Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running the largest, fastest-growing, and highest-performing network of public charter schools in New York City takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates and supporters alike. We would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure each child in NYC has access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through the doors of one of our 49 schools in NYC a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.

Job Description

Project Manager, University & Alumni Relations

High School & College Access and Preparedness

Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running the largest, fastest-growing, and highest-performing network of public charter schools in New York City takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates and supporters alike. We would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure each child in NYC has access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through the doors of one of our 49 schools in NYC a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.

About Success Academy Charter Schools

At Success Academy, we are redefining what's possible in public education by creating an innovative K-12 school model that is preparing current and future generations of children with the subject mastery and skills to succeed in college and life. We are seeking leaders with an entrepreneurial spirit and a high standard of excellence to propel our efforts to put thousands of New York City kids on a trajectory of educational excellence.

We are set apart by our intensive focus on college preparedness, ensuring that our mainly minority and low-income students gain not only admission to college but also the preparedness skills to flourish in and graduate from college in four years. We celebrated the college graduations of our founding scholars in the spring of 2023, along the graduation of our sixth class of HS seniors. Now, as we further grow our High Schools in the coming years, we need a results-driven University & Alumni Relations Project Manager to play an integral founding role on our Network-level High School and College Access & Preparedness team.

Our University & Alumni Relations Project Manager will have the unique opportunity to build and scale our university and alumni relations strategy and programs, as we prepare to graduate hundreds of seniors each year across our multiple High Schools. As we scale, we will not only sustain, but improve upon our record of college matriculation and retention. This position reports to the Associate Director of Partnerships, within High School & College Access & Preparedness.

Key responsibilities:

• Steward our institutional strategy to build relationships with colleges and universities, with a focus on outreach to selective, full-need universities
  
• Build and maintain relationship management systems between the HSCAP team and our college counterparts in college admissions, pre-college programs, diversity and outreach, financial aid advising, academic advising, and other offices as appropriate, using Salesforce
  
• Manage and report out on alumni outcomes data
  
• Scale and execute on our Alumni Association membership surveys and programs
  
• Update our college partners on HSCAP and alumni achievements
  
• Develop and manage a scope and sequence of college visits and tours: for scholars to visit colleges, and for university leaders to visit SA
  

Key accountabilities:

• Develop systems and programs to collect and report out on alumni academic outcomes, majors, and learnings
  
• Cultivate a culture of leadership and service within the SA Alumni Association
  
• Partner with school-based CAP teams to ensure that at least 90% of selective, full-need colleges have SA alumni on campus
  
• Motivate and inspire at least 50% of SA alumni to be active members of the Alumni Association on an annual basis
  
• Ensure that 100% of institutional needs for alumni engagement are met on an annual basis
  

We invite you to apply if you:

• Have a Bachelor's degree;
  
• Possess impeccable attention to detail, and written and verbal communication skills;
  
• Are a driven learner who is deeply aligned to the Success Academy vision of joyful rigor in our academic community;
  
• Enthusiastically seek the satisfaction of successfully managing highly complex projects in service of closing the college access and preparedness gap;
  
• Are able to form strong working relationships with a wide range of constituents, including, but not limited to: higher education executives and leaders, college admissions deans, pre-college program managers, financial aid officers, and college-age alumni;
  
• Seek to work at a fast-paced, highly collaborative, compassionate, start-up organization, where entrepreneurialism, innovation, feedback, and disrupting the status quo for the benefit of children are valorized, and;
  
• Are intimately familiar with the student experience of being first-generation, low-income, and/or an underrepresented minority on a college campus (preferred).
  

As you go about your work, you:

• Are output and data driven. You are less interested in how much effort you put in and more interested in the results you achieved - and driven to achieve high impact results, at that.
  
• Are a change agent. Our raison d'etre is to re-imagine public education, to break things and reconfigure them; we insist that our higher education partners join us in our mission.
  
• Design and innovate with scalability and excellence in mind.
  

Compensation range:

• Annual Salary: Starting at $80,000.
  
• Exact compensation may vary based on skills and experience.
  

Already an employee of Success Academies?

• Please go to your Okta Dashboard> Workday> Applications> Career to apply via our Internal Careers page.
  

To apply, please upload a cover letter and resume that outlines your candidacy. Your cover letter should explain in detail your qualifications for the position as they relate to the job description as well as any anecdotes you feel differentiate your candidacy.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to flourish in a multicultural world. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth. Learn more about our philosophy, benefits, and team at https://jobs.successacademies.org/working-here/ .

Compensation Range
Annual Salary: $80,000.00 - $85,000.00
Exact compensation may vary based on skills and experience.

Already an employee of Success Academies? Please go to your Okta Dashboard> Workday> Applications> Career to apply via our Internal Careers page.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to flourish in a multicultural world. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth. Learn more about our philosophy, benefits, and team at https://jobs.successacademies.org/working-here/ .

Success Academy Charter Schools does not offer employment-based immigration sponsorship.