Envision Education seeks a dynamic and experienced Superintendent to build on the successes of our three high schools and two middle schools and establish Envision Schools as exemplary schools of equity and excellence for all students.
 

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Sunday June 22, 2026

START DATE: July 2026

WHO WE ARE

Our mission is to transform the lives of students - especially those who will be the first in their family to attend college - by preparing them for success in college, career, and life. Envision Education currently operates four small schools in San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward, as well as a national educational consulting firm called Envision Learning Partners. Envision Education has made an explicit commitment to becoming an exemplar network of schools with an instructional and cultural vision rooted in an anti-racist and pro-Black framework. The following represents Envision Schools’ vision for 21st-century skills, character traits, and cognitive and social-emotional skills that learners need for success in college, career, and life.

• Knowledge and Love of Self and Land
• Collectivism
• Critical Thinking
• Self Determination
• Criticality
• Leadership

WHO YOU ARE

• You are equity-focused. You are unapologetic about your deeply held belief that all children can achieve. You believe that anti-racist and pro-Black practices and frameworks are essential to change the status quo for all students.
• You are collaborative. You make decisions in partnership with others, focused on what is best for the students.
• You are invested in our core values. You hold high expectations for the entire school community. You examine your own biases in your pursuit of equity for all.
• You are entrepreneurial. You enjoy building processes and initiatives from the ground up and take initiative to solve problems as they emerge. 
• You are comfortable with ambiguity. You understand that opportunities often require creativity and navigating the unknown and thrive when grappling with complex problems in a shifting context.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Superintendent provides educational expertise, operational oversight, and strategic vision for the network to define network-wide metrics of success.  They supervise and coach four Principals, collaborating to drive rigorous academic programming that ensures high student achievement, develop site-based goals, cultivate positive and inclusive school climates, and address complex site-culture challenges through targeted professional development in effective school leadership. This position reports directly to the CEO and serves on the Cabinet.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Supervise, Coach, and Develop School Leaders

• Visionary Leadership: Create a bold strategic vision for school support and development guided by the Envision Way, including Envision’s graduate profile.
• Instructional Alignment: Incorporate evidence-based best practices to align curriculum, instruction, and assessments that meet state, federal, and college/career requirements, and the needs of all students.
• Performance Management: Provide direct supervision, ongoing mentorship, and formal evaluations to support principal growth, efficacy, and leadership development.
• Leadership Coaching: Provide ongoing coaching and support to school leadership teams to strengthen skills to meet schoolwide expectations, cultivate positive school climates, and achieve Envision’s collective goals.
• Strategic Collaboration: Partner with the Chief Programs Officer to ensure effective planning, implementation, and support of academic planning, staffing, programming, culture, curriculum, instruction, and assessments.
• Network Culture: Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and results-driven culture across the network of schools.
• Authorizer & Accreditation Success: Guide school leaders in successfully preparing for oversight, accreditation, and charter renewal processes (including WASC and LCAP processes), and participate in associated school visits and authorizer relations.

Data-Driven Leadership

• Continuous Improvement: Define and monitor key metrics to determine the success of the school network and foster data-driven continuous improvement.
• Best Practice Scaling: Gather and interpret performance and operational data to identify areas for development, and share and support the implementation of best practices across schools.
• Rigorous Standard Implementation: Support leadership teams in the work of monitoring, evaluating, and implementing curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards to ensure that all scholars are college-ready.
• Accountability: Ensure that school leaders effectively use diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment data to drive school goals, intervention strategies, and site initiatives.

Cabinet Team Member

• Equity-Centered Support: Inform the Cabinet and support office teams on how best to support teachers and leaders at each school site to meet the needs of all students and create conditions for students to thrive, especially students who have historically been marginalized.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with the CEO and the Cabinet to establish and monitor the implementation of organizational goals, objectives, and strategic plans, exploring growth opportunities and identifying key risks and success factors.
• Governance & Reporting: Create and review educational presentations, charters, grant applications, and Board presentations.
• Policy Development: Work with key stakeholders in the development and revision of educational policies for recommendation to the Board.
• Resource Allocation: In partnership with the Chief Programs Officer, develop network strategy for implementation of the academic model and resource allocation to achieve desired student outcomes for each school site.
• Tiered Interventions: Inform the development and implementation of the academic model to ensure high expectations and an effective tiered system of supports to meet the needs of all students, including special populations (e.g., Special Education, Multilingual learners, and other groups).
• Operational Coherence: Ensure the alignment of school support, effective use of time, quality of service, customized supports, and resources to the operational and instructional needs of each school.

