CT Dean of College and Career Regions

Achievement First seeks a Dean of College to lead the college team and ensure 100% college acceptance and matriculation among the graduates. You serve an integral role to the mission of the school, working closely with the principal, leadership team and faculty to increase student awareness about college life, to guide the college search, and to support students through the application process.

This position is an extraordinary opportunity for a leader in college advising and early college awareness. The right candidate will combine exceptional communication and management skills with capacities for strategic thinking and acute attention to detail. You will demonstrate a relentless commitment to excellence and will share AF’s vision of access to and success in top-tier college education for underserved populations.

As a member of the school leadership team, deans work together to ensure that all students show dramatic student achievement gains and develop strong character skills to help them succeed in college. Reporting to the principal and network senior director of college, the Dean of College will work with principals and school-based college staff to build and sustain highly effective college initiatives including: early college awareness and skill building for students and their families;

enrichment and summer opportunities access; college entrance exam management; college advising and financial aid application processes; matriculation and transition to college; and alumni support.

• Manage all school-based college staff: college counselors, summer programs manager, and Foundation of Leadership teachers
• Manage college office budget in tandem with the director of school operations
• Participate and contribute to the school leadership team via weekly meetings, summer retreats, etc.
• Conduct weekly team meetings that inform and align to the team’s yearly goals
• Collaborate and ensure sharing of best practices across regions in relation to college counseling, summer and alumni programming

• Execute and monitor systems that ensure an efficient and effective college application process;
• Codify and institutionalize all processes, procedures and supporting documents for the college application process on Better Lesson
• Provide one-on-one college counseling to a caseload of seniors through the admissions cycle including, but not limited to, creating a college list, writing and revising the personal statement, advising on financial aid, and making final matriculation decisions
• Through management of the college counselor, arrange strategic college representative visits to the high school during the fall application season and market and brand AF high schools to all national colleges and universities
• Build and maintain relationships with colleges and universities to create partnerships benefiting both the school and students
• Edit the annual school profile

• Maintain systems for managing the alumni counseling office including the master calendar, success toward articulated goals and metrics, and the development of alumni rituals and traditions
• In tandem with the college success counselors, support and help facilitate the sharing and results of alumni persistence and success in college with the school-based team to improve the 9-12 program
• Coach the alumni counselor in teaching the Foundations of Leadership IV:
  Transitions course to all seniors
• Analyze data with alumni counselor and the director of alumni success to make recommendations for improving AF’s high school programming and alumni support program
• Build and maintain systems for managing summer programs including the master calendar, success toward articulated goals and metrics and the development of new and continued community partnerships
• Ensure strategic integration of summer programs benchmarks calendar with the entire school and the Foundations of Leadership curriculum

• Oversee & manage the comprehensive 9 through 13 Foundations of Leadership curriculum including the 9-12 Foundations of…