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Community School Director jobs are open across K-12 public school systems, nonprofit organizations, and community development agencies, at every level from coordinator to executive director, with specializations in family engagement, integrated student services, and community partnerships. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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After School All Stars
Position: Tax Levy Funded Community School Director (Full-Time)
Organization: After-School All-Stars New York
Office Location: P.S. 328 Phyllis Wheatley 330 Alabama Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11207
Pay: $65-$70K Per Year
ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND:
After-School All-Stars (ASAS), founded by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1992, is one of the leading national after-school program providers in the country. With a special focus on the middle school age group, our cost-free, comprehensive school-based programs include Academic Readiness, Career Exploration, STEM, Wellness/Social Emotional Learning, and the Arts to help build the knowledge and skills children need to succeed, both in school and in life. ASAS reaches more than 80,000 youth in over 400 school sites in 19 chapters across the U.S.
A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY:
The Community School Director (CSD) will initiate, facilitate, and maintain programs and strategies that are aligned with the school's vision and mission, as well as youth and community development goals. The CSD will develop and promote resources that support academic achievement for students, increase the health and well-being of students and families, enhance community and individual assets, meet critical human service needs, and promote long term community solutions. A central component of the Community School approach is the integration and alignment of school- and community-based services throughout an expanded learning day (such as health, behavioral health, counseling, and academic enrichment). Critical to ensuring this alignment and coordination is a full-time staff person in the school building – the Community School Director. The CSD should be a leader in the building and school community. This position will prioritize sound fiscal management, data-driven decision-making, and seamless coordination of integrated services.
SALARY AND BENEFITS:
The salary for this position ranges between $65-70K per year (commensurate with qualifications and experience of the individual candidate). ASAS promotes a healthy work/life blend and offers a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, a 403b match, 18+ days of paid time off, flex time, and 17 paid holidays.
ASAS is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people of color, candidates of diverse backgrounds/lived experiences, and residents of the communities we serve to apply.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
School Partnership-Building:
- Prioritize and lead the associated processes for sound fiscal management, data-driven decision-making, and seamless coordination of integrated services.
- Work with school leadership to conduct an annual comprehensive needs assessment.
- Collaborate with the building leadership, providing coordination for the strategy across different entities within the school, and aligning the work of partners with the school’s mission and vision.
- Ensure the use of continuous improvement tools that focus on data review, intervention results, and track progress of student achievement.
- Organize and facilitate monthly Community School Team (CST) Meetings which support the development of the school’s Community School Plan and/or community school components of school’s Comprehensive Educational Plan (CEP) and oversee the plan’s implementation.
- Develop strong relationships with parents, students, school community (administrators, teachers, non-teaching staff, parent coordinator, PTA, community members), and community partners, ensuring that all key stakeholders understand what a community school is and how it supports student achievement.
- Manage partnerships to ensure that ongoing programs are effective, seamlessly integrated into the school's workings, and sustainable; broker new partnerships aligned with school goals and needs.
- Attend community-related events such as: Community Education Council meetings, local police precinct community council meetings, and community board monthly meetings.
Expanded Learning Time (ELT):
- Design, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive after-school program operating Monday through Friday throughout the school year.
- Work with the School Leadership Team (SLT), teachers and partner agencies to integrate expanded learning and enrichment activities before, during, or after the school day.
- Design and manage integrated services such as leadership opportunities, extracurricular activities, including lunchtime enrichment clubs and after-school clubs based on student interests.
- Build relationships and mechanisms to effectively link the school day to expanded learning activities.
- Assist the school in identifying outside providers, partners, and vendors for ELT as necessary.
Attendance Improvement:
- Serve as key member on school’s attendance team, including (but not limited to) using the New Visions data tools for tracking and coordinating student interventions. Assist with data collection and research and prepare relevant data to bring to meetings.
- Co-facilitate school attendance team meetings to design and implement programs to decrease absenteeism.
