Student Support Analyst

Grade Level: 9-12 

Salary Range: $58,000-$68,000

Hours: approximately 7am - 3pm

Location: Discovery Polytech Early College High School @ 1350 Main St (Mass Live Building) 

About Discovery Polytech Early College High School

Discovery Polytech was founded 5 years ago and was designed to position all of our students to explore, select and complete a high wage, high demand, college degree pathway. All of our students take college classes (at Elms College, UMass Amherst, STCC and Baypath University) starting in their freshmen year. Students earn up to 60 college credits (in degree bearing pathway) by high school graduation in STEM majors such as Cybersecurity, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Optics Photonics, Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Nursing, Computer Programing, and more! Our school intentionally disrupts racist systems that have historically underserved Springfield students by positioning our students for successful college degree completion in high wage career pathways, while attending high school. Our students go to college campuses and learn how to navigate the challenges and rewards of college- going. Our intensive support model helps students build academic and executive skills to attend college successfully.

Our team has fostered a culture of collaboration and high expectations for our students and staff. Our staffing demographics also reflect the diverse identifies of our students. At Discovery High School, we ask a lot of our students and staff, and yet we believe that school should be a fun and interactive place where students and staff look forward to coming to school every day. As educators we believe that relationships with our students are the foundation on which all social and academic success is built. As a small school (70 students per grade) we provide our students with a personalized progression of learning that includes internships, externships, entrepreneurship, industry mentors, stackable career certificates, and extensive accrual of college credits while in High School. If you are up for the challenge, join our team!

Student Support Analyst Responsibilities:

The Student Support Coordinator will lead work to ensure that students demonstrate dramatic student achievement gains and internalize the school’s values. The Student Support Analyst will play a key role in leading the school’s efforts to create a positive, structured, consistent, caring, and disciplined school culture.

Responsibilities of this position may include:

• Build strong individual relationships with students and their families.
• Support student accountability for conduct in the high school, and on the college
• campus through specific successful routines established already by the school
• Be a model for holding students to high expectations through positive and
• coaching feedback to students.
• Provide proactive, daily support to teachers in classrooms and throughout the
• school, and on the college campuses.
• Manage student referrals for support in Deanlist.
• Monitor and support the success for students college coursework
• Participate on a school attendance team, which includes calls to families, home
• visits, facilitating formal mentoring groups of students, and data input and
• Provide support to students 1:1 or in small groups
• Drive a 15 passenger van when needed to transport students.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university (preferred) or
• commensurate work experience;
• 1-3 years of relevant experience;
• A deep desire to work with educationally underserved student populations and
• their families;
• An unwavering commitment to the academic success and personal development
• of our students;
• An eagerness to set ambitious, challenging, and tangible goals, and a relentless
• drive to achieve them; 
• An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and a capacity to
• remain calm and focused when faced with unexpected challenges; 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including strong public
• speaking skills; 
• A sense of humility;
• Experience in an urban setting 

If you meet some of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply or to reach out for more information. We know that historically marginalized groups – including people of color, women, people from working class backgrounds, and people who identify as LGBTQ – are less likely to apply unless and until they meet every requirement for a job. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities. We are actively seeking applicants of color.

About the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership 

While Massachusetts is consistently ranked as one of the top states for education results in the country, we have one of the highest and most persistent opportunity gaps. The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) - established in 2015 as a collaboration between Springfield Public Schools (SPS), the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and the Springfield Education Association (SEA) – seeks to improve the longitudinal life outcomes of the more than 5,000 students in our eleven middle and high schools. 

As a “zone” of schools within the city of Springfield, SEZP’s approach draws on a deep and embedded partnership with the school district and local teachers’ union, while harnessing the flexibility and innovation found in autonomous school models. As a result, each school within SEZP is accorded significant school-based autonomies - in curriculum, talent, calendar, schedule, and budget – while being held accountable for realizing achievement gains for historically marginalized students. In all of our work, SEZP is in pursuit of equity and anti-racism – acknowledging the systemic oppression our students and families encounter daily and working to disrupt these provision gaps urgently and courageously.

NONDISCRIMINATION EMPLOYMENT STATEMENT  

The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, sex characteristics, sex stereotypes and other sex-based conduct, genetic information, ancestry, age, disability or military service or marital status. The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in admission to, access or treatment in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, sex characteristics, sex stereotypes and other sex-based conduct, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, disability or homelessness.

NOTICE OF SEX NONDISCRIMINATION

Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination, including sex-based harassment, in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and its regulations, including in admission and employment.

Inquiries about Title IX may be referred to the Springfield Public Schools’ Title IX Coordinator, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights at https://ocrcas.ed.gov/contact-ocr, or both.

The Springfield Public Schools Title IX Coordinator is Katie O’Sullivan, Senior Administrator of Human Resources, 1550 Main Street, Springfield, MA 01103, 413-787-7100 ext. 55428, titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com.

Springfield Public School’s sex nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedures can be located on the Springfield Public Schools website, www.springfieldpublicschools.com/non-_discrimination

To report information about conduct that may constitute sex discrimination or make a complaint of sex discrimination under Title IX, please refer to titleix@springfieldpublicschools.com

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