Crossroads School Associate Dean of College Counseling
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The candidate must have excellent listening, organizational and communication skills. Public speaking experience, multi-tasking ability and comfort with a fast-paced environment are expectations. The best candidates will possess an easy-going personality, a great sense of humor, a fully charged work ethic and a love of working with teenagers. More specifically, the ideal Associate Dean of College Counseling will be skilled at, and excited to provide individualized and specific college counseling services for students with a range of interests and talents across a full socioeconomic and human spectrum; preference will be given to those candidates who combine expertise in all of the aforementioned with one or more of the following strengths:
- Spanish language fluency
- Standardized testing administration and/or experience with learning differences
- University of California and NCAA course approval and management
- Financial Aid
- Intersectional work experience as a classroom teacher and/or Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion practitioner.
- Recent experience as an undergraduate college admissions officer
- Athletic Recruiting
- Visual and Performing Arts portfolio-based applicants
- Experience working with Test Prep companies, college touring companies, and other 3rd party relationships
- Experience working with the web-based platform SCOIR
Primary Responsibilities (these may vary depending on the hiring timeline):
- Meet with seniors as needed to create and finalize college lists, review essays, proofread/edit applications, etc.
- Author highly personalized letters of recommendation for high school seniors.
- Participate in all office-sponsored programming (including the occasional nights and weekends) and show enthusiasm for enhancing or reimagining programming.
- Participate in the larger Crossroads School community via a wide-range of campus-wide programs and events.
- Commit to engage in community-wide Equity and Social Justice programming, dialogue and activism.
- Utilize college counseling technology (i.e.: Scoir, Blackbaud, Google Docs) to both guide students through the college selection process and manage enrollment data.
- Show willingness to learn technological skills and/or systems in order to manage and assess current practices.
- Handle highly sensitive material with discretion.
- Engage in professional development opportunities, such as visiting colleges and universities throughout the academic year and representing Crossroads at national and regional college admission counseling conferences.
- Meet with college representatives (both on campus and through professional development opportunities) in order to establish and/or develop collegial relationships.
- Collaborate with the College Counseling team to author communications for internal and external use.
Qualifications
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Bachelor’s degree required/Master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in college counseling and/or college admissions, higher education, classroom teaching and/or other school-based advising/counseling practice.
- Outstanding written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
- Strong critical thinking abilities surrounding trends and best-practices in the college to career landscape.
- Technological proficiency and an openness to learn, including an openness to learn from students.
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills