Campus Director of College Success (2025-2026 School Year)
Campus Director of College Success (2025-2026 School Year)
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$ 72000 - 87000
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Job Description
POSITION: Campus Director of College Success
GRADE LEVEL: High School
LOCATION: Hiring at multiple locations. See our current openings here.
SALARY: $72000$87000 based on years of aligned 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 year round benefits eligible exempt inperson position
START: First day of new staff training at the end of July. You can view the current school year calendar here.
KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
The Director of College Success is the college culture leader on campus and is responsible for leading the school team in ensuring DSST Public School students have ample and viable college matriculation options and the knowledge skills and mindsets they need to truly succeed in college.
Leadership (30%)
DSST Mission Driven: shares a sense of urgency about achievement for ALL students and preparing every student for post secondary success.
Inspires students families staff and others to believe in and reflect the schools mission high expectations and values. Includes morning meetings seminars family workshops and engagement professional development.
Demonstrates a high level of professional maturity including emotional constancy the ability to bring out the best in others and motivates others.
Carefully manages tasks and time is wellorganized and is detailoriented.
Mentors and coaches staff members with challenging but manageable assignments to encourage growth; identify and systematically develops future leaders.
Culture (15%)
Establishes a school collegegoing culture that is centered on core values that ultimately shows deep care for each individual and holds each student and staff member to the highest level of accountability.
Build relationships with teachers and other members of the administration team in order to positively impact school college culture and results.
Creates a professional learning community in which teachers collaborate on and refine collegegoing culture and practices at the school using achievement data student work and their own observations/experiences.
Ensures effective communication with families with respect to student academic performance programs and collegegoing best practices.
Systems (20%)
Able to implement data and program systems that sweat the small stuff maximize the collegegoing programmatic goals of the school and are scalable as the school grows.
Develops solutions to complex problems that involve multiple stakeholders and steps.
Develops a planning process that identifies students highest priorities.
People and Program Structural/Programmatic Responsibilities (25%)
Recruit hire and manage college success team to effectively accomplish goals
Develops individual team members to utilize strengths and achieve professional goals
Develops coaching documents and structure to support team to grow
Leads team to think critically about college success curriculum including objectives standards and transition plans for exceptional students
Work with DSST Home Office to create networkwide new college team professional development; create schoolspecific new and returning college professional development.
Administrative Responsibilities: (10%):
Work alongside leadership team to ensure that school academic and student culture create an environment where students will have multiple college options and succeed in college
Assist in as a student recruitment efforts; actively engage prospective families in an effort to draw more students to choose your school
Additional duties as assigned that support academic and school culture (ie: school GPA lead school PSAT/SAT culture lead school SSD lead)
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelors degree
2 years in K12 or higher education college experience or like experience
have an unwavering belief that all students can succeed reach their most ambitious postsecondary goals and lead exemplary lives
have a desire to continuously improve including to grow personally and professionally in their practice of becoming an antiracist educator
Strong data acumen and ability to draw trends and synthesis from data as well as respond to strengths and gaps in data
IDEAL QUALIFICATIONS
Proven commitment to and experience with serving students of color students with disabilities and/or multilingual students
At least 2 years classroom teaching experience
At least 2 years of college access or college admissions experience
Spanish language proficiency
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
