Precollege Program Associate Director

Role Overview

• Provide strategic oversight for precollege enrichment and college success services for PEOPLE Precollege Program Milwaukee.
• Supports the successful execution and delivery of college readiness services (i.e., college preparation, academic enrichment, summer camp, college advising, and student support services).
• Collaborate with the PEOPLE Program Director to monitor and implement ongoing program assessment to meet targeted key performance indicators.
• Develop and implement stakeholder engagement and education strategies highlighting program services, expectations, policies, procedures, and program philosophy.
• Works with staff to maintain accurate and relevant program internal information (e.g., handbooks, manuals, policies, program literature) and public facing program communications (e.g. advertising, newsletters, social media).
• Assist the PEOPLE Program Director in crafting annual performance reports as requested, chronicling organizational success.
• Identify opportunities for improvement, allocating staff and financial resources based on defined strategic priorities.
• Responsible for the program-level budget for PEOPLE Precollege Program Milwaukee. This includes the plan, allocation, forecast, and reconciliation of expenses of mixed funding source budget (state dollars, grants, foundation funds, and donations)
• Ensures compliance with federal and state regulations in addition to campus and UW-system policies and procedures, ensuring expenditures are consistent with the organization's and division's financial priorities and strategies.
• Exercise supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of Administrative Office staff (PEOPLE Precollege Program Milwaukee), MPS ACE Sites, and PEOPLE Summer University staff in Madison.
• Determines assignments to maximize short
• and long-term results.
• Ensures that staff have current position descriptions and are given frequent feedback and coaching in their performance as well as annual performance evaluations.
• Creates and maintains an environment where high morale, cooperation, and employee satisfaction may be achieved in a dynamic and demanding academic environment, effectively supervising staff to achieve strategic priorities.
• Develop, promote, and facilitate staff training programs to ensure compliance with youth protection, FERPA, Clery Act, and Title IX policies.
• Work closely with program leadership to develop and ensure program policies, procedures, and staffing are in alignment with appropriate federal, state, and institutional laws.
• Responsible for effective communication, training, and facilitation of changes in policies and procedures related to youth and minor protection, youth and pre-college programming, FERPA, Clery Act and Title IX.
• Ensure the program is operating in alignment with MOU guidelines and established grants, partnerships, or agreements.
• Responsible for building, sustaining, and expanding partnerships among key constituencies who support academic programming for PEOPLE Precollege Program Milwaukee, including but not limited to: UW-Campus, local school systems, and institutional and private entities who support academic programming.
• Work closely with PEOPLE Program Director to develop strategic development opportunities to achieve annual fundraising goals.
• Collaborates with program and divisional leadership, and UW Foundation to design and implement project campaigns to strengthen alumni and donor engagement.
• Support and mentor staff to directly elevate the profile of the PEOPLE program through strategic communication efforts (e.g., internal/external presentations, publications, social media) aligned with a vision of becoming national leaders supporting student success.
• Serves on institutional, divisional, and university committees
• Has a key role establishing a strategic organizational direction and setting priorities that align with the directives of the program/unit/institution.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience leading, developing and/or facilitating engagement, retention, and/or academic support programs for students and stakeholders in K-16 school system (with high preference for experience with K12 school system), government, or non-profit sectors
• Demonstrated experiences leading and/or facilitating academic support programs and services, preferably working directly with talented students from backgrounds where hardship and /or disadvantage have impacted their educational opportunities (first-generation, economically disadvantaged).
• Demonstrated skills in planning and implementing overall leadership, vision, and cohesiveness for an office/unit/organization
• Strong supervisory experience (at least 2 years of direct supervision experience).
• Demonstrated competency in budget management.
• Familiarity with mentoring practices to create a healthy work environment to achieve strategic priorities.
• Demonstrated experience creating and nurturing relationships with program, institutional, and community stakeholder groups.

Benefits

• generous paid time off
• competitively priced health/dental/vision/life insurance
• tax-advantaged savings accounts
• participation in the nationally recognized Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) pension fund