Careers

Job Title: High School Teacher, English
Department: Academics 
Reports to: Principal
Classification: Exempt
Schedule: 10.5 months

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, a Jesuit, college-preparatory, co-educational school for grades 9-12 seeks an English teacher. The successful candidate will have a commitment to Catholic education and a willingness to work with a population of diverse learners. The successful Cristo Rey teacher is dedicated to developing the whole person in academics, religious growth, and commitment to others.

The candidate will be responsible for teaching five sections within the English department, subjects commensurate with experience and staffing needs.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a BA degree in subject area; MA preferred.
• Illinois Professional Educator License preferred (non-licensed applicants must become certified within five years).
• Successful teaching experience at the secondary level.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills; familiarity with the goals, objectives, and mission of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School; the ability to respond effectively to the needs of students.

Competencies

• Understanding of educational theory and practice.
• Ability to use technology inside and outside the classroom.
• Commitment to working with a diverse student body.
• Familiarity with Spanish language and first-generation students preferred.
• Willingness to collaborate with others.
• Familiarity with current instructional methodologies.
• Classroom management skills.

Job Title: Director of Talent
Department: Business Office
Reports to: Chief Operations and Finance Officer
Classification: Exempt
Schedule: Year Round

Reporting to the Chief Operations and Finance Officer (COFO), the Director of Talent is integral to fostering a dynamic and healthy workplace that helps the school achieve its mission and objectives. The Director of Talent will drive school-wide talent management and development initiatives. The Director of Talent is a proven leader, communicator and hands-on operator who thrives on driving people strategies throughout the organization. This individual must demonstrate strong leadership skills, be a proven collaborator and share a passion for Cristo Rey Jesuit’s mission to educate young women and men to become leaders and “women and men for others” through rigorous college preparation in the Jesuit tradition.

Working with the COFO and other members of the school’s Leadership Team, the Director of Talent will be responsible for talent acquisition, performance management, compensation alignment, employee retention initiatives, initiatives of diversity, equity and inclusion, employee relations, benefit plan design, and human resources compliance. The Director of Talent will provide guidance and expertise for the effective administration of all human resource activities, including talent management, workforce planning, employment law compliance, employee retention, and benefits administration. The Director of Talent must consistently demonstrate the highest degree of integrity, ethical conduct, and trustworthiness.

Primary Responsibilities

Employee Relations

• Build credibility with School leaders and employees by demonstrating an understanding of the school’s mission and strategic goals along with the challenges of aligning short-and long-term people goals in a competitive market.
• In partnership with School leaders, establish and maintain effective human resource policies and procedures, including those in the Employee Handbook, to ensure compliance with School policy, legal requirements, and current best practices.
• Develop and drive the employee engagement strategy to help keep Cristo Rey Jesuit an employer of choice.
• Develop and maintain working partnerships with members of the Cristo Rey Network and Jesuit communities to effectively develop and administer human resource policies and procedures.
• Act as a resource and advocate for employees to ensure a positive, secure, safe and productive work environment.
• Act as an additional resource for faculty and staff to report workplace issues that may not be aligned with school policies.
• Collaborate with the DEI coordinator and the school leadership to support the school’s strategic goals and policies around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
• Collaborate in planning and developing internal events and activities that foster and promote employee engagement and camaraderie.

Recruiting, Onboarding, Separation

• Develop working partnerships outside of the school to increase awareness and visibility of the school as an employer of choice to ensure the school’s ability to recruit and retain talent. This could include but not be limited to attending job fairs or similar events.
• Maintain current benchmark data to ensure the school’s compensation strategy is aligned to target benchmarks.
• Coordinate and lead recruiting efforts for all faculty and staff openings.
• Ensure accurate and timely job postings and facilitate the vetting of candidates.
• Coordinate the onboarding process to ensure a positive and cohesive experience for new hires.
• Provide support in confidential and sensitive matters through providing guidance for confidential conversations regarding performance or behavioral issues.
• Support the separation process by coordinating the offboarding process and conducting exit interviews.

Talent Development and Performance Management

• Assess and continually update the process and tools for employee performance management and goal setting.
• Coordinate training and professional development for supervisors in relation to human resource matters.
• Support the annual performance management cycle and ensure the process is timely and complete.
• Provide managers and supervisors with the tools and support to drive individual and team performance improvement at all levels.
• Support managers in developing dialogue with employees regarding career paths and career goals.

