Career Center

This position is central to every aspect of FASPS and our community, and we plan to see the role develop and grow within our School. This is a leadership role that places emphasis on building relationships. The DEI and Wellbeing Leader reports to the Division Heads. For matters related to Human Resource Procedures and Policy, the Leader reports to the COO/CFO.

This is a full-time, exempt position at 40 hours per week.

Essential Job Responsibilities & Expectations

• Working with the Board, administration, faculty, and staff to ensure FASPS lives its mission, vision, values, and diversity statement to create a community of bilingual learners working together in a safe and challenging learning environment that encourages diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging through restorative-based processes, respect, integrity, and responsibility within individual and group contexts.
• Being involved in writing or revising school policies and procedures through the lenses of DEI
• Engaging and participating in the DEI Council and Committee, creating a liaison between these bodies and the FASPS community.
• Forming and fostering leadership, expertise, community outreach, service learning and partnerships within the FASPS community that extend from local to international organizations that support our students and mission.
• Possesses an understanding of the challenges, opportunities and needs of French-speaking and English-speaking (primarily American) cultures, norms and values, and the interactions across these individuals and groups within bilingual and international contexts.
• Collaborating with directors, educational leadership, documentalist/librarian, the student success team, coordinators, individual teachers, students, and families about how to assure student learning equity, enrich curriculum, extra-curricular opportunities, and other learning activities that will enhance representation, build cultural agility, and increase access for all students to learning opportunities.
• Clarifying and establishing pathways for our FASPS community’s voices on sensitive topics
• Leading the community in the creation and maintenance of a DEI curriculum with scope and sequence that is harmonized across the School.
• Collaborating and supporting the implementation and success of DEI projects and lessons.
• Organizing displays, especially around celebratory/DEI-themed days, weeks, and months.
• Advising on policy creation related to recruitment, harassment, communication, and educational resources, among others.
• Coaching staff around Wellbeing and DEI, including listening skills, de-escalation, mediation and repair for students and colleagues.
• Composing and modeling lessons that will increase confidence around the treatment of sensitive topics.
• Attending classes to observe and support as needed.
• Launching, supporting, and facilitating (as needed) affinity groups and other student organizations and groups.
• Actively leading research pods or task forces, offer and communicate professional development
• Regularly measuring and analyzing data related to student wellbeing and DEI.
• Liaising with parents and greater community to offer adult education around Wellbeing and DEI.
• Helping to develop, support, monitor, and evaluate appropriate responses to bias-based incidents and student/family/staff complaints that address bias and the impact of bias on underrepresented individuals and communities.
• Collaborating with directors and human resources to ensure effective recruitment, hiring, retention, and support for educators to increase diversity among our professional staff.
• Modeling behavior, attitudes, and engagement around wellbeing and DEI practices, projects, and other activities.

Preferred Qualities and Qualifications:

• Lived experience and demonstrated understanding of cultural values and norms of various communities particularly BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, immigrant, and disability communities, among others.
• Proven ability to work effectively with young people.
• Deep understanding of cultural agility and humility.
• Strong leadership and communication skills fostering positive interactions within a diverse community.
• Experience with Human Resources and how to support anti-discrimination and equal opportunity policies.
• Effective analytical, problem-solving, restorative, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Effective member of a team/teams, with the ability to interact with and build relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• A deep desire to work with all people to bring about necessary social change.
• Master’s degree or equivalent or higher in education or a related field.
• Minimum of five years of successful experience including any combination of classroom and/or administrative experience.

Application:

To be considered, please send a cover letter describing your interest in and qualifications for this position, a resume, and three professional references. No phone calls, please.

Our Mission: What We Do

We challenge students to excel academically and thrive in French, American, and international cultures.

Our Vision: Why We Do It

To inspire the next generation of global citizens to learn, understand, and act wisely in a multicultural world.

Our Core Values

The core values that guide our work and reflect what we strive to nurture in our students include: Excellence, Integrity, Cultural Agility, and Community

FASPS does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, creed, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal. This policy applies to applicants, employees, students, volunteers, parents, and coaches. The following employees have been designated to handle questions and complaints alleging violation of this policy:

Civil Rights Coordinator – Susan Griesse CRcoordinator@fasps.org
Section 504 Coordinator – Cécile Chapel 504coordinator@fasps.org
Title IX Coordinator – Susan Griesse TitleIXcoordinator@fasps.org
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