Education Manager

CORRAL is hiring for two (2) Education Managers, one (1) at each of Cary & Raleigh Campuses

About CORRAL

CORRAL is a faith-motivated nonprofit that equips adolescent girls in high-risk situations through a long-term, holistic program of equine therapy and education to prepare each girl and her community with skills, resources, and opportunities so that she can gain access to a bright future.

Our participants may be high-risk due to socioeconomic status, trauma such as neglect, abuse, or, more frequently, a combination of these situations.

CORRAL is intended as a long-term intervention for the participants, requiring a minimum of one year’s commitment from each girl upon enrollment.

Our staff provides intensely personal and high contact programming that includes only the uppermost standards of literacy and academic tutoring, vocational training, and equine-assisted therapy programs.

Diversity Statement

CORRAL aims to serve the highest-risk girls in our community. Among those risk factors is the influence of systemic racism.

As members of a marginalized population, young people of color are statistically more likely to have negative health, academic and economic outcomes.

Understanding this context, CORRAL bears the same responsibility to heal the trauma our girls have experienced due to systemic racism just as much as more commonly understood forms of trauma ie.

physical or emotional abuse.

CORRAL is committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.

Diversity is more than a commitment at CORRAL it is the foundation of what we do. We are committed to walking with ALL stakeholders on a journey of anti-racism.

We are fully focused on equity and justice.

The Team Member we are looking for :

CORRAL is looking for an experienced, full-time education manager who is passionate about working with and positively impacting the lives of historically marginalized and underserved youth by ensuring that each child in our program has the opportunity to attend college.

We are looking for a data-driven educator who has experience developing educational interventions with low-performing students.

Ability to lead and grow volunteers is required to do this job well.

The Education Manager supports the diverse participants of CORRAL Riding Academy (RA) and is committed to lessening the stigma surrounding mental health issues in BIPOC youth and creating equitable spaces for youth to be seen, heard, challenged, and understood is a must.

Programming Hours are Tuesday - Thursday 11 am until 7 pm and on Friday and Saturday 9 am until 5 pm . A typical work week is Tuesday through Saturday.

Summer Hours will shift to Monday-Friday 9 am to 5 pm. IMPORTANT : Please do not apply if you are not available to work on Saturdays.

This position will report directly to the Program Director : Dr. Dee Harrison at the Cary Campus and Shera Everette at the Raleigh Campus.

The CORRAL team is big on collaboration, so you must have the ability to demonstrate positive team interactions with other staff members.

Outcomes and documentation are important, so you are able to complete the paperwork and analyses that help CORRAL hone its programs.

This position leads several teams of volunteers who feed, care for, and train the horses and also co-teach our youth.

Specific Job Responsibilities :

The Education Manager ensures the academic success of each Riding Academy (RA) participant in the CORRAL. This manager is responsible for providing each child educational access for future success.

The Education Manager will monitor the academic progress of each participant and arrange interventions as needed. Successful candidates will uphold the mantra of No excuses , be willing to do whatever it takes to create future opportunities for the girls and deliver on our program goals and guarantees.

This manager will work relentlessly but also rests well; demonstrating good emotional balance and spiritual fitness. This overall responsibility includes the following components :

Educational Advocate

• Advocates fiercely for participants in ALL facets of their education
• Acts as a point of contact for participant’s parents, teachers, and administrators regarding academics
• Supports participant and their parents in understanding the school system, their educational rights,
• and how to advocate for themselves within that system
• Attends IEP, treatment team, and school meetings as necessary

Program / Participant / Education Management

• Plans and manages participant tutoring sessions
• Plans and executes academic remediation to support each child in performing at grade level
• Checks each participant’s online school accounts (i.e. Power Schools, classroom websites) weekly and creates a customized plan for each child
• Holds each participant accountable for low grades / missing assignments, behavior, and school attendance.
• Creates academic goals with the girls bi-annually and monitors weekly
• Collaborates daily with the Programming Team to support program participants, create weekly schedule, and devise program interventions
• Manages compliance needs for the RA academic program and maintains RA policies and procedures
• Creates an optimistic, rigorous culture for participants where CORRAL girls are working with leadership rather than against, maintaining high expectations for staff and girls at all times
• Monitors data proactively and makes data-driven decisions
• Participates with girls and staff in all aspects of the Program, as needed.

College and Career Prep

• Oversees College & Career Curriculum and shepherds students to a post-secondary education or career
• Fosters a college bound culture where participants are excited about and have a vision for their future

Volunteer Management

Leads the Education Team :

• Promotes teamwork and collaboration among CORRAL tutors
• Ensures champions understand the why of CORRAL
• Onboards and promotes an inclusive environment for volunteers
• Teaches CORRAL 101 : Girls and ensures each champion who comes in contact with the girls is prepared to work with them to the best of their ability using CORRAL’s values of safety, relationship, high- expectations, and accountability.
• Ensures that tutors and volunteers are thoroughly prepared to work with the girls in tutoring and vocational sessions
• Briefs volunteers upon arrival of schedule and girls needs
• Update Salesforce with interactions with champions as needed
• Manages a group of volunteer tutors and is responsible for the training, coordination, and
• capacity building of our volunteer champions. Includes volunteers in the rigor with joy culture of CORRAL
• Provides training and professional development for vocational and tutoring volunteers
• Provides leadership and oversight for vocational and tutor leaders

The Number

As Education Manager you can expect to be held accountable for the following numbers :

• Course average for all participants, consistently above 80 (weekly) and on track to be a 3.0 or higher (outcome)
• 90% of the girls will attend school
• 80% of girls have C’s or better at each marking period
• 80% are showing progress towards personal education goals
• 85% of girls are on track to be college ready using CORRAL’s readiness indicator
• Maintain a team of 10% Steward-level volunteers, 20% Engaged-level volunteers and 70%
• Participant-level volunteers

Minimum Qualifications :

• Bachelor Degree in Education or Related Field
• 2-5 years teaching experience
• Experience and success with implementing academic and behavioral interventions
• Excellent social and personal skills
• Experience with at-risk or socio-economically disadvantaged youth and trauma-informed intervention.
• Group or classroom management skills are a must. The candidate will also have a passion to impact the lives of our future leaders.

Other preferred skills include :

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using a systems-approach to developing the whole-child
• Racial-equity training
• Spanish Speaking
• Math Education Experience

Salary / Benefits

This is a direct, on the ground, full-time salaried role. Salary negotiable. CORRAL offers a competitive benefits package including employer contributions to health, vision, and dental benefit plans;

the ability to contribute to a Flexible Spending Account (FSA); and employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability coverage, and an employee assistance program, available after 60 days.

CORRAL observes 13 paid Holidays per year and offers an unlimited PTO policy.