College Advisor

Summary

The College Advisor is a grade-level leader and mentor who builds the systems, culture, and relationships that prepare IC students— including students with emotional challenges and special needs—for a successful path to and through college. Grounded in the ICs vision of whatever it takes, the College Advisor creates grade-wide norms, traditions, and celebrations; leads grade-level team collaboration; and partners closely with families, teachers, and school leadership to ensure every student is known, supported, and held to a high bar.

This role combines day-to-day team leadership with a long-term focus on college and post‑secondary readiness, and is central to ICs mission of building a richer array of options for Staten Island students and families than exists anywhere else in the country.

• Create grade‑wide norms, traditions, and celebrations that lend to a well‑rounded, fun, and nurturing learning experience.
• Send out weekly grade-level newsletters and/or communications to students, families, and grade team members.
• Ensure strong systems for grade-wide student attendance and engagement.
• Establish a structure for team collaboration, decision‑making, and grade-level team meetings.
• Set grade-level team collaboration norms and ensure they are implemented by the grade-level team.
• Act as a mentor for new teachers.
• Chair all grade-level meetings and manage the grade-level team in a manner that promotes positive and productive relationships between colleagues, students, parents, and community.
• Oversee the communication of grade-level and school-wide events to grade-level staff, students, and families.
• Select, use, and interpret evaluation data; demonstrate, based on the data, a willingness to examine and implement changes necessary to produce efficient and effective systems and increase positive behavioral outcomes and student achievement.
• Assist in staff development, especially training staff to develop and measure learning outcomes and use data-driven measures to ensure student success and identify gaps in services, programs, and resources.
• Coordinate field trips and special activities for the team, including arranging transportation, securing reservations and permission slips, and arranging meals (duties may be delegated to the teacher sponsoring the trip).
• Dedicate time for after-school duties on an as-needed basis.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A whatever it takes attitude centered in the notion of children first.
• Understanding of school student-achievement data and New York Charter School Standards.
• Thorough understanding of best practices for middle and high school.
• Operating knowledge of and experience with personal computers, word processing, and database software.
• English language skills required; oral and written fluency in a second language may be preferred or required based on staff, student, and parent primary language needs.
• Understanding of, or willingness to learn, New York State graduation requirements.

Monday–Friday, 7:30 AM–4:00 PM

$71,000+

Salary is based on years of experience and degree held.

ICS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.