Director of Admissions, Alpha - $400,000/year USD

About the role

The ideal candidate will navigate cross-cultural family dynamics and the expectation of sophisticated, adaptable relationships with the same confidence they bring to the established norms of Miami's private school community.

Responsibilities

• Shape the cultural identity of the school community—the tone, rituals, and implicit standards that create a sense of belonging—so that Alpha feels like a place families take pride in, not merely a school they selected.
• Manage the parent relationship from beginning to end—from initial outreach through enrollment, retention, and sustained advocacy—so that faculty remain concentrated on students and families always have a trusted point of contact.
• Detect early when something is amiss, and address it with the discretion and judgment that preserves trust—including the more difficult judgment of recognizing when a family is not aligned with the school.
• Maintain visibility where families gather: morning drop-off, afternoon pick-up, evening programming, and the informal exchanges that carry the most weight.
• Develop a community that both domestic and international families feel invested in protecting—and where referrals occur because the experience warrants them.
• Communicate Alpha's narrative persuasively—in individual conversations, at gatherings, and in the settings filled with discerning, globally oriented families where the school's reputation is truly established.

Requirements

• 5+ years building and sustaining trust with high-net-worth or ultra-high-net-worth families in a high-touch, relationship-centered role.
• Demonstrated experience guiding discerning clients through high-stakes decisions—with measurable outcomes you can discuss: conversions, retention, referrals.
• The discretion and poise to manage sensitive, confidential matters without creating friction.
• Proven experience managing and developing people—coaching, maintaining high standards, and making difficult personnel decisions—not only managing relationships or accounts.
• Innate cross-cultural fluency across globally mobile and established Miami family networks.
• AI-first orientation—you use AI tools with ease, understand their strengths and limitations, and proactively identify superior solutions, even if you're not engineering them directly.
• Based in Miami, available full-time on-site, and flexible with non-standard hours.
• Likely to be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience as a head of school, principal, superintendent, or in a comparable school leadership role.
• Professional fluency in Spanish or Portuguese.
• Personal or professional familiarity with independent or non-traditional education.
• Experience with internationally mobile, Latin American, or globally connected families.
• Existing relationships inside Miami's private school parent networks.
• A personal network that spans the neighborhoods, clubs, and institutions where Alpha's families live and decide.

Benefits

Working with us
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position.
The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record.
The compensation level for this role is $200 USD/hour, which equates to $400,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year.
The payment period is weekly.
Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Pay

$200 USD/hour

Schedule

Full-time (40 hours per week)