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Director of K12 and Post Secondary

Martha Obryan Center
8 hours ago
Full-time
On-site
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Bachelor's, Master's

Department: K12 and Postsecondary Success

Reports to: Chief Program Officer

Location: Nashville, TN

Full Time/Part Time: Full Time

Regular/Temporary: Regular

FLSA Classification: Exempt

 

POSITION SUMMARY

The Director of K12 and Postsecondary Success provides leadership and direction to Martha O’Bryan Center’s elementary and middle school afterschool and summer programs, high school Academic Student Unions (ASUs) and postsecondary success program. This role ensures high quality academic and social emotional support, college and career readiness programming and family engagement as students transition from elementary school through postsecondary education and career launch.

With a strong belief that all students deserve the opportunity to succeed, the Director leads the development and implementation of evidence-based programs that focus on academic achievement, social-emotional learning, college and career planning, family engagement, and student success. Working closely with school and community partners, this position drives high quality programming, strong grants management and compliance, high quality data collection and analysis, budget oversight, and continuous improvement across multiple sites.


ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

  • Provide leadership and strategic oversight for K-8 Afterschool, Academic Student Union (ASU), and Postsecondary Success programs, ensuring alignment with MOBC’s strategic framework, funding priorities, student success outcomes, and best practices in youth development.
  • Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of out of school time and college access programming focused on academic achievement, social-emotional development, college and career planning, workforce readiness, and family engagement.
  • Ensure all programs operate in full compliance with grant requirements and funder expectations including data collection, reporting, time allocation and achievement of program outcomes.
  • Develop and maintain a seamless K-12-to-postsecondary pathway that supports successful transitions from elementary school through postsecondary education and employment, with a commitment to increasing academic achievement, college enrollment, persistence, credential attainment, and career success.
  • Oversee the day-to-day operations of the K-12 and Postsecondary department across multiple sites. Coordinate staff time and preparation, ensuring that all sites maintain appropriate ratios and staffing.
  • Collaborate across MOBC’s community and school programming to ensure comprehensive student and caregiver supports.
  • Build and sustain partnerships with school leaders, funders, educators, postsecondary institutions, employers, and community organizations to expand opportunities, strengthen student supports, and align programming with educational and workforce needs.
  • Supervise and train site coordinators, tutors, peer mentors, interns and volunteers across multiple sites.
  • Support a data curious culture with a strong focus toward program evaluation, data collection, and performance measurement efforts; utilize data to assess program effectiveness, monitor student outcomes, inform decision-making, and strengthen organizational reporting.
  • Manage all aspects of program funding and grants. Includes researching funding opportunities, proposal writing in partnership with the Chief Program Officer and MOBC grant writers. 
  • Serve as a part of the MOBC Senior Leadership team, providing expertise and feedback to the Center’s operational and strategic framework.
  • Serves as team lead for marketing and recruitment efforts, community engagement activities, and required professional development and training. These efforts frequently require atypical hours including nights and weekends and at times regional and overnight travel.


MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.

 

Education and Experience: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Education, Social Work, Higher Education or related field. Master’s degree strongly preferred.
  • Minimum of three years of progressively responsible leadership experience in youth development, education, college access, postsecondary success, workforce development, or related social service programs.
  • Demonstrated experience supervising and developing teams across multiple sites or programs.
  • Experience managing grants, contracts, budgets, and compliance requirements, including government and foundation-funded initiatives.
  • Experience developing and implementing programs that support academic achievement, social-emotional development, college access, career readiness, and postsecondary success.

The above qualifications express the minimum standards of education and/or experience for this position. Other combinations of education and experience, if evaluated as equivalent, may be taken into consideration.


Knowledge and Abilities:

  • Strong understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing students and families in under-resourced communities and the impact of poverty on educational and career outcomes.
  • Knowledge of best practices in youth development, out-of-school-time programming, college access, career planning, postsecondary persistence, and student success.
  • Ability to build and sustain effective partnerships with K-12 schools, postsecondary institutions, employers, community organizations, and other stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to collect, analyze, interpret, and communicate data to inform program decisions, evaluate outcomes, and support continuous improvement.
  • Ability to lead strategic planning, manage multiple priorities, and translate organizational goals into measurable results.
  • Strong leadership, coaching, and team development skills, with the ability to foster accountability, collaboration, and high performance.
  • Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex information to diverse audiences.
  • Strong project management, organizational, and financial management skills, including budget oversight and resource stewardship.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality, exercise sound judgment, and build credibility through professionalism, integrity, and discretion.
  • Ability to look at numbers, trends, and data, and come to conclusions based on findings.
  • Ability to find, manipulate, and interpret data effectively to inform programming decisions.
  • Ability to communicate complex ideas.
  • Strong interpersonal skills; excellent customer service skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Builds and maintains positive relationships with internal and external constituents.
  • Strong organizational skills.
  • Strong time management skills; uses time effectively; consistently meets deadlines.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Maintains a high level of confidentiality regarding sensitive information.
  • Documents regularly, thoroughly, accurately, and completely.
  • High level of detail and accuracy.
  • Computer literate including familiarity with word processing, spreadsheet, database, desk top publishing software, email and the internet.


Special Demands:

The special demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a staff member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.


  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
  • Child Care Provider’s Medical Report required.
  • Frequent nights, weekends and local travel required.



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