School Partnership Coach (Secondary Specialist)

Summary

Description

Reports To: Managing Director, School and District Partnerships 
The starting salary for this role is $87,660.

What You Do
The School Partnership Coach, Secondary Specialist, is a resident expert in Flamboyan’s REAL Family Engagement approach and is responsible for coaching a portfolio of DC public and public charter schools, ensuring that family engagement practices are embedded within a school’s culture and practice so that DC families whose children attend partner schools feel a sense of belonging, have a strong partnership with their child’s educators, and maintain a trusting relationship with their child’s school from Pre-K through high school.

Because of your close proximity to schools and communities, your work will be a frequent source of Flamboyan’s most innovative tools, resources, training, and products. Deeply committed to racial equity, you will focus on elevating the agency and voices of people and communities most impacted by inequity. Internally, you will actively contribute to Flamboyan’s coaching community of practice and share best practices to support the organization’s overall portfolio of school and district partnerships. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with colleagues to inform the evolution and relevance of training content and proactive and reactive public-facing resources; and the external affairs team to amplify Flamboyan’s impact and learnings.

This role in particular will focus on ensuring that Flamboyan’s programmatic offerings meet the unique needs of secondary schools, serving grades 6-12^th, and that school staff are equipped with the skills, knowledges, and resources to support families in the transition to and through secondary schools. You will guide up to 6 secondary school teams to plan, lead, and implement effective and sustainable REAL family engagement practices.

Job Responsibilities

Coaching & Advising

• Collaborate with Managing Director of School and District Partnerships and other program team members to determine strategy and focus for coaching approach to specifically meet the secondary school context and adjust practice to ensure schools sustain REAL Family Engagement.
• Provide regular, in-person coaching for up to 6 secondary school-based Family Engagement Leadership Teams (FELTs) to plan, lead and manage toward sustainable partnership outcomes for students and families. Throughout the course of the partnership, support schools’ as they transition to internally sustaining equity-driven family engagement without Flamboyan’s regular coaching practices.
• Support school leader and FELT in building staff capacity to accelerate student learning through effective relationships, partnerships, and ongoing communication between educators and families.
• Actively lift up the voices of marginalized people and communities within coaching practice, especially students, challenging FELTs, school leaders, school staff, and ourselves to explore unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable perspectives on race and equity.
• Support school teams in setting clear goals and action plans and consistently analyze family listening, school data, and program outcomes to determine areas of strength and growth to drive equity in their schools.
• Build teacher and leader capacity to set the vision, motivate staff, remove barriers, manage program implementation, and support quality equity-centered family engagement strategies.
• Facilitate school-based trainings for schools in your coaching portfolio. Consistently collect feedback about the trainings and make adjustments to future trainings. Co-develop with school teams supplemental trainings to support school staff.

Secondary School Support

• Design supplemental resources and trainings for secondary school staff members in the 4 core Flamboyan practices – Bias and Mindset, Relationship Building, Ongoing Communications, and Academic Partnering. This includes defining how the 5 Roles that Families Play shift as students move through their secondary school experience.
• Develop expertise in secondary specific family engagement strategies supported at Flamboyan’s partner schools (i.e., Academic Parent-Teacher Teams, Student Led Conferences and Home Visits).
• Collaborate with colleagues to develop sessions for Communities of Practice that specifically meet the needs of secondary school staff, including school leaders.

Project Management

• Manage assigned school portfolio adeptly and in an organized manner including timely schedule management, proactive partner communication, and tracking of goals and outcomes.
• Maintain relationship with partner schools with effective meeting planning and follow up.
• Synthesize insights from schools and internal professional learning to develop tools, coaching strategies, and innovative ideas for the organization that improve our ability to coach towards sustained family engagement in DC’s public schools.
•  Serve as Flamboyan’s lead point of contact with school leaders and act as a conduit for Flamboyan communication and guidance about operations, evaluation, and program improvements for partner schools.
• As needed, liaise with staff at DC Public Schools and/or Charter Management Organizations across DC.
• Other duties as assigned, including temporary coaching coverage and training facilitation as needed.

Relationship Building

• Maintain strong relationships with external partners to maximize Flamboyan’s impact
• Represent Flamboyan at conferences, events, networking opportunities, and other events, as needed, in support of deepening and sustaining relationships.
• Amplify stories of best practice to External Affairs for storytelling opportunities

Organizational Stewardship

• Serve as an ambassador for Flamboyan’s organizational brand generally and our family engagement work specifically locally and nationally
• Model and foster the Flamboyan core values of People, Impact, Catalytic Action, and Equity
• Responsibly steward financial and human resources
• Continuously deepen your expertise and readiness to be an equity-centered team member and contributor in our effective family engagement efforts, self-aware, inclusive in your work, and able to be an agent of change

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in a secondary school (serving grades 6 and above) setting, with preference for experience in Washington DC
• Preference will be given to those who have familiarity with Flamboyan’s Family Engagement Partnership and/or who have served on school-based Family Engagement Leadership Teams (FELT)
• Teacher leadership, instructional coaching, or other leadership experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

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