Benefits

• In partnership with our benefits broker, the COFO, and other key leaders develop a benefits plan design that aligns with the school’s goals and ensures sustainability of the program.
• Lead the annual benefit open enrollment process to include negotiations with the broker and benefits providers and hosting open enrollment sessions.
• Manage all aspects of benefits administration including establishing and managing a benefits budget.

Compliance

• Maintain and update the Employee Handbook to ensure it contains easy to understand and legally compliant employee policies.
• Ensure all HR practices are legally compliant.
• Responsible for all areas of compliance as they relate to Human Resources. This includes but is not limited to Immigration, ADA, COBRA, FMLA, FLSA, HIPAA, ERISA, GINA, EEO, and USERRA compliance.
• Ensure compliance with required child protection training
• Oversee required reporting (i.e., worker’s compensation, unemployment, COBRA, etc.)
• Coordinate and support the process for the annual completion and filing of 401k audit, 5500 filing, ACA (1095’s) etc.

Skills and Abilities

The Director of Talent is a person who is engaging, organized, well rounded, and who facilitates growth and collaboration. Additionally, she/he will possess:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to model professionalism and adherence to Cristo Rey policies
• Ability to exercise sound judgement and maintain confidentiality
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks
• Ability to communicate complex information in a clear manner
• Ability to adapt to the changing needs of the school and its employees
• Embrace and value diverse perspectives

Qualifications

• Progressive experience in HR disciplines with a strategic focus or equivalent experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or HR related field
• HR certification such as PHR/SPHR or SHRM CP/SCP
• Strong technical HR knowledge (i.e., employment laws, FLSA, employee relations, diversity, equity)
• Demonstrated cultural competency working with the Latino community

Job Title: Bus Monitor
Department: Corporate Work Study Program
Reports to: Sr. Program Manager
Classification: Non-Exempt
Schedule: Part-Time, Seasonal

A pioneer for urban education, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School provides a faith-based college preparatory education and professional work experience exclusively for students from Spanish-speaking families with limited economic resources. A highly regarded Catholic school, Cristo Rey serves students in grades 9-12 and offers an engaging dual language curriculum program integrated with hands-on work experience allowing students unrivaled career exploration and mentorship, positioning them to succeed in college and beyond. Through partnerships with corporations in the Chicagoland area, students work one day per week in an office environment. This educational model enables students to develop career readiness/leadership skills, cultivate a professional network, add real business value, and support the cost to attend a private, college-preparatory, Catholic high school.

Under the supervision of the Senior Program Manager of the Corporate Work Study Program, the Bus Monitor will assist the driver in maintaining order while the van or bus is in operation; maintain proper records and documentation; assist student loading, unloading and seating arrangements as needed.

This is a seasonal position that follows the annual school calendar (the school year covers Mid-August through early June with school breaks and holidays per the school calendar).

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ensure students safely enter and exit the school bus at their designated stops.
• Ensure all passengers are safely seated before and while the school bus is in motion.
• Maintain order on the bus, explain safety procedures to passengers as needed, enforce rules of conduct and respond to emergencies, including the safe evacuation of passengers through emergency exits.
• Ensure that vehicles are in broom clean condition and free from garbage daily.
• Perform test runs of any regularly scheduled route, as needed, to be comfortable and confident in that route prior to transporting students.  
• In collaboration with the bus driver, maintain proper records and documentation of passengers and routes.
• Review directions for the am, pm, storm stop and late run routes regularly and confirm all changes with bus driver and supervisor.
• Exercise good judgment in the performance of job responsibilities and work without direct supervision.
• Communicate effectively with children and parents (as needed).
• Prepare and submit required reports and completed trip logs daily.
• Other duties as assigned by Supervisor.

Physical Demands:

• Work is performed while standing, sitting and/or walking.
• Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing.
• Requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.
• Requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching.
• Requires the ability to lift, carry, push or pull medium weights, up to 50 pounds.
• Subject to drug and alcohol testing.

