Assistant or Associate Director of High School Success and College Guidance

Named after the first Black American to graduate from college in the United States, Alexander Twilight Academy (ATA) is a free, longitudinal catalyst and high school and college access organization that provides hard-working, high-potential students from under-resourced backgrounds with the highest-quality educational and life-enriching opportunities. Through rigorous, year-round academic programming, support, advocacy, enrichment, and mentorship, ATA prepares middle school students to earn admission to and thrive at the nation's top high schools, colleges, and beyond.

ATA makes a long-term commitment to serve each student and family we admit from middle school through college and beyond. ATA develops leaders who will change the world and catalyzes the next generation of great thinkers, creators, and changemakers to live meaningful lives of passion and purpose.

Piloted during the summers of 2018 and 2019 and launched, in earnest, during the 2019‑2020 school year. ATA has grown by adding a new cohort of rising 6th grade students each year. ATA now serves seven cohorts of students in grades 6‑12. Alexander Twilight Academy has placed 100% of its students into the Boston Exam Schools and prestigious independent day and boarding schools with a cumulative total of over $52M of financial aid and is at an incredibly exciting inflection point because our oldest cohort, who will be entering their senior year this fall, will be the first cohort from ATA to apply to college!

It is an incredibly exciting time to join our team, as ATA is continuing to grow and scale the size of each new rising 6th grade cohort we admit, while fully building out the high school and college aspects of the model with robust programming, support systems, career exploration, internship training and placement, and college guidance.

We are looking for an Associate or Assistant Director of College Guidance and High School Success (commensurate with experience) to lead in an innovative, scaling, mission-driven organization. This position will be instrumental in placing our first cohort in college and all future cohorts to follow, all while building upon the groundwork of high school success programming for Alexander Twilight Academy’s current and future 9th‑12th grade students.

The Associate or Assistant Director of College Guidance and High School Success will be involved in the expansion of the high school success programmatic offerings, work as an on‑the‑ground advocate for ATA students and families, and serve as a thought partner to the Executive Director and Director of High School Success and College Guidance. The Associate or Assistant Director of College Guidance and High School Success will lead all aspects of high school support and will make a multi‑year commitment to ATA.

This position will report to the Executive Director and the Director of High School Success and College Guidance.

• You are firmly committed to educational access, equity, social justice, and ATA’s mission and vision.
• You are entrepreneurial, scrappy, and relentless in pursuit of getting the best outcomes for each student and family we serve.
• You are an excellent communicator and can confidently build relationships with students and families from diverse backgrounds.
• You are highly responsive and cultivate strong partnerships with multiple stakeholders including colleges, school leaders, tutors, guidance counselors, and other key supporters in the ATA network.
• You have familiarity with the landscape of independent schools in New England and/or Boston Public Schools.
• You are steeped in process, are highly organized, and have a strong attention to detail.
• You have exceptional follow up and follow through, showing relentless persistence in closing out key tasks.
• You are receptive to feedback and unafraid to take proactive steps to make improvements and/or solve problems.
• You are a successful multi-tasker and thrive when managing concurrent projects under tight deadlines.
• You have worked in higher education or at a school or CBO setting and ideally have experience or interest in advocacy work.
• You have high expectations for what success…