Harlem Children's Zone
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How Harlem Children's Zone hires
Truth index
A 92/100
Median time to fill
79 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
10%
Reposted roles
0%
Harlem Children's Zone scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 58 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 10% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 79 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Harlem Children's Zone is a nonprofit organization in New York City that works to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty across a neighborhood of more than 100 blocks in Central Harlem. It runs a pipeline of free programs from early childhood and parenting classes through its Promise Academy charter schools, after-school and college success programs, health, family support and community services. The organization is headquartered in New York, New York, United States.
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse, Promise Academy Scholars Featured in 'CBS News Sunday Morning' Segment on Fighting Childhood Obesity
Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) CEO, Kwame Owusu-Kesse, and scholars from Promise Academy Charter Schools were featured on "CBS News Sunday Morning" in a national news segment highlighting HCZ's work to empower the health and wellness of our young people by
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Harlem Children's Zone Supports Promise Partnership Utah to Advance Statewide, Cradle-to-Career REACH Initiative
In 2011, Utah leaders visited Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) to learn how to expand social and economic mobility for children and families in their state. They believed Harlem's success could be replicated in their own communities - and they set out to prov
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Universal Economic Mobility for All America's Children
By Kwame Owusu-Kesse, CEO, Harlem Children's Zone Editors Note: an edited version of this piece appeared in Crain's New York Business. The following is the unabridged version. I often reflect on my own story: a childhood marked by instability, poverty, an
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Food Services Team Serves Up Nutrition, Culture, and Care for Scholars
Every morning before sunrise, the kitchens at Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) Promise Academy Charter Schools come alive. Stock pots simmer, sheet pans are lined with marinated chicken and vegetables, and the HCZ Food Services Team moves in rhythm - stirring
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Pathways to Mobility: William Julius Wilson Institute Hosts Fourth Annual Power of Place Convening in San Diego
In 2021, the inaugural Power of Place convening hosted by William Julius Wilson Institute (WJWI) at Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) brought over 250 place-based leaders together at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. Four years later, nearly three times
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William Julius Wilson Institute and EdRedesign Host Fourth Annual Summer Institute
Taking the stage before a packed audience at Summer Institute: Transforming Place Through Neighborhood Leadership at Harvard University, Kwame Owusu-Kesse - CEO of Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) and Co-Founder of William Julius Wilson Institute (WJWI) at HC
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William Julius Wilson Institute's Education Leaders Design Fellowship Empowers School Leaders to Transform Their Communities
More than 12 million children in the U.S. live in poverty - a challenge no single institution can solve alone. Enter school systems. They can play a pivotal role in cultivating the partnerships needed to address poverty and drive success for millions of y
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HCZ Invests in You: Wellness and Financial Benefits to Build Success
At Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), we have an audacious goal: end intergenerational poverty in Central Harlem and communities across the country. This work isn't possible without the dedicated educators, professionals, and administrators on our team. That's
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Back to School and Programs 2025: What Harlem Children's Zone Families Need to Know
Back to School 2025 is upon us - and we can't wait to see our scholars' smiling faces in our buildings! We're excited to open our doors for the first day of school at HCZ Promise Academy (September 3) and the first day of Zone Programs (September 29). As
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From Peacemaker to Practitioner: How Erica Terrell Built a 30-Year Career at HCZ
Last year marked Erica Terrell's third decade of working at Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ). Funny that her career at the organization started by accident. "I never expected to be at HCZ quite this long," Erica jokes. "When I started, I had no idea this was
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Harlem Children's Zone over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
11
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
58/100
Languages
C
Frameworks & libraries
SDL
Supervision
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$70k
Typical range
$40k – $185k
Open positions
67
15
Jobs
Intern
6.7%
Middle
46.7%
Staff
6.7%
Principal
6.7%
Architect
33.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 1 | $50k | $50k |
| Middle | 7 | $146k | $50k – $146k |
| Staff | 1 | $137k | $137k |
| Principal | 1 | $55k | $55k |
| Architect | 5 | $150k | $85k – $185k |
Highest paying role
Managing Director of Teaching and Learning
$185k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Harlem Children's Zone
By role, level and city, against the market · 67 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
76/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
75
24 opened / 16 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
63 days
faster than 21% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Education
26% ▼
Administrative
16% ▲
Early Careers
16%
Communications
8% ▼
Hospitality
7% ▲
Leadership
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Administrative (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Baltimore
Oct 2026
New location: United States
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
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New York
United States
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67 open roles 54 posted in 90 days 4% engineering $94k Avg Salary
hires for Education, Early Careers, Administrative
Harlem
United States
Regional office
9 open roles 7 posted in 90 days $58k Avg Salary
hires for Education, Early Careers, Communications
Baltimore
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days $75k Avg Salary
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