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THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL DALLAS, TEXAS DIRECTOR OF ADMIssION AND ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT START DATE: JULY 1, 2020 www.hockaday.org OVERVIEW The Hockaday School—a rigorous, innovative, independent school for girls located in Dallas—seeks a Director of Admission and Enrollment Management to lead its admissions and enrollment management efforts for grades PK-12. The Director, overseeing a staff of five admissions and financial aid professionals, contributes importantly to the School’s strategic plan, The Hockaday Difference: Educating Girls for Extraordinary Lives, composing a diverse and motivated community of learners through the recruitment of prospective students and the caring admission and support of the most qualified applicants. The Director of Admission and Enrollment Management is a full-time, 12-month salaried position reporting to the Eugene McDermott Head of School, Dr. Karen Warren Coleman, and becomes effective July 1, 2020. School Profile - At a Glance The School is an inspirational place to work, with bright History and engaged students and exceptional professional Founded in 1913 as Miss Hockaday’s development opportunities and support for the adults School for Girls who teach them. Guided by the Four Cornerstones of Character, Courtesy, Scholarship, and Athletics and a culture of collaboration and commitment to girls’ Accreditation education, Hockaday believes anything is possible. The National Association of Independent Hockaday Difference strategic plan charts an ambitious Schools course for Hockaday to remain a leader in educating girls National Coalition of Girls Schools for a complex, diverse, and rapidly changing world. Independent Schools Association of the Southwest Hockaday offers both day and boarding programs for an exemplary college preparatory education in a diverse Mission community of nearly 1,100 girls that is welcoming, Believing in the limitless potential of girls, challenging, and nurturing. The School commits to creating Hockaday develops resilient, confident an extraordinary student experience for its students – one women who are educated and inspired that is empowering, joyful, and nurtures the well-being to lead lives of purpose and impact. and success of every student. Families, faculty, current students, and alumnae share an enormous sense of pride Vision in the institution that continues to be, for them, a home Hockaday will engage every girl in a away from home. They feel connected by the School’s shared journey of discovery, integrity, traditions and core values, and as a community, are scholarship, and accomplishment. proud of its strong position in the 21st-century educational landscape and its pervasive growth mindset. Families who choose Hockaday care deeply about providing their daughters with a comprehensive and rigorous education, both inside and outside the classroom. Hockaday’s student body reflects the diversity that is deeply valued by the School. While most Hockaday The Search Group | Carney, Sandoe & Associates 2 [email protected] | www.carneysandoe.com Student Body Approximately 1,090 students Upper School: 490 Middle School: 326 Lower School: 276 Boarding Students Approximately 80 (grades 8 – 12) States represented: 11 U.S. territory represented: 1 Countries represented: 11 Applicants for 2019-20: 928 New students for 2019-20: 154 Students of color: 42% Student/teacher ratio: 10:1 Faculty members: 117 (full-time) families come from across the greater Dallas-Fort Worth Faculty advanced degrees: 72% area, Hockaday’s boarding students also come from across the United States and from around the world. Alumnae: 6,500 The Director of Admission and Enrollment Management Endowment: $164,093,519 directs the School’s outreach and recruitment efforts and manages the admissions, enrollment, and financial Governance: 38 Trustees; 11 Life assistance programs. S/he is responsible for establishing Trustees; self-perpetuating Board of goals, work plans, workflow, operations, and budget to Trustees meet the School’s enrollment goals. The Director reports to the Eugene McDermott Head of School, and works closely with the Head of School, the Division Heads Campus: 88 acres with extensive (Upper, Middle, and Lower Schools), the Director of facilities Residence Life, the Office of Development and External Affairs, and the CFO. Serving on the Leadership Team, Interscholastic sports: 14; the Director collaborates with division heads and Upper School competes in the faculty in all three divisions and engages all School Southwest Preparatory Conference constituencies to participate in student recruitment and and, in certain sports, Texas State retention efforts. The Director is expected to participate Champions