Concord Academy, an independent, co-educational boarding and day school renowned for its world-class faculty, passionate students, and graduates who make their mark on the world, seeks to fill a full-time opening for a Director of Learning Services & Partnerships.

Founded in 1922, Concord Academy has long balanced high academic standards with a focus on educating the whole student through a rich curriculum that includes the arts, athletics, and cultural opportunities. Self-expression, storytelling, and careful listening are hallmarks of the Concord Academy experience.

We actively seek applicants who reflect and support our mission -driven commitment to create and maintain a vibrant school community. The successful candidate will value and explore opportunities to collaborate with colleagues and engage with a diverse community of learners.

The school seeks an experienced learning specialist and administrator to lead the team and work of the school’s Academic Support Center. The Academic Support Center (ASC) oversees testing, student learning profiles, and accommodations, and provides targeted content and skills-based support to students on a short-term basis with the goal of helping students develop competencies they can grow to use independently. The Academic Support Center is a key office in centering CA’s school mission work, and the Director will work closely with the Community + Equity Office on campus to prioritize students’ needs in tutoring and student support services, as well as in the classroom. The Director will lead the work of the ASC tutors, and provide professional development and training for teachers and advisors to support learning differences in and outside of the classroom. The Director will do some intervention and tutoring work directly, but the ideal candidate will also be a leader who can effectively work with faculty, families, and administrators on plans to support students. As Concord Academy considers ways to expand its role as a community partner, exploring mission aligned public/private partnership is an integral part of this role. In this strategic work, the Director will help build and implement summer programming to prepare prospective and incoming students for an independent school environment. The ideal candidate will have a genuine enthusiasm for working with adolescents, curiosity about learning, a creative and open-minded approach, and a commitment to professional and personal growth.

Responsibilities Include

• Lead the day-to-day and strategic work of the Academic Support Center and its staff.
• Work with administration to define the school’s structure and capacity to address diverse learning profiles.
• Assess individual student support needs and build plans across advisor/teacher/tutor triad in collaboration with the Academic Office.
• Lead a team to interpret educational and neuropsychological testing, and to implement educational support plans outlining student strengths, needs, and recommended accommodations and interventions. Partner with classroom teachers, advisors, and caregivers around implementing student support.
• Help build and implement public-private partnerships and summer programming to prepare prospective and incoming students for an independent school environment.
• Offer resources, assistance, advice, and training to enable faculty to better meet the needs of all learners. Provide professional development on pedagogical approaches, classroom tools, and research-based instructional methods, including differentiation for all students, assessment strategies, and instructional technology.
• Support teachers with student concerns through consultation and observations.
• Act as a resource for the school community on learning profiles and learner variability.
• Coordinate with the Academic Office on referrals for outside evaluations, and the use of external tutors and learning specialists.
• Work with students individually and in small groups to teach study skills, organization and planning skills, reading comprehension strategies, and writing skills.
• Work with the Admissions Office to review incoming student learning needs.
• Meet & work regularly with the Community + Equity Office, supporting the Cohort program and creating data-driven policy and systemic responses to issues of access across curricula.
• Participate in the school’s Student Support Team.
  
  

The school provides a competitive benefits package and salary is commensurate with experience. Student-facing staff members at Concord Academy participate fully in the life of the school; responsibilities include advising, serving on committees and/or clubs, and periodically providing an adult presence at school events. On-campus housing may be available, but it is limited, and employees are not required to live at the school.

Interested candidates are asked to send a cover letter, resume, and transcripts via the ADP portal addressed to: Sarah Yeh, Associate Head for Teaching, Learning, and Faculty.

Review of applications will begin on May 30, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled.

To learn more about Concord Academy, please visit our website: www.concordacademy.org.