Associate School Director of Campus Operations 2025-2026 School Year
Associate School Director of Campus Operations 2025-2026 School Year
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$ 90000 - 108500
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Job Description
POSITION: Associate School Director of Operations
GRADE LEVEL: Campus
LOCATION: DSST: CG HS. You can view the current openings at this link. We encourage you to apply even if your preferred position is not listed as we will be posting new roles throughout the year.
SALARY: $90000 $108500 based on aligned years of experience up to 10 years. We also offer a relocation stipend for anyone joining us from 75 miles or more from Denver!
STATUS: Full time school year benefits eligible exempt inperson position
START: June 11th 2025
THE ROLE
DSST Public Schools (DSST) seeks an Associate School Director of Operations to join one of the leading charter school organizations in Colorado. DSST Public Schools mission is to transform urban public education by eliminating educational inequity and preparing all students for success in college and the 21st century.
We will have a centralized hiring process for school based leadership roles at DSST Public Schools. We will review applications on a rolling basis NovemberApril.
Overview of Position:
The Associate School Director (ASD) of Operations serves as a systems leader on the campus supporting culture and instruction through excellent operations in partnership with the School Director. They are responsible for coaching and managing people in both their functional operations work and leadership practice as well as their continuous growth personally. In addition to this the ASD in partnership with the School Leadership Team is responsible for the results of the school. The ASD role supports our belief in the human condition that every human being strives to be fully known for who they are and the unique contribution they make to the human story.
The ASD of Ops will report to the School Director and receive regular coaching and support from the Home Office (Network) Operations Team. They will be evaluated on datadriven performance indicators including but not limited to student attendance student retention and parent/student satisfaction and networknormed School Operations Standards.
Key Responsibilities:
Campus Leadership 25
DSST Mission Driven: Demonstrate a sense of urgency about achievement for ALL students and preparing every student for fouryear college.
Pursue solutions with tenacity that maximize conditions to support student achievement. Is willing to do whatever it takes to get the work done right.
Model professional maturity; emotional constancy in stressful situations bringing out the best in others seek solutions and positively motivating.
Mentor and coach staff members to encourage growth and results; Identify and systematically develop future leaders.
Acts as a strategic partner to the Campus Director and/or School Directors (middle and high school); fully responsible for executing the vision of the leader in all areas.
Cultivate conditions that support a school culture centered on core values that deeply care for each student and staff member; holds each student and staff member to the highest level of accountability
Provide leadership to all staff and students in establishing a positive structured achievementoriented and fun school culture.
Operations Leadership: 65
Implement systems that sweat the small stuff maximize the programmatic goals of the school and are scalable as the school grows.
Develop solutions to complex problems involving all stakeholders.
Manage with fiscal responsibility develop a disciplined planning process that identifies the schools highestpriorities.
Operations Team Management: Manage and coach the high school operations team across including the Office Manager Athletic Director and the Community Engagement and Recruitment Manager. This includes but is not limited to:
Weekly Checkins that prioritize tactical support and ongoing leadership development
Weekly team meetings to align on team priorities and
Functional Operational Systems Development and Support: Develop monitor and manage all ongoing operational systems including but not limited to:
Daily Front Office Operations including customer service for staff students and families as well as managing student information aligned to district and network standards
Time Off & Sub Management including managing time off requests and coverage needs daily
Emergency Response & Crisis Management including serving as Site Incident Commander and fostering a culture of safety in accordance with network and district standards; design and execute training drills and ongoing safety processes in partnership with school district and network stakeholders
School Finance including managing the school budget and budget owners and overseeing schoollevel accounting practices for all purchasesfees and deposits
Traffic & Campus Management including developing safe traffic flow plans and duty schedules and collaborating with school leadership across campus to ensure aligned support and
Service Partnerships and Coordination: Regularly monitor and collaborate with service partners including but not limited to:
Transportation including managing schedule changes tracking and reporting issues with districtprovided transportation and systems to support school field trips and excursions
Food Services including managing schedule changes and special needs and systems to ensure compliance with federal state and district standards.
