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College Affairs Program Manager (East Palo Alto)

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About College Track:
Founded in 1997, College Track is a national non-profit organization that empowers students to achieve their dream of a college education. This organization exists to increase high school graduation, enrollment, and college graduation rates among students from low-income communities, thereby closing the achievement gap for students who are under-represented in higher education. Our results are strong: more than 90% of our students are accepted to 4-year colleges, 50% of our students graduate from college (nearly 2.5 times the national average for low-income students) and 85% of our students are the first in their families to earn a college degree.
Since its inception, College Track has grown each year; College Track currently supports close to 1600 high school and college students at centers in East Palo Alto, Oakland, San Francisco, New Orleans, Aurora, Colorado and Los Angeles. Additionally, College Track has over 60 full time staff members and close to 300 part time employees. By providing comprehensive college access services to students over the course of 8-10 years, from the summer before high school through college graduation, College Track ensures that each of its students has the resources needed to get into and graduate from college. In four years, a College Track student receives support equivalent to one extra year of high school. In the next five years, College Track will double the number of students served and triple the number of college graduates, maximizing their impact as the premier college completion program in the nation.
To learn more, please visit www.collegetrack.org
Position:
The College Affairs Manager will manage the elements of the College Affairs Program that pertain to our rising 9ththrough 11th grade students, which are designed to prepare College Track students for success in college admissions, financial readiness, and college completion.
Primary Responsibilities:
  • Direct Practice: Teach College Advisory Workshops and work with students on a one-on-one basis.
  • Staff Management: Manage the hiring, training and daily supervision of part-time staff and volunteers; engage and support staff members as they support students at the Scholarship Help Desk and in College Advisory Workshops.
  • Individual Student Planning and Monitoring: Ensure students complete College Affairs student requirements, which include scholarship submissions and attendance at advisory workshops, college fairs, college representative visits, and college tours.
  • Site Team Support: Work closely with entire College Track site team to ensure fluid and effective programming, from 4:00pm to 7:00pm, Monday to Friday, with occasional Saturday events.
  • Planning: Implement and improve College Affairs Program plan, including important dates related to scholarship application deadlines, college Advisory workshops, and Advisory curriculum for students.
  • Management of Services and Resources: Manage and update scholarship and College Affairs Events Boards
  • Program Performance and Reporting: Assess quality of program operations according to the site's College Affairs standards and report three times yearly on progress against College Track Student Requirements.
  • Budget Management: Monitor and meet the expense budget for College Affairs program.
  • New Projects: Projects as assigned by the College Completion Director or Site Director.
Qualifications:
First and foremost, the College Affairs Manager must embrace the College Track vision of transforming low-income communities into places where college readiness and college graduation are the norms. Additionally, candidates must posses the following qualifications:
  • Minimum 4-year college degree
  • Minimum 3-5 of experience working directly to support students to excel academically
  • Results-driven; commitment to utilizing data to take informed action
  • Desire to create, implement, and improve programs that work for each student
  • Exceptional organizational skills; keen attention to detail
  • Strong interpersonal skills and collaborative attitude
  • Outstanding problem-solving skills
  • Ability to initiate, foster and leverage contacts from diverse networks to achieve outcomes
  • Excellent communication skills (both written and oral)
  • Unflappable self-starter who has ability to effectively manage wide range of tasks and projects
  • Strong learning orientation; accepts and incorporates direct feedback
  • Goal-oriented and strong commitment to meeting goals; dedication to helping students achieve their goal of 
college completion
  • High level of self-awareness, humility, and emotional intelligence
  • Demonstrate the ability to meet and maintain federal, state, local and College Track guidelines
Compensation and Benefits:
College Track offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

How to apply

Submit cover letter and resume to jenny@collegetrack.organd cc: employment@collegetrack.org.
Please include "East Palo Alto College Affairs Program Manger" in the subject line.

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