Chief People Officer

The role

As Chief People Officer, you'll own the full employee experience for every teammate. That covers how we recruit and hire, how we develop and keep teachers and leaders, and how we pay, support, and manage performance.

We are building an organization where our values show up in every hire, every review, and every promotion. As Chief People Officer, you will be the executive most responsible for making that true.

You'll sit on the executive leadership team and report to the Co-President. You'll lead five functional leaders, covering Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, HR Operations and Payroll, Employee Relations, and Compensation and Performance Management. You'll work closely with regional leaders in all four cities.

This is a high-visibility, high-accountability role. Your work impacts every classroom, every school leadership team, and every one of our students' days.

Your first year

In your first 12 months, you will:

Earn trust fast. Build strong relationships with the executive team, school leaders, and regional leaders in Newark, Camden, Paterson, and South Florida.
Lead a unified People team. Lead five functions and four regions together as one team, with a shared vision rooted in our 2030 plan.
Get close to the work. Spend time in our schools, several in each region, in your first 90 days. Listen to teachers, school leaders, and staff about what helps them support our students and what gets in their way.
Staff for growth. Make sure our hiring and pipeline programs can fill the roles that new students and new schools will need.
Modernize our systems. Assess our HR, applicant tracking, and performance management tools. Then lead the team’s transformation from reactive administration to proactive workforce planning, including the smart use of people analytics and AI.
Put our values at the center of every talent practice. Work with leaders on the People team and throughout the organization to build values-aligned behaviors into how we hire, onboard, develop, evaluate, recognize, and promote.
Set the compensation direction. Lay the groundwork for a pay strategy that is competitive, equitable, and transparent.