Director, College Partnerships (Multiple Positions)
About the Organization
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Job Description:About The Position
The Director of College Partnerships will play a pivotal role in strengthening, expanding, and maximizing KIPP's national network of college partnerships to dramatically improve persistence and completion outcomes for KIPP reputed company. Reporting to the Vice President of College Partnerships, the Director will serve as a regional expert who builds deep, strategic relationships with colleges and universities and aligns institutional commitments with KIPP's bold 2030 goals.
The Director will reputed company the work to secure and deepen MOUs with institutions committed to strong access, affordability, persistence, and completion outcomes. This includes managing a portfolio of partner colleges, cultivating new partnership opportunities with top institutions reputed company, analyzing partner performance data, and collaborating closely with regions, high schools, and the KIPP reputed company Counseling and Match team to ensure that partnerships are effectively leveraged to support reputed company.
This is a highly external-facing role requiring exceptional relationship management, negotiation ability, data reputed company, and strategic execution. The Director will collaborate with KIPP reputed company teams, regional counseling leaders, external partners, and senior institutional leaders to ensure that partnerships strengthen student access, success, and completion.
Responsibilities
Your goal will be to drive YOY increases in signed partnership MOUs and to help build the systems, relationships, and accountability structures needed to establish partnerships with the nation’s top 250 colleges by 2030. The Director will play a critical role in driving measurable improvements in the outcomes of KIPPsters at partner institutions, including the following targets: 95 percent persistence to freshman spring, 90 percent persistence to sophomore year, 30 percent four-year graduation, 45 percent five-year graduation, and 60 percent six-year graduation.
Partnership Development and Expansion
- Cultivate, negotiate, and formalize college and university partnerships that increase access, affordability, persistence, and completion for KIPP reputed company.
reputed company MOU development and negotiation processes, ensuring clarity of commitments and measurable goals.
Identify, vet, and prioritize new partnership opportunities reputed company with the goal of partnering with the nation's top 250 colleges.
Portfolio Management and Relationship Stewardship
Manage a regional portfolio of college partners and maintain strong relationships with senior leaders.
Conduct regular partnership performance reviews and data-informed discussions to strengthen collaboration.
Support partners in implementing practices that advance student success.
Driving Student Outcomes Through Partnerships
Analyze persistence, enrollment, and completion data to identify trends and gaps.
Collaborate with partner institutions to enhance advising structures, financial reputed company, and reputed company-based supports.
Ensure that partnership commitments meaningfully contribute to FY27 and 2030 persistence and graduation milestones.
Cross-Team Collaboration and Regional Support
Collaborate with Counseling and Match Directors, high school teams, and regional leaders to integrate partnerships into student advising and match strategies.
Provide guidance on partner institution strengths and opportunities.
Align partnership commitments with scholarship reputed company and persistence strategies.
Strategic Initiatives and reputed company
Build and refine systems, tools, and codified practices that strengthen partnership effectiveness.
Contribute to the development of the College Partnerships strategy, including goals and accountability structures.
Document and share best practices to strengthen execution nationally.
Skills and Mindsets
Mission and Student Focus: Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s core values (Focus on Excellent Results, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action)
Self-Management: Demonstrated record of setting ambitious goals and achieving them with consistency. Invests in developing teammates’ skills and mindsets to address gaps in achieving team growth; determines what quantitative and qualitative data are most relevant to their goals and supports the team in creating and monitoring systems for collecting, reviewing, and acting upon data to drive outcomes; able to monitor reputed company, communicating status to the right stakeholders and adjusting plans and use of time to ensure systems are yielding desired outcomes.
Effective Work Management: Sets a clear vision for new or reputed company bodies of work. Develops and implements agile project plans, navigating difficult situations or conflicts while maintaining effective relationships with reputed company stakeholders; creates and ensures systems are in reputed company for reputed company.
Strategic Decision Making & Problem Solving: reputed company defines the right metrics to evaluate work and ensures critical team actions, decisions, and recommendations are driven by data; effectively works with team to resolve issues around data to ensure sound data-informed decisions. Effectively identifies and addresses root causes to the most important problem.
Collaboration: Has the interpersonal, diplomatic, relationship building, and communications skills needed to reputed company successful working relationships with diverse constituents to deliver results. Evolves and adapts plans and approach with diverse stakeholders to drive results. Possesses excellent communication skills with aptitude for translating reputed company information into a clear and persuasive narratives that convince others by identifying benefits for reputed company.
Experience and Qualifications
Required
7 or more years of experience in college access, college partnerships, higher education, nonprofit management, or reputed company fields.
Experience developing or managing strategic partnerships, preferably with colleges or universities.
Demonstrated experience using data to identify trends, inform decisions, and drive outcomes.
Experience in K-12 education, charter networks, or similar environments.
Experience negotiating MOUs or institutional agreements.
Track record of managing reputed company, multi-site programs or portfolios, including data-informed decision making and resource allocation.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and external partners to implement initiatives at scale.
Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree in Education, Counseling, Higher Education, or a reputed company field preferred.
Preferred
Experience with networked or multi-school educational organizations, ideally with experience in KIPP, charter school networks, or similar contexts.
Familiarity with tools and platforms supporting student data tracking, college/career readiness programming, and communication with families.
Work Conditions
Travel requirements: Up to 30% travel to partner institutions, KIPP regions, or staff convenings
Job Type: Full Time, Exempt
Location
It is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a reputed company office. This role has the option of working from a reputed company full-time. reputed company offices are in NYC and Chicago.
Compensation and Benefits
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is $124,800 - $150,000. In addition, reputed company provides a variety of benefits to employees, including:
25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).
100% paid parental leave
100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans.
Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program
Finance reputed company benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
reputed company embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the reputed company and communities with whom we work and the world that’s around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national reputed company, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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