What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Summer Session & Auxiliary Programs position at Phillips Academy?
Salary Range: $140,000 - $175,000 annually
Phillips Academy seeks a Director of Summer Session and Auxiliary Programs beginning no later than June 1, 2026, though an earlier start is possible.
The Phillips Academy Summer Session is an intensive 5-week, pre-college, residential, and academic program. A summer faculty of 120 offer more than 60 courses representing many academic disciplines, a focused college counseling program, SAT Prep, and a variety of afternoon and weekend activities. In 2025, Summer Session enrolled 550 students from 36 states and 40 countries. As Director of Summer Session, the successful candidate will manage a year-round office staff of 6, oversee all marketing and recruitment strategies, assign campus facilities during the summer and be responsible for hiring deans, program coordinators, teachers, and teaching assistants. The director also oversees efforts to use the facilities more effectively across campus to generate additional revenue to support the Academy’s mission. Summer Session may expand to include e-summer, summer advantage, and other summer programming that has existed in the past.
The Academy operates four outreach programs - Andover Bread Loaf , Institute for Recruitment of Teachers : IRT, Math and Science for Minority Students : (MS) 2 , and Phillips Academy and Lawrence Schools: PALS . As coordinator of the Academy’s Outreach programs, the successful applicant will work with the four individual outreach directors on all operational aspects of the programs. This role includes meeting regularly with the outreach directors during the academic year. (MS) 2 and PALS are closely integrated with Summer Session and take place during the same time frame and will require greater cooperation.
Reporting to the Chief of Staff and Assistant Head for Strategic Planning, the Director is the summertime lead contact person with Office of the Physical Plant, Human Resources, dining services, and the athletic department and collaboratively manages decision making associated with determining programmatic use of the academy’s physical plant. The Director is the lead coordinator of all summer programming. They also work collaboratively with the Office of Academy Resources and the Director of Communications in support of outreach programming, publications, publicity, fundraising, and research. The Director collaborates with the Academy’s administration to advance the institution’s progressive mission of promoting intellectual growth, character development and diversity. A master's degree plus five years of administrative experience including managing a large and complex budget is preferred.
Please include a cover letter, résumé, and two letters of reference (preferred in one pdf) addressed to Dianne Domenech-Burgos, Chief of Staff.
Please note: A strong internal candidate is under consideration for this role. All qualified applicants are still encouraged to apply.
The Academy provides competitive benefits, and salary is commensurate with experience.
Phillips Academy is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, military service, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by law. Any offers of employment will be contingent upon successful CORI/SORI, and fingerprinting background checks as well as unrestricted authorization to work in the United States.
Phillips Academy seeks a Director of Summer Session and Auxiliary Programs beginning no later than June 1, 2026, though an earlier start is possible.
The Phillips Academy Summer Session is an intensive 5-week, pre-college, residential, and academic program. A summer faculty of 120 offer more than 60 courses representing many academic disciplines, a focused college counseling program, SAT Prep, and a variety of afternoon and weekend activities. In 2025, Summer Session enrolled 550 students from 36 states and 40 countries. As Director of Summer Session, the successful candidate will manage a year-round office staff of 6, oversee all marketing and recruitment strategies, assign campus facilities during the summer and be responsible for hiring deans, program coordinators, teachers, and teaching assistants. The director also oversees efforts to use the facilities more effectively across campus to generate additional revenue to support the Academy’s mission. Summer Session may expand to include e-summer, summer advantage, and other summer programming that has existed in the past.
The Academy operates four outreach programs - Andover Bread Loaf , Institute for Recruitment of Teachers : IRT, Math and Science for Minority Students : (MS) 2 , and Phillips Academy and Lawrence Schools: PALS . As coordinator of the Academy’s Outreach programs, the successful applicant will work with the four individual outreach directors on all operational aspects of the programs. This role includes meeting regularly with the outreach directors during the academic year. (MS) 2 and PALS are closely integrated with Summer Session and take place during the same time frame and will require greater cooperation.
Reporting to the Chief of Staff and Assistant Head for Strategic Planning, the Director is the summertime lead contact person with Office of the Physical Plant, Human Resources, dining services, and the athletic department and collaboratively manages decision making associated with determining programmatic use of the academy’s physical plant. The Director is the lead coordinator of all summer programming. They also work collaboratively with the Office of Academy Resources and the Director of Communications in support of outreach programming, publications, publicity, fundraising, and research. The Director collaborates with the Academy’s administration to advance the institution’s progressive mission of promoting intellectual growth, character development and diversity. A master's degree plus five years of administrative experience including managing a large and complex budget is preferred.
Please include a cover letter, résumé, and two letters of reference (preferred in one pdf) addressed to Dianne Domenech-Burgos, Chief of Staff.
Please note: A strong internal candidate is under consideration for this role. All qualified applicants are still encouraged to apply.
The Academy provides competitive benefits, and salary is commensurate with experience.
Phillips Academy is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, military service, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by law. Any offers of employment will be contingent upon successful CORI/SORI, and fingerprinting background checks as well as unrestricted authorization to work in the United States.
Salary : $140,000 - $175,000