Program Manager, Evaluating Psychologists & Psychoeducationals

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.

As the fastest growing, highest-performing charter school network in New York State, Success Academy is reimagining K-12 public education. Nationally recognized for our innovative, whole-child school model and outstanding academic results, Success Academy educators are empowering children from all backgrounds with the knowledge, skills, and self-belief to succeed in college and in life. We now need a results-driven Program Manager to join our Sprint team.

Success Academies has a profoundly innovative schooling model that achieves outstanding results at scale, and our approach to children with the highest educational needs is just as radical. We begin with the core belief that disability does not mean an inability, that no child should be written off because of learning challenges. Fifteen percent of our scholars receive special education support, and we designed and launched the Sprint program to ensure we provide these most vulnerable scholars an outstanding education. While the identification of scholars demonstrating a need for special education services and execution of the necessary interventions and supports are carried out at the school-level, a supporting Network capability has shared responsibility and accountability for supporting our scholars.

Reporting into the Head of Sprint, the Program Manager, Evaluating Psychologists and Psychoeducationals is responsible for the direct management and oversight of SA’s Evaluating Psychologists. This Program Manager will design and implement all systems necessary for ensuring SA has a strong pipeline of high quality psychoeducational evaluations, including systems for hiring, staffing, and performance managing Evaluating Psychologists, systems for school Sprint teams to request evaluations, and systems for ensuring that psychoeducationals are high quality and appropriately address scholar need. This Program Manager must display strong leadership as well as a high level of technical expertise in order to effectively lead a team of psychologists, navigate Sprint challenges, and meet Sprint-related outcomes on behalf of our neediest scholars. 

Key responsibilities include: 

• End to end management of Evaluating Psychologist staffing process, including:

  • Interviewing and approving candidate offers

  • Determining appropriate placement locations

  • Liaising with network partners to manage new hire process

  • Collaborating with network partners to support onboarding & new hire training

• End to end ownership of Evaluating Psychologist performance management, including:

  • Designing and implementing robust systems for feedback and accountability

  • Management against the Evaluating Psychologist Performance Evaluation Criteria and Sprint initiatives and KPIs that relate to Evaluating Psychologists

  • Implementing process for middle and end of year reviews

  • Supporting with ongoing performance concerns

• End to end management of Psychoeducational Evaluation Reports, including: 

  • Designing and implementing systems for psychoeducational evaluation requests from school Sprint and completion by Evaluating Psychologists

  • Quality control for Psychoeducational Evaluation Reports

• Pyschoeducational evaluation inventory management 

• Evaluating Psychologist team training

  • Leading/managing the Evaluating Psychologist team training program, collaborating across the team to define outcomes, and executing against a training program that ensures team members have the tools and resources to deliver those outcomes 

• End to end management of SEL (Social Emotional Learning) Program, including training and indirect management of the team. (Approx. 50 SEL Specialists in schools managed by the Principals)

• Liaising with School Managers and Senior Leaders for high needs scholar cases at schools, including conducting high needs case evaluation when necessary

• Creation of standard work around staffing, inventory management, and psychoeducational evaluation requests

Required Qualifications

• All degrees and certifications required of a New York State School Psychologist

• Minimum 2 years of experience conducting psychoeducational evaluations

• Minimum 1 year experience people management 

• Demonstrated alignment with Success Academy’s school design

Required Traits

• Effectively collaborates with a broad base of constituents at all levels, including senior organizational leadership; Ability to gain buy in and cooperation from management

• Strong people and performance management skills; adept at providing feedback and developing rising talent

• Fluency with Google Suite/Microsoft Office including Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, and able to easily create clea/useful spreadsheets/trackers

• Strong strategic thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills

• Demonstrates initiative and perseverance to achieve desired outcomes in an innovative and fast-paced environment

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a fast paced, high-pressure environment

• Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment 

• Excellent planning and time management skills

• Excellent written skills

• Extremely detail-oriented

To join our team, please upload a cover letter and resume that outlines your candidacy. Your cover letter should explain in detail your qualifications for the position. Resumes without cover letters will not be reviewed.

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.

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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