Executive Director

Description

United Education Institute is a leader in post-secondary career education. Working at our employee-owned company is more than just a great career - its an investment in yourself. Our mission is to drive personal and community transformation by empowering students to make a positive and enduring life change. We are consistently searching for like-minded compassionate professionals who strive to be the best in their respective fields. Our top candidates share our commitment to helping students build the skills so they can create a future they can be proud of.

We are currently seeking a Campus President to lead our team at our NEW Houston Campus. The Campus President is responsible for all facets of student success and student achievement at the UEI College campus, including student attendance, student retention, student graduation, and student placement rates. Likewise, the Campus President is responsible for the team member experience. The campus is part of a distributed, multi-site post-secondary educational organization system and the Campus President must be prepared to thrive in this type of environment. The position provides the vision and leadership direction to the campus to ensure a student centric, hands-on learning environment dedicated to compliance and quality learning, as exemplified by excellence in student outcomes. The position must strategically align campus goals and staffing with the mission of the larger organization, which depends on colleague recognition and empowerment to create an environment of positive thinking, problem resolution, innovation, and growth.

The Campus President has complete oversight of the Houston UEI College campus and is held directly accountable for student success in key performance indicators, including student retention and student job placement, while always maintaining the highest standards of compliance with federal, state and accreditor rules and regulations. In addition to ensuring student success, quality educational delivery, and the continuing compliance of all facets of campus operations, the Campus President is responsible for student enrollment, campus budgeting and financial effectiveness, staffing and team building.

Key Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Campus President is accountable for all facets of student success and student achievement, including student attendance, student retention, student graduation, and student placement rates.
• Establishes and creates a positive, safe, and transformational learning environment for students during their educational journey. Provides an engaging environment focused on student satisfaction.
• Exemplifies excellent leadership skills that enable a desirable, safe, empowering, positive, and solutions-driven environment to all colleagues and team members. Creates a culture that drives the best results from colleagues who are happy to serve our students as well as fellow colleagues.
• Assures compliance with and adherence to all institutional, federal, state and accreditation policies and procedures.
• Provides an engaging student-centered learning environment for all students by leading, directing, and managing the campus admissions, education, financial services, business office and career services departments and management teams.
• Establishes and maintains a strong partnership with all non-campus vertical leaders through excellent communication skills, resulting in efficient, effective and quality support and service to our new and continuing students.
• Is responsible for recruiting and developing top talent for key campus positions. Collaborates and partners with the regional support team and human resources to hire, onboard, train, coach, and develop team members and faculty at the campus.
• Responsible for the development, management and execution of the campus P&Ls.
• Responsible for meeting or exceeding budgeted outcome and growth targets, including outcome quality metrics and campus population.
• Complies with all federal regulations and institutional policies and procedures for actively participating and engaging federal Title IV funding, including compliance with the 90/10 rule.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree required from an accredited institution; Masters degree preferred. Candidate must have significant experience with national accrediting institutions (including ACCET, ACCSC or COE).

• Minimum of 5 years of proven experience as a Campus President or equivalent at a private post-secondary career education organization. Experience managing a newly founded campus is preferred.

• Unwavering adherence to institutional, federal, state, and accreditation guidelines and standards of performance.

• Impeccable ethical judgment and work habits demonstrated in a fast-paced, collegial working environment.

• Demonstrated management experience, exemplified through the ability to build and lead a highly performing team.

• A passionate professional, who is organized, detailed, micro-engaging, analytical, a solutions driven thinker, positive, kind, respectful, and highly motivated, to lead a team of high performers to meet or exceed expectations.

• Demonstrated ability to engage with students, staff and faculty to achieve organizational goals and objectives with a strong sense of commitment towards excellence in internal and external customer service through communication, active listening, interpersonal, and conflict management skills.

We offer an exciting, fast-paced and dynamic work environment. If changing students lives is important to you, and you have the qualifications reflected above, we would love to hear from you.