Area Manager, Expanded Learning

About the role

The ExpandED Learning Area Manager is a field-based leadership role supporting assigned district contracts and ExpandED Learning sites. This role is responsible for ensuring program quality, compliance, fiscal accountability, staffing, and district/community engagement across multiple sites within a defined region.

Responsibilities

• Provide field-based oversight, coaching, and support to assigned Expanded Learning sites.
• Ensure programs are safe, high-quality, compliant, fiscally responsible, and aligned with Catalyst’s mission and values.
• Conduct regular site visits to observe program quality, supervision, student engagement, enrichment activities, staffing, and documentation.
• Monitor alignment with district, grant, state, and agency requirements.
• Support successful implementation of assigned district contracts, including service levels, deliverables, timelines, and communication expectations.
• Monitor attendance, participation, enrollment, staffing patterns, ratios, budgets, expenditures, and reporting timelines.
• Use program data, site observations, and stakeholder feedback to identify trends, barriers, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Coach and supervise Managers and/or Supervisors through ongoing feedback, accountability, professional development, and site-level problem solving.
• Support consistent implementation of agency systems, training expectations, program procedures, and district-specific requirements.
• Partner with the Regional Director to implement regional goals, district priorities, corrective action plans, quality improvement efforts, and expansion strategies.
• Support alignment between Expanded Learning programs, school-day priorities, district expectations, and student/family needs.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, retention, employee relations, performance management, and succession planning in partnership with HR and regional leadership.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with school administrators, district partners, community organizations, families, and internal teams.
• Represent Catalyst in district meetings, community events, planning groups, and partnership conversations in collaboration with the Regional Director.
• Prepare reports, analyses, and recommendations, and participate in regional or statewide initiatives, pilots, and projects.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree in Business, Child Development, Education, Public Administration, or related field.
• 5+ Years of experience managing early child education/school/child development setting.
• Experience supervising, coaching, and developing managers, supervisors, or site leaders.
• Experience supporting multi-site operations, district partnerships, program expansion, or new site openings.
• Strong understanding of state-funded, district-funded, grant-funded, or Expanded Learning program compliance.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in Business, Child Development, Education, Public Administration, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Child Development, Education, Public Administration, or related field.

Key Competencies

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities across multiple locations.
• Strong leadership, coaching, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Financial acumen and operational problem-solving.
• Ability to use data, observations, and feedback to identify trends, address barriers, and recommend improvements.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across sites with minimal oversight.
• Commitment to equity, inclusion, and Catalyst’s mission.
• Experience using internal and external program assessment tools to monitor and improve program quality.
• Strong working knowledge of licensing and compliance.
• Proven ability to think critically and to translate strategic directives into site- and contract-level action.

What We Offer

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• 401(k) Retirement plan and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays
• Commuter pre-tax benefit
• Discounted childcare
• Tickets and Work employee discounts
• Be constantly in a learning and growth process with training and professional growth advisory
• We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer
• This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.