- Track enrollment and participation data for all programs.
- Implement strategies to increase enrollment in the school.
- Organize and oversee assets, needs assessments, and seek input from teachers, school staff, parents, and students to determine ongoing needs of students and families. Identify high need students, coordinate with teachers to target interventions, and track and monitor impact of interventions.
Family Engagement Support:
- Work with Principal, SLT, and Parent Coordinator to implement a transformative model of family engagement that creates strong school-to-home partnerships for learning.
- Support special events that promote family engagement
- Assist in branding and marketing the school to the greater community.
Coordination of Social Services:
- Serve as a point person for coordinating vision screenings, behavioral health services and physical health services with the Office of Community Schools.
- Lead the school needs assessment and community assets identification process in support of the community school strategy.
- Identify local community resources and broker new partnerships that are aligned with school goals and needs.
- Serve as key contact for programs and services, including the communication and coordination of activities.
Grants & Budgets
- Maintain up-to-date records and required grant paperwork for all programs including agreements for all partners and vendors and student attendance.
- Manage a budget and implement program grant deliverables.
- Develop memoranda of understanding and subcontract agreements with subcontractors as required for grant and budget management.
- Participate in grant-seeking and other fund development activities.
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS REQUIRED:
The Community School Director should embody ASAS’s core values: accountable, collaborative, transparent, proactive, and entrepreneurial. The successful candidate will be extremely organized, and detail oriented, have strong communication skills and be capable of managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s Degree preferred.
- Bi-lingual skills may be needed depending on the needs of school.
- Minimum 3 years professional experience.
- Ability to work effectively with school aged youth, educators, families, and communities from a wide range of cultural, social, and economic backgrounds.
- Experience working in school-based settings, with knowledge about tenants of community organizing, student support services, and youth development theories.
- Ability to work collaboratively, with strong relationship building skills.
- Experience in program management and coordination.
- Knowledge of New York City neighborhoods.
- DOE fingerprinting and background clearances. (Required)
- Experience with Microsoft Office, including Excel, preferred.
- Experience working with school age children and families from Title I communities preferred.
HOW TO APPLY:
- Please submit your resume & cover letter via e-mail to NY Operations nyoperations@afterschoolallstars.org cc:tenisha.swift@afterschoolallstars.org
- Please put “Tax Levy Community School Director, ASAS New York” and your last name in the subject heading
- Please submit all application materials in PDF format
To learn more about ASAS, please visit our website:
www.afterschoolallstars.org
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $65,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Experience:
- Professional: 3 years (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
After School All Stars
Position: Tax Levy Funded Community School Director (Full-Time)
Organization: After-School All-Stars New York
Office Location: P.S. 328 Phyllis Wheatley 330 Alabama Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11207
Pay: $65-$70K Per Year
ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND:
After-School All-Stars (ASAS), founded by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1992, is one of the leading national after-school program providers in the country. With a special focus on the middle school age group, our cost-free, comprehensive school-based programs include Academic Readiness, Career Exploration, STEM, Wellness/Social Emotional Learning, and the Arts to help build the knowledge and skills children need to succeed, both in school and in life. ASAS reaches more than 80,000 youth in over 400 school sites in 19 chapters across the U.S.
A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY:
The Community School Director (CSD) will initiate, facilitate, and maintain programs and strategies that are aligned with the school's vision and mission, as well as youth and community development goals. The CSD will develop and promote resources that support academic achievement for students, increase the health and well-being of students and families, enhance community and individual assets, meet critical human service needs, and promote long term community solutions. A central component of the Community School approach is the integration and alignment of school- and community-based services throughout an expanded learning day (such as health, behavioral health, counseling, and academic enrichment). Critical to ensuring this alignment and coordination is a full-time staff person in the school building – the Community School Director. The CSD should be a leader in the building and school community. This position will prioritize sound fiscal management, data-driven decision-making, and seamless coordination of integrated services.
