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

DSST Public Schools • Denver, CO

1d • $72,000 - $87,000 • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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 school’s 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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)

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.
• Weekly 1:1 coaching, data-driven feedback, and clear career pathways such as Apprentice Teacher and Emerging Leader.
• Core Value and TOAST Awards, milestone celebrations, and the signature Flower Person Award honoring staff who help our community flourish.
• Access to the Therapist of Color Collaborative, Wellness Wednesdays, comprehensive health coverage, and six weeks of paid parental leave.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director