President
About the Role
The President is the senior campus leader responsible for all campus operations. Aligning with the company’s core values, the President ensures ethical conduct, sound business practices, student success, and team development. This role involves campus oversight, compliant operations, and quality delivery of services to students leading to successful outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead all departments at the campus level, providing oversight and leadership to ensure successful and compliant campus operations.
- Establish campus priorities and goals, and implement actions aligned with the larger company strategy.
- Monitor and ensure campus compliance with all federal, state, and regulatory bodies’ guidelines, along with internal company policies.
- Ensure that each staff member has the knowledge and skill to successfully meet the requirements of their position through hiring, training, coaching, and supervision of personnel.
- Meet all operational objectives for the campus while ensuring sound and compliant business practices.
- Monitor services from all functional departments to ensure a quality educational experience for students.
- Conduct meetings, review and analyze assessment data, compile reports, and meet all operational and administrative deadlines.
- Responsible for communication and interaction within the local community to maximize the campus’s standing and visibility.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, education, or a related field from an academic institution accredited by a regional or national accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, or an Associate’s degree in business, education, or a related field with substantive relative experience.
- At least three years of operational management experience, with preference given to those with direct educational management experience.
- Knowledge of and experience with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within adult education.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree from an academic institution accredited by a regional or national accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
- Previous experience as a campus and/or department manager in a proprietary education setting.
- Experience with the CampusVue academic and administrative platform or other industry-related software.
- Knowledge and experience with understanding and analysis of financial reports, including income statements.
- Knowledge and experience with regulatory compliance guidelines in the education industry or a related sector.
Skills
- Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills with demonstrated success in collaborating with diverse groups of employees and customers.
- Demonstration of the highest levels of integrity and professionalism in all aspects, including appearance, demeanor, and attitude.
- Ability to lead and work in an observation/coaching style environment.
- Capability to prioritize, accept responsibility, and work within deadlines.
- Superior organizational and problem-resolution skills.
- Knowledgeable in statistical and financial analysis.
- Successful record of personnel, budgetary, and organizational management.
- Demonstrated strong commitment to customer service.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, including the ability to develop, motivate, and mentor staff.
- Strong computer software skills, including Microsoft Office.
- Past records of integrity that support compliance with accrediting standards and applicable federal, state, and local requirements.
Prohibited Activities
- Securing enrollments.
- Recruiting or admitting students.
- Any student recruitment or admission activity.
- Awarding financial aid or making decisions regarding the award of Title IV, HEA program funds.
- Contact in any form with a prospective student, such as, but not limited to: preadmission or advising activities, scheduling an appointment to visit the enrollment office or any other office of the institution, attendance at such an appointment, or involvement in a prospective student’s signing of an enrollment agreement or financial aid application.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear, taste or smell.
- Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Usually not exposed to weather conditions.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.