# College Access & Preparedness Associate

**Company**: Success Academy Charter Schools
**Location**: Bronx; Brooklyn; Manhattan
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $70,000-$70,000 USD
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/successacademycharterschool/jobs/5067235008?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_8b61ce34-4af

## Description

We are hiring a College Access & Preparedness (CAP) Associate to join our team. The CAP Associate will play a critical role in ensuring that every scholar is admitted and attends the best-fit, most affordable, 4-year college/university, and thrives in their new environment.

## About the Role

CAP Associates are high-expectation instructors, coaches, and operators responsible for ensuring scholars complete the college application and enrollment process with excellence. They teach multiple daily class sections, lead scholars through a sequenced set of deliverables, and uphold a rigorous standard for quality, professionalism, and on-time execution.

## Key Responsibilities

- Instruction & Classroom Leadership:

- Teach multiple CAP class sections per day with strong management, clear routines, and high expectations.

- Build scholar urgency, professionalism, and ownership through consistent insistence and direct feedback.

- Deliver structured lessons that guide scholars through the college application, essay, and enrollment process.

- Maintain instructional quality and clarity across all sections.

- Scholar Coaching & Deliverable Quality:

- Coach scholars individually and in small groups through each step of the college process.

- Ensure all essays, activity lists, applications, and enrollment tasks meet Success Academy's quality bar.

- Review and refine scholar work with precision, ensuring clarity, coherence, and professionalism.

- Communicate proactively with families and School Leaders to ensure alignment and timely intervention.

- Interact with college admissions offices to advocate for scholars and resolve issues professionally.

- Operational Execution & Data Management:

- Follow a tightly sequenced, deadline-driven process with a structured calendar of deliverables.

- Manage a high-volume workflow with accuracy, urgency, and strong follow-through.

- Track all deliverables and milestones in real-time using dashboards and the CAP Portal.

- Identify gaps, risks, and trends early , and take immediate action to keep scholars on track.

- Maintain impeccable attention to detail across all documents, communications, and data.

- Professionalism & Continuous Improvement:

- Demonstrate maturity, sound judgment, and a strong professional presence in all interactions.

- Participate in teachbacks and implement feedback promptly.

- Demonstrate strong change-management readiness by adopting new systems, tools, and expectations quickly.

- Participate fully in school-based routines, meetings, and professional development.

- Contribute to a strong adult culture rooted in accountability, urgency, and high standards.

- Share insights and effective practices to strengthen consistency and results across the CAP program.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree.

- 2-3 years of experience in teaching, youth development, or other scholar-facing roles.

- Demonstrated ability to teach or lead groups with strong management, clarity, and insistence.

- Proven ability to give direct, actionable feedback and hold students to high expectations.

- Exceptionally organized operator with the ability to manage multiple complex workstreams simultaneously and stay ahead of deadlines.

- Strong writing and editing skills with impeccable attention to detail.

- Proficiency using dashboards, portals, and AI-enabled tools to drive accuracy, efficiency, and scale in writing, planning, and workflow management; proven ability to quickly adopt new systems.

- Self-starter with a strong bias toward action and the ability to drive work forward independently.

- Maturity, judgment, and professional presence in all interactions.

- Ability to identify gaps and trends and take decisive action.

- Thrives in fast-paced, high-expectation environments.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Prior classroom teaching or instructional coaching experience.

- Experience with college access, admissions, or financial aid.

- Experience managing complex projects or high-volume pipelines.

- Experience using workflow systems, dashboards, or digital tools to manage progress and quality.

## Skills

### Required
- teaching
- youth development
- college access
- admissions
- workflow management
- dashboard management
- AI-enabled tools

### Nice to have
- classroom teaching
- instructional coaching
- financial aid
- project management
- workflow systems
- digital tools

---

Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/successacademycharterschool/jobs/5067235008?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)