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Citizen Schools
Director Curriculum Instruction and Training, Boston, MA
Citizen Schools is a leading national education initiative that uniquely mobilizes thousands of adult volunteers to help improve student achievement by teaching skill-building apprenticeships after school. Our programs blend these real-world learning projects with rigorous academic and leadership development activities, preparing students in the middle grades for success in high school, college, the workforce, and civic life. Launched in Boston in 1995, Citizen Schools currently serves 3,000 students and engages 2,200 volunteers in 15 cities nationwide. Over the next five years, the organization will grow to serve 7,700 students in 8-10 states while growing its budget from $15M today to $34M in 2012.
Citizen Schools has been recognized as a national model program by the U.S. Department of Education, has been named a national winner of Fast Company Magazine’s Social Capitalist Award in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, and has been chosen by the Skoll Foundation as a winner of the Skoll Social Entrepreneurship Award. The organization is on an exciting path to become one of the premier education reform and community-building organizations in the country.
The Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Training (CIT) role is critical to ensuring that Citizen Schools programs produce academic results, by influencing program quality and ensuring that a culture of achievement is in place in every Citizen Schools program across the country. The Director of CIT will support program staff’s delivery of all instructional aspects of Citizen Schools’ out-of-school program for low-income, urban middle school students: apprenticeships with volunteer Citizen Teachers, homework support, study skills, team-building activities and community explorations.
The Director will design and support delivery of training for program staff; set priorities and develop curriculum for Citizen Schools’ core program model; guide regionally-based staff in setting priorities for continuous improvement of the program; and direct the Citizen Schools/Lesley University Master’s Program. The Director will be part of a 10-person National Program Department dedicated to supporting 37 program sites across 16 cities and 6 states and will directly manage a 3-person curriculum and training group and lead regional Program Directors on all aspects of curriculum, instruction and training. Citizen Schools plans to grow to 75 sites by 2012 and the Director will be a critical contributor to ensuring consistent results and supporting an expanded network.
This is a full-time position reporting to the Chief Learning Officer and working in close partnership with the Research and Evaluation Department, National Network, and state offices. The position is located in Boston, with some travel (up to ~20%).
Please click here to view full job description and to apply.
Job Code: 91
Citizen Schools has been recognized as a national model program by the U.S. Department of Education, has been named a national winner of Fast Company Magazine’s Social Capitalist Award in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, and has been chosen by the Skoll Foundation as a winner of the Skoll Social Entrepreneurship Award. The organization is on an exciting path to become one of the premier education reform and community-building organizations in the country.
The Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Training (CIT) role is critical to ensuring that Citizen Schools programs produce academic results, by influencing program quality and ensuring that a culture of achievement is in place in every Citizen Schools program across the country. The Director of CIT will support program staff’s delivery of all instructional aspects of Citizen Schools’ out-of-school program for low-income, urban middle school students: apprenticeships with volunteer Citizen Teachers, homework support, study skills, team-building activities and community explorations.
The Director will design and support delivery of training for program staff; set priorities and develop curriculum for Citizen Schools’ core program model; guide regionally-based staff in setting priorities for continuous improvement of the program; and direct the Citizen Schools/Lesley University Master’s Program. The Director will be part of a 10-person National Program Department dedicated to supporting 37 program sites across 16 cities and 6 states and will directly manage a 3-person curriculum and training group and lead regional Program Directors on all aspects of curriculum, instruction and training. Citizen Schools plans to grow to 75 sites by 2012 and the Director will be a critical contributor to ensuring consistent results and supporting an expanded network.
This is a full-time position reporting to the Chief Learning Officer and working in close partnership with the Research and Evaluation Department, National Network, and state offices. The position is located in Boston, with some travel (up to ~20%).
Please click here to view full job description and to apply.
Job Code: 91
