College Counselor Position
Position Summary:
Santa Fe Preparatory School seeks a full-time college counselor to work with our College
Counseling team for the 2024-2025 school year and beyond. The ideal candidate will be
relationship-oriented, creative, positive, and energetic. Our team of two college counselors
collaborate closely on questions, challenges, and issues that arise while keeping apprised of
the shifting college landscape and associated factors. Additionally, our college counselors
work intentionally in a coordinated fashion with other administrators to provide support and
design programming to prepare students for life after high school. The College Counseling
team builds relationships with each student and their family, working to see the whole
student and placing student agency at the forefront of the process.

discover each student’s pathway after high school and then guiding the student
through every aspect of the college search, application, and financial aid and
scholarship process through a cost-conscious lens.

• Maintain a personalized approach to counseling and working with students and

families to reinforce the philosophy that “fit” looks different for every student in the
college process.

• Address the social and emotional pressures on students and families associated

with the college search, application, and admissions process.

• Write compelling, personalized counselor recommendations. Train and review

school faculty and staff in doing the same.

• Design college counseling and “life post-high school” programming, then organize

and execute events accordingly. This could include college application workshops,
SCOIR trainings, financial aid and scholarship presentations, transition to college
workshops, exploring gap year options, hosting alumni and parent college panels,
college speaker events, case studies, caring for one’s mental health during
transitions, and navigating college and life resources.

• Stay abreast of current admissions and counseling trends through reading and

research, maintaining membership in and attending professional associations and
conferences, representing the school at campus visits, tours, and fly-ins, and
networking extensively with college admissions and college counseling colleagues.

• Assume database management for SCOIR, manage college admissions rep visits,

teacher recommendations, and transcript submissions to help prepare reports and
presentations for Faculty and Board meetings, and maintain contact with alumni.

• Track alumni journeys and success through relational efforts, as well as quantitative

and qualitative data collection.

• Enthusiastically participate in the full life of the school and build relationships with

faculty and students by visiting classes, attending faculty meetings and in-services,
being present on campus and at assemblies and forums, and taking part in, to the
extent possible, other school activities and events.

• Work alongside administrators and senior teachers to design and coordinate an

inspirational Senior Internship Program (SIP) and Senior TAP in line with our Portrait
of a Graduate. SIP is an unpaid work experience all seniors participate in. TAP is the
school’s “Teen Action Program,” through which seniors conduct independent
community service projects.

• Maintain and develop mutually supportive relationships with Breakthrough Santa Fe

and Davis New Mexico Scholarship organizations housed on Santa Fe Prep’s
campus.