Senior Specialist, Sprint Compliance

Job Description

As the fastest growing, highest-performing charter school network in New York State, Success Academy is reimagining K-12 public education.

Nationally recognized for our innovative, whole-child school model and outstanding academic results, Success Academy educators are empowering children from all backgrounds with the knowledge, skills, and self-belief to succeed in college and in life.

We now need a results-driven Specialist to join our Special Education (Sprint) team.

Success Academies has a profoundly innovative schooling model that achieves outstanding results at scale, and our approach to children with Special Education services is just as radical.

We begin with the core belief that disability does not mean an inability, that no child should be written off because of learning differences.

Fifteen percent of our scholars receive Special Education support, and we designed and launched the Sprint program to ensure we provide these scholars with an outstanding education.

While the identification of scholars in need of Special Education supports and the execution of the necessary interventions are carried out at the school-level, a supporting Network capability has shared responsibility and accountability for these scholars.

Reporting into the Lead of the Sprint Compliance team, this Specialist will be responsible for the execution of billing the DOE for Special Education services provided by SA through bi-monthly invoicing cycles.

They will work closely with SA’s Finance and Technology teams to ensure all billable services are accounted for and billed accurately.

They will also work collaboratively within the Sprint Compliance team to ensure that school teams are held accountable and conform to all legal and regulatory requirements of the Special Education process.

The Sprint Compliance team leads on critical initiatives, including coordination of 504s, accuracy of testing accommodation implementation, related service staffing, escalations to and relationship building with the Committees on Special Education (CSEs), high stakes case support, and generalized school support.

This team works closely with and serves as a resource for Instructional Services, Advisory, Operations, Technology, and Finance for all departmental crossover that involves Network or School Sprint.

Sprint Compliance also works with multiple offices from the NYC DOE including the district-specific CSEs, the Charter School Office (CSO), and the Office of Related Services (ORS).

Key responsibilities include :

End-to-end management of the DOE Invoice process including :

Ensuring accuracy of internal and external data systems

Planning for Invoicing cycles with Finance, RPA, and Technology team partners

School Sprint support

Continual improvements to the RPA Invoice process

Accountability for 100% accurate Special Education billing

Resolution of rejected Invoice line items

Understanding of how Special Education services translate to Invoice line items

School Sprint management against key metrics and KPIs, including identifying outlier schools and developing / implementing support and accountability measures

Sprint training and development on DOE invoicing and DOE technology systems as well as general Sprint role topics as needed

A successful applicant will have the following experiences and education :

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree

Minimum of 2 years of experience in education

Minimum of 1 year managing other people, including giving role / performance feedback

A successful applicant will have the following traits :

Required Traits

Experience with RPA workstreams

Strong data management and entry skills

Fluency with Google Suite / Microsoft Office including Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, and able to easily create clean / useful spreadsheets / trackers

Ability to effectively collaborate / liaise with a broad base of constituents at all levels, including senior organizational leadership

Extremely detail-oriented

Strong judgment, strategic thinking, communication, project management, and creative problem-solving skills

Demonstrated initiative and perseverance to achieve desired outcomes in an innovative and fast-paced environment

Excellent written skills

Understanding of student information systems and other educational technologies

Team player and willingness to learn outside the immediate scope of work

Preferred Qualifications & Traits

Basic fluency in C++, Java, or Python

Experience in accounting, finance, or revenue management

Experience with special education technology systems within New York City