Qualifications:

• Possess a high school diploma or the equivalent.
• Have excellent integrity and demonstrate good moral character and initiative.
• Exhibit a good personality that demonstrates interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with students, staff, administration, parents, business partners and the community.
• Commitment to the mission and values of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School which includes a drug and alcohol-free environment.
• Cultural competency and sensitivity to the ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds of the student body.
• Willingness to work in a faith-based institution

Job Title: Bus Driver
Reports to: Sr. Program Manager
Department: Corporate Work Study Program
Classification: Non-Exempt
Schedule: Part-Time, Seasonal

A pioneer for urban education, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School provides a faith-based college preparatory education and professional work experience exclusively for students from Spanish-speaking families with limited economic resources. A highly regarded Catholic school, Cristo Rey serves students in grades 9-12 and offers an engaging dual language curriculum program integrated with hands-on work experience allowing students unrivaled career exploration and mentorship, positioning them to succeed in college and beyond. Through partnerships with corporations in the Chicagoland area, students work one day per week in an office environment. This educational model enables students to develop career readiness/leadership skills, cultivate a professional network, add real business value, and support the cost to attend a private, college-preparatory, Catholic high school.

Under the supervision of the Senior Program Manager of the Corporate Work Study Program, the Bus Driver will be responsible for safely, professionally, and efficiently transporting students to/from their assigned work placements in the metropolitan Chicago are in a Cristo Rey issued van or school bus and performing activities related to the operation of the vehicle.

This is a seasonal position that follows the annual school calendar (the school year covers Mid-August through early June with school breaks and holidays per the school calendar).

Primary Responsibilities:

• Operate the school van or bus in a safe and efficient way in compliance with the law and according to all relevant school policies and procedures.
• Complete the bus route as assigned ensuring that students safely enter and exit the school bus at their designated stops.
• Ensure all passengers are safely seated before and while the school bus is in motion.
• Observe speed limits and obey all road signs and traffic regulations.
• Maintain order on the bus, explain safety procedures to passengers as needed, enforce rules of conduct and respond to emergencies, including the safe evacuation of passengers through emergency exits.
• Report any adverse conditions or incidents on bus immediately to the Sr. Program Manager.
• Keep a record of the number of students transported and miles driven on each run and report to supervisor.
• Daily inspect vehicle for operating safety and submit completed, signed vehicle inspection form (conduct a pre-trip and post-trip vehicle inspection including tires, gas, battery, oil, antifreeze/coolant, and vehicle fluids).
• Report any maintenance needs immediately to the school’s Director of Facilities.
• Ensure that vehicles are in broom-clean condition and free from garbage daily.
• Perform test runs of any regularly scheduled route, as needed, to be comfortable and confident in that route prior to transporting students.
• Review directions for the am, pm, storm stop and late run routes regularly and confirm all changes with supervisor.
• Observe queuing protocols and traffic direction for school vehicles while on campus.
• Exercise good judgment in the performance of job responsibilities and work without direct supervision.
• Communicate effectively with children and parents (as needed).
• Prepare and submit required reports and completed trip logs daily.
• Other duties as assigned by Supervisor.

Qualifications:

• Possess a high school diploma or the equivalent.
• Possess a valid State of IL driver’s license and be at least 21 years of age.
• Must be able to sit for extended periods of time.
• Must demonstrate a good driving record for the past 5 years as defined by Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in its sole discretion.
• Drivers are subject to background checks upon hire and every third year thereafter.
• Drivers must obtain annual physicals and drug screenings from authorized and designated service providers.
• Drivers must be able to participate in and obtain certification in the PACE van pool training program.
• Drivers are subject to random drug screening tests in accordance with the US DOT, as well as mandated drug screening tests in the event of an on-the-job accident.
• Drivers must agree in writing to have their DMV or MVR records made confidentially accessible to the School.
• Drivers must have excellent integrity and demonstrate good moral character and initiative.
• Drivers must exhibit a good personality that demonstrates interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with students, staff, administration, parents, business partners and the community.
• Commitment to the mission and values of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School which includes a drug and alcohol-free environment.
• Cultural competency and sensitivity to the ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds of the student body.
• Willingness to work in a faith-based institution.

Job Title: Head Varsity Coach for Boys Basketball
Department: Athletics
Reports to: Athletic Director
Classification: Exempt 
Schedule: Seasonal

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, a Jesuit, college-preparatory, co-educational school seeks a Head Varsity Coach for Boys Basketball. The successful candidate will have a commitment to Catholic education and a willingness to work with a population of diverse learners. The successful Cristo Rey coach is dedicated to developing the whole person in sport, character, and skills for success in life.

The candidate will be responsible for leading the Boys Basketball program, including supervision of assistant varsity coaches and the JV coaching staff.

Qualifications

• Strong background in the sport.
• Excellent role model.
• Flexible in nature and dedicated to empowering Hispanic student-athletes.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills; familiarity with the mission of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School; the ability to respond effectively to the needs of student-athletes.
• Minimum 21 years of age, driver’s license preferred.

