Managing Director of Operations - Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy Charter School

Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy Charter School (BELA), an all-girls high school located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, is grounded in the core values of Sisterhood, Scholarship, Strength, and Service. BELA is deeply committed to ensuring that 100% of our students graduate prepared for postsecondary and beyond. Founded on the belief that academic preparation and life preparation are equally important, each BELA young woman embarks on her own personal and intellectual journey. As an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School, BELA is committed to implementing the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) and Diploma Programme (DP) with fidelity. Staff members are expected to engage deeply with IB philosophy, instructional practices, curriculum development, and assessment frameworks. BELA invests in ongoing professional development and training to ensure all educators are equipped to deliver rigorous, inquiry-based instruction aligned to IB standards and practices. Learn more athttps://www.belahs.org/https://www.belahs.org. About the Opportunity After nearly a decade of building, leading, and sustaining BELA, the school’s co-founders are ready to bring on BELA’s first Managing Director of Operations: a senior leader who can own the non-academic systems that allow the school to run with excellence each day. This is a pivotal moment for BELA. The school has a clear mission, a strong culture, deep relationships with students and families, and a leadership team that has carried the work from the very beginning. As BELA enters its next chapter, the organization is ready for an operations leader who can take ownership of the day-to-day infrastructure of the school while helping build the systems needed for long-term sustainability. The Managing Director of Operations will lead the non-instructional side of the school, including student enrollment and scheduling, school systems, compliance, budgets, vendor relationships, HR coordination, facilities, technology coordination for BELA’s one-to-one student technology model, and the daily operational routines that shape the experience of students, staff, and families. This role will also create meaningful capacity for BELA’s co-founders to focus more deeply on the work only they can do at this stage of the school’s development: long-term vision, partnerships, fundraising, and strategic planning. The Managing Director of Operations will build on what already exists while strengthening the operational foundation that allows BELA to thrive for years to come. Key Responsibilities School Operations and Systems Leadership - Assess, strengthen, and manage school-wide operational systems, including arrival, dismissal, lunch, hallway transitions, coverage, facilities, safety procedures, events, and student-facing and staff-facing processes. - Own and manage the master schedule, including student programming and use of the school’s student information systems. - Ensure that instructional operations such as testing logistics, report cards, student records, attendance, and scheduling are accurate, timely, and aligned to school goals. - Provide strategic oversight of student enrollment systems and support student recruitment efforts, open houses, family engagement events, Buddy Days, and related enrollment activities. - Work closely with the Director of Student Support and Director of Staff Support to ensure daily school operations are clear, consistent, and well managed. - Identify gaps in existing systems and design solutions that are practical, durable, and appropriate for a school of BELA’s size and stage. - Serve as an operational thought partner to the co-founders and senior leadership team. Governance, Compliance, and Reporting - Ensure BELA adheres to all local, state, and federal compliance requirements, including timely submission of required reports and maintenance of accurate records. - Ensure accurate student enrollment, attendance, staffing, certification, graduation readiness, and related co…