SALARY AND BENEFITS:
The salary for this position ranges between $65-70K per year (commensurate with qualifications and experience of the individual candidate). ASAS promotes a healthy work/life blend and offers a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, a 403b match, 18+ days of paid time off, flex time, and 17 paid holidays.
ASAS is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people of color, candidates of diverse backgrounds/lived experiences, and residents of the communities we serve to apply.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
School Partnership-Building:
- Prioritize and lead the associated processes for sound fiscal management, data-driven decision-making, and seamless coordination of integrated services.
- Work with school leadership to conduct an annual comprehensive needs assessment.
- Collaborate with the building leadership, providing coordination for the strategy across different entities within the school, and aligning the work of partners with the school’s mission and vision.
- Ensure the use of continuous improvement tools that focus on data review, intervention results, and track progress of student achievement.
- Organize and facilitate monthly Community School Team (CST) Meetings which support the development of the school’s Community School Plan and/or community school components of school’s Comprehensive Educational Plan (CEP) and oversee the plan’s implementation.
- Develop strong relationships with parents, students, school community (administrators, teachers, non-teaching staff, parent coordinator, PTA, community members), and community partners, ensuring that all key stakeholders understand what a community school is and how it supports student achievement.
- Manage partnerships to ensure that ongoing programs are effective, seamlessly integrated into the school's workings, and sustainable; broker new partnerships aligned with school goals and needs.
- Attend community-related events such as: Community Education Council meetings, local police precinct community council meetings, and community board monthly meetings.
Expanded Learning Time (ELT):
- Design, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive after-school program operating Monday through Friday throughout the school year.
- Work with the School Leadership Team (SLT), teachers and partner agencies to integrate expanded learning and enrichment activities before, during, or after the school day.
- Design and manage integrated services such as leadership opportunities, extracurricular activities, including lunchtime enrichment clubs and after-school clubs based on student interests.
- Build relationships and mechanisms to effectively link the school day to expanded learning activities.
- Assist the school in identifying outside providers, partners, and vendors for ELT as necessary.
Attendance Improvement:
- Serve as key member on school’s attendance team, including (but not limited to) using the New Visions data tools for tracking and coordinating student interventions. Assist with data collection and research and prepare relevant data to bring to meetings.
- Co-facilitate school attendance team meetings to design and implement programs to decrease absenteeism.
- Track enrollment and participation data for all programs.
- Implement strategies to increase enrollment in the school.
- Organize and oversee assets, needs assessments, and seek input from teachers, school staff, parents, and students to determine ongoing needs of students and families. Identify high need students, coordinate with teachers to target interventions, and track and monitor impact of interventions.
Family Engagement Support:
- Work with Principal, SLT, and Parent Coordinator to implement a transformative model of family engagement that creates strong school-to-home partnerships for learning.
- Support special events that promote family engagement
- Assist in branding and marketing the school to the greater community.
Coordination of Social Services:
- Serve as a point person for coordinating vision screenings, behavioral health services and physical health services with the Office of Community Schools.
- Lead the school needs assessment and community assets identification process in support of the community school strategy.
- Identify local community resources and broker new partnerships that are aligned with school goals and needs.
- Serve as key contact for programs and services, including the communication and coordination of activities.
Grants & Budgets
- Maintain up-to-date records and required grant paperwork for all programs including agreements for all partners and vendors and student attendance.
- Manage a budget and implement program grant deliverables.
- Develop memoranda of understanding and subcontract agreements with subcontractors as required for grant and budget management.
- Participate in grant-seeking and other fund development activities.
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS REQUIRED:
The Community School Director should embody ASAS’s core values: accountable, collaborative, transparent, proactive, and entrepreneurial. The successful candidate will be extremely organized, and detail oriented, have strong communication skills and be capable of managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s Degree preferred.
- Bi-lingual skills may be needed depending on the needs of school.
