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# High School Chemistry Teacher (2026-2027) at BRICK Networks

- **Company:** BRICK Networks
- **Location:** Newark, NJ
- **Compensation:** $55k–$100k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/bricknetworks/0624d8da-91d6-453a-9da9-8c161d1aa978

## Job description

Certified Science teachers receive an additional $7500 Hard to Staff Stipend annually.

## OUR MISSION

BRICK is on a mission to support families from pre-cradle-to-career through holistic support, excellent schools, and clear pathways to college and career. By creating a comprehensive network of services, we are righting the wrongs of racial and economic inequality and paving the way for families to forge futures abundant with opportunity, wellness, and joy

## OUR VISION

BRICK envisions a world of racial and economic justice, where every child and family has the support they need to learn, achieve, and work towards a fulfilling life of personal and collective prosperity.

To learn more about BRICK, please visit http://www.brickeducation.org

BRICK currently has schools in two regions: Newark, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York.

BRICK Gateway Academy Charter School is our Newark location.  As a full K-12 continuum, we start our college-focused academic programming in kindergarten and yield better results for Newark students for generations to come. We are more than a school; we are a full ecosystem of supports from cradle to career. We provide our families with free wraparound services like prenatal care, career services, and housing support. Our high school alumni receive up to six years of post-graduate assistance. BRICK Gateway Academy attracts a diverse staff devoted to nurturing our students’ intellect and identities in order to prepare them to graduate from college and to chart their own course.

To learn more about our Newark location, BRICK Gateway Academy, please visit https://www.gatewayacademy.org

## Overview

Role: BRICK Networks seeks to hire High School Science teachers that have a passionate belief in BRICK’s mission and a deep desire to work with underserved black and brown students and families. The ideal candidate is solution oriented, uses data to drive their instruction, has a collaborative mindset, takes and implements feedback quickly and has a sense of humility. The ideal candidate is culturally competent, solutions’ oriented, uses data to inform instruction, communicates and collaborates effectively with their team, and responds to feedback urgently.   A BRICK Teacher approaches the work with humility and maintains positive relationship with colleagues, students, families.  BRICK staff LOVE the community they serve. Teachers must be willing to do whatever it takes to ensure their students’ academic, behavioral, and social-emotional success.

Essential Functions

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Demonstrating a proficiency in working with black and brown students from diverse economic and cultural backgrounds
- Demonstrating cultural competence and knowledge of best practices to support students of various social-economic experiences when working with our students
- Creating and maintaining a positive, safe and collaborative classroom environment for students
- Continuously strengthening their classroom community by investing students and families in our iDream values (Innovation, Diligence, Respect, Empathy, A+ Self Control and Model Student), Core Values, Mission, and Vision
- Executing the network adopted unit and lesson plans to accelerate student learning and social emotional development
- Executes instructional practices as outlined with appropriate accommodations, modifications, and acceleration as needed for student learning and success
- Attending and actively participating in all required meetings to ensure strong communication and professional development, including department, grade level and staff meetings
- Participating in regular meetings with their coach to support their development, including observation and feedback meetings, planning meetings and data meetings.
- Collaborating with coaches and peers to share best practices; and build a strong adult culture
- Utilizing data from student observations as well as summative and formative assessments to inform instruction
- Adjusting instruction as needed to meet the unique needs of their students, including by adjusting to different student learning styles and differentiating instruction
- Teaching and enforcing school-wide systems and structures
- Participating in whole school events and home visits to help build strong trusting relationships with students and their families
- ·       Exemplifying the BRICK core values (community rootedness, achievement , commitment , identity , empathy and curiosity.)

Qualifications:

- An unwavering commitment to the academic success and personal development of our students;
- An eagerness to set ambitious, challenging, and tangible goals, and a relentless drive to achieve them;
- An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and a capacity to remain calm and focused when faced with unexpected challenges;
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people
- Proficiency in working with computers, including commonly used software like Google Documents, Google Sheets, and Excel
- Prior experience working with children strongly preferred
- Bachelor’s degree is required from an accredited college or university;
- A valid teaching license/certification or an active pathway to acquire one is required
- An ability to meet all state and federal guidelines in order to be fully licensed and “Highly Qualified” according to ESSA;
- Current authorization to work in the United States – A candidate must have such authorization by his or her first day of employment.

Salary, Goals and Employment Period

- Salary Range: Competitive compensation package; Based upon previous experience
- Full time
- Employment Period: 11 Months
- Fringe Benefits: Retirement (NJ Pension), Health, Vision, Dental

BRICK Networks is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. BRICK Networks promotes affirmative action for minorities, women, disabled persons, and veterans.

