# Founding Elementary Chess Teacher, 2027 - 2028

**Company**: Success Academy
**Location**: Miami-Dade
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $55,000-$55,000 USD
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

We are seeking a results-driven Founding Elementary Chess Teacher to establish our inaugural elementary chess program.

As a Founding Elementary Chess Teacher at Success Academy, you will:

- Found a championship-caliber elementary chess program and foster a strong culture of competitive excellence, sportsmanship, and critical thinking.

- Design and deliver a rigorous elementary chess curriculum tailored for young learners, progressing from foundational principles to advanced tactical and positional play.

- Build, coach, and mentor a competitive elementary chess team, preparing scholars to successfully compete and win in local, state, and national tournaments.

- Invest in parents by coordinating and leading family chess nights and internal network chess tournaments.

- Engage in training and collaborating with chess teachers and leaders across the network to benefit from targeted feedback and professional development related to instruction and content.

- Support our high-performing competitive teams by coaching at tournaments at least 12 Saturdays per school year.

To apply, you should:

- Achieve outstanding academic results.

- Possess extensive competitive chess tournament experience, either as a player or coach, with a proven track record of tournament preparation.

- Be passionate about chess and learning.

- Demonstrate successful experience teaching elementary-aged students and leading teams to victory in competitive settings.

- Set ambitious goals for yourself and others, and be willing to put in the hard work to achieve them.

- Have confidence and presence, enjoying taking the lead and inspiring others with your passion and commitment.

- Enjoy collaborating with others.

- Have leadership experience.

- Pay strong attention to detail, and have experience juggling multiple responsibilities and planning around competing priorities.

- Have experience working with a group of children.

- Embody the character traits we value in our ETHOS - Excellence, Teamwork, Humor, Ownership, and making sure our Scholars are top of mind.

Qualifications and requirements:

- Fluency in English is required. Bilingual fluency in Spanish and/or Haitian Creole is preferred.

- Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM (when after-school club is not in sessions, Chess Teachers' schedule will align with academic teachers).

Compensation:

- $55,000 - $55,000 USD per year

## Skills

### Required
- chess
- teaching
- leadership
- teamwork
- critical thinking

### Nice to have
- Spanish
- Haitian Creole
- competitive chess tournament experience

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