Kent Denver’s Office of Innovation has an opening for a full-time Innovation Resident to join our team. This full-time one or two-year residency is designed for those interested in offering their passion, ideas, and expertise to advance education. The resident will gain experience and mentorship in many facets of innovation in a school environment, including data management, strategic project management, mentoring students and faculty, curating and visualizing data, and understanding the use and impact of scheduling in a school. In addition, the resident will participate in the supervision of innovation spaces and mentor our community in the use of innovation mindsets, tools, and competencies. These opportunities will prepare the resident for a career supporting and leading innovation in an educational context.

Operations (30%)

The resident will gain experience in operations by executing tasks in a number of areas of innovation, including:

• Support innovation finances through the collection and processing of team receipts, credit cards, and internal budgeting operations
• Monitor the innovation ticket system
• Event operations for innovation programming, including two innovation symposiums around student-directed learning
• Maintain and process independent study paperwork
• Liaise with Communications to promote innovation events, opportunities, and successes.
• Support data and inventory needs for the student “Bogue Cafe,” as needed
• Administrative support for the Chief Innovation Officer as needed.

Data Management (30%)

The resident will gain experience in data management through work with several innovation projects. Projects for the 2023-2024 school year likely include work in the following areas:

Scheduling

• The implementation of new event management software
• The creation of the yearly institutional calendar
• The timeline for the yearly academic scheduling process

Database for Innovation Opportunities & Partnership Curation

• Curated calendar of internal and external student opportunities and educational innovation opportunities
• Curated database of industry partners who work with our community

Innovation Portfolio Dashboards

• Manage and grow dashboards that represent metrics in Kent Denver’s innovation portfolio

Support for Institutional Project Management (20%)
The resident will gain exposure to conversations and tasks around institutional strategy by supporting the Chief Innovation and Information Officer with institutional projects.

Projects for the 2023-2024 school year likely include:

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  Schedule re-design and implementation for a new 2024-2025 schedule
• Implementation of an innovation project pipeline for our faculty and staff
• Curation of data and creation of visualizations for Kent Denver strategic and institutional initiatives

Supervision of Spaces & Mentoring Students & Educators (20%)

The resident will gain experience in teaching innovation tools and mindsets through the supervision of innovation spaces and mentoring of the Kent Denver community, including:

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  Supervise students managing Bogue Cafe, our student-run cafe
• Supervise students and educational professionals using the Impact Studios
• Supervise pass/fail Innovation Workshops, Independent Studies and / or clubs in areas of innovation expertise.
• Run innovation training and workshops for faculty and staff in areas of innovation expertise.

• Additionally, an opportunity to teach a section of coursework may be available as part of the residency, given resident qualifications and institutional needs.

Qualifications:

The successful candidate will have qualifications that include:

• A bachelor's degree in education, business, design, engineering, or a related field (preferred)
• Ability to identify opportunities to proactively streamline processes, solve problems, organize ideas, and customize solutions that benefit community members.
• Ability to appropriately handle confidential information
• Ability to meaningfully receive, reflect on and apply feedback to one’s professional growth.
• Ability to thrive working as a member of a team
• The ability to articulate the value of innovation to an education
• Ability to teach and mentor teenage students and enthusiastically recruit students to innovation programming
• Ability to communicate effectively in person and in writing with students, colleagues, and parents.
• A growth mindset

Start Date:

August 1st, 2023

Salary:

$28,000 + campus housing and benefits

Other Employment Info:

Work hours for this position are 7:30am-4:00pm, Monday through Friday with occasional evening, night, and/or weekend work. In addition to a generous benefits package including retirement, health, dental, and professional development, this position receives 6 weeks vacation (taken in June and July), 1 week for Thanksgiving Break, 2 weeks for Winter Break, 1 week for Spring Break, all other school holidays, 3 personal days, and 9 sick days.

Office of Innovation:

The Office of Innovation is an in-house educational innovation hub that increases Kent Denver’s capacity for innovation both institutionally and in its broader communities. Made up of librarians, technologists, designers, entrepreneurs, change agents, and futurists, we have the privilege and responsibility of empowering our students, faculty, and community to thrive in a rapidly changing, hyper-connected future.

Kent Denver School:

Kent Denver School is a college preparatory day school of 700 students in grades 6-12 located on 220 acres in suburban Denver. Kent Denver has been recognized for our leadership in diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are committed to fostering a culturally diverse faculty and student body and we are eager to consider applications from candidates who believe in the critical importance of diversity in the life of a school. We encourage diverse candidates to apply.

Kent Denver School Employment Policy:

Kent Denver School is committed to a policy of non-discrimination and equal opportunity for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, religion, transgender status (including gender identity or gender expression), sex (including pregnancy), gender, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, marriage to a coworker, sexual orientation, status with regard to public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, veteran status (including Vietnam era veteran status), genetic information, military service, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Our school makes reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law. An applicant who does not meet the minimum qualifications of the position(s) for which the applicant applies will not be considered for employment.

How to Apply:

Go to Kent Denver Careers page: https://www.kentdenver.org/about/careers