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About the Role

Seeking a Business Teacher passionate about equipping high school students with financial literacy, entrepreneurial thinking, business knowledge, and career-readiness skills for success beyond high school. This role involves designing and delivering rigorous, engaging instruction in courses like Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship, fostering connections between learning and real-world financial decisions, business concepts, career pathways, and postsecondary opportunities. The educator will create inclusive, project-based learning experiences to develop critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, financial decision-making, and professional skills, working closely with the College & Career Readiness team to build student confidence and practical knowledge for navigating college, careers, entrepreneurship, and adult life.

Responsibilities

Plan, teach, and assess Business courses, including Personal Finance, Entrepreneurship, and other business or career-readiness courses.
Develop rigorous and engaging lessons connecting business concepts to real-world applications and students' future goals.
Teach essential financial literacy concepts, including budgeting, saving, credit, banking, investing, taxes, debt management, and responsible financial decision-making.
Introduce students to entrepreneurship and foundational business concepts, including business planning, marketing, operations, financial management, innovation, and ethical decision-making.
Create project-based and experiential learning opportunities for students to apply business and financial concepts to authentic problems.
Integrate literacy, quantitative reasoning, research, presentation, and professional communication skills throughout instruction.
Maintain high expectations while providing students with structure, support, and encouragement.
Differentiate instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners, including students with IEPs and those requiring additional academic support.
Use Universal Design for Learning, backward planning, and other effective instructional practices to create multiple entry points for student learning.
Adapt instructional materials, assignments, projects, and assessments based on student needs while maintaining rigorous learning expectations.
Collaborate with special education teachers, counselors, and student support staff to implement appropriate accommodations and instructional supports.
Create a classroom environment that promotes belonging, curiosity, collaboration, responsible risk-taking, and student voice.
Develop and use formative and summative assessments to measure student understanding and skill development.
Analyze student work, assessment results, participation, and other indicators of learning to identify strengths and areas requiring additional support.
Use data to differentiate instruction, provide targeted interventions, and adjust instructional strategies.
Provide students with timely, actionable feedback and opportunities to reflect on and improve their work.
Maintain accurate student grades, records, and required instructional documentation.
Help students understand how financial literacy and business skills connect to college, careers, entrepreneurship, and long-term economic independence.
Expose students to a variety of business industries, career pathways, entrepreneurial opportunities, and postsecondary options.
Develop students' employability skills, including communication, collaboration, problem-solving, professionalism, time management, and workplace expectations.
Incorporate career exploration, guest speakers, business case studies, simulations, and other authentic learning experiences into instruction.
Collaborate with the College & Career Readiness and CTE teams to connect classroom learning with internships, work-based learning, career exploration, and postsecondary opportunities.
Participate in relevant College & Career Readiness events, student activities, and schoolwide initiatives.
Engage actively in feedback, coaching, and professional learning.
Collaborate with colleagues to improve instructional practice and student outcomes.
Participate actively in department meetings, professional development, and schoolwide planning.
Contribute to a culture of reflection, curiosity, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Help create classrooms and a school community rooted in belonging, safety, equity, and high expectations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
Appropriate New York State teaching certification or active pathway toward certification
Demonstrated knowledge of business, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, mathematics, economics, or a related content area
Strong written, verbal, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills
Commitment to providing rigorous, inclusive, and culturally responsive instruction to diverse high school learners

Skills

Financial literacy
Entrepreneurial thinking
Business knowledge
Career-readiness skills
Critical thinking
Problem-solving
Communication
Collaboration
Financial decision-making
Professional skills
Literacy integration
Quantitative reasoning
Research skills
Presentation skills
Universal Design for Learning
Backward planning
Assessment data analysis
Instructional differentiation
Targeted intervention
Employability skills
Time management
Workplace expectations
Career exploration
Feedback delivery
Coaching
Professional learning

Location

New York City

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

3+ years of teaching experience (preferred)
Professional experience in business, finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, or a related industry (preferred)

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
New York State certification in CTE Business and Marketing or another certification appropriate to the courses taught (strongly preferred)

Salary/Compensations

$68,902–$95,000

Benefits

Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
401(k) with up to 5% employer match
Life insurance
Professional development and coaching
A collaborative team deeply committed to growth and support

About the Company

Innovation Charter High School believes schools can be places where young people are deeply known, challenged, and prepared to shape their futures, and where educators do some of the most meaningful work of their careers.
We are a mission-driven public charter high school in New York City serving students with ambition, care, and urgency.
Our team is fiercely committed to improving student outcomes and continuously strengthening the school we are building together.
We are not interested in maintaining the status quo. We are actively working to create new ways of supporting students and new ways of working together as colleagues.
That takes humility, experimentation, resilience, and heart.
Our staff cares deeply. We challenge one another. We learn in public. We keep improving.
If you are energized by joining a dedicated team that is building toward something better, for students and for each other, we'd love to meet you.