Founding Director, Harlem Montessori Pre-K

Position Details

Job Title: Founding Director, Harlem Montessori Pre-K
Department: Schools
Job Category: School Leadership

The Opportunity

The Founding Director will design, plan and launch the Harlem Montessori Pre-K with a start date in the Spring of 2021.

Harlem Village Academies is a community of educators in Harlem working to build an urban school district based on the tenets of progressive education. HVA is the lab school for the Progressive Education Institute.

The Pre-K Founding Director will lead faculty, staff, instruction and culture at the Harlem Montessori Pre-K, guiding the school community to realize our vision. The ideal candidate will have experience in early childhood instruction and school leadership as well as experience with the Montessori approach. As the instructional leader of the Harlem Montessori Pre-K, the Director’s focus will be to design and build a world class progressive Pre-K program. The candidate will work within an organization that values entrepreneurial drive and accountability as well as kindness, warmth and teamwork.

Responsibilities

Ensure student learning and the quality of student thinking
Promote student independence, intellectual curiosity and intrinsic motivation
Hire, manage and develop an exceptionally effective faculty and staff
Facilitate high quality professional development
Build and nurture strong relationships to maintain a thriving community of families
Ensure compliance with NYS standard

Qualifications

Master’s degree in Early Childhood Development or related field
CLASS certification
Minimum five years of teaching experience and five years of leadership experience
Experience teaching in a Montessori school, preferably in an urban setting
Ability to effectively lead a team of educators to accomplish an ambitious vision
Experience in leading school culture based on restorative practices
A sense of personal accountability for results and experience holding a team to high standards; entrepreneurial mindset with focus on student outcomes

Organizational Culture

Our team is passionately committed to the vision and values of Harlem Village Academies; have a positive mindset; a very strong work ethic; and an inner drive for excellence. The ideal candidate will thrive working within an entrepreneurial and results-driven environment.

Harlem Village Academies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to diversity among our staff. Applicants of diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

Apply Now

*required

First Name*

Last Name*

Email*

Phone*

Resume/CV*

Cover Letter*

Provide the address to your LinkedIn profile if you have one.

How did you hear about this job?*

If you responded with "Referral" or "Other" to the previous question, please elaborate.

Indicate if you have an affiliation with Harlem Village Academies.

If you answered the previous question, please elaborate.

At the time of this application, have you completed an undergraduate program and been awarded a bachelor's degree?*

Please provide your salary expectations range.*

Provide three professional references, at least one of whom has supervised your work. We will not contact any of these references without notifying you ahead of time. Provide: Name, Title, Organization, Email, Phone, Years Acquainted.*

Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for an immigration-related employment benefit?*

Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for an employment visa? If you have a visa, how much time remains on your current visa?*

U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Information (Completion is voluntary)

Individuals seeking employment at this company are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. You are being given the opportunity to provide the following information in order to help us comply with federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action record keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements.

Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

Gender

Race

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

VeteranStatus

Why are you being asked to complete this form?

Because we do business with the government, we must reach out to, hire, and provide equal opportunity to qualified people with disabilities¹. To help us measure how well we are doing, we are asking you to tell us if you have a disability or if you ever had a disability. Completing this form is voluntary, but we hope that you will choose to fill it out. If you are applying for a job, any answer you give will be kept private and will not be used against you in any way.

If you already work for us, your answer will not be used against you in any way. Because a person may become disabled at any time, we are required to ask all of our employees to update their information every five years. You may voluntarily self-identify as having a disability on this form without fear of any punishment because you did not identify as having a disability earlier.

How do I know if I have a disability?

You are considered to have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment or medical condition that substantially limits a major life activity, or if you have a history or record of such an impairment or medical condition.

Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

Blindness
Deafness
Cancer
Diabetes
Epilepsy
Autism
Cerebral palsy
HIV/AIDS
Schizophrenia
Muscular dystrophy
Bipolar disorder
Major depression
Multiple sclerosis (MS)
Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Impairments requiring the use of a wheelchair
Intellectual disability (previously called mental retardation)

DisabilityStatus