School Climate and Compliance

• Labor Partnership: Foster a collaborative, professional, and productive relationship with the collective bargaining unit to support staff and advance organizational goals.
• Student Services Collaboration: Partner closely with the Senior Directors to provide robust oversight, strategic direction, and alignment for student programming and student services, including:
  • Ensuring compliance, inclusion, and high-quality instructional delivery for Special Education and specialized student groups.
  • Guiding school sites through student discipline, restorative justice frameworks, and formal suspension/expulsion due process procedures.
  • Championing high-quality school activities, community events, and a vibrant, inclusive campus life.
  • Serving as a collaborative escalation point to resolve sensitive, contentious, or complex student and family matters with empathy and professionalism.
• Talent: Partner with Human Resources to support school leaders in executing effective strategies for staff recruitment, engagement, and retention

QUALIFICATIONS

• A minimum of 5 years as a successful school administrator, with 3 of those years as a school principal/site leader directly supervising and evaluating school leaders.
• A Master’s degree in education, educational leadership, public administration, or a related field (or comparable executive-level management experience).
• A valid California Administrative Services Credential.
• Deep familiarity with the California Education Code and charter school governance
• Deep commitment to the mission of Envision Education.
• Commitment to anti-racist and pro-Black practices and leadership.
• Belief in the potential of every student to succeed at high levels.
• Receptiveness to feedback and commitment to continuous learning and growth.

THE STRONGEST CANDIDATES WILL DEMONSTRATE:

• Executive Leadership: Previous experience as a Superintendent or central office executive in a comparable charter school system, including a proven track record of designing systemic supervisory and leadership development frameworks for school principals and instructional teams.
• Balanced Governance: A healthy blend of strategic, team, operational, and equity leadership, with the ability to manage complex organizational change and scale key innovations.
• Mission Alignment: A fierce drive to succeed and achieve excellent academic results on behalf of students, especially those furthest from opportunity and historically marginalized.
• Instructional Expertise: Expert knowledge, understanding, and experience in developing equity-centered curriculum, instruction, and assessment systems, with a preferred emphasis on performance-based assessment models such as portfolio defenses.
• Labor & Union Partnership: Proven experience navigating employee relations and working collaboratively with collective bargaining units/labor unions to advance organizational goals.
• Authorizer & Compliance Management: Experience guiding school sites through the legal complexities of WASC accreditation, authorizer site visits, and charter renewal processes.
• Conflict Resolution & Crisis Management: Comfort serving as a diplomatic, empathetic, and professional escalation point for highly sensitive or contentious student, family, and community issues.
• Racial Equity Literacy: Experience and comfort in facilitating structured cross-race dialogues within teams regarding how dynamics of race, power, privilege, and microaggressions manifest in workplace and school cultures.
• Relationship & Feedback Culture: An ability to connect deeply with a diverse stakeholder base, building high-trust relationships grounded in both high support and high challenge. A track record of actively seeking, giving, and adapting based on constructive feedback.
• Communication Mastery: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex data, policies, and educational strategies into clear narratives for diverse audiences (e.g., staff, large community groups, and public Board meetings).
• Systems Thinking: A strong analytical, performance management, accountability, and systems-thinking orientation necessary to turn organizational strategy into executed reality.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to move, transport, and position boxes and equipment weighing up to 60 pounds.
• Ability to ascend ladders and work in elevated spaces when necessary.
• Ability to spend extended periods working at a computer, sitting, standing, and moving between sites.
• Ability to travel regularly between Envision campuses and support office locations.

LOCATION

This position is based in the Bay Area and requires regular travel between Envision's Support Office in Oakland and campuses in Oakland, Hayward, and San Francisco, as well as the ability to travel for conferences, retreats, and other job related activities.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Commensurate with experience and credentials. The starting range for this role is between $179,000-$207,000.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid vacation time.
• Excellent health benefits package with employer contribution to benefits.
• Optional Flexible Benefits Plan, including dependent care, medical care, parking, and commuter benefits.
• CalSTRS Retirement system.
• 403b Plan with employer match.
• Life Insurance at no cost to employee.

If you are offered this position, your pay rate will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors, Envision Education complies with applicable pay equity laws and considers internal equity among current employees when developing the final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the base range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future and continued salary growth.  We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package.

As an equal opportunity employer, we believe deeply in diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all people. Envision recruits, employs, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and the many other characteristics that make us diverse.