KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools
Manager, Post-Secondary Success
🇺🇸 Jacksonville, FL
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $52K
💻 Consulting
🗓️ July 9th, 2025
K-8
Salesforce
Edtech.com's Summary
KIPP is hiring a Manager, Post-Secondary Success to support KIPP Jacksonville alumni as they transition from high school to post-secondary pathways. This full-time, year-round role involves maintaining regular contact with alumni, coaching students and families, managing progress data, and fostering community partnerships to ensure persistence and success in college, career, or other post-secondary options.
Highlights
- Serve as persistence adviser for alumni in their first two years post-graduation across various pathways.
- Support high school seniors during their transition to post-secondary education or training.
- Maintain monthly outreach and coaching for both alumni and their families.
- Manage and update academic progress data using Salesforce database.
- Advise on academic planning, financial aid, scholarship applications, and college life challenges.
- Travel approximately 25% of the time to college campuses to connect alumni with support resources.
- Coordinate career workshops and networking events for students and alumni.
- Annual salary typically $52,000 with free individual health benefits and a 403(b) retirement program with company match.
- Requires a Bachelor's degree, minimum two years experience in underserved communities, excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Preferred experience includes working with first-generation college students, knowledge of higher education financing, and proficiency with Salesforce.
Manager, Post-Secondary Success Full Description
Company Description
KIPP
KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free public schools educating 120,000 students in grades Prek-12 across 21 states and Washington, DC. While each of our schools is as unique as the community to which it belongs, we are united around a shared promise: Together, A Future Without Limits. You can learn more at www.kipp.org.
KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free public schools educating 120,000 students in grades Prek-12 across 21 states and Washington, DC. While each of our schools is as unique as the community to which it belongs, we are united around a shared promise: Together, A Future Without Limits. You can learn more at www.kipp.org.
KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools
KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools is part of the KIPP national network. Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose – college, career, and beyond – so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.
In the 2025-26 school year, the KIPP Jacksonville region will be comprised of four schools educating more than 3,000 students, kindergarten through twelfth grade in the North and West sides of Jacksonville, Florida.
- KIPP Impact Academy: Kindergarten - 8th grade
- KIPP VOICE Academy: Kindergarten - 8th grade
- KIPP Bessie Coleman Academy: Kindergarten - 8th grade
- KIPP Bold City High School: 9th - 12th grade
For the current school year, teachers at KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools work the following hours Monday through Friday and may have occasional meetings or special school events outside of these hours. Hours for teachers and students may vary slightly by school.
- K-8 Staff: 7:30am - 4:30pm K-8 Students: 8:00am - 3:30pm, Wednesday K-8 dismissal is at 1:30pm
- High School Staff: 6:45am - 3:45pm, High School Students: 7:15am - 2:30pm, Wednesday High School dismissal is at 12:30pm.
Every Wednesday is a student early release day, which allows teachers to participate in weekly professional development and content team meetings. *This doesn’t include Wellness Wednesdays when all staff leave at student dismissal.
To support these schools, we will employ more than 300 full-time staff members. We seek educators and colleagues that represent our core values of high expectations, growth mindset, commitment to team, trust, joy, and sustainability. To learn more about what it is like to work and teach at KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools, please visit www.kippjax.org/teach where you can also view all of our job postings.
Job Description
Reports to: Director of KIPP Forward
Position Type: Full Time; Salaried; Year-Round
Team: Shared Services Team
Ideal Start Date: Immediate
Ideal Start Date: Immediate
Position Overview
The KIPP Forward (KF) program is responsible for implementing robust programming for KIPP Jacksonville students in each phase of their high school and post-secondary education and training. The KF program seeks to support all KIPP Jacksonville alumni in becoming successful adults in their academic, professional and personal lives. The Manager of Post-Secondary Success (MPSS) will support students and families in navigating the transition from high school to post-secondary, regardless of the pathway. The MPSS will be the main contact and support for KIPP Jacksonville alumni in their first two years after high school graduation. The MPSS will perform additional duties and do whatever it takes for ALL students to be successful on their postsecondary journeys. The MPSS will report to the Director of KIPP Forward.
While KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools does have a KIPP Forward team, this position is specifically funded temporarily through a Scheidel Foundation Grant. While it is possible funding for this position may be allocated in future years, it is currently only funded by this specific grant.
Success would be measured by successful monthly outreach/contact with alumni which drives their persistence through postsecondary pathways. Benchmarks are set per semester for persistence.
Note: this position would focus primarily with current high school seniors at KIPP Bold City High School.
Success would be measured by successful monthly outreach/contact with alumni which drives their persistence through postsecondary pathways. Benchmarks are set per semester for persistence.
Note: this position would focus primarily with current high school seniors at KIPP Bold City High School.
This position would be exciting for someone who shares the organization’s core values and who can support building systems for a growing organization that is becoming increasingly complex.
