Deputy Chief of Post-Secondary Success

Deputy Chief Of Post-Secondary Success

The Deputy Chief of Post-Secondary Success is responsible for the vision, implementation, and continuous improvement of Mastery's post-secondary readiness and success strategy. The Deputy Chief leads the postsecondary components of High School Redesign and ensures that students experience a coherent pathway from ninth grade through graduation that prepares them to enter and succeed in college, career training, employment, military service, or another high-quality postsecondary option.

The Deputy Chief oversees the teams responsible for Mastery's college and career advising, career-connected learning, durable skills programming, work-based learning, post-secondary partnerships, dual enrollments, high school scheduling, and alumni transition supports. The role works closely with the Academic, Schools, Student Development, Specialized Services, Data, and External Affairs teams to integrate postsecondary readiness throughout the high school experience. The Deputy Chief also manages and develops the central office leaders responsible for post-secondary programming and ensures that they provide high-quality, consistent support to schools.

Lead Mastery's Postsecondary Strategy

• Develop and communicate a clear, equitable vision for post-secondary preparation and success that aligns with Mastery's Graduate Profile, Plan 2029, and High School Redesign strategy.
• Design and oversee a coherent ninth- through twelfth-grade progression of academic planning, college and career exploration, advising, work-based learning, application support, and transition planning.
• Translate Mastery's long-term post-secondary goals into clear annual priorities, implementation plans, milestones, and measurable student outcomes.
• Establish consistent expectations for post-secondary programming across Mastery high schools while allowing schools to adapt implementation to their students and communities.

Lead College and Career Programming

• Oversee a comprehensive college and career advising model that helps students identify, pursue, and successfully transition into well-matched post-secondary pathways.
• Ensure that students and families receive accurate and timely support with graduation planning, college and career applications, financial aid, scholarships, affordability, enrollment, and transition.
• Oversee the development and expansion of career-connected learning, including career exploration, employer exposure, internships, work-based learning, dual enrollment, and industry-recognized credentials.
• Establish clear quality standards for college advising, career pathways, internships, and other post-secondary experiences, and monitor whether students have equitable access to high-value opportunities.
• Set the vision for partnerships with colleges, employers, workforce organizations, training providers, and community organizations that expand opportunities for students and graduates.

Drive Student Outcomes and Continuous Improvement

• Establish and monitor a focused set of postsecondary indicators, including ninth-grade on-track status, graduation readiness, FAFSA completion, postsecondary applications, advanced-course participation, work-based learning, credential attainment, postsecondary enrollment, and persistence.
• Use student and implementation data to identify trends, surface opportunity gaps, diagnose challenges, and determine where schools or programs require additional support.
• Lead regular performance reviews with school and central-office leaders and ensure that clear corrective actions are taken when progress is off track.
• Use student, family, alumni, and school feedback to improve programming and determine which initiatives should be strengthened, scaled, redesigned, or discontinued.

Build School and Team Capacity

• Build the capacity of principals and high school leadership teams to own postsecondary outcomes as a core component of school performance.
• Supervise, coach, and develop the central-office leaders responsible for college access, career-connected learning, postsecondary partnerships, and alumni success.
• Establish clear goals, roles, performance expectations, and management routines for direct reports, and address performance concerns promptly and constructively.
• Ensure that directors and managers provide the majority of direct support to schools, while the Deputy Chief focuses on strategy, talent development, quality assurance, cross-functional coordination, and accountability.

Lead Cross-Functional Implementation

• Partner with the Academic Team to align postsecondary programming with graduation requirements, course pathways, advanced coursework, dual enrollment, academic interventions, and college and career readiness.
• Collaborate with the Schools Team to support principal ownership, school-level implementation, progress monitoring, and differentiated support.
• Work with the Student Development and Specialized Services teams to align advisory, attendance, student…