- Minimum 3 years professional experience.
- Ability to work effectively with school aged youth, educators, families, and communities from a wide range of cultural, social, and economic backgrounds.
- Experience working in school-based settings, with knowledge about tenants of community organizing, student support services, and youth development theories.
- Ability to work collaboratively, with strong relationship building skills.
- Experience in program management and coordination.
- Knowledge of New York City neighborhoods.
- DOE fingerprinting and background clearances. (Required)
- Experience with Microsoft Office, including Excel, preferred.
- Experience working with school age children and families from Title I communities preferred.
HOW TO APPLY:
- Please submit your resume & cover letter via e-mail to NY Operations nyoperations@afterschoolallstars.org cc:tenisha.swift@afterschoolallstars.org
- Please put “Tax Levy Community School Director, ASAS New York” and your last name in the subject heading
- Please submit all application materials in PDF format
To learn more about ASAS, please visit our website:
www.afterschoolallstars.org
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $65,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Experience:
- Professional: 3 years (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in community school director jobs.
- Master's degree in education, social work, public administration, or a related field
- Five or more years of experience in community schools, education, or social services
- Demonstrated ability to manage and coordinate multiagency partnerships and service providers
- Experience developing and monitoring program budgets and grant-funded initiatives
- Strong knowledge of wraparound student support services and family engagement strategies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for diverse school and community audiences
Tips for Your Community School Director Job Search
Tailor your resume to integrated services
Hiring committees look for concrete examples of coordinating wraparound services like mental health, housing, and food access. Name the specific partners you managed and the student populations you served rather than listing generic program oversight duties.
Highlight cross-sector partnership experience
Community school director roles require bridging school administration, city agencies, and nonprofits. Call out specific MOUs, grant partnerships, or interagency agreements you led so reviewers see you as a connector, not just a school-based program manager.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists community school director openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter for district size and funding model
A community school director at a Title I district with dedicated coordinator grants operates very differently from one at a charter network. Matching your background to the funding structure and school model saves time and raises your chances of advancing past screening.
Prepare a data narrative for interviews
Panels for this role almost always ask how you measured program impact. Bring two or three outcomes you can speak to precisely, such as attendance improvement, family engagement rates, or service utilization, with the data source and time period clearly framed.
Negotiate start date around the academic calendar
Community school directors hired mid-year often struggle with partner contract timing and budget cycles already in motion. If you have flexibility, ask whether a start date at the beginning of a semester or fiscal quarter is possible and explain why that serves continuity.
Community School Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How many community school director jobs are remote?
About 0% of community school director openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the on-site nature of most school-based coordination work. Administrative or policy-focused roles within larger nonprofit networks or district-level offices are the most likely to offer partial remote flexibility.
How do you become a community school director?
Start by building direct experience in school-based programs, social services, or community organizing, since most hiring committees want candidates who have coordinated services across multiple agencies. Earning a master's degree in education, social work, or public administration strengthens your application significantly. From there, moving into a coordinator or assistant director role at a community school gives you the program management and partnership experience that director positions require.
Can you get hired as a community school director with limited experience?
Breaking in with limited experience is possible if you've worked in adjacent roles such as family liaison, program coordinator, or case manager in a school or nonprofit setting. Emphasize any experience managing external partners, tracking service outcomes, or supporting student wraparound needs. Some districts hire community school coordinators as a step below director, which is a practical entry point that builds the credentials hiring committees expect at the director level.
What does the community school director interview process look like?
Most processes begin with a phone or video screen focused on your background in community partnerships and program coordination. A panel interview typically follows, often including school principals, district administrators, and sometimes community partners or parents. Candidates are frequently asked to present a vision or entry plan for the role. Reference checks and sometimes a site visit or stakeholder meeting are common final steps before an offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to community school director jobs?
You can find and apply to community school director jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that fit your background, experience level, and location preference, then apply directly to each listing that matches what you're looking for.
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