## About BRICK Networks

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: BRICK Networks is a nonprofit education and community support organization that operates excellent K-12 schools and coordinates holistic family services — from prenatal care to career readiness — in under-resourced communities.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization; not a venture-backed startup)
- **Headquarters**: Newark, New Jersey, United States
- **Founded**: 2009 (first network launched in Newark in 2010)
- **Founders**: A group of Teach for America alumni at Shabazz High School (individual names not publicly listed in available sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Education (K-12 charter schools), Community Development & Urban Planning, Family and Social Services
- **Target customers**: B2C — students, families, and community members in Newark, NJ and Buffalo, NY; primarily Black and Brown communities; partner organizations and local government agencies
- **Mission**: To help children and families achieve their dreams by providing support from early childhood to career readiness, through excellent schools, holistic support, and college and career services that nurture personal and collective prosperity.

## Products & Services
- **BRICK Gateway Academy**: K-12 charter school in Newark, NJ — the flagship school in the BRICK network, focused on adaptive, culturally responsive curriculum and college/career preparation.
- **BRICK Buffalo Academy Charter School**: The second school location, opened in Buffalo, NY in 2023, serving as the foundation for a new comprehensive network of support in the region.
- **South Ward Promise Neighborhood**: A collaborative initiative launched in 2018 involving 30+ partner organizations investing in Newark's South Ward families across education, health, housing, transportation, food access, and employment.
- **BRICK Road to Success (BRtS)**: A K-8 school-based family navigation program providing holistic social and emotional support referrals. In its first pilot year it served a set number of families (pilot metrics listed on the site).
- **Gateway U**: Local, supportive higher education and career training program designed so participants can continue working while gaining academic and technical skills; features a structured sequence of exploration, education, and training.
- **BRICK Doula Network & Maternal Health Career Pathway**: A program addressing prenatal and parental care while creating a career pathway into maternal health professions — a recent addition that combines community health with economic mobility.
- **College & Career Programs**: Customized support for career pathway exploration, job/program applications, and interview preparation, aligned with the goal of economic mobility.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (nonprofit organization)
- **Key Metrics**: 
  - **Annual impact**: 2,895 students, families, and community members supported annually
  - **College acceptance**: 92% of students on average are accepted to the college of their choice (remaining 8% pursue trade school or workforce entry)
  - **Headcount**: 45 employees (roughly −9.4% YoY per LinkedIn data)
- **Notable Partners**: Newark Public Schools, South Ward Promise Neighborhood (30+ community organizations), community-based organizations in Buffalo
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Geographic expansion: launched second regional network in Buffalo, NY in 2023 (charter school opened as the anchor)
  - Expanding the model from K-12 education into a full pre-cradle-to-career continuum, including maternal health (Doula Network) and economic mobility programs
  - LinkedIn following growth: ~4,907 followers (+16.5% year-over-year), indicating rising employer brand awareness

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated "pre-cradle to career" model**: Unlike typical charter school operators, BRICK weaves together education, health, housing, and career services into one coordinated support network — a structural moat difficult for single-focus nonprofits to replicate.
- **Deep community-rooted presence**: 14+ years on the ground in Newark's South Ward; culture of partnering with and listening to local organizations rather than imposing top-down solutions.
- **Clarity of outcome data**: Strong reported outcomes (92% college acceptance; high college enrollment among Gateway Academy graduates vs. national average) provide credibility with funders, families, and partner institutions.
- **Braided funding & collective impact**: Combines multiple funding streams and 30+ partner organizations under a single navigation model, making services more accessible to families.

## Strategic Focus
- **Codifying and expanding the model**: BRICK is actively working to document and refine its integrated network model so it can be replicated in new communities (Buffalo being the first expansion).
- **Building the full K-12 continuum**: Completing the educational trajectory in existing and new regions, from early childhood through high school graduation.
- **Deepening holistic services**: Continuing to grow prenatal-to-career programming, including health, housing, transportation, food access, and maternal health workforce pathways.
- **Sustainable scaling**: Translating 14+ years of lessons from Newark into a playbook that can be adapted to other cities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture of belonging**: Staff are 86% people of color; the organization explicitly welcomes and reflects the community it serves (including LGBTQ+ staff, parents, and caretakers) and is committed to culturally competent leadership teams.
- **Investment in staff development**: Weekly one-on-one coaching; network-wide Academic Leadership Team for curriculum support; teachers treated as content experts; over one month of professional development for new staff to the network.
- **Competitive, transparent compensation**: BRICK publishes a transparent salary scale and pays in the top 25% (75th percentile) for comparable regional roles in education and social services.
- **Mission-driven variety**: Work spans education, public health, housing, and economic mobility — offering roles for educators (Math, Science, Special Education) and community-support professionals beyond the classroom.
- **Growth trajectory**: Being part of a proven nonprofit model scaling to new cities (Buffalo is the current expansion market) offers employees the chance to help shape playbooks and stand up new programs.

## Sources
1. [BRICK Networks — Homepage](https://www.bricknetworks.org/)
2. [BRICK Networks — Our Story](https://www.bricknetworks.org/our-story)
3. [BRICK Networks — Work at BRICK](https://www.bricknetworks.org/work-at-brick)
4. [BRICK Networks — Lever Careers Page](https://jobs.lever.co/bricknetworks)
5. [BRICK Networks — LinkedIn Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/bricknetworks)

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