Senior Director of Regional Success – New York

Position: Senior Director Regional Success

Position Type: Internal/External

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Reports to: Eris Johnson-Smith, Managing Director of Program, New York

Start date: July 2026

Location: New York City, NY

Location Classification: Location-specific

Time: While the standard hours for this role are 9:00am – 5:00pm, these hours may be subject to change based on seasonal demand or operational requirements.

Starting Salary: $106,208 – $111,000 is the hiring range for this role.

About OneGoal

OneGoal transforms postsecondary advising and support so that every student can define their own future. Together with our partners, we’re building a movement to close the opportunity gap. We work side-by-side with partner schools and districts to build their knowledge and capacity. The result is more effective support for all students. Our unique approach, honed over 15 years, prioritizes strong human relationships. And it’s proven to deliver real student impact: An independent study by the University of Chicago found that OneGoal students are about 40% more likely to earn their postsecondary degrees than students from similar backgrounds. At OneGoal you’ll be immersed in a culture of collaboration, shared purpose, and collective impact.

The Person

As the Senior Director of Regional Success, you will be responsible for setting vision, direction, and strategy for the New York region’s cross-collaboration efforts in order to set, manage, and execute the overall vision and direction of programmatic elements and Fellow experience in the New York City Region with the ultimate goal of achieving strong Fellow outcomes of enrollment and persistence. You will manage and equip the Coaching and Advising Team to use that vision and direction to strategically reach our benchmarks and key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure continued, thriving impact for the region.

The Senior Director of Regional Success will be an integral member of the New York Leadership Team, designing, leading and executing on strategies, projects, and work streams that support the New York region to achieve ambitious goals

You will do this by:

Coaching Team Strategy & Execution 40%

Define, create, align, and lead Secondary Team strategic vision and manage team’s execution of team and organization priorities, benchmarks and KPIs for all program years (Y1-Y2)
Manage the team toward a clear vision for the student, teacher, and whole school experience that includes multi-year strategies to achieve desired student outcomes aligned with regional and national frameworks
Sets Student Facing Events vision and manage project planning and team execution

Cross collaboration & Regional Leadership 40%

Creating and managing structures and processes for New York regional team to regularly align on and evaluate regional progress to goal
Facilitate NYC MTAC process through project management and internal/ external communication ○ Developing systems for regional project management
Informing strategic direction and tracking regional progress to ensure systems and structures are in alignment for strong regional performance
Collaborating with national counterparts to ensure region meets organizational expectations

People Management 20%

Cultivate and support external relationships to support two secondary DTS in portfolio management, Program Director coaching and training, and postsecondary campus relationships and collaborative actions when applicable.
Cultivate and support external relationships to one Director of Campus Support in portfolio management
Coaching and training for program directors, school admin and staff and fellows , and postsecondary campus relationships and collaborative actions when applicable.
Cultivate and support external relationship with one Manager of Postsecondary Success in management of direct support for fellows in their postsecondary year.
Manage internal teams to ensure external communication is professional, clear, compelling, accurate and aligned to our mission and vision.

The Senior Director of Regional Success is likely to see himself/herself/themselves in the following examples as they are designed to help you determine if this opportunity aligns with your own passion, purpose, skills, and experiences.

You are committed to creating a workplace where all people can thrive.

You foster an environment where every individual feels valued and respected. You seek to understand and appreciate the range of lived experiences of those we work with.
You are committed to elevating the voices and perspectives of the young people from the communities we serve, recognizing their potential and advocating for their success.
You believe in continuous learning and self-reflection to consider your own experience and understandings, analyze how they play out in your work, and act with deep consideration for others.
You actively seek opportunities to learn and grow, with the goal of creating a more supportive experience for our team and, most importantly, for the students we empower on their path to college and career success.

You are a strategist/synthesizer.

You like to explore and build innovative approaches and have designed new ways of doing things. You make connections, determine fits, and build plans that are responsive to interlocking and evolving challenges and opportunities.
Contingency planning and problem-solving excite you, and working to streamline and improve systems gives you energy.

You believe in the power of coaching and the brilliance of all students and in their ability to earn a postsecondary degree or credential.

You believe that our Fellows face real systemic barriers to postsecondary completion and that empowering families, teachers, and students to own their unique path will help them to overcome those barriers.
You believe that your impact can be greater when you empower others, that all teachers have the ability to be great, and that even great teachers can achieve more with additional resources and support.
You know every learner is different, and you know how to adjust your coaching to meet their needs.
You build relationships quickly, consistently, and authentically.
Creating incredible teacher training experiences excites you, and because you understand that adult learners are unique, you strive to create trainings that are rigorous, inspiring, and transformative experiences for Program Directors.

You are a coalition builder.

You cultivate relationships with the understanding that our students are best served when we collaborate to meet all of their needs.
You are both humble and optimistic about the role OneGoal can play within a partner school, with a commitment to serving more students, better.
You have a tremendous ability to adapt messages and discern the appropriate mode of communication, depending on the situation and audience, to build champions and convert skeptics.
You are driven both by data and experience, recognizing that decision-making and strategy require evidence as well as a drive to dream big.

You excitedly identify and confront challenges and opportunities.

You see challenges as opportunities to take your critical thinking skills and impact to the next level. You operate with a strong sense of personal responsibility when it comes to solving challenges.
You analyze data and marshal resources to ensure our students and school partners have what they need to make college possible.
You do not operate as a blind executor of pre-existing practices; instead, you thoughtfully evaluate the OneGoal program and identify ways to elevate our program’s effectiveness.

You know when and how to engage other key stakeholders that have the insight and positional authority to help you and others overcome obstacles and seize viable beneficial opportunities in a timely way.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree (Required)
2-3 years of project management experience (Required)
2+ years adult coaching/ training or people management experience (Required)
Demonstrated experience cross functional collaboration (Highly Preferred)
Virtual Curriculum design and/or evaluation experience (Preferred)
Lived experience of the Fellows we serve (Preferred)
Ability to travel across New York and the surrounding area

Our Team

Guided by a clear set of core values and beliefs, you will join an impressive group of more than 200 OneGoal staff across the country who believe in the untapped potential within students. The OneGoal team challenges themselves and others to regularly ask, “Is there a better way?” We believe that in order to create the change we seek, each person we hire brings a remarkable and diverse set of experiences, skills and characteristics that individually and collectively, will contribute to the radical change needed to move us towards a more just nation.

The Tangible Good

OneGoal offers competitive compensation based on the market for nonprofits our size. Our benefits package* includes: over eight weeks of paid time off (or 43 business days), between vacation days, wellness time, and holidays; paid medical or parental leaves should you have need; medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance; as well as a 401(k) with a 3% match.

We believe in compensating staff members fairly in relation to each other, their qualifications, and their impact on behalf of the organization, and take internal and external fairness seriously. OneGoal does not negotiate salary offers; instead each salary offer is determined carefully using external and internal benchmarking. You will have an opportunity to discuss salary in more detail after you begin the hiring process.

*OneGoal reserves the right to change benefits at any time according to business need.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to submit an application or to participate in the application or interview process, please reach out to our Human Assets Team to request an accommodation. Our Human Assets Team can be contacted at 773-321-2630 or HumanAssets@onegoalgraduation.org.

OneGoal does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of actual or perceived sex, race, color, ancestry, citizenship, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, disability (mental or physical),sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, parenthood, genetic characteristic or information, military or veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected under federal,state, or local law.