2024-2025 Long-Term College Counselor Substitute (Los Angeles) - Ednovate, Inc.

2024-2025 Long-Term College Counselor Substitute

Join a dedicated team that fosters autonomy and creativity, while receiving a competitive salary, opportunities for career and personal growth, and the gratification that comes from creating positive multi-generational change (PMC).

Ednovate Background

Ednovate launched its first school, USC Hybrid High, a personalized learning high school, in 2012. Since then, Ednovate has grown to six schools and is on a trajectory to continue to grow over the next several years. Ednovate is committed to serving in areas where students traditionally lack access to a quality college prep education by building tuition-free, safe, and high-performing public schools to serve neighborhoods that need it the most. Ednovate is currently planning for our next growth phase as we continue to fulfill our mission to make a positive multigenerational change within the communities we serve and in our profession.

We're made up of world travelers, nacho connoisseurs, KPOP business owners, and Taylor Swift fans. We love LA and OC, and we're our students' biggest cheerleaders. We are looking to hire innovative changemakers who aim to continue our goal of becoming the high school experts across Southern California. Sound like you? Keep Reading.

Information regarding our schools can be found here.

What You'll Do:

• Be An Innovator: Get ready to make a lasting mark on the future of education - right now - as we design the independent study program. You'll be a part of the change-makers who pilot, learn and tinker in order to create a robust support systems for our learners.

• Develop a Robust Community of Learners: your main role will be to support and mentor Ednovate students through their learning experience, ensuring that they have the socio-emotional and academic supports in place to be a successful student, from their own remote place of learning.

• Drive for Equity: Ensure all students across all identity groups have access to a high quality, personalized college prep experience through looking at data and supporting students in the targeted ways that they specifically need.

• Prepare Students to Win: You'll be a maestro of student support, empowering scholars - through 1-on-1 support and in group settings - to reach their full academic and personal potential during their remote year with us.

• Build a Family: Through advisory, you'll lead an amazing group of students, get to know their families, and ensure that they have everything they need to learn in this new setting.

• Be a Lifelong Learner: Professional development is our love language. We are committed to improving academic outcomes for all students through intentional training and development.

• Find Your People: Join an active, lively remote school community with vision and purpose. We uplift each other, debate, problem solve, and celebrate our collective work together.

We're Looking For:

The ideal candidate is:

• Passionate about increasing the college attainment rate in low-income communities

• Certain that all students can go to college

• Entrepreneurial and enjoys having autonomy, flexibility and accountability

• A collaborative team player who works well with other adults and engages in healthy conflict to get the best results for students

• Resourceful and persistent, constantly seeking to improve upon results

• Someone who strives to be the best at what they do and has fun along the way

• Committed to personalizing learning for each student and willing to learn with us as we innovate in our use of space, time, the role of teachers, and technology

• Comfortable with a high degree of transparency around results and accountability for results

• Supportive of our warm/strict discipline model and effective in maintaining a consistent, disciplined classroom

• A graduate of a four-year university

• Has a minimum of 5 years of college counseling or admissions experience

• Experienced in leading or managing a team

Ednovate actively develops a schoolwide culture in which every student and employee has a sense of belonging. We are committed to celebrating all of our diverse voices. To achieve this goal, applicants are not considered on the basis of race, color, gender, ability, age, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin.

Please contact jsohn@ednovate.org with any questions.