Charlottesville, Virginia
Posted: 16-Jun-26
Location: Middleburg, Virginia
Type: Full Time
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Job Description: Director of Student Experience
Classification: Full-time, Salaried, Exempt (12 month)
Reports to: Assistant Head of School
Salary Range: $80,000 - $100,000
Job Summary:
The Director of the Student Experience should welcome the opportunity to work at a boarding school campus with adolescent girls and have the ability to lead a vibrant, engaging, and forward-thinking student experience program in collaboration with students, their parents, and faculty and staff colleagues. The Director of Student Experience provides overall strategic leadership, program development, and day-to-day management of the Office of Student Experience. The Director ofStudent Experience is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the daily, lived experience of students on our residential campus including leadership and developmental appropriate programming, restorative practices, student accountability, honor council, clubs, and service learning. In addition, the Director of Student Experience will work to ensure the safety and supervision of students including oversight of attendance and permissions and adult supervision during the school day, in the evenings and on the weekends. Working in collaboration to support the Dean of Residential Education, the Director of Student Experience helps to provide a safe, inclusive, supportive, structured home environment for all students. The Director of Student Experience reports to the Assistant Head of School and assists in implementing the advising and student support programs. The Director of Student Experience also works closely with colleagues across the school to ensure that the needs of all students are met.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support individual students and families with compassion, care, and timely communication.
- Supervise members of the Student Experience team.
- Oversee community standards, and work closely with the Dean of Inclusive Excellence to strengthen the School’s culture and practices of inclusion through on-going diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging education and support for students.
- Supervise the Honor and Student Accountability process.
- Collaborate to support the Dean of Residential Life, the Residential Life Dorm Teams, and faculty to provide a safe, inclusive, supportive, and structured residential environment for students.
- Oversee student class attendance and permissions/passes
- Coordinate the oversight of the Exceptional Proficiency (EP) Program
- Edit and publish the Student and Family Handbook and provide ongoing clear expectations for student conduct.
- Work with the Assistant Head of School and the Dean of Residential Education to plan, create, and provide clear communications about the daily, lived experience of students, supervision duties, and activities to all constituencies.
- Work with Admissions and Advancement on communications, new family onboarding, retention, and special events.
- Oversee student leadership development, including working with Student Council and Honor Council, service learning, and clubs.
- Support student health and wellness by coordinating with the Nurses, the Student Support Team and the Director of Wellness Education and Services.
Qualifications:
- A Master’s degree in a related field is strongly
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to build relationships with multiple constituencies to further the goals for the student experience.
- A warm and approachable personality while being firm, consistent, and fair.
- Ability to convey clear, inspiring messages verbally and in writing.
- A demonstrated track record leading teams and planning programs, preferably in a residential school environment.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to successfully manage multiple projects and work under deadlines.
- Ability to work independently and make decisions in accordance with established policies and regulations.
- A high degree of discretion and confidentiality must be held as well as an ability to collaborate with colleagues.
Other Qualifications:
All prospective employees must be able to clear a fingerprint and background check and TB screening.
Our community welcomes and celebrates the diverse histories, experiences, and identities of each of its members, and we believe that shared experiences - formal and informal - within a diverse community foster authentic human relationships and growth.
Physical Work Environment:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this position an incumbent is required to regularly remain sedentary for long periods of time in meetings and while processing information and paper work both manually and on a computer.
The employee is required to stand; walk; use hands and arms to reach and hands to type and manipulate a computer keyboard and mouse. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust focus. Additionally, the incumbent must be able to converse in clear English both written and orally, over a telephone and in person. The employee is regularly required to listen, physically direct, and speak.
Occasionally, an incumbent may be required to lift up to 25 pounds, traverse uneven terrain and climb stairs while moving about campus, bend and stoop. Work hours may vary and include days, nights, and weekends. Employees may be required to drive a vehicle for student needs and/or on School business. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet; however, variations in noise level may occur when the employee attends school functions such as assemblies, school dances, and other events.