The MPSS is a full-time role on the Shared Services team which supports KIPP Bold City High School. As a member of the Shared Services team, this individual would be responsible for doing whatever it takes to ensure that school-based personnel are supported and can focus on ensuring that students develop the knowledge, skills, and character strengths they need to succeed throughout their education and in the competitive world beyond.
This position is year-round and performs duties as assigned by their manager. Typical hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. but can vary based on role and season. Occasional after-hours meetings may be necessary.
This position is year-round and performs duties as assigned by their manager. Typical hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. but can vary based on role and season. Occasional after-hours meetings may be necessary.
SPECIFIC DUTIES
- Serve as the persistence adviser for KIPP Jacksonville alumni in their first and second year post-graduation of high school; this may include alumni enrolled in college or CTE program or those enlisting in the military or working full-time
- Support high school seniors in the transition from high school to their post-secondary pathway during spring semester
- Maintain monthly contact with all alumni on their caseload regardless of post-secondary pathway
- Support and coach alumni, individually and/or in groups, to monitor their own performance in their program, and to get and stay involved/connected with the alumni to advocate for them when necessary
- Support and coach families, individually and/or in groups, to monitor their student’s performance in their post-secondary program, and to get and stay involved/connected with the students to advocate for them when necessary
- Manage and review data for college-enrolled alumni progress, semester grades, and academic standing and plan for intervention when necessary
- Input and monitor academic progress and maintain student files in the Salesforce database with semester grades, academic progress plans, parental involvement, intervention meetings, financial aid awards, college persistence, scholarship applications and awards, progress towards educational or career goals, etc.
- Educate and connect alumni to personal finance (money management, budgeting, etc.) and connect them to available resources for these purposes
- Advise alumni on academic planning when necessary/appropriate
- Assist students in ongoing scholarship research and applications starting in summer
- Travel to college campuses 25% of time and connect alumni with on-campus or community support resources (mental health, financial, academic, etc)
- Counsel alumni on college transferring if applicable, by providing one-on-one assistance, feedback, and deadline tracking
- Advise alumni on college life (homesickness, fitting in/involvement, add/drop deadlines & consequences, study habits and midterms/finals) and support/connect alumni with internships, summer programming, summer classes, and scholarship applications by providing one-on-one assistance, feedback, and deadline tracking
- When necessary, research aspects of college placement and persistence: financial aid, scholarships, applications, retention, graduation and admissions standards
- Assist students by connecting them to other post-secondary options that will yield certifications or long-term employment
- Foster relationships with community organizations that will support students in post-secondary persistence
- Recognize achievement and motivate alumni through regular email and text correspondence, college care packages, encouraging messages
- Maintain regular communication with students by call, text, or email to monitor challenges and help with solutions
- Support the planning and execution of a career workshop focused on networking to eventually prepare students for a coordinated networking event with various professionals in collaboration with our board members.
- Support KIPP Forward program and initiatives
- Coordinate with other KIPP Forward staff to arrange for students and alumni at all grade levels to visit colleges and interact with KIPP Jacksonville alumni when possible and applicable
- Support high school students who are attending college and CTE programs with FAFSA completion and renewal.
- Manage data entry in Alumni Database
COMPENSATION
- The annual salary for this role is typically 52,000*
- Free individual health benefits (including medical, dental and vision)
- 403(b) retirement program with a company match
- All staff members receive individualized support and professional development
These offerings are subject to change and would be outlined in an offer, if extended.
*The base salary doesn't include any additional stipends for which a candidate may be eligible.
Qualifications
- KIPP Jacksonville Schools believes that our staff will represent our core values—high expectations, a growth mindset, commitment to team, trust, joy, and sustainability. We search for established educators who embody them.
- An uncompromising belief that all students can learn
- Possesses a deep commitment to creating a joyful and affirming experience for all children
- A minimum of 2 years of successful experience in an underserved community
- A Bachelor’s degree
- Passing a background check, as required by law
- Outstanding organizational skills and high attention to detail; outstanding written and oral communication skills.
HIGHLY PREFERRED
- Prior experience teaching and working with high school or college students (especially first-generation) and their families in the college & career counseling field.
- Strong record of helping students achieve academic success, primarily with minority and low-income students.
- Knowledge of higher education financing, student financial aid, and postsecondary education entrance processes.
- Strong oral communication and writing skills; ability to communicate with sensitivity and to work with diverse populations, comfortable with public speaking.
- Knowledgeable or proficient at utilizing Salesforce
Additional Information
Please complete an application and upload a resume via our job board. No applicants will be considered that submit resumes through other job postings. Link here: https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/KIPP/jacksonville
If you're a current KIPP Jax team member, you should:
1) Inform your current manager of your interest in the role and
2) Complete the online application
QUESTIONS
If you have questions about this position, please email Emma at ekosanda@kippjax.org. Please understand that resumes and/or cover letters are not accepted via email and you will be redirected to apply via the website.
KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools is committed to a policy of equal treatment for all individuals applying for employment at our schools. KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, handicap, age, religion, sexual orientation or national or ethnic origin.
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