# Chief Operating Officer

About U Prep Schools: University Prep Schools ("U Prep" or the "Network") is Detroit's largest public charter school network, serving approximately 4,600 students across 10 schools spanning kindergarten through 12th grade. The network is organized across three distinct K-12 districts: University Preparatory Academy (UPA), University Prep Science & Math (UPSM), and University Prep Art & Design (UPAD). U Prep is grounded in the belief that every student deserves access to a culturally affirming, academically rigorous program in an environment where they are known, valued, and challenged. Its four-pillar academic model, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Project-Based Learning, CREW, and Distributed Leadership, shapes everything the organization does. The systems built, the people developed, and the decisions made across U Prep are expected to serve one north star: creating the conditions for rigorous teaching and learning in every classroom, every day. Commitment to U Prep's Core Values is non-negotiable: We work well by ourselves and in teams We care about people Our actions have a purpose We think big and do Learning is exciting U Prep operates through a distinctive structure designed

- **Id**: 3795180
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/u-prep-schools-chief-operating-officer>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: head
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Detroit, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T09:01:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T01:16:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 14944
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- **Benefits**: Equity, Home office
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Education, Higher Education, Early Childhood Education

## Company

- **Id**: 2649525
- **Name**: U Prep Schools
- **Domain**: uprepschools.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/uprepschools>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Paycom

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T09:01:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 95
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.946
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:5, urgency, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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