Chief Talent & Human Resources Officer; NY

Excellence Community Schools (ECS) is a K-8 Charter Management Organization (CMO) serving communities in the Bronx, NY, and Stamford, CT. Our approach is built on a nationally recognized model that began with our flagship school, the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, a proud recipient of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Award.

Our schools prepare young scholars to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private, and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and ethical development. We accomplish this by offering a challenging and rigorous academic curriculum, which at the earliest grades have an eye towards college preparation. To achieve this, our schools create a supportive and caring environment that at all times has high expectations of all students.

Our commitment extends beyond academics, ensuring each scholar has the guidance and support to thrive in whatever they aspire to achieve in the world. We offer a supportive learning environment that seeks to develop high-level analytical and critical thinking skills in all of our students. Our engaging and rigorous approach is implemented by a collaborative team of teachers.

The Chief Talent & Human Resources Officer (CTHRO) is a senior executive responsible for architecting and stewarding ECS’s enterprise-wide people strategy in direct service of student achievement, instructional excellence, and long-term organizational sustainability. As a core member of the Executive Team, the CTHRO ensures that talent, culture, leadership, and people systems are intentionally designed, aligned, and continuously improved to support ECS’s mission and growth.

This role moves beyond operational HR leadership to owning outcomes, building scalable systems, advising the Co-CEO and Board, and ensuring ECS has the leadership capacity and workforce stability required to deliver exceptional results.

The Chief Talent & Human Resources Officer ensures Excellence Community Schools has leadership, workforce stability, and people systems required to deliver exceptional outcomes for students, today and as the network grows. This role directly influences instructional quality, organizational resilience, and ECS’s ability to scale with excellence.

• Serve as a principal advisor to the Co-CEO and Executive Team on all matters related to talent, workforce strategy, organizational design, and people investment decisions.
• Translate ECS’s academic vision and growth strategy into a cohesive, long-term people strategy that ensures the right talent is in place at every level of the organization.
• Lead enterprise-wide change management efforts related to organizational growth, restructuring, performance expectations, or shifts in instructional and operational priorities.
• Partner with the Board and senior leadership on succession planning, leadership continuity, and risk mitigation related to talent and workforce capacity.
• Set and own the enterprise talent acquisition vision to ensure ECS consistently attracts, selects, and retains exceptional educators, school leaders, and network staff aligned to ECS’s instructional model and values.
• Establish and scale long-term, sustainable talent pipelines through strategic partnerships (universities, certification programs, residencies, and internal leadership pathways) to meet current and future staffing demands.
• Ensure hiring systems and selection practices advance ECS’s commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion, and excellence, using data to monitor outcomes and drive continuous improvement.
• Oversee onboarding and early-tenure talent strategies that accelerate effectiveness, strengthen engagement, and improve long-term retention across schools and network teams.
• Use labor market insights, workforce analytics, and vacancy risk data to inform proactive staffing strategies and support network stability and growth.
• Design and steward ECS’s enterprise performance management philosophy and systems, ensuring alignment with instructional rigor, accountability, and professional growth expectations.
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