LEGACY FELLOWSHIP

ORGANIZATION WEBSITE: Legacy Fellowship

ROLE: School Founder Fellow (Colorado)

LOCATION: Colorado

SALARY RANGE: $125,000 + Health, Dental, Vision, Life, PTO, and Paid Training

JOB DESCRIPTION:

WHO WE ARE

The Legacy Fellowship (startaschool.org) is a paid two year training program for education leaders and entrepreneurs interested in starting a new charter school in Colorado. Fellows work full time to open a new school that embraces serving the whole student and provides an educational model with a compelling vision for the community they intend to serve.

The Legacy Fellowship is run by the Legacy Institute (springslegacy.org), a nonprofit dedicated to advancing education and community development in Colorado. The Fellowship is guided by an exceptional leadership team with over two decades of collaboration and experience in education, philanthropy, and professional development, including significant experience building new schools and training new leaders.

Through the Legacy Fellowship, participants will have the opportunity to:

Create an enduring school and organization

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Meet the needs of the whole kid
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Build an organization set up for success and successors

Have real impact on thousands of kids and adults

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Legacy Fellows will be responsible for completing a rigorous two year training program and securing an approved charter application for a new school of their founding in Colorado.

As a Fellow, your primary responsibilities will be:

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Attending 2 years worth of trainings
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Visiting strong schools across Colorado and the country

Building a coalition of local supporters, parents, and board members

Writing a rigorous and politically viable charter application that gets approved

Opening an exceptional new school that endures for multiple decades

WHO YOU ARE

Level 5 Leadership: You balance personal humility with professional determination, deliver exceptional results, and drive long-term shared success with others.
Personal Humility: You care nothing about credit and put the needs of the students, the team, and the school above yourself at all times.
Professional Resolve: You are fiercely dedicated to both achieving meaningful outcomes and developing people, especially in challenging situations.
Entrepreneurial Spirit: You are innovative, adaptable, and willing to take calculated risks to build something special and impactful.
Dedication to Colorado: You thrive in an in-person, hands-on role based locally. This is a full-time, in-person opportunity, in a real community.
Endurance: You demonstrate resilience, sustaining physical and mental effort to overcome challenges and have the unusual stamina to do the work for 10+ years.
Cultural Competence: You understand the impact of identity differences and are capable of building and leading a diverse team and organization.
Relationship-Building: You build genuine connections with diverse stakeholders and communicate the vision of the work passionately and clearly.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s or Professional degree preferred

Strong connection to Colorado with 2-3 years living or working in the proposed school region preferred
Commitment to opening a new school with a significantly longer day and year that better aligns the school calendar to the working family calendar strongly preferred
Commitment to opening a new school that starts with preschool and or elementary grades and expands to at least PreK-8 strongly preferred
2-4 years full-time professional work experience required; 5-7+ years strongly preferred
Two years of experience in PreK-12 education is preferred; 5-7+ years of PreK-12 school based experience strongly preferred
Public school (district or charter) and or nonprofit experience serving primarily students from under-resourced communities strongly preferred
Preference for candidates with a strong history of managing and developing people, preferably in a school based or nonprofit setting
Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion principals required

Name

First Name

Last Name

Email

Please describe your connection to a community in Colorado with students your new school would serve.

Please describe why you want to open your new school, as opposed to working in leadership at an existing school or organization.

Significant experience managing people is required for this position. Please describe your past experiences with developing and evaluating employees.

Will you be able to relocate to be within reasonable commuting distance from Colorado?

Are you authorized to work in the United States?

Acknowledgement

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