McCallie School, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Start Date: July 2025

Overview

Located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, McCallie provides an exceptional education to 1,003 boys in grades 6-12. Upper School boarding students join the grades 6-12 day student community to form a dynamic and engaged student body, where character and relationships are essential aspects of students’ education. As McCallie launches an ambitious strategic plan, the school seeks an entrepreneurial and driven Dean of Enrollment Management to lead an excellent 15-person admission office. Both a strategic leader and an integral part of the admission team, the Dean of Enrollment Management reports to the Head of School and serves on the Head’s leadership team. The incoming Dean will join the school at an auspicious time, as McCallie continues to grow its boarding program from 330 students to 400+ over the next decade. While leveraging the school’s devoted alumni base, enthusiastic parent body, and commitment to personal relationships, the Dean will bring a strategic and creative lens to the work ahead. 

Position Description

The Dean of Enrollment Management is responsible for managing and directing the annual recruitment and enrollment of new students and the re-enrollment of current students. This person is also responsible for broadly overseeing McCallie’s office of financial aid, scholarship program, and the school’s summer programs. The Dean of Enrollment Management partners with the school’s Advancement Team (Admissions, Marketing, Alumni, Development, and Communications) to maximize McCallie’s vast alumni and parent base to build broad institutional support and to help enroll talented, high character, mission-fit boys from Chattanooga and around the country and world. The Dean of Enrollment Management must demonstrate a deep understanding of, support for, and desire to live out McCallie’s mission for the good of McCallie boys — including both the school’s commitment to character development and the ideals of honor, truth, and duty and the school’s Christian foundation and Judeo-Christian heritage.

To Apply

McCallie School has retained Carney, Sandoe & Associates / The Baker Group to assist in the recruitment of the Dean of Enrollment Management. Interested and qualified candidates are invited to contact the consultants in confidence. Candidates will ultimately need to submit the following materials as separate PDF documents:

• A cover letter expressing their interest in this particular position
• A current and thorough résumé of no more than four pages

As the search progresses, selected candidates may be asked to provide:

• A writing sample, such as a parent/guardian communication, newsletter, open house speech, blog, or article;
• Contact information for five professional references with name, relationship, phone number, and email address of each (references will not be contacted without the candidate’s permission) to:

Marsha Little, Senior Consultant / Lisa Parsons, Consultant

Competitive candidates will possess most or all of the following qualifications and attributes:

• Experience as a senior enrollment officer in an independent school, college, or university.
• A bias for action, entrepreneurial lens, and competitive spirit.
• Deep understanding of current enrollment, admission, and marketing trends and best practices and the vision to develop new and emerging strategies and practices.
• Excellent public speaking and written communication skills and comfort presenting in front of a range of audiences.
• Skill as a strategic and analytical thinker.
• Facility in recruiting and enrolling students who contribute to the strength of the school’s programs.
• Comfort in directing, evaluating, and supporting a large team of admission processionals.
• Willingness to travel for conferences and student recruitment and availability to work occasionally on evenings and weekends.
• Excitement to participate in the various aspects of campus life in an effort to build a deep understanding of the school and the boarding community and to help establish meaningful relationships with students, teachers and staff.
• Embodiment of school ideals.

McCallie is an equal opportunity employer and does not engage in any unlawful discrimination. We are committed to recruiting, creating, and fostering a diverse community. We encourage all candidates to visit McCallie’s employment webpage to learn about the school, its mission, and institutional commitments.

About McCallie School

Day and boarding school located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, McCallie offers boys in grades 6-12 an exceptional education. Academic and extracurricular programs are tailored specifically to boys. Boys learn responsibility, leadership, and citizenship. Through interactions and relationships with faculty and peers, boys develop strong social-emotional skills. Every year boys are accepted into outstanding colleges and universities across the country and become leaders wherever they are. Boys from 28 states and 16 countries attend McCallie. This diversity enhances the learning experience and enriches the school community. That every individual is created in the image of God and should be treated with dignity and respect is a foundational belief shared by the community. “Our purpose as an institution is to support boys in becoming their greatest selves – to believe in their unlimited God-given potential, to steward their talents, and to inspire them to make substantive differences – large and small – in their communities and the world.” - HEAD OF SCHOOL LEE BURNS '87

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