Santa Fe Preparatory School seeks a full-time college counselor to serve as an Associate Director or Co-Director (depending on qualifications) of our college counseling team for the 2026-2027 school year and beyond. The ideal candidate will be relationship-oriented, creative, positive, and energetic. Our team of two college counselors collaborates closely on questions, challenges, and issues that arise, while staying apprised of the shifting college landscape. 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 strong relationships with each student and their family, working to see the whole student and placing student agency at the forefront of the process.

Job Responsibilities: 

• Work with a caseload of approximately 30 students in each class, endeavoring to help students discover their pathway after high school and then guiding the student through every aspect of the college search, application, and financial aid and scholarship process with a cost-conscious lens. 
• Maintain a personalized approach to counseling and work 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 training, 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.
• Be willing and able to attend outdoor education trips offered through our experiential education programming. 
• 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 the Davis New Mexico Scholarship, college access organizations housed on Santa Fe Prep’s campus.

Please send a cover letter expressing interest and fit and a resume with three references in one combined PDF, in that order, to the Assistant to the Heads,  Anna Hastings  at anhastings@@sfprep.org

About Santa Fe Prep

Santa Fe Prep is an independent school serving students in grades 7 through 12. We are an ambitious and diverse learning community dedicated to active discourse. We value our place in the community of Santa Fe, which enriches and defines us. We cultivate qualities of character, scholarship, and citizenship in our students that inspire them to act responsibly and compassionately at home, at school, and in the world.

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