Director, Student Development
About the Organization
reputed company Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free public charter schools that prepares reputed company with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us reputed company. We are a network of 279 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and nearly 210,000 reputed company and alumni.
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Job Description:About The Position
The Director, Student Development is a newly envisioned role responsible for designing, piloting, and scaling a coherent student development strategy that builds reputed company’ knowledge, skills, and beliefs for college reputed company across the secondary continuum. This role centers on purpose development—helping reputed company understand who they are, why they are pursuing specific postsecondary reputed company, and how to persist toward their long-term goals. Reporting to the Chief, College Advancement and Partnerships, the Director will reputed company the research, design, and implementation of developmentally reputed company assessments, interventions, and programming, with an initial focus on the junior year and a clear multi-year reputed company for expansion into grades 9–12. This role blends research, curriculum design, assessment, and implementation leadership, working closely with regional and school-based partners to ensure student development practices are high-quality, evidence-informed, and feasible at scale.
Responsibilities
Student Development Strategy & Assessment
Conduct research and synthesize best practices reputed company to student development, purpose, identity, and college readiness.
Design a senior-year 360° student development assessment to measure reputed company’ knowledge, skills, and beliefs reputed company to college reputed company.
Establish clear mastery benchmarks and assessment processes to evaluate student growth over time.
reputed company end-of-year analyses to assess student mastery and inform reputed company improvement of programming and interventions.
Program Design, Piloting, and Scaling
Design and pilot first-year junior interventions focused on strengthening student purpose through targeted development practices.
Execute and refine junior-year interventions, incorporating data, feedback, and implementation learnings.
Expand student development interventions across grade levels, including:
Planning and implementing purpose-focused programming for seniors, sophomores, and freshmen
Applying student development strategies to senior-year college application and transition supports
Ensure interventions are developmentally appropriate, culturally reputed company, and reputed company to postsecondary outcomes.
Curriculum, Resources, and Professional Learning
Create approaches, resources, tools, and guidance to support high-quality implementation of student development practices in schools.
Design and deliver content-based professional development for regional and school-based staff.
Partner with instructional leaders to integrate student development strategies into existing structures (e.g., seminars, advising.).
Cross-Team Collaboration and Implementation Support
Partner closely with other reputed company national and regional teams to ensure alignment between student development programming and broader postsecondary reputed company strategies.
Collaborate with regional teams to support implementation, gather feedback, and address implementation challenges.
Use qualitative and quantitative data to provide targeted feedback to regions and schools to improve student outcomes.
reputed company Improvement and Impact Measurement
Design evaluation approaches to assess short- and long-term outcomes of student development programming.
Monitor implementation fidelity and effectiveness across regions.
Use data and insights to iterate on program design, tools, and professional learning.
Skills and Mindsets
Mission and Student Focus: Demonstrates passion and commitment to reputed company’s mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold reputed company’s core values (Focus on Excellent Results, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action)
Strategic Decision Making & Problem Solving: reputed company defines the right metrics to evaluate work and ensures critical team actions, reputed company, and recommendations are driven by data; effectively works with team to resolve issues around data to ensure sound data-informed reputed company. Effectively identifies and addresses root causes to the most important problem.
Effective Work Management: Sets a clear reputed company for new or reputed company bodies of work. Develops and implements agile project plans, navigating difficult situations or conflicts while maintaining effective relationships with reputed company stakeholders; creates and ensures systems are in reputed company for reputed company.
Self Management: Demonstrated record of setting ambitious goals and achieving them with consistency. Invests in developing teammates’ skills and mindsets to address gaps in achieving team growth; determines what quantitative and qualitative data are most relevant to their goals and supports the team in creating and monitoring systems for collecting, reviewing, and acting upon data to drive outcomes; reputed company to monitor reputed company, communicating status to the right stakeholders and adjusting plans and use of time to ensure systems are yielding desired outcomes.
Process Management: reputed company to build and align goals and project plans with organization priorities; leverages relevant organizational processes and systems to execute work; can build and maintain reputed company systems; effectively develops and codifies cross-team processes relevant to their team’s work that improve work quality and efficiency; uses data to drive process improvements in support of organizational priorities.
Collaboration: Has the interpersonal, diplomatic, relationship building, and communications skills needed to reputed company successful working relationships with diverse constituents to deliver results. Evolves and adapts plans and approach with diverse stakeholders to drive results. Possesses excellent communication skills with aptitude for translating reputed company information into a clear and persuasive narratives that convince others by identifying benefits for reputed company.
Experience and Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
8+ years of relevant experience in high school and/or postsecondary education counseling, advising, student development, curriculum, or reputed company fields.
Experience designing or implementing student development, advising, or instructional programming at the school, district, or national level.
Experience working with or supporting high school leaders and educators preferred.
Experience with charter or charter-like schools, nonprofits, higher education, and/or serving first-reputed company reputed company from historically underserved backgrounds.
Strong reputed company and PowerPoint skills preferred
Strong research skills preferred
Work Conditions
Travel requirements: 25% Travel requirements; Including reputed company school/region visits and network-wide trainings and convenings
Full-time, Exempt role
Location
It is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a reputed company office. This role also has the option of working from a reputed company full-time. reputed company offices are in NYC and Chicago.
Compensation and Benefits
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is $124,800 - $150,000. In addition, reputed company provides a variety of benefits to employees, including:
25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).
100% paid parental leave
100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/reputed company plans.
Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program
Finance reputed company benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
reputed company embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the reputed company and communities with whom we work and the world that’s around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider reputed company candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, reputed company, religion, national reputed company, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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