Campus President

Are you a dynamic and results-oriented leader with a passion for education and community impact? Concorde Career Colleges is seeking a Campus President (CP) to lead our campus to new heights of success. If you're ready to make a difference in the lives of students, build a strong team, and drive academic and financial excellence, we want to hear from you!

Our Mission:

At Concorde Career Colleges, we are dedicated to providing quality education and career-focused training to empower individuals to achieve their goals. Our core values include respect, integrity, teamwork, customer service, and achievement. We're on a mission to transform lives through education, and we need a visionary leader to help us achieve this mission.

Position Summary:

The Campus President (CP) is the “General Manager” of the campus and is responsible for developing, planning, directing, and controlling broad activities needed to ensure campus success. The CP drives the organizational objectives to ensure financial and academic success through short- and long-range planning and action. The CP is responsible for creating an environment that engages staff, creates quality education and administrative processes, broad growth, and predictable financial performance. The CP has overall responsibility for the operation and activities of the campus as well as campus results. The CP works within the scope of authority established by Concorde while supporting and adhering to Concorde’s code of ethics, business standards, mission, and core values. The CP must act as a change agent, separating activity from results, and must be results focused with the ability to achieve through other people. This ability requires the CP to create a student focused environment where associates are passionate about their roles, understand the campus goals, work collaboratively, and most of all, understand the purpose of the institution is to create a positive student experience. As such, the CP must be proficient in creating a team environment, developing talents of individuals on the team and be a constructive change agent. The CP’s value proposition is derived from an environment where trust and the quality of work results from an engaged workforce that delivers predicable operational and financial results. The CP drives organizational change to achieve results and is the leader in executing the campus’s vision and strategy. The CP must be able to balance the demands of a complex matrix organization while showing appropriate judgment and reasoning skills with respect to decision making. The CP is looked to as a mentor and person that creates a healthy and vibrant work environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversees all operations of the campus including Admissions, Financial Aid, Academics, Student Affairs, Business Office, and Student Records. Responsible for hitting goals and benchmarks in each of these areas.
• Has full budget and profit and loss responsibility for the campus. Responsible for achieving monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial targets.
• Responsible for achieving company and regulatory benchmarks for student outcomes: graduation rate, placement rate, licensure rates, and student satisfaction.
• Accountable to limiting “deficiencies” on the quarterly CP scorecard.
• Leads the development and implementation of short and long-range plans to achieve the campus’s goals and objectives.
• Owns the organization development process for the campus and as such, ensures that performance planning, execution and coaching, assessment of promote ability and potential, performance evaluation, and related development plans are in place for all employees.
• Oversees the employee evaluation process, including but not limited to performance evaluations, merit increases, promotions, and disciplinary actions.
• Ensures compliance with documented and comprehensive, quality, regulatory, and accreditation programs.
• Directs the business development process to increase market share in the campus market.
• Ensures that market assessment, identification of market segments and evaluation of education programs are conducted annually.
• In conjunction with Corporate develops expansion plans, recommends expansion of service areas and the development of new and profitable education ventures.
• Recommends implements and administers changes in the tuition pricing structures as approved by Corporate. Ensures timely communication