Executive Director

The SEEQS Executive Director has responsibility for the total operation, administration, and management of SEEQS and works toward fostering a positive, safe environment that is conducive to best meeting the needs of all students, staff, and families. This includes such responsibilities as: engages closely with the Governing Board and committees to facilitate the accomplishment of Board goals; coordinates collaboration between the staff of the various SEEQS campuses; manages the budget; ensures compliance with applicable State laws and the SEEQS Charter Contract; leads, directs, counsels, and supervises a variety of personnel and programs; oversees the SEEQS Strategic Growth Plan; and ensures effective family, teacher, and student communications.

​​Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership and Strategic Partnerships 
Long term facilities plan
  • Sustains and elaborates the plan to acquire and develop an appropriate facility (or facilities) for SEEQS in its full implementation.
Fundraising 
  • Implements fund development plan to ensure that any funding gaps are mitigated.
Board Relations 
  • Communicates regularly with and responds to the Governing and Foundation Boards and committees to contribute to the Boards’ essential functions and strategic goals.
Public Relations 
  • Sustains, builds, and engenders an effective public relations strategy to promote the school to relevant constituents.
Professional Development 
  • Creates and engages in opportunities to develop, strengthen, practice, and share own leadership and pedagogical skills and expertise.
Accountability 
  • Ensures compliance with all aspects of the Charter School Contract.
  • Oversees the process of applying for accreditation and ensures compliance with the resulting school action plan.
  • Oversees the implementation of the SEEQS Strategic Growth Plan.
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Operational Leadership
Staffing 
  • Implements an organizational plan, executes hiring processes for School Leader(s), executes hiring processes for other members of the HeadQuarters (HQ) Team, and supports and evaluates the ongoing success of School Leader(s) and HeadQuarters Team members who contribute to and enhance the school’s mission, vision, and operations.
Facilities Management
  • Ensures that the needs of the facilities are anticipated and responded to appropriately. 
Financial Management 
  • Ensures that student learning needs and the safety and comfort of staff and students are at the center of decision-making and prioritization.
Compliance 
  • Ensures compliance with state laws, federal policies, and DOE (as relevant) and submits required materials to oversight bodies, including but not limited to the Charter Commission. Works with the Governing Board Academic Committee to define and refine the School Specific Measures identified in Exhibits A & B of the SEEQS Charter Contract.
  • Works with the Governing Board Finance Committee to ensure SEEQS’s financial health and compliance with SEEQS Charter Contract expectations and requirements.
  • Works with the Governing Board Governance Committee to ensure SEEQS’s Governing Board operational compliance with SEEQS Charter Contract expectations and requirements.
 Coordination 
  • Coordinates communication and collaboration among the various SEEQS campuses, including but not limited to curriculum exchanges, innovation and best practice exchanges, professional development, and community partnership sharing.

Community & Instructional Leadership
Pedagogical Model 
  • Ensures the implementation of the essential elements of the SEEQS pedagogical model: student choice, disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning, community-building, and authentic assessment.  
Community
  • Ensures the implementation of the framework of the SEEQS community-building and community-maintenance structures.
Reflective Practices
  • Ensures the development and implementation of  policies and procedures that  cultivate reflective practices.