, school leaders have a collaborative, creative, and reliable partner to oversee day-to-day operations, support their office administration teams, and, ultimately, strive toward running the best schools in the country.

Who We Are:

What if all students graduated high school with the knowledge, skills and habits they need to lead a fulfilled life? This is the question that guides our mission at Summit Public Schools.

Summit is a leading network of public schools that prepare a diverse student population for success in a four-year college and to be thoughtful, contributing members of society. We operate 12 schools serving over 4,000 students in the Bay Area and Washington state. 100% of Summit graduates are college ready and Summit graduates complete college at double the national average.

We need exceptional, diverse, and mission-aligned teachers to join our team to help prepare our students for a fulfilled life. Join us!

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with the Chief Operating Officer to set vision and direction for Operations team

• Design, build, and optimize operations processes to improve quality of operations through organization's growth

• Create tools, trainings, and resources to manage these systems

  • Manage weekly email blasts and plan, prepare and facilitate bi-weekly learning team calls and monthly in-person trainings

  • Create playlists and how to guides

  • Build rubrics, checklists, and trackers

• Partner with School Leaders to train, coach and support school-based operations staff

  • Lead weekly check-ins with Operations Managers

• Oversee and support compliance for areas including attendance, student cumulative records, safety, health and nursing, field trips, transportation and athletics

What You Need:

Key Qualities and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred

• 5+ years work experience; school-site operations experience highly preferred

• Strong knowledge of Google Apps (Drive, Docs and Spreadsheets) highly preferred

• Willingness to travel between schools

• Meet health clearance, and pass the reference, background/criminal checks, per education code.

Who You Are:

• Commitment to mission. Shares belief that all students are capable of being college ready and willing to go above and beyond to serve children and their communities

• Fit with values and culture. Displays core characteristics of compassion, courage, curiosity, respect, responsibility, and integrity; demonstrates a growth mindset; able to give and receive honest, actionable and timely feedback

• Strong bias toward systems and processes. Abhors inefficiency; always seeking to streamline, automate and/or eliminate; has eye for scalability and sustainability

• Strong time and project management skills. Can lead projects start to end; is self-directed; demonstrates flexibility and adaptability; can prioritize based on importance/urgency

• Strong management and coaching skills. Loves developing others; outstanding at identifying learning needs; can create appropriate support

• Strong relationship building skills. Can effectively communicate verbally and in writing with diverse stakeholders including school leaders, operations staff and home office team colleagues; shows empathy; demonstrates influence; is veritable team player; can give and receive honest, actionable and timely feedback

• Strong critical thinking capabilities. Enjoys problem-solving; uses data to drive decision-making; is obsessed with details; sweats the small stuff

What you get:

In addition to joining a highly motivated team and engaging in meaningful work, you’ll have access to a comprehensive suite of benefits including a retirement plan, unlimited “take what you need” PTO policy, 11 paid holidays, and 3 weeks of organization-wide closures during the year. You and your dependents will have access to multiple health, dental, and vision plans at 25% cost (we cover the other 75%) and employee life and disability insurance at no cost. Our compensation policy strives to be equitable and transparent. The salary for this position starts at $106,679.56 and goes up to $132,096.08 commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Summit is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are directly intertwined with education. We are ALL better when we are able to bring our whole selves to work and honor each other’s voices across identities, cultural backgrounds, and life experiences. We welcome and encourage applications from individuals who are members of historically marginalized communities. Spanish language proficiency is a plus.