Managing Director, Schools

Breakthrough Public Schools is a nationally recognized Charter Management Organization (CMO) network in Ohio. Our mission is to provide Cleveland-area scholars with an education that empowers them to lead lives of impact and opportunity. Our network of schools center joy, curiosity, and individual growth, uniquely positioning Breakthrough Public Schools to cultivate a learning community where all students thrive. At Breakthrough, we are committed to providing scholars with the academic, social, and emotional skills necessary to excel at learning and citizenship from kindergarten through eighth-grade promotion.

We are committed to the success of every child.

Breakthrough Public Schools is a network that provides operational, leadership, and strategic services to the schools in the Breakthrough Schools network. The CMO is committed to providing high-quality services to the schools and bolstering the high-impact performance of the schools, making the CMO and network greater than the sum of its parts. The CMO provides economies of scale when it comes to staffing, tools, and time-based efficiencies.

We serve 3,000 K-8 grade scholars across five campuses and employ over 450 staff members.

OPPORTUNITY

Breakthrough Public Schools seeks an experienced, strategic leader to serve as the Managing Director of Schools. Reporting to the Head of Schools, the MD, Schools is also a member of the network’s Extended Leadership team.

The Managing Director of Schools will serve in the capacity of what other districts might refer to as a Principal Manager. The role will coach, support, evaluate, and develop school leaders to meet ambitious school performance goals. In addition, this leader will help to create key structures to ensure strong execution of the overall academic and operational plans of schools, and work to teach leaders how to execute, and insist they do it.

Working with Principals will include coaching them to develop the talent and capacity of their school leadership teams.

• Recruit, manage, and build capacity in the assigned caseload of principals (~3)
• Collaborate with the Head of Schools to ensure high-quality implementation of the educational design and vision, as well as the desired scholar and adult culture
• Establish clear Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for each leadership position and clear structures to collect data to measure the KPIs
• Embody the “teach and insist” philosophy of leadership, ensuring leadership teams have excellent training for leadership protocols and hold them accountable for delivering high-level results
• Document leadership practices and protocols clearly and consistently to ensure long-term documentation of the foundational school leadership development practices
• Create clear and consistent expectations for all members of assigned schools’ leadership teams, including strong protocols for communication, meeting deadlines, and creating staff culture
• Ensure leadership check-ins are grounded in scholar outcomes and individual follow-through action items and coach Principals on the effective development of their leadership teams
• Create strong systems for regular formal and informal communication between assigned staff, leadership teams, and the network
• Collaborate with the MD, Operations to ensure that schools have strong operational practices, including but not limited to scholar enrollment, retention, and attendance; budget management; parent and scholar satisfaction

• In collaboration with the broader Academic Team and the school leadership, set the overall vision for the school culture, and assist in creating both vertical and horizontal alignment across schools
• Creates processes and protocols to ensure schools have well-defined routines and procedures that maximize consistency and scholar experience
• Monitor the quality and effectiveness of school-wide expectations for school culture
• In collaboration with School Principals, create systems to diagnose and address potential gaps in school culture
• In collaboration with the Academics Team and Principals, ensure the network-wide development and codification of grade-level…