fully in professional organizations and to ably manage the admissions team currently composed of five experienced Financial Aid professionals overseeing lower, middle, upper, and Students on financial aid: 13% boarding admissions areas as well as financial aid. The Financial aid awards for 2019–20: Director is also expected to coordinate and partner with $3,141,500 the admissions committees and the faculty and staff who participate in and support the admissions process. The Search Group | Carney, Sandoe & Associates 3 [email protected] | www.carneysandoe.com FOUR CORNERSTONES Character: High moral standards promote self-assurance and the strength to withstand life’s pressures. This Cornerstone challenges students to live their lives with the courage of their convictions. Courtesy: Learning is strongly aligned with dignity, the outward expression of respect for oneself and others equally. This allows us to stay on the right path when outside forces or expediency would push us into unwise or unethical decisions. This Cornerstone is characterized at Hockaday by modeling a supportive, positive, and caring culture. We believe that putting courtesy into practice here and now will enable our students to later put it into action in the world. Scholarship: Our academic excellence is Hockaday’s hallmark. The Cornerstone is characterized by our commitment to inspire a love of learning in our girls and an intellectual curiosity that drives them to be truly engaged in their education. In our curriculum, as well as in our co-curricular programming, we provide learning opportunities that develop teamwork, leadership skills and critical thinking. Athletics: When Miss Ela Hockaday and her colleagues first articulated the Cornerstones, the inclusion of athletics must have been a very modern idea. We believe firmly that sports and fitness not only develop a sense of wellness, strength and confidence – but also builds in our girls a deep sense of fair play and grace, both in winning and in defeat. The Four Cornerstones are critical attributes for living a life of purpose and impact. The Search Group | Carney, Sandoe & Associates 4 [email protected] | www.carneysandoe.com SCHOOL HISTORY In 1913, a group of Dallas leaders asked Miss Ela Hockaday, a teacher and principal, to pioneer an academic institution for their daughters that equaled the education available at that time to their sons. Miss Hockaday agreed, and The Hockaday School for Girls opened in September of that year with 10 students. By the 1920s, the School had established a respected reputation for high academic standards. It increased in size, adding a lower school and a boarding department. In 1931, Miss Hockaday began a Junior College, and in 1938 she opened the Music Institute. In 1961, Karl Hoblitzelle donated 100 acres in North Dallas, which became the site of Hockaday’s third and present-day campus. More than 100 years later, Hockaday remains just as committed to its founder’s vision and the Four Cornerstones that shape the School’s identity. Over the years, Hockaday has grown to enroll nearly 1,100 students including boarders from Texas as well as from 11 states, 1 U.S. Territory, and 11 countries. The School is proud of its diverse community of teachers and students and retains its strong values of academics and character. THE SCHOOL Hockaday remains committed to preparing girls of strong potential from diverse backgrounds for lives of responsibility and leadership. Through small classes, creative teaching, and an approach that emphasizes the process of learning, Hockaday seeks to discover unique aptitudes and awaken and nourish the intellectual curiosity of every girl. Outside the classroom, students engage in arts and athletics, developing an appreciation for the beauty and joy of self-expression and an awareness of the The Search Group | Carney, Sandoe & Associates 5 [email protected] | www.carneysandoe.com importance of physical and mental well-being. Constituents laud the School’s single-sex community as a key strength. Hockaday celebrates girls at all ages by focusing on the unique ways they grow and learn, and it offers them opportunities both to participate and to lead. Across all areas—in the classroom, on the field, in the studio, and on the stage—the School focuses on the development of character and on the development and practice of ethics. Teachers model and emphasize the importance of strong values and encourage students to develop respectful and considerate attitudes, a generosity of spirit, respect for the ideals of human worth and dignity, and confident, caring, and mature character that makes students well-equipped to make responsible choices and withstand the pressures of today’s society. Hockaday launched its pioneering Institute for Social Impact in 2018 to organize its community engagement