Program Manager, Pre-College Programs & Alumni Engagement

Program Manager, Pre-College Programs & Alumni Engagement

New York

Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running a large, fast-growing, and high-performing network of public charter schools takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates, and supporters alike. We are growing fast in New York and expanding to Florida, and we would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure children have access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status.

When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through our doors a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.

The mission of Success Academy is to reimagine public education. From the classroom to the halls of government, this means finding profoundly different approaches to how we structure, implement and support learning. We re-conceive every aspect of school design, from writing rigorous new curricula to drawing regularly on the advances in technology and business that are transforming every sector except education.

Over the past decade, Success Academy has grown faster than any charter network in the nation, building a vibrant network of 59 elementary, middle and high schools. Our over 20,000 children – mostly poor and minority – are out-performing students at top city and suburban schools across New York State. Within the next decade, our goals are even more ambitious, bringing transformational change here and across the country.

Within this mission, the External Programs, Alumni & Scholarships portfolio expands opportunities and support for scholars beyond the school day. This includes delivering transformative experiences such as Summer Experience and Dual Enrollment, ensuring scholarship dollars reach scholars efficiently and equitably, and keeping our growing alumni community connected and supported. As we scale to serve more high schools, scholars, and graduating classes, these programs require disciplined execution, strong data systems, and AI-enabled processes to drive accuracy, efficiency, and visibility across the portfolio.

We are seeking a Program Manager, Pre-College Programs & Alumni Engagement (internally titled Specialist, External Programs, Alumni & Scholarships) to serve as the primary owner of this portfolio end-to-end, driving participation, outcomes, and continuous improvement across external programs, scholarships, and alumni engagement.

Reporting to the Head, College Access & Preparedness and External Programs, the Program Manager will own three interconnected functions end-to-end:
Pre-College Programs (Summer Experience and Dual Enrollment), Scholarships, and Alumni Engagement. These functions share the same scholars, partners, and annual cycle, and the Program Manager will manage them as one unified portfolio: setting timelines, managing partners and budgets, tracking outcomes, and ensuring every workstream is completed on time and with fidelity to Success Academy standards.

As part of the broader portfolio strategy, we are evolving our operations to become more AI-enabled, integrated, and efficient, and this role will be a key driver of that work. The Program Manager will redesign workflows across all three functions to better connect scholars, school-based teams, School Leaders, and Network teams, using AI to streamline high-volume work such as triage, communications, data validation, and reporting while maintaining appropriate human judgment and oversight.

This role is ideal for a highly organized program manager who thrives with high autonomy, enjoys owning work end-to-end, and is energized by using data and AI to make complex programs clear, trackable, and scalable.