Family Engagement Responsibilities
● Develops relationships with all MESA families, and serves as first point of contact for MESA
parents, particularly those “high-touch” parents.
● Coordinates MESA’s parent workshop series
● Serves as key point of contact for outside partners who wish to work with MESA families.
● Adopts at-risk students as assigned by Principal.
● Coordinates parent involvement in student activities.
● Leads MESA Parent Association and all other parent meetings
● Coordinate MESA’s parent advocacy efforts
● Build relationships with key community stakeholders, such as local middle schools,
● the CEC, Community Board, etc.
● Serves as liaison to Chinese-speaking parents
● Ensure parents are taking NYC DOE Family Engagement surveys and engage with
● families to solicit feedback on parent engagement, culture, and communication.
● Plan creative ways for engagement with families during Advisory Conferences, such as
parent workshops, circles, activities, etc.

Student Recruitment Responsibilities
● Leads all student recruitment efforts, including attending student recruitment fairs and
presentations as well as creating student recruitment materials. Proactively develops
relationships with middle school parent coordinators and guidance counselors to create
pathways for students to apply.
● Is resourceful and relentless in building MESA’s reputation in the community for family
recruitment. This might include flyering in the community, speaking with local merchants,
and finding other creative, resourceful ways to find and engage parents.
● Builds relationships with parents proactively. To the extent possible, personally calls each
parent who applies to MESA in order to build a preliminary sense of buy-in.
● Builds relationships with local community organizations that can serve as feeders for MESA.
● Leads student open houses for prospective students and parents.
● Works with Director of Operations and Manager of Data and Analytics to collect incoming
student data, track applications, and organize lottery.

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Qualifications: (1) Bachelor's degree OR a High School Diploma and at least 5 years of experience
in schools; (2) Proven track-record of high community engagement and at least four years of
experience in community work; (4) Belief in and alignment with MESA’s core values, educational
philosophy and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion; (5) Strong written and verbal
communication skills; (6) High “EQ,” ability to empathize with wide variety of stakeholders and
effectively communicate with families from a wide variety of backgrounds (57) Fluency in Mandarin
required.

MESA is committed to attracting, hiring and retaining a diverse and inclusive staff. It is MESA’s policy
to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race,
color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual
orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil
partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, uniformed service member or veteran
status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Please email your resume and cover letter to Arthur Samuels, Co-Executive Director, at
hiring@mesacharter.org with the subject heading “25-26 Founding Family Coordinator” Cover letter
should specifically indicate why you want to work at MESA. APPLY BY EMAIL ONLY. Due to the nature
of the position and the volume of applications received, MESA will not be able to reply to all
submissions. MESA will contact candidates with next steps.