Facilities including managing systems to address daily and shortterm facilities needs as well as coordinate and drive results with facility manager to ensure cleanliness and ticket resolution
Nursing including coordinating with nursing staff to ensure strong health and safety practices as well as compliance to district and state standards
Community Use including coordination with district and network stakeholders to support and/or manage offhours facility use and building access
Shared Campus partnership where applicable to foster collaboration on shared spaces and campus priorities
District & state compliance including coordination with network and school team on district charter renewal and health department inspections
District compliance including coordination with network and school teams on district charter renewals as well as ensuring campus stakeholders complete necessary processes to maintain good standing with the district
Enrollment Oversight and : Oversee planning and of strategies to ensure maximum enrollment on campus from recruitment to October Count including but not limited to:
Recruitment and Onboarding including coordination with school leadership and network community engagement team to develop and monitor goals during School Choice
Student and Family Registration including overseeing front office of registration systems processes and events
Scheduling including collaborating with network and school leadership on the development of a master schedule meeting deadlines to ensure schedule is accurately updated in Infinite Campus and developing and maintaining processes aimed to ensure with 100 of students scheduled by the first day of school and regularly updated as enrollment changes occur
Attendance including oversight on accurate and timely attendance and systems and coordination that support that across the operations and school teams
Campus Instruction & Culture Systems: Develop and implement systems that support strong conditions for teaching and learning
Site Assessment Leadership including coordination with network and school staff to plan for and execute assessments in alignment with network district and state standards
Athletics and Activities including oversight on facility scheduling onsite management of activity buses to ensure safety and compliance
Technology including setting vision for executing technology rollouts and checkins in partnership with school and network staff; coordination and monitoring with onsite IT to ensure students and staff have access to the technology; developing contingency plans alongside school leadership for internet or other tech outages
Culture Systems including coordination with school leadership on developing and executing systems that support consistent valuesbased culture and discipline across multiple functions
Network Leadership 10
Regularly participate in and share best practices at Operations team professional training and development
Contribute to the planning and of training and development for front office staff
Create training materials and actively contribute to a community of practice of operations staff
Collaborate with the Home Office Operations team and other School Operations Leaders to continually elevate challenges and to proactively improve operational processes networkwide
Additional Duties:
Recruit and hire school faculty
Serve as a recruiter for new students; actively engage prospective families in an effort to draw more students to choose your school; be willing to take on additional tasks to support recruitment as needed.
Participate in network wide Leadership Development
Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree from an accredited university
At least 5 years working in schools including at least 2 years in K12 school administrative or operations leadership
At least 2 years of managing direct reports in a schoolbased setting
Demonstrated ability to coach manage and lead adults to successful outcomes
Classification: Exempt
Reports to: School Director
WHO WE ARE
At DSST Public Schools we are proud to be the largest and highestperforming network of public charter schools in Denver and Aurora with 100 of our students having been accepted into college or post secondary programs since our inception in 2004. When you join DSST you play a part in ensuring all 7500 students at our 16 schools have access to a transformational and joyful education.
INTERVIEW EXPECTATIONS
For most of our positions we hire on a rolling basis. Therefore we recommend that you submit your application as soon as you are able! You can learn more about what to expect in our interview process here.
WHY JOIN DSST
At DSST we know that our people are the greatest asset we have in reaching our mission of eliminating educational inequity. We work hard to build a work culture that allows our staff to not only feel fulfilled by the work they do but also feel supported to live a joyful healthy life. We want this work to be your lifes work. Check out why our teachers love working at DSST as well as our benefits website to learn how we deliver on our commitment to the human condition.
Health and Supplemental Insurance: DSST staff have access to comprehensive medical benefits including fertility benefits and a mental health counselor that is dedicated solely to DSST staff.
Time Off: DSST Staff enjoy 11 weeks off per year paid PTO (from Day 1!
Professional Development: As a learning organization DSST values both internal and external development opportunities for staff. See some examples below:
DSST Back to School Development Series including New Staff Institute New Educator Institute New Leader Institute Leader You and Teaching & Learning Institute.
Weekly 1:1 Coaching from a School Administrator at your campus.
Clear internal career pathway opportunities such as our Apprentice Teachers Emerging Leaders and School Director in Training Programs. Read more here.
And more!
DSST COMMUNITY REFERRAL PROGRAM
Not a best fit role for you but know someone else who would be a great fit Refer them here and earn $500 if they are hired!
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION
DSST Public Schools is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not exclude participation in deny benefits to or discriminate on the basis of race color religion National origin sex (including pregnancy and related conditions sexual orientation or gender identity) Age 40 and older) Disability Genetic information (including employer requests for or purchase use or disclosure of genetic tests genetic services or family medical history) retaliation for filing a charge reasonably opposing discrimination or participating in a discrimination lawsuit investigation or proceeding in admission or access to or treatment or employment in its programs and activities.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is active and may require standing walking bending kneeling stooping and crouching throughout the day. The employee must lift and/or move items up to 30 pounds. The employee must have sufficient hand arm and finger dexterity to operate a computer keyboard and other office equipment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
