Director of Enrollment

Responsibilities

• Enrollment Strategy, Management & Execution:
• Design and implement a dynamic, multi-faceted, year-round enrollment strategy that yields year-over-year exceptional results.
• Collaborate with the Chief Schools Officer, Deputy Superintendents, and all School Leaders to ensure enrollment strategy is appropriate for the context of each school.
• Provide strategic oversight for student enrollment. Lead enrollment strategy meetings and coach and prepare a member of the enrollment team to do the same in your stead.
• Lead cross-functional efforts on implementation of enrollment strategy, including managing the enrollment budget, managing external partners and contractors, and ensuring a robust marketing strategy to support enrollment in partnership with the Chief Operating Officer or their designee.
• Manage, train, and coach our central office enrollment and canvassing team, with dotted line oversight during enrollment season of members of our school-based operations teams who are directly involved in their school's enrollment processes.
• Lead partnership with the Marketing & Communications Team to plan and execute social media campaigns that engage current and prospective families.
• Manage our application portal and SchoolMint, and evaluate enrollment systems to ensure ease of use from all stakeholders.
• Participate in on-the-ground canvassing efforts as necessary to provide coaching and feedback for canvassers and to provide change management if and where necessary.
• Build and maintain mutually beneficial community relationships that will ultimately assist enrollment recruitment and retention efforts.
• Be an ambassador of DPPS in local communities we serve and work to ensure that your designees are the same.
• Student Retention Strategy, Management & Execution
• Create, communicate, and support bottom lines for Democracy Prep Schools approach to student retention and re-enrollment.
• Create, refine, and implement student retention strategies that meet the unique needs of each Democracy Prep school.
• Oversee the developme

Requirements

• You are a highly motivated collaborator who identifies problems, understands root causes, and proposes potential for change.
• You are an enthusiastic teammate with an unwavering commitment to the Democracy Prep mission of college success and authentic civic engagement for our scholars.
• You are an organized, data-driven project manager that utilizes your content-matter expertise to partner with teams, schools, and other leaders to develop strong systems and solutions.
• You have a demonstrated record of achieving aggressive results and the ability to establish meaningful metrics to support data-driven decisions.
• You are a strong communicator (written and oral) who adapts to fit the needs of the audience in order to build a sense of shared purpose and progress forward.
• You bring maturity, humility, a strong work ethic, and a sense of humor to DPPS.
• You are highly responsive to and think critically about feedback and work to implement change in the right ways at the right time.
• You believe deeply in engaging families in school communities in meaningful ways, knowing that family involvement and investment is key to maintaining a thriving school system.
• You have the ability to reflect on school-facing systems using varied data from diverse sources, and challenging the status quo when necessary.
• 5+ years of operational leadership experience, ideally with community organizing, marketing, and charter school student recruiting and enrollment (preferred) and are a graduate of a Bachelor's degree program (required).

Additional Information

Director of Enrollment About Democracy Prep Public Schools Democracy Prep educates responsible citizen-scholars for success in the college of their choice AND for lives of active citizenship. In close partnership with families, we empower young people with the skills and values to flourish as community leaders who will strengthen our American democracy and change the world! With direction from the Chief Operating Officer, our Director of Enrollment sets the strategy for all student recruitment, enrollment, and retention efforts for the 10 schools in the Democracy Prep Public Schools network. Through their project management and data analytics skills, along with their solutions-oriented mindset, attention to detail, and stellar partnership abilities, the Director of Enrollment will lead the charge to make sure that families in our communities apply to our schools and that we are hitting our enrollment, student retention and family satisfaction targets every year at every campus.

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