High School Department Chair - Counseling (SY25-26, Internal Applicants

Veritas Prep
Springfield, MA

Department Chairs Job Description

The High School Department Chair provides academic leadership and support to specific subject-area departments (e.g., English, Math, Science, History, etc.) and serves as a key liaison between teachers and school administration. The Department Chair works to ensure high-quality instruction, content expertise, alignment to standards and curriculum, and a positive, collaborative department culture.

Stipend: $3000/year

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Responsibilities:

Lead the Team:

  • Model the use of best practices in instruction and student assessment in your content area.
  • Conduct peer observations to monitor curriculum alignment and coherent academic expectations
  • Lead Plan and deliver content specific professional development
  • Organize, plan and chair regular department meetings and follow up as appropriate with minutes and distribution of information.
  • Serve as a liaison between department staff and school or district administration, ensuring effective communication and alignment.

Manage the Curriculum:

  • Meet regularly with the Principal to provide input about the short-term and long-term improvements to make to our curriculum to ensure our scholars’ success in high school, college, and beyond.
  • Ensure vertical alignment of your content area as well as the integration of literacy in all subject areas.
  • Coordinate and monitor all content-specific standardized assessments, including midterms and final exams alongside the school leadership team
  • Coordinate and monitor mid-term and final exams
  • Be responsible for resource identification, procurement, and organization of materials consistent with the budget.
  • Use data to identify priority areas for the following year including using and/or assessments that need revision

Analyze and Respond to Data

  • Review and prioritize standards yearly across all grade levels to ensure alignment to MA frameworks, MCAS readiness, and the logic of units.
  • Plan and run data meetings after assessments to shape curricular changes and adjustments to lesson plans.
  • Plan and run quarterly looking at student work/table scoring sessions with all department instructional staff

Perform other job-related duties as assigned by the principal

Key qualities/experience necessary for the role:

  • Exemplary instructional and professional practice

  • Commitment to school systems and structures, cross-curricular coordination, and collaboration with school leadership team

  • Ability to maintain alignment between smaller projects and a larger strategic priority

  • Obsessive use of data/student work to drive decision-making

  • Ability to positively influence and support peers

  • Deep subject area knowledge

  • Commitment to creating clear, simple systems for organization (for curriculum resources and storage)

  • High expectations for all and a growth mindset

Requirements

What You'll Need (Key Qualifications)

  • Ability to hold a high bar for grade-level academic standards and academic performance
  • Ability to collaborate across teams (culture, operations, etc.)
  • Ability to utilize data to make decisions
  • Ability to positively influence and support peers
  • Commitment to creating clear, simple systems for organization
  • Solutions-oriented mindset when navigating challenges
  • Excitement to grow one’s leadership skills with a community of other teacher leaders
  • Willingness to learn from and alongside other department chairs
  • Ability to take feedback in order to improve one’s meeting facilitation skills
  • Ability to see themselves as a change agent who can influence the practices of peers
  • Commitment to anti-racism and ability to utilize the Veritas Anti-Racism Standards to promote change

Time Commitment (In School and Out of School)

  • 1 to 2 days of training over the summer
  • Quarterly after-school professional development
  • Weekly tasks and preparation related to the role, as described above
Posted 2025-05-03

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