Blended Model School Dean

Oak City Academy is a PK-8th private Christian Classical/Montessori school located in Garner, NC. OCA’s passion is to “cultivate joyful learners who bring Heaven to Earth.”

Applicants should address their résumé AND cover letter to Lauren Lindstrom, OCA’s Human Resources Coordinator.

Cover letters should include 4 things:

1. What draws you to apply at Oak City Academy

2. Share your personal "faith story" or "faith journey "

3. Examples of how your faith impacts your daily life

4. How your education and past experience could be utilized at our school

Learn more on our web site at www.oakcityacademy.org, like our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/oakcityacademy, and follow us on Instagram @oakcityraleigh to see how our students’ lives are transformed through our "everyday."

Title: Blended Model Program Dean

FLSA Status: Exempt

Hours: 40 Hrs per week

Reports to: Assistant Head of School

Department: Administrative

Employment Status:Full-Time

Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes

Location: OCA Blended Campus (The Capital Church, Garner)

Date Created/Last Evaluated: 1/22/24

Salary: See offer letter

Summary

The Program Dean oversees the education of the child utilizing the processes required to facilitate the educational aspects of OCA’s mission. This position also facilitates the curriculum, teacher training, student assessments, enrichments, character development, and teacher support within the program.

Qualification Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Employees should love children and have a heart for Christian education. Employees should have an appreciation of and be willing to embody OCA’s Core Values, as well as personally embrace OCA’s statement of faith.

Minimum Qualifications

• Personal confession of faith in Jesus Christ and commitment to the mission of Oak City Academy
• Passionate commitment to OCA’s mission of Christ-centered education
• Ability to represent Oak City Academy in a Christ-like and honorable way
• A Bachelor's Degree
• Demonstrates leadership and strong decision-making skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with excellent listening skills
• Resourceful and able to think through problems towards creative and effective solutions
• Maintains a positive, relaxed demeanor under stress
• Highly relational
• Be able to lead a team
• Be organized, self-managed, and able to handle many responsibilities simultaneously
• Dependable and consistent follow-through with responsibilities and tasks

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Understanding of and proficiency in Google suite
• Technical ability to work with various software programs and learn new ones as needed (Ex. Google Docs, Trello, Canva, and school specific platforms)
• Detail-oriented
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Must have great conflict resolution including assessing concerns to determine cause in order to appropriately resolve issues
• Ability to communicate openly and honestly while maintaining working relationships with school administrators, support staff, and parents

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Assistant Teachers
• Lead Teachers
• Enrichment Teachers

Essential Functions

• Proven Process
• Oversees and ensures implementation of TOC Christian, Community, and Montessori Processes
• Curriculum
• Works with the Curriculum Team to establish educational benchmarks, aligning Montessori materials, supplemental curriculum, books, workbooks to complete educational goals for the program
• Facilitates curriculum training, distribution, use, and support
• Updates and ensures use of 3-year curriculum maps and annual pacing guides
• Teacher Training
• Helps design and implement August training for teachers
• Facilitates monthly PLC training meetings for Leads and Assistants
• Provides teacher training for curriculum, pacing guides, character development, classroom processes and management, presenting Montessori lessons, presenting group lessons, read-aloud, literature groups, assistant management, parent relations & conferences, holidays, assessments & extensions
• Student Assessments
• Oversees & provides support for BOY assessments, quarterly review, quarterly assessments, reading assessments, EOY assessments, Woodcock Johnson testing & CAT tests
• Student Academic Support
• Assists teachers in identifying & meeting student academic needs
• Facilitates Academic Partnership process for students who require additional support
• Report Card Process
• Ensures quarterly teacher data entry
• Approves quarterly report cards
• Provides troubleshooting support for teachers
• Enrichments
• Oversees enrichments schedules, curriculum maps/plans, teacher oversight & appraisal
• Events
• Works with Events Committee to coordinate campus-wide community events
• Facilitates Rising Classroom Preview Day during Encounter Week
• Schedule Oversight
• Creates & oversees daily campus-wide schedule
• Thrive Character Development
• Ensures implementation of heart & character training within program
• Oversees & provides training for character awards and Character Award Ceremony
• Teacher Support & Communication
• Facilitates weekly meetings with Lead Teachers to provide support, resourcing, problem solving
• Available to teachers for ongoing needs and concerns
• Facilitates Team Appraisals once a year
• Helps lead Staff Meetings with educational departmental content
• Approves teacher time off
• Parent Support & Communication
• Provides next-level support for parents with academic/faculty concerns
• Provides Education Department content for the Bucks Bulletin
• Facilitates Fall Parent Observation Week
• Designs & facilitates Parent Orientation
• Oversees & supports Parent Coordinator
• Creates & distributes Blended Model Parent Guide
• Observations
• Conducts monthly proven process classroom observations with feedback
• Facilitates in-house teacher observations once a year
• Encouragement & Community
• Provides ongoing encouragement for teachers
• Coordinates creative team-building initiative to build community among teaching staff
• Staff Collaboration
• Meets with Assistant Head of School weekly for support, encouragement & accountability
• Meets with Dean of Students weekly to collaborate on student needs
• Meets with Campus Site Admin weekly to collaborate on campus schedule, events & needs

Physical Demands

• The physical demands of this position are generally limited to light office duty

Work Environment and Expectations

• The Employee has read and can support the Oak City Academy Statement of Faith, Core Values, Proven Process, and Mission Statement, collectively attached hereto as Exhibit A. The Employee acknowledges the Employee can teach or conduct themselves in full accordance with these documents.
• The Employee has read and acknowledges they can conduct themselves in accordance with the culture of OCA, and all job duties and responsibilities, as outlined in this job description, OCA’s Staff Manual, and Parent/Student Handbook (collectively, “Staff Manual and Handbook”) both of which have been shared with the Employee. While the Staff Manual and Handbook are too voluminous to attach hereto, Employee acknowledges that he/she has or will carefully review the Staff Manual and Handbook, has or will sign a separate Acknowledgement of Receipt for both documents, and can comply with the terms of the Staff Manual and Handbook.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of the position. All employees may have other duties assigned at any time.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $40,000.00 - $45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person