Job Description

Join Our Award-Winning Team at Aug Prep!

Aug Prep is more than a school, it's a community where excellence, faith, and heart come together. We’re not only about high standards but also creating a place where people love to grow, learn, and inspire! We currently serve over 2,400 K4-12 students in our ninth year on the South Side of Milwaukee. 

Why Choose Aug Prep?

• Award-Winning Workplace: Recognized as a “Best Place to Work” by the Milwaukee Business Journal five years in a row! , standing out as the only school on the list in most years!
• Opening Doors: Our students regularly surpass expectations on state assessments.
• High Expectations for All: We foster a dynamic culture of growth and development for students and staff alike, grounded in our Christian faith.
• Outstanding Resources: With 1:1 technology, an advanced sports complex, performing arts center, and two swimming pools, our campus is built for excellence.
• Whole-Child Approach: From arts to athletics to character development , we nurture students’ minds, bodies, and spirits.

Leadership at Aug Prep: Aug Prep leaders live by the apostle Luke’s guidance that to whom much is given, much is expected (Luke 12:48). Leadership at Aug Prep is a “never settle,” dynamic drive to serve our students and reflect the light of Jesus. The right candidate vehemently believes excellence - academically and in serving the whole child - is possible for every student.  Grounded with a desire to serve and glorify God, an Aug Prep leader challenges themself and those around them daily to reach for excellence, energetically hurdling over obstacles and getting right back up when they fall (Colossians 3:17). Leadership at Aug Prep is not easy but it is rewarding, exhilarating, impactful and absolutely never dull (Galatians 6:9). 

Position Description

Aug Prep is looking for an Assistant Dean of Student Success who loves engaging students and families - particularly those struggling most - and loves building a strong and positive culture. The Assistant Dean of Student Success is responsible for shaping and sustaining Aug Prep's high school culture and ensuring that the students internalize Aug Prep's values for academic excellence and behavior expectations in partnership with the Dean. The Assistant Dean of Student Success develops preventative interventions and ensures students who are not yet meeting expectations are provided with wraparound support and follow-through.

Reporting Structure The Assistant Dean will report to the Dean of Student Success

A St. Augustine Preparatory Assistant Dean of Student Success will:

• Promote attitudes, behaviors, and skills for improved learning, including behavior modification, attendance, and academic success.
• Encourage parental involvement in the pursuit of student achievement and positive faith-based school culture.
• Collect and manage the culture 'metrics' of the school that include components of attendance, graduation requirements, academics, social-emotional well-being, and behavior.
• Intervene and mediate behavior situations and work in conjunction with teacher, social work and parents to determine student success - may draft behavior plan and enter information into Infinite Campus after discussing with safety, student advisor and/or principal.
• Work collaboratively with parents/students as well as social workers, advisors, and teachers to bring resolution to situations where policies/protocols have been breached.
• Report to the principal to highlight gathered data, gain approval for proposed solutions/resolutions to data/issues, and evaluate the effectiveness of systems/protocols put in place.
• Serve as a point of contact for teachers, advisors, and parents who present issues/situations related to student behavior and attendance.
• Promote and maintain positive home/school relationships as well as facilitate parent events.
• Oversee tardies / absences / uniforms
• Act in accordance with federal, state and local laws, statutes, and/or policies that related to students and families, and consult with school personnel to ensure compliance in those areas

Required Qualifications:

• The candidate must be mission-driven, demonstrate the highest integrity, and be able to live the values, beliefs, and culture of Aug Prep.
• Bilingual, written and spoken (Spanish and English).
• Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree preferred
• Minimum 2 years experience teaching or social work, with a strong track record of successfully impacting student achievement and working successfully with students who have the greatest needs.
• Proven ability to work cooperatively and effectively with colleagues, including the ability to create and nurture a professional community of adult learners.
• Demonstrate leadership qualities, including the ability to see the big picture while working directly with students/families and staff to influence the details driving the overall direction.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including high impact facilitation of meetings and presentations, and giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Proven ability in using student-level data to guide instructional decisions.
• Demonstrated teacher leadership with strong pedagogical knowledge and content expertise or clinical experience with adolescent youth.
• Participating member of a church
• Lastly and most important, the candidate must demonstrate and possess the highest integrity and be able to live the values and culture of St. Augustine Preparatory School

​ Non-Discriminatory Policy

St. Augustine Preparatory Academy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, sex, national and ethnic origin or any other basis prohibited by law when hiring, promoting, establishing wages, or providing benefits.

As a faith-based institution based on biblical principles, St. Augustine Preparatory Academy hires employees who agree with the school's Mission Statement and Statement of Beliefs and adhere to biblical standards of conduct.

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