Executive Assistant, Office of the Chief Executive, Prep for Prep - Prep for Prep - New York, NY

About Prep for Prep :
Prep for Prep develops leaders from under-represented communities through access to a superior education and life-changing opportunities. Since 1978, Prep has identified New York City’s most able students of color through a highly selective admissions process and, following 14 months of rigorous academic preparation, placed them at leading independent schools in the City and boarding schools throughout the Northeast. Once placed, Prep offers its students a sense of community, peer support, critical post-placement services, and a host of leadership development opportunities through college graduation. The results are compelling: more Prep students have graduated from Harvard than any other institution, and over 90% of Prep’s 2,694 college graduates have earned degrees from the most competitive colleges in the country; nearly 40% have graduated from Ivy League schools. Prep shares its best practices with like-minded organizations through Smart Connections, a Prep initiative that has impacted over 250,000 students around the world, including in Argentina, India, and South Africa.

Prep’s $10 million annual operating budget is raised each year from private sources, including from its very generous 60-member Board of Trustees. Prep has 60 full-time employees as well as part-time school year and full-time summer faculty who teach our Preparatory Component classes. Prep is based on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with brownstone offices on West 71st Street and West 91st Street.

About the Position :
Do you want to help diversify this country’s leadership pool? Make a difference in the educational prospects of exceptionally bright students of color?

Are you curious how a highly successful nonprofit is run? How an incredible Board of Trustees operates?

Are you a perfectionist? A master juggler? An administrative dynamo? A computer wiz?

A concise writer? Organized beyond belief? A people person? A power networker?

Perhaps you see yourself one day as an Executive Director. This great opportunity provides an insider’s view of arguably the nation’s most successful program to position more young people of color for leadership.

Prep for Prep’s Chief Executive needs a right-hand person to help her do her job. Five years administrative and/or fundraising experience required. Knowledge of New York City independent schools, elite colleges, and business community a plus.

Please visit our website: www.prepforprep.org