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About the Role

The Assistant Dean of Students will focus on maintaining a positive, structured, and restorative student culture, implementing behavior interventions, and collaborating effectively with students, staff, and families to support the school's mission of empowering students as agents for change.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a positive, structured, and restorative student culture.
• Work closely with the Dean of Students and school leadership team to maintain a positive, structured, achievement-oriented school culture.
• Be highly present and visible throughout the school day to ensure expectations are upheld and build positive relationships with students.
• Proactively circulate through school spaces to identify student needs, prevent escalation, reinforce expectations, and support teachers.
• Support the supervision and coordination of lunch, recess, arrival, dismissal, and school events.
• Use restorative practices to help students reflect, repair harm, strengthen skills, and return to the learning community.
• Consistently implement schoolwide student systems and expectations.
• Co-create, implement, and monitor individual behavior intervention and student success plans.
• Track behavior, intervention, consequence, and follow-up data accurately.
• Facilitate assigned consequences and restorative responses.
• Maintain accurate, timely records of all student infractions, incident reports, family communication, interventions, plans, consequences, and outcomes.
• Serve as an active member of the Student Support Team.
• Partner with the Dean of Students, teachers, social workers, counselors, and other staff to respond to concerns and coordinate timely supports.
• Attend grade team and student support meetings as assigned.
• Meet with teachers to problem-solve student concerns, reinforce common expectations, and identify practical supports.
• Support student and staff orientation and workshops related to culture systems, behavior expectations, restorative practices, and student support.
• Partner with students and faculty to develop supports and routines that strengthen belonging, accountability, and student voice.
• Remain available beyond regular school hours when needed for crisis response, family meetings, detention, reentry, or evening events.
• Build trusting relationships with students and families through proactive, respectful, solution-oriented communication.
• Communicate promptly with families about concerns, interventions, consequences, and progress.
• Partner with families to create, implement, and review behavior intervention and student success plans.
• Ensure students, families, teachers, and relevant staff understand next steps, assigned supports, and required follow-through.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Enrollment in a Bachelor’s program with a major or minor in education with a minimum of 60 credits required.
• Experience working with youth or supporting students in an urban school setting.
• Experience building strong, respectful relationships with students and families from diverse backgrounds.
• Strong organization, follow-through, communication, and documentation skills.
• Training in or knowledge of behavior management and de-escalation techniques.
• Experience and/or training with restorative practices and collaborative problem solving.

Skills

• Leadership
• Honesty
• Integrity
• Responsibility
• Caring
• Restraint
• Organization
• Follow-through
• Communication
• Documentation
• Behavior management
• De-escalation techniques
• Restorative practices
• Collaborative problem solving

Location

• Washington Heights
• Inwood

Work Type

• Full-time
• Onsite

Experience Level

• Experience working with youth or supporting students in an urban school setting
• Experience building strong, respectful relationships with students and families from diverse backgrounds
• Experience and/or training with restorative practices and collaborative problem solving

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Enrollment in a Bachelor’s program with a major or minor in education with a minimum of 60 credits required

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 403B retirement plan with a 5% match
• Extensive professional development
• Supplies and technology necessary to be successful in their roles

About the Company

• Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School is a tuition-free public charter school that began as an idea among community members who longed to see more educational choices offered to the children of Washington Heights and Inwood.
• All staff must be willing to commit to our mission: Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School will empower students in Inwood and Washington Heights to become agents for change through community-focused leadership, character development and college preparedness.
• Our staff regard our student leaders as burgeoning assets to their community and help them develop the tools they need to be successful in college and beyond.
• IAL is committed to providing a well-rounded educational experience for all students we serve.
• We are looking for candidates who are hardworking, flexible, and innovative as well as able to embody the IAL traits of leadership in their daily work (honesty, integrity, responsibility, caring and restraint).

Equal Opportunity

• As an equal opportunity employer, we hire and promote without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.