WHO WE ARE
Intrepid College Prep is a network of free, college preparatory public charter schools located in the Antioch area of Greater Nashville, Tennessee. We educate scholars at two campuses: Opportunity Academy Middle School and Independence Academy High School. Our 5-12 model ensures that scholars have the opportunity to engage in a rigorous, college-preparatory education for eight years prior to their transition to college and the professional opportunities that follow. We are an open-enrollment school, which means that our scholars do not have to take an entrance test or pay tuition to enroll.
Our Mission:
Intrepid College Prep is committed to ensuring our scholars, educators, and families have the opportunity to unlock an unlimited future. By providing rigorous academic instruction and creating powerful relationships amongst our community’s members, we ignite passion, seek knowledge, and inspire the bravery needed to have a profound impact in our world.
Our core values are Ignite Passion, Seek Knowledge, and Inspire Bravery. While we ground our instruction in these values, we also strive to live them out as adults in our interactions with one another. We believe that professional development and intentional coaching can allow any person to develop the skills necessary to be an effective team member, but we know that rests upon the bedrock of these essential values.
WHO YOU ARE
Our Core Value: Ignite Passion
What does this core value mean to Intrepid?
You are DISCIPLINED. You hold yourself to a high standard and you take pride in your ability to take initiative. You have strong personal organization skills and are intentional about how you use your time.
You are MISSION ALIGNED. You believe in helping to unlock the unlimited potential in all students through a college preparatory education. You believe that each and every student, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, gender identity, religion, or immigration status is deserving of an excellent education and capable of achieving it.
Our Core Value: Seek Knowledge
What does this core value mean to Intrepid?
You are HUNGRY FOR FEEDBACK. You want to grow as a person and a professional. You want to learn from your peers and your coaches, even when it challenges you to put aside your ego.
You are NERDY. You have a deep love for your area of expertise and a genuine excitement to share it with others.
Our Core Value: Inspire Bravery
What does this core value mean to Intrepid?
You are DRIVEN BY EQUITY. You are committed to being actively anti-racist in your interactions with fellow staff, students and families. You believe that education is inherently social justice work that requires us to begin with ourselves and our own biases.
You are INTROSPECTIVE. You are committed to personal development and prioritize your own wellness. You are reflective about your impact on others and feel comfortable acknowledging your own mistakes and quirks.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
The Director of Student Experience is a network-level leader responsible for designing, aligning, and sustaining a high-quality student experience across Intrepid College Prep. This role serves as the organizational owner of the Intrepid Impact Theory, ensuring it is translated from vision into clear systems and practices that shape students’ daily experience across the organization. This role will require a high-level of cross-functional leadership, given that the Director will serve as a collaborator across almost all departments in the organization (operations, culture, counseling, college access, and academics). Specifically, the Director will work closely with the Assistant Principals of Student Life at each campus - ensuring that culture, counseling and college access work is coherent, integrated, and implemented with fidelity across both campuses. Additionally, the Director of Student Experience collaborates with the network and operations teams to ensure that caregiver/family and community partnerships are meaningfully connected to the student experience and grounded in trust. The work is equal parts strategic, relational, and tactical, requiring strong visionary thinking, systems-orientation, influence, and follow-through.
DIRECTOR-LEVEL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Functional Team Leadership
- Provide specialized expertise in your functional area, offering guidance, support, resources, and peer coaching to leaders and other team members.
- Set clear goals for yourself and your work, track progress, and ensure accountability for achieving those goals.
- Manage and develop direct reports, fostering growth by building co-active coaching relationships.
Lateral Leadership
- Partner with school-based and Network Team peers to execute cross-functional projects, address challenges, ensure compliance, and streamline processes across teams.
- Facilitate regular check-ins and collaborative meetings with school based leaders or fellow Network Team leaders to ensure progress towards shared goals.
- Provide peer-coaching, feedback, and support in a way that builds trust and encourages mutual growth.
- Develop and maintain communication strategies that support transparency, collaboration, and consistent messaging across functional and business unit teams.
Organizational Leadership
- Demonstrate a commitment to the organization's mission, values, and culture, serving as a representative of leadership within and outside the organization.
- Foster a “one school” mindset, ensuring that efforts across functional areas align with the overall vision and mission.
ROLE-SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Student Experience Vision & School-Based Partnership
- Serve as the network-level owner and steward of the Intrepid Impact Theory.
- Translate the Impact Theory into actionable systems and practices that guide student experience work across grades 5–12.
- Lead long-term planning and annual goal-setting for student experience initiatives aligned to organizational OKRs. Partner with Academics, Culture, Counseling, College Access, and Operations to ensure student experience priorities are integrated across teams.
- Serve as a network-level thought partner and peer coach to Assistant Principals of Student Life.
- Provide feedback, coaching, and strategic guidance to functional peers to strengthen the Impact Theory’s implementation Act as a connector between network strategy and school-based execution, ensuring strong two-way communication and alignment.
- Lead or facilitate cross-campus working groups and coalitions to address root causes impacting student belonging, agency, and postsecondary readiness.
- Leverage student voice, survey data, and qualitative feedback to assess effectiveness and refine student experience initiatives.
Family & Community Partnerships
- Develop and steward a network-wide vision for family and community engagement aligned to student experience priorities.
- Build and maintain partnerships with community organizations and local stakeholders that expand opportunities for students and families.
- Ensure family engagement strategies are culturally responsive, asset-based, and supportive of student needs.
Advocacy & Culturally Responsive Development
- Stay informed about local laws, policies, and legislation that impact students, families, and the broader community, ensuring the school is actively advocating for its stakeholders.
- Advocate for students and families facing systemic challenges, including but not limited to immigration concerns, LGBTQIA+ issues, and racial discrimination.
- Work alongside community groups to provide resources and guidance to families experiencing challenges such as ICE deportations, LGBTQIA+ rights attacks, and incidents of racism or discrimination.
- Lead professional development opportunities for staff, ensuring culturally responsive practices and an understanding of local community needs are embedded in the school’s culture.
- Address issues of equity and inclusion by guiding the school in responding to community concerns related to student and family welfare.
Org-Wide Behavior Lead
- Facilitate large-format disciplinary hearings
- Partner with the Director of Special Populations regarding students with disabilities to monitor behavior compliance functions (suspension rates, expulsion rates, etc.)
- Serve as mentor to Assistant Principals of Student Life.
- Support with classroom management observations and creation of behavior/safety plans such as functional behavioral assessments.
- Develop org-wide proactive and reactive procedures, consequences and routines for student behavior.
- Serve as MNPS liaison regarding behavior matters.
- Maintain district and state level compliance regarding discipline.
- Partner with Operations regarding threat assessments.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Tennessee Certification in the appropriate content area, with a track record of data-driven achievement
- Holds a B.A./B.S. degree with a minimum G.P.A. of 2.5
- Proven success in an associate director or director role, with experience in leading functional teams or overseeing specialized projects.
- Bilingual English/Spanish preferred, but not required