KIPP Delta is part of the nation-wide KIPP non-profit network of 242 college-preparatory, public charter schools educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students. KIPP Delta currently serves nearly 1,100 students in Helena and Blytheville, AR.

The primary role of the Alumni Advisor is to support alumni of partner districts within the Delta College Attainment Network,  to and through college. The Alumni Advisor provides support and counseling to current alumni in college (focusing on college persistence, college completion, and career readiness). Alumni Advisors advocate for greater support and investment for low-income, underrepresented, and/or first-generation college students to help eliminate barriers to college matriculation and graduation. This role requires excellent communication and attention to detail and deadlines.

KDPS leaders make decisions, conduct difficult conversations, and build highly collaborative teams, all while shaping a joyful organizational culture. Self-reflective and humble, our leaders are open to feedback and committed to continuously improving. The Alumni Advisor is hired, supported, and evaluated by the Director of College Counseling and Alumni Programming. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Ensure that 100% of DCAN  alumni who matriculate to college graduate within 5-6 years.  

• Managing a caseload of approximately 140 college students providing advising services focused on college persistence, college completion, and career readiness.

• Helping students transition to college via a college transitions course, one-on-one advising, and family meetings.

• Building relationships with campus support offices including financial aid, student support services, counseling, and career services on college campuses where our alumni enroll and helping students identify and use necessary support offices.

• Teaching students who are not making satisfactory academic progress how to seek support and improve their academic standing through seminars or one-on-one tutoring sessions.

• Providing alumni with consistent information on college scholarships and organizations focused on college persistence and completion.

• Outreaching to and supporting alumni not enrolled in college and create college matriculation plans for those students.

• Tracking alumni progress and data (contact information, grades, financial aid, scholarships, etc.) using Salesforce and identify trends among college-aged alumni to improve practices on DCAN campuses.

• Aiding students in planning for transition to work or graduate school at the completion of college.

• Providing opportunities for alumni to mentor or network with high school students to encourage increased college-going.

• Researching/assisting alumni with placement in summer opportunities, programs, and internships.

• Collaborating with DCAN partner schools to identify alumni to speak at partner middle and high schools.

• Providing DCAN with feedback regarding academic rigor, school culture, and counseling services of the various colleges alumni attend

• Up to 50% travel is required for this job

• Must have access to insured and reliable transportation

• Teaching weekly classes in the spring to seniors in high school on the transition to college specifically: character, writing, reading to retain information, identity development, career planning, college readiness, and financial literacy.

Educational Equity and Inclusion

• Support the KIPP Delta Public Schools vision for academic excellence and critical consciousness, so that our students have “access to pursue the path they choose.” 

• Engage with “love, faith, and humility” towards ALL members of our community.

• Regularly do the foundational work of learning and understanding the original dehumanization of African Americans and how the laws and policies created through this process resulted in systemic racism for the purpose of white supremacy and the cultural rules and norms of white supremacy and anti-blackness.

• Commit to developing a working knowledge of internalized racism and how and why educated, intelligent and dynamic BIPOC may produce a fear response in both white and other BIPOC peoples and how to respond and support others if/when this phenomenon occurs.

• Work to ensure students, staff, and families of all identity groups are full participants in decisions that shape the district.

• Commit to working with families as equals, co-educators, learners, and decision-makers. 

Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year educational institution.

KIPP Delta offers competitive salary and benefits packages commensurate with experience.

As an equal opportunity employer, KIPP Delta does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, or any other basis made unlawful by applicable federal, state, or local laws or regulations.