Director of College Success (2025-2026 School Year)[Immediate Start]

POSITION: Campus Director of College Success

GRADE LEVEL: High School

LOCATION: Green Valley Ranch. See our current openings here.

SALARY: $72000-$87000 based on years of aligned experience up to 6 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 in-person 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 well-organized and is detail-oriented.

  • Mentors and coaches staff members with challenging but manageable assignments to encourage growth; identify and systematically develops future leaders.

• Culture (15%)

  • Establishes a school college-going 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 college-going 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 college-going best practices.

• Systems (20%)

  • Able to implement data and program systems that sweat the small stuff maximize the college-going 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 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 network-wide new college team professional development; create school-specific 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 K-12 or higher education college experience or like experience

• Have an unwavering belief that all students can succeed reach their most ambitious post-secondary goals and lead exemplary lives

• Have a desire to continuously improve including to grow personally and professionally in their practice of becoming an anti-racist 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 achieve transformational results for our 7500 students 97% of whom attend a Green (top-rated) school. Just as important is how we achieve them: values-centered human-focused and together.

We invite educators and leaders who share our belief that there is more in us more brilliance more courage more possibility to join us.

Our Impact

• 100% of DSST graduates have been admitted to college or a postsecondary program

• 15 of 16 schools rated Green on the 202425 SPF

• 9 out of 10 DSST families would recommend DSST to a friend

• 95% of staff say their managers check in regularly and care about them as people

Why Work at DSST

At DSST our Quantum 5 Culture defines how we help every team member grow belong and thrive.

• Comprehensive Compensation & Benefits: Competitive pay and a Total Rewards package that includes fertility and adoption support educator-focused mental-health care and everyday perks like Safeway grocery discounts.

• Growth & Opportunity: Weekly 1:1 coaching data-driven feedback and clear career pathways such as Apprentice Teacher and Emerging Leader.

• Rewards & Recognition: Core Value and TOAST Awards milestone celebrations and the signature Flower Person Award honoring staff who help our community flourish.

• Whole Human Wellness: Access to the Therapist of Color Collaborative Wellness Wednesdays comprehensive health coverage and six weeks of paid parental leave.

• Thriving in Colorado: Time to recharge with 11 weeks off each year relocation support for out of state applicants and local discounts that help you enjoy life in our beautiful sunshine filled state.

Learn more about our Quantum 5 Culture and Compensation & Benefits.

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.