Manager of Transition to High School - Chicago - Chicago Jesuit Academy

Description

Applicants should submit a resume and cover letter.

Students who attend Chicago Jesuit Academy (CJA) will be the next generation of leaders in the City of Chicago. Talented people who wish to be employed by Chicago Jesuit Academy must demonstrate a past and continued commitment to academic excellence, professional development and the Jesuit ideal of being people for others. Strong candidates are disciplined workers, compassionate listeners and tireless advocates for the children they serve. Most importantly, they recognize that Chicago Jesuit Academy will ask them to approach their work as a vocation and make substantial contributions of their time and talents in the service of the students, alumni and families of CJA.

Reporting to the Director of High School Bridge, the Manager of Transition to High School serves as a member of the College & Career Persistence Team and the High School Bridge Team. The Manager of Transition to High School oversees the relationships with high schools, develops tools for high school research, develops processes for evaluating best-fit high schools and enrolling and supporting CJA students and HSB students attending those schools. A successful candidate will ensure that the team has clear, succinct, and distilled processes for high school applications, admissions and enrollment so that students and alumni have access to best-fit high schools.

Essential functions:

• Refine and maintain a curated list of well-vetted, high quality high schools that serve students across diverse learning, social-emotional, economic, financial and geographic needs.
• Refine and maintain a process for collecting information about each high school including information about educational outcomes, safety, information for students and families to contact as references, and clear information about the financial aid process at each school.
• Lead the team through clear processes for applications to public, private and charter schools within the curated lists.
• Support with onboarding new team members to help them learn about the high school landscape and application processes for each type of school.
• Develop and maintain the high school stewardship system that supports grade entry, recommendations, testing, application completion, high school visits and data aggregation.
• Work with the High School Bridge leadership team to evaluate, design and implement programming to best support both students and counselors at each grade level.
• Manage the content for Wednesday Weeklies, a newsletter used to communicate with students' families, for CJA and each of our partner schools.
• Support a caseload of students by actively communicating and engaging with students, alumni and families and coordinating services and supports for various student/alumni issues.
• Update and maintain interactions with alumni confidentially in the Salesforce database.
• Execute other duties as assigned.

The ideal candidate should:

• Have a bachelor's degree and at least 3-5 years of experience in education, social work or non-profit including direct work with youth from disinvested communities.
• Have a sincere commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion with a belief that all children deserve equitable access to a high-quality education.
• Possess strong relationship-building skills including the ability to navigate challenging conversations across lines of difference and to listen sincerely and effectively.
• Be detail oriented with exceptional organizational skills.
• Be willing to admit a mistake, ask for help and receive feedback.
• Actively engage in the life of the school and community.

Chicago Jesuit Academy Mission Statement

Mission: Chicago Jesuit Academy is a loving and academically rigorous tuition-free Catholic elementary school for students and families from resilient communities impacted by historical disinvestment. We accompany our students and alumni from enrollment through the start of their careers as they develop their gifts and grow as men and women for others.

Means: Located in Austin on Chicago's West Side, CJA admits students to all grades in our lower and middle school without regard for their race, ethnicity or religion, and CJA enrolls 3rd-, 4th- and 5th-grade students without regard for their past levels of academic achievement.

We use small class sizes, extended school days and an 11-month school year to give personal care to our students and help them develop as whole persons.

We accompany our alumni on their unique paths to meaningful employment and support them throughout high school, their post-secondary education and the start of their careers, always welcoming them back as leaders at CJA and in the broader community.

CJA students, alumni, parents, faculty, staff, volunteers and benefactors listen to and learn from one another and make disciplined sacrifices to accomplish our shared mission.

We partner with other schools and the broader community to create access to better educational resources, confront systemic racism and remove obstacles to educational equity.

We call one another to find God in all things and be men and women for others who are open to growth, loving, religious, intellectually competent and committed to doing justice.

Chicago Jesuit Academy, in accordance with our Jesuit tradition, is committed to fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff and students, as well as ensuring equal educational opportunity, employment, and access to services, programs and activities, without regard to an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristic or military status. Employees, students, applicants or other members of the CJA community (including but not limited to vendors, visitors, and guests) may not be subjected to harassment that is prohibited by law, or treated adversely or retaliated against based upon a protected identity.

Applicants should submit a resume and cover letter.