Senior Associate, Business Planning & Strategy

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.

Since 2006, Success Academy has transformed lives and communities with our whole-child, academically rigorous approach and relentless drive for excellence across our vibrant network of elementary, middle, and high schools. We are the fastest-growing and highest-performing charter school network in New York State, with a mission to reimagine public education as an excellent, efficient, and equitable pillar of American society. 

A key driver of our ambitious mission is the Network Schooling Department. In Schooling, we reimagine and rapidly scale schooling excellence to achieve extraordinary K-12 school quality. Doing so requires us to never settle, constantly re-examining and transforming “what we do” and “how we do the work.”

As part of Success Academy’s Schooling Team, you will lead high-stakes efforts to shape the systems that deliver consistent, world-class support to educators and scholars as we grow our movement to transform K-12 education across the nation.

We are seeking a Senior Associate, Business Planning and Strategy, to join the Success Academy and our Schooling Department. This position is designed for an individual interested in building strategic planning & tracking, and reporting capabilities.
 

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning & Performance Management: Lead the development and implementation of systems to define, track, and report on departmental and team-level goals and KPIs. 
• Budget: Oversee the annual budgeting process and manage the department’s monthly spend, forecasting variances, and ensuring alignment with financial targets.
• Headcount: Maintain an accurate headcount tracker, forecast future hiring needs, and collaborate with the appropriate teams to execute. 
• Vendor Management: Establish and run a centralized vendor management program to ensure efficient and effective partnerships.
• Reporting & Communication: Prepare high-quality, data-rich updates on progress against goals for management and executive leadership. 
• Operational Process Improvement: Analyze and optimize existing departmental workflows and processes. Identify areas for efficiency gains, leverage technology (leveraging AI and language models where appropriate), and implement solutions that streamline operations, enhance communication, and improve overall productivity.

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in strategy, operations, or financial planning and analysis (FP&A) 
• Proven experience in strategic planning, budgeting, headcount planning, and cross-functional coordination.
• Strong analytical skills with experience designing dashboards and executive-level reports using tools like Looker, Power BI, or Tableau.
• Experience with Coupa
• Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated ability to prepare clear and concise narratives with insights for our executive audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders and competing deadlines.
• A "systems thinking" approach to problem-solving, with the ability to create structure and clarity in ambiguous settings.

Why You Should Join Us

At Success Academy, you’ll shape the systems that drive impact across one of the most ambitious K-12 education movements in the country. You’ll lead high-stakes transformation efforts at scale, helping deliver consistent, world-class support to educators and scholars as we grow. We offer a competitive compensation package, full benefits, and a mission-driven, high-performance culture.

Success Academy Charter Schools is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to flourish in a multicultural world. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth. Learn more about our philosophy, benefits, and team at our Working Here page.

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