Post-Placement Counselor (Boarding School) - 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 2,546 college graduates have earned degrees from the most competitive colleges in the country; nearly 40% have graduated from Ivy League schools. They are emerging leaders in every field from business and law, to education and the arts, to science and medicine. Prep shares its best practices with like-minded organizations through an initiative called Smart Connections. Through Smart Connections, Prep 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. Prep also makes extensive use of rental space at Trinity School and other schools in the vicinity.

Responsibilities:
A Counselor will:
Regularly visit boarding schools where Prep for Prep students are enrolled maintaining face-to-face contact and providing academic and personal counseling for each assigned student.

Meet with school officials, deans, advisors, dorm counselors and other appropriate personnel who have knowledge of student progress.

Monitor academic and social progress of assigned students by means of careful, regular review of grades, comments and disciplinary records; maintain a written record of the problems and progress of each student, including mid-year and end-of-year reports.

Collect grade reports for all assigned students.

Get to know each assigned student and his/her family situation well enough to “present” each student at Consultation Meetings with Prep’s Senior Staff Psychologist.

Keep the Director of Boarding School Counseling informed about significant problems impacting assigned students.

Keep assigned students informed about activities and opportunities at Prep and counsel appropriate students to take advantage of these opportunities.

Plan and organize social activities in New York for boarding school students.

Supervise 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students on six-day and overnight trips.

Requirements:
BA from competitive college, preferably in psychology or related field

Two years post-graduate work experience; experience working with students in relevant grades a plus

Demonstrated interest or work experience with Black and Latino youth

Ability to relate to Prep students’ life/school experiences

Boarding school experience a plus

Please visit our website:
www.prepforprep.org