Deputy Chief of Academic Operations

Responsibilities

• Core Charge
• Reporting Directly to the Chief of Academic Programs you will be responsible for
• Academic Strategy and Planning
• Partner with the CoAP and EDs to codify and refine 12-k school model
• Partner with CoAP and EDs to define annual academic priorities and translate them into plans with clear timelines, owners, and measures of progress.
• Build and manage the 5-year academic roadmap.
• Lead audits across curriculum, assessment, training, calendars, walkthroughs, and data routines.
• Create planning tools and progress reviews that surface priorities, risks, and decisions, and prepare executive updates for senior leadership and board-facing conversations.
• Curriculum and Assessment Systems
• Lead a review of curriculum use across schools, regions, and subjects - distinguishing variation that reflects state context or program design from variation that signals an opportunity for greater consistency.
• Partner with content leaders to define a shared pedagogical throughline and build a curriculum governance process with clear decision rules for selection, adaptation, and retirement.
• Develop a network assessment strategy that clarifies the purpose of each measure, along with an assessment calendar that accounts for state testing, instructional pacing, and school workload, plus routines for data analysis, progress monitoring, and reteach planning.
• Cross-State Operating Model
• Build academic systems that work across New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, clarifying which practices should be shared and which should reflect state-specific requirements.
• Manage academic, assessment, training, and walkthrough calendars within an annual planning cycle that gives schools the expectations, tools, and lead time they need to execute well.
• Academic Project Management
• Stand up an academic Project Management Office for the CoAP.
• Manage major initiatives across academics, data, operations, talent, finance, and regional teams, using standard workplans, decision logs, risk trackers, and status updates.
• Run cross-functional meetings that produce clear decisions and next steps, tracking progress and surfacing risks early across both long-range strategy and current-year priorities.
• Academic and Training Operations
• Lead the network's academic operations function - owning the academic calendar, school-facing communications, and the operating systems behind assessment, deadlines, and implementation support.
• Lead training operations across three states, building

Benefits

Additional Information

Deputy Chief of Academic Operations About Achievement First Achievement First (AF) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization supporting 39 public charter schools across New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. For more than 25 years, AF has been recognized as one of the top tuition-free public charter school networks in the country. We are committed to creating schools of academic excellence within nurturing environments - schools that prepare students to be college-ready and to pursue and succeed in whatever paths they choose in life. The majority of AF students are Black and Latinx children from low-income families, many of whom will be the first in their families to graduate from college. Across our network, we employ more than 2,200 staff members - 64% of whom identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color - who collectively educate nearly 15,000 students in Brooklyn and Queens, NY; New Haven, Bridgeport, and Hartford, CT; and Providence and Cranston, RI. Our mission is to prepare every student to excel in college, career, and life; deepen their understanding of self and community; and lead lives of purpose. We believe in the limitless potential within our students and their power to shape a more just society. That belief drives our deep commitment to student achievement: we aim to set a high bar for learning and create warm, demanding classrooms where rigorous instruction is paired with the care, encouragement, and consistency every student deserves.

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