Director of Student Experience

Job Description: Director of Student Experience
Classification: Full-time, Salaried, Exempt (12 month)
Reports to: Assistant Head of School
Salary Range: $80,000 - $100,000

Job Summary:
The Director of the Student Experience should welcome the opportunity to work at a boarding school campus with adolescent girls and have the ability to lead a vibrant, engaging, and forward-thinking student experience program in collaboration with students, their parents, and faculty and staff colleagues. The Director of Student Experience provides overall strategic leadership, program development, and day-to-day management of the Office of Student Experience. The Director ofStudent Experience is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the daily, lived experience of students on our residential campus including leadership and developmental appropriate programming, restorative practices, student accountability, honor council, clubs, and service learning. In addition, the Director of Student Experience will work to ensure the safety and supervision of students including oversight of attendance and permissions and adult supervision during the school day, in the evenings and on the weekends. Working in collaboration to support the Dean of Residential Education, the Director of Student Experience helps to provide a safe, inclusive, supportive, structured home environment for all students. The Director of Student Experience reports to the Assistant Head of School and assists in implementing the advising and student support programs. The Director of Student Experience also works closely with colleagues across the school to ensure that the needs of all students are met.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support individual students and families with compassion, care, and timely communication.
• Supervise members of the Student Experience team.
• Oversee community standards, and work closely with the Dean of Inclusive Excellence to strengthen the School’s culture and practices of inclusion through on-going diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging education and support for students.
  • Supervise the Honor and Student Accountability process.
  • Collaborate to support the Dean of Residential Life, the Residential Life Dorm Teams, and faculty to provide a safe, inclusive, supportive, and structured residential environment for students.
• Oversee student class attendance and permissions/passes
• Coordinate the oversight of the Exceptional Proficiency (EP) Program
• Edit and publish the Student and Family Handbook and provide ongoing clear expectations for student conduct.
• Work with the Assistant Head of School and the Dean of Residential Education to plan, create, and provide clear communications about the daily, lived experience of students, supervision duties, and activities to all constituencies.
• Work with Admissions and Advancement on communications, new family onboarding, retention, and special events.
• Oversee student leadership development, including working with Student Council and Honor Council, service learning, and clubs.
• Support student health and wellness by coordinating with the Nurses, the Student Support Team and the Director of Wellness Education and Services.