Senior Manager of School Culture

POSITION: Senior Manager of School Culture 

LOCATION: DSST: Home Office located in Denver, CO

SALARY: $78,000 - $87,360 with up to 6 years of aligned experience

STATUS: Full time, benefits eligible, exempt, in-person position (Denver, CO) 

START: 6/4/25

KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Manager of School Culture reports to the Director of Mental Health & Culture and works closely with leaders across the organization, especially the Schools Team, the Curriculum and Assessment Team and the Leader Development team. This position provides a unique opportunity for an individual with superior project-management, people-leadership, and relationship-building skills to play a central role in supporting the advancement of one of the organization's most important priorities: school culture.

The Senior Manager of School Culture will lead mission-critical work to:

• Support schools to execute DSST’s vision for a joyous, rigorous school culture that centers equity, values the human condition, and improves student learning 

• Build and maintain systems that uphold and support strong school culture 

• Define processes and support execution of discipline compliance functions 

Essential Functions:

Provide on-the-ground school support and partnership with schools to actualize our DSST culture vision through implementation ( 80%) 

• Support in planning and refining culture systems and structures 

• Complete side-by-side work on the implementation of systems and structures 

• Conduct a performance management cycle to monitor and support growth toward culture goals 

Alongside the Home Office Culture Team, create and execute training and professional development for culture leaders and other stakeholders on culture skills, competencies, and compliance. (5 - 20%)

• Build relationships with members of the administration team on all campuses in order to positively impact student outcomes. 

• Support the implementation of the culture leader training scope and sequence in collaboration with the DSST Leader Development team. 

• Define and implement all trainings related to Discipline and Title IX compliance for all relevant stakeholders.

• Provide on-the-ground training and support for deans and other culture leaders based on support requests and/ or needs identified through data. 

Supports all schools to execute DSST’s school culture vision with excellence through codification of network exemplars, implementation of a performance management cycle for culture data, and on-the-ground support of schools. (15%)

• Participate in collaborative processes to enhance and clarify DSST Public Schools’ vision for school culture and community. 

• Analyze and codify exemplars of school culture implementation for scaling and use across schools. 

Lead the creation and implementation of systems, processes, training, and in-the-moment support for discipline and Title IX compliance across the network. (5%)

• Serve as liaison between DSST Public Schools and Aurora & Denver Public Schools in discipline compliance areas. 

• Attend APS & DPS trainings and ensure DSST systems and processes are up to date and properly implemented. 

• Support schools with in-the-moment requests related to discipline escalation.

• Collaborate with the DSST and DPS & APS Special Services team on issues of discipline compliance for students with IEPs.

• Serve as one of the DSST Network Title IX Lead 

Additional Duties:

As a member of the Home Office Team, you will participate in and support in the execution of Home Office and Network Wide Events and other duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• An unwavering belief that all students can succeed in high school, reach their most ambitious post-secondary goals, and lead exemplary lives

• Desire to personally professionally grow in their practice of becoming an anti-racist educator

• Self-awareness, a regular practice of reflection, and a desire to continuously improve

• Bachelor's Degree required from accredited university

• You want to change the way the