NOTICE: All Ingenuity Prep employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before their start date. All persons offered a position will be required to provide valid proof of vaccination prior to starting employment or must be approved for a medical or religious exemption.
OVERVIEW
Ingenuity Prep prepares PreK - 8th grade students in Ward 8 to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civic leaders. Our innovative instructional model promotes small group learning for students, collaborative teaching teams, and robust coaching and professional development opportunities for teachers and staff.
We are looking for an outstanding Director of Talent to join our school. As a member of the Ingenuity Prep Student’s Talent Team, you will join a four-person team to support leaders, teachers, and students and families as a critical partner in ensuring we have the best talent in DC! In this role, you will lead recruitment, selection and leadership development work. You will manage one staff member and work with leaders across the school to ensure that continual improvement in talent practices.
WHAT WE’RE ABOUT
- Mission: We’re closing the opportunity gap. Students and families in Southeast D.C. have too few options for high-quality elementary, middle, and high schools. Ingenuity Prep aspires to right this systemic injustice providing an exemplary educational option for Southeast D.C.’s students and families.
- Model: We pair high expectations with high support. Too often, our students are underestimated. At Ingenuity Prep, an innovative teacher development model, paired with best-in-class training from strong instructional leaders, allows us to grow great teachers who, ultimately, lead high-expectation and high-support classrooms.
- Results: Our students are defying expectations. Ingenuity Prep’s students outperform their neighborhood peers on rigorous, national, college-track assessments. Already out-performing many of their more privileged peers around the city, in the coming years, Ingenuity Prep’s students will provide an expectation-defying and achievement-gap-closing proof point — showing what our kids are capable of when we provide the right opportunities, expectations, and support.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
As a Director of Talent at Ingenuity Prep, you will:
- Partner with the Chief Talent Officer to set a vision for and plan to achieve organization-wide talent goals
- Oversee the school’s recruitment strategy and manage one Recruitment Manager
- Develop and update the school’s selection models to meet the needs of the school and ensure equity-centered processes.
- Create and lead programming to onboard new staff and support development or existing staff members
- Manage leadership development programming and create internal leadership pipelines
- Recruit external leaders to join the organization
- Engage with partner organizations and prospective candidates to enhance and develop the organization’s talent brand.
- Collaborate with internal teams to ensure consistent and equitable talent practices from selection forward
- Serve as a member of the school’s senior leadership team
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Ingenuity Prep may be the right fit for you if:
- You have at least 5 years of experience leading and managing talent initiatives in school setting including recruitment, retention, professional development, evaluation and DEI
- Strong strategic thinker; ability to see and manage to 'the big picture' while driving impact on specific initiatives
- You’re a self starter who can quickly ramp up and build relationships with different personalities
- Organized, detail-oriented, and focused on getting things done in a systematic, process driven manner.
- Strong interpersonal skills and a desire to lead through others as a manager and an influencer
- Ability to work independently, take direction, receive feedback and execute accordingly.
- Strong sense of urgency and demonstrated ability to "get it done"
- You have a track record of holding high expectations.
MORE ABOUT US
Ingenuity Prep offers among the strongest compensation and benefits packages of any public charter school in Washington, D.C. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
- Highly competitive compensation.
- 100% of medical and dental premiums for employees paid for by Ingenuity Prep, along with 100% of dependent premiums.
- 100% of employee’s short and long-term disability and life insurance plans paid for by Ingenuity Prep.
- A minimum of two weeks maternity/paternity leave, up to 6 weeks, at 100% of pay (60% from IP and remaining pay from DC Paid Family Leave ) for all staff — regardless of gender.
- A 100% match -- up to 3% -- on your 401K retirement plan.
