Educator-Advisors should expect to contribute ideas to TPZ's program development and ongoing curriculum design. This role also requires flexible scheduling, since TPZ's programming runs after-school (work schedule is 11am-7 pm) and Mondays - Saturdays throughout the year.
Responsibilities:
- Effectively engage learners in Entrepreneurship and Advisory learning experiences, including: developing a business idea, product, plan, and pitch to external stakeholders; and reflecting on progress towards TPZ's SEL, identify, and college-career readiness competencies.
- Cultivate a strong community within TPZ's learning spaces, meaning: understand the science of learning and how to promote students’ belonging by establishing shared norms, relationships, and routines that create a safe and brave space to take risks.
- Engage in planning sessions in collaboration with other Educator-Advisors and STEAM technician/makerspace manager to prepare for learning experiences and reflect on learning (to inform lessons and curriculum planning)
- Engage in ongoing department specific and organization-wide professional learning, including: bi-weekly sessions with the Program Team, 1-1 coaching cycles with Program leaders.
- Contribute to the design of TPZ's next generation curriculum
- Support students in the development of their e-portfolio that documents their progress throughout their experience at TPZ
- Track and monitor student progress towards TPZ’s core competencies
- Collect, analyze, and use student data to drive high quality student experiences and outcomes
- Collaborate with the Development team to engage external volunteers in programmatic events
- Effectively use TPZ’s systems (SIS and LMS) to track, monitor, and update student information each semester
- Participate in weekly Eship / Advisory meetings
Qualifications:
- Professional Experience : At least 3 years of experience working with high school students in either formal classrooms/schools or informal settings (for instance, youth development, camp counselor)
- Instructional approaches: experience engaging youth from under-resourced communities in ways that are culturally-responsive, project-based, and competency-based, with attention to the whole-child, SEL and identity development, and building a strong culture and community
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Content knowledge
: Experience in 1 or more of the following:
- Entrepreneurship: you have started and run a business
- College-Career counseling (e.g.: FAFSA, college essays, college admissions’ processes, career exploration, resume writing and interviewing)
- Business: you bring experience in a specific aspect of business, e.g.: Marketing, Sales, Finance
- STEAM: science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics
- Demonstrate entrepreneurial spirit that inspires students to explore passions and dreams while providing the scaffolds or supports to actualize them
- Commitment to the success of every learner; have a growth mindset and self-awareness
- A courageous learner, design-thinker, problem-solver, and ignite these qualities in others
- Create a growth-promoting culture that is brave and safe; effectively manage learning experiences
- Strong facilitation; you believe learning is an active process, and support learners in driving their learning
- Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Embraces change and navigates multi-cultural spaces with openness and awareness
Compensation & Benefits
The Possible Zone offers a robust compensation and benefits package including high-quality health benefits and an employer contribution to your 401(k) plan.
DEI Statement:
We believe every member of our team and student body deserves opportunities for growth, success and inclusion. We recognize that for many of our students, staff and communities, their life journeys run through oppressive structures and systems (e.g. classism, racism, sexism) — and that’s what makes our organizational culture and work so necessary and important.
We believe that diversity in perspective, backgrounds, ethnicities and lived experience is a strength, and from that strength, we can accomplish great things with the students we serve. Together as students, staff, organizations, communities, volunteers, and partners, we are intentional about creating safe spaces where all members can speak authentically and be themselves.
We are committed to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. As members of The Possible Zone community, our progression along this ongoing journey raises thoughtful questions, reveals biases, and opens conversations. We celebrate one another and are unified in our commitment to young people, excellence, and innovation. This work is our shared responsibility and our opportunity to welcome all members who share in our mission and strive to provide pathways that further prepare students in achieving their desired success.
COVID Vaccination Policy
The Possible Zone is requiring that all employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Being fully vaccinated means that an individual is at least two weeks past their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine regimen. As a condition of employment, newly hired employees will be required to provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccination.
In order to be qualified for employment at The Possible Zone, final candidates must comply with the vaccination requirement or receive an approved exemption.
ABOUT THE POSSIBLE ZONE:
The Possible Zone’s (TPZ) mission is to advance economic equity by ensuring young people develop the entrepreneurial spirit, skills, and networks to launch successful careers. Based in Boston, TPZ offers high school students a year-round, multi-year entrepreneurship program that includes project-based curriculum, STEAM education, hands-on work experience, and individualized college and career advising. TPZ’s young entrepreneurs launch their own companies, learn design and advanced manufacturing, intern with local companies, and map their postsecondary goals and plans. In the process, they develop career readiness, social-emotional, and technical skills, and strengthen their professional identity, preparing them to succeed in any future path they choose.
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