Competencies

• Ability to use technology in support of instruction and athlete development.
• Commitment to working with a diverse student body.
• Familiarity with Spanish language and first-generation students preferred.
• Willingness to collaborate with others.
• Familiarity with current coaching and training methods.
• Organizational skills.

Job Title: Head Coach for Coed Cheerleading

Department: Athletics
Reports to: Athletic Director
Classification: Exempt 
Schedule: Seasonal

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, a Jesuit, college-preparatory, co-educational school seeks a Head Coach for Cheerleading. The successful candidate will have a commitment to Catholic education and a willingness to work with a population of diverse learners. The successful Cristo Rey coach is dedicated to developing the whole person in sport, character, and skills for success in life.

The candidate will be responsible for leading the Cheerleading program, including supervision of the assistant coach(s).

Qualifications

• Strong background in the sport.
• Excellent role model.
• Flexible in nature and dedicated to empowering Hispanic student-athletes.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills; familiarity with the mission of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School; the ability to respond effectively to the needs of student-athletes.
• Minimum 21 years of age, driver’s license preferred.

Competencies

• Ability to use technology in support of instruction and athlete development.
• Commitment to working with a diverse student body.
• Familiarity with Spanish language and first-generation, college-bound students preferred.
• Willingness to collaborate with others.
• Familiarity with current coaching and training methods.
• Organizational skills.

Job Title: Manager, Tuition & Financial Aid and Accounts Payable 
Department: Manager of Tuition & Financial Aid and Accounts Payable
Classification: Exempt
Reports to: Controller
Schedule:Year-round

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, a Jesuit, college-preparatory, co-educational school for grades 9-12 seeks a Manager of Tuition and Accounts Payable. Reporting to the Controller, this Manager will be responsible for overseeing all accounting activities related to Tuition & Financial Aid and Accounts Payable for the school. A cornerstone of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School is its Corporate Work Study Program (CWSP).  Through partnerships with almost 200 companies/organizations in the Chicagoland area, students work one day per week in an office environment. This educational model enables students to develop career readiness/leadership skills, cultivate a professional network, add real business value, and support the cost to attend a private, college-preparatory, Catholic high school.

The Manager of Tuition & Financial Aid and Accounts Payable plays an integral part in our engagement with Cristo Rey families. This person will develop rapport and communicate with our families on matter of tuition charges, financial aid awards and other financial matters. Additionally, this role also supports the entire school by managing our accounts payable process.

The ideal candidate will be motivated by the Catholic/Christian/Jesuit mission of Cristo Rey and its impact on our students, families, and the Chicagoland area. They will bring strong communications skills and will be fluent in Spanish.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Tuition & Financial Aid

• Manage the financial aid process by developing communication and facilitating the application process for parents.
• Review all financial aid request and supplementary documentation for completeness. Analysis of financial aid requests, including recommendations for financial aid awards.
• ·Maintain communication with parents at all stages of the financial aid process, up to and including the communication of decision of financial aid award.
• Manage student accounts in AdminPlus system including the entering tuition related charges, scholarship data and financial aid award data.
• Record tuition payments and manage outstanding tuition balances, including the mailing of monthly statements and phone calls with parents.
• Manage the student Ventra transit card program.
• Respond timely to parent inquiries received via phone, email or in person as applicable.
• Work collaboratively with the school administration team to support registration, summer school tuition, and other programs as needed.

Accounts Payable

• Enter and maintain vendor invoices and data in MIP Fund Accounting system ensuring proper coding and approvals.
• Prepare weekly A/P aging report.
• Issue approved A/P payments and record accordingly and ensure positive pay data is transmitted to bank.
• Maintain complete and updated vendor files and manage the annual 1099 issuance process.
• Answer all vendor related inquires.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Business from an accredited university/college or 5 years of related experience.
• Prior experience in managing accounts receivable or accounts payable.
• Strong customer service experience in client facing role.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Knowledge of AdminPlus and MIP Fund Accounting preferred.
• Understands and accepts that Cristo Rey is a Catholic Jesuit school primarily dedicated to the development of its student’s spiritual foundation, leadership abilities, and success in college.
• Spanish language proficiency required.
• High value of ethics, dependability, and reliability.
• Adept at building rapport and trust with people from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, including underrepresented urban youth.
• Commitment to the mission, values, and goals of Cristo Rey, and willingness to participate in adult faith formation.