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Aim High is a five-week summer enrichment program for rising 6th-9th grade students navigating systemic barriers in California. Offered at no cost to students and their families for up to four summers, Aim High helps middle schoolers build academic confidence, discover a love of learning, and develop the skills they need to thrive in school and in life. In 1986, Aim High launched at one site in San Francisco with just 50 students. Over nearly 40 years, Aim High has expanded across the Bay Area in every direction, as far north as Napa, east as Tahoe-Truckee, and south as San José. This year, Aim High ran 16 summer sites and served approximately two thousand students.

Aim High is headquartered in San Francisco, where the management team and other central office professionals work on a regular basis each week year-round. Along with hundreds of seasonal staff, Aim High employs approximately 20-25 full-time team members, led by a chief executive officer who assumed the post earlier this year after a long history with the organization. The annual budget is approximately $7M, which is funded almost entirely by donations, grants, and partnerships. Aim High is in an excellent financial position with $20M in net assets and no outstanding debt.

Aim High is now seeking a relational and community-oriented VP of development to join the team. The VP of development oversees all aspects of philanthropy, which is the primary source of revenue for Aim High. The VP reports to the CEO and leads a small team of development professionals. Early priorities will include developing relationships with Aim High’s staff and current and prospective donors, in addition to working closely with the CEO to share Aim High’s mission and impact with the broader community. Aim High looks forward to welcoming the VP to start later this fall.

12M & Ed Tech Recruiting is running the search on behalf of Aim High. Applications received by September 6 will receive priority review. For application instructions and the full job opportunity statement, please download the opportunity statement and apply online.

Shanghai American School (SAS) is an English-language day school offering an American curriculum, prekindergarten to grade 12, for expatriate families living in Shanghai, the People’s Republic of China (PRC). SAS is one of the few independent, non-profit, coeducational day schools in Shanghai. SAS is an entity duly registered, licensed and regulated by the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau and the Shanghai Education Commission. SAS is governed, however, by the Shanghai American School Association of Parents. Every parent, by virtue of their child’s SAS enrollment, is a member of the Association. SAS has two campuses, one in Pudong (East), one in Puxi (West), each offering a full PK-12 program. Each high school offers a wide range of AP courses, as well as the full IB diploma. SAS is the largest international school in China with over 2,700 students and over 650 faculty and staff members.

SAS saught a chief financial officer (CFO), to start in the summer of 2024. The CFO would be a key leadership role responsible for overseeing the financial health and integrity of the school. The CFO provides strategic financial guidance, planning, and leadership while ensuring the effective management of the school's financial resources. Reporting directly to the head of school, the CFO plays a pivotal role in shaping the financial future of the institution. The CFO oversees two business units (Finance; Purchasing and Contracts), each with a director that supervises managers and other staff that support their respective business units. This position included a competitive salary range, plus a generous benefits package that allows for a very comfortable lifestyle and incredible savings potential. SAS values its employees and compensates accordingly.

This search has concluded with a successful hire. A formal announcement will be made in the fall of 2024.

AIM Academy, an independent day school in Conshohocken that serves students with language-based learning differences, announces the hiring of Annette Fallon as its next head of school. Fallon spent 10 years at the Baltimore Lab School, a division of The Lab School of Washington, the original inspiration and design of AIM Academy. Fallon served as a teacher and ultimately went on to a leadership role as the Director of Admissions for eight years. "We believe that Annette's experience at Baltimore Lab School, watching children learn when actively engaged and fully immersed in their learning experience and seeing the academic success of students when well-trained teachers delivered evidence-based curriculum and strategies to their students, uniquely prepared her to work with our team and lead AIM Academy into the next chapter of our future vision of AIM," said AIM Associate Director Nancy Blair.

This position reports to the office of the CEO.

The Alexander Dawson School, an early childhood - grade 8 independent school in Las Vegas, NV announces the hiring of Michelle Eckmann as its next chief financial officer. Ms. Eckmann has a long and distinguished career as a financial leader in both the for-profit and nonprofit industries. For fifteen years she worked at Bank of America in their CFO group, overseeing core finance functions for different business units. From 2016 to 2020 she was CFO for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada. Ms. Eckmann has been active in Nevada as a philanthropic leader, which includes her long service within the Junior League since 2007.

This position reports to the head of school.