Objective

The Culture Team Member will support our caring and accountable culture of discipline.

About USC Brio College Prep

USC Brio College Prep is a new charter high school powered by Ednovate in partnership with the University of Southern California. Our mission is to empower our students to use their college degrees and careers to make a positive multigenerational change. We provide students and families a safe and nurturing school culture that has high expectations and that delivers a rigorous and personalized college prep experience. We care about instilling a deep sense of purpose in our students and developing valuable relationships in our school community. In this 2017-18 school year, we have over 110 freshmen, and we will expand one grade level per year until we serve students in grades 9-12 in 2020. 

Position Description

The Culture Team Member (CTM) will monitor student behavior and hold students accountable according to our Student Code of Conduct. CTMs issue merits and demerits according to behaviors we encourage and misbehaviors we discourage. CTMs take on various responsibilities necessary for smooth operations including monitoring detention, lunch, dismissal, after school hours, bathroom/PE transitions, hallway transitions, and special events. Student Code of Conduct (in which the CTM would issue demerits). The CTM will need to take initiative around forming positive relationships with students, mentoring them toward responsible adulthood.  

The responsibilities listed here are not exhaustive. In a secondary role, when the CTM is not actively engaging in culture-related responsibilities, the CTM may help with office coverage, clerical tasks, and special projects. This position will require strong adaptability and flexibility around the various tasks asked of them. The CTM must embody our core mindsets, engaging in lively debates and difficult accountability conversations to build teamwork on our staff.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate:

• Speaks, writes, and reads in English and Spanish and can provide translation services
• Is passionate about increasing the college attainment rate in educationally underserved populations and working with families of diverse backgrounds
• Is committed to our mission, discipline model, and vision
• Has strong proficiency with Google Apps (Sheets, Word Docs, Slides)
• Enjoys a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and is eager to build new systems or adapt existing ones
• Collaborates well and engages in healthy, collegial conflict
• Connects well to students and values communication and partnership with families
• Can maintain a disciplined classroom
• Is committed to our Demerit/Merit Behavioral Management System
• Is a graduate of a four-year university

Work Schedule

We are looking to hire someone to begin full-time work for the 2018-19 school year, starting on July 20, 2018. A likely schedule would be 7:30am-4:30pm Mon-Fri.

Wages & Benefits

The hourly wage is competitive and commensurates with experience. A competitive benefit package is included for the full-time position.

To Apply

To submit an application, please visit our website at http://ednovate.org/careers. Ednovate is strongly committed to hiring a diverse and multicultural staff, and we encourage applications from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. Ednovate does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, handicap, age, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnic origin, or any other reason prohibited by state or federal law.

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Professionalism:

• We start on time
• Be present (low-tech, high engagement)
• In appropriate attire
• Prepared for work every day
• Use appropriate language at proper times

School Values:

• Integrity: We do what's right and have consistency between our values and actions.
• Mastery: We constantly seek to improve our outcomes.
• Connectedness: We work together to create an inclusive, empathetic, and caring community.
• Gratitude: We appreciate and celebrate positive contributions to our journey.
• Bro: We face obstacles with an unyielding spirit of determination and vivacity.

Teamwork:

• Trust- Admits mistakes or weaknesses, asks for help, accepts questions and input, gives each other the benefit of doubt, takes risk in offering feedback and assistance, focuses time and energy on important issues, offers and accepts apologies without hesitation, looks forward to opportunities to work as a group
• Conflict- Have lively, interesting meetings, extract and exploit ideas from all team members, solve real problems quickly, minimize politics, put critical problems on the table for discussion
• Commitment- Create clarity around direction and priorities, align around common objectives, develop the ability to learn from mistakes, move forward without hesitation, change direction without hesitation, change direction without hesitation and guilt
• Accountability- Ensure that poor performers feel pressure to improve, identify potential problems quickly by questioning one another's approach without hesitation, establish respect among team members who are held to the same standards, avoid excess bureaucracy around performance management and corrective action
• Results- Minimize individualistic behavior, enjoy success and suffers failure acutely, subjugate own goals/interests for the good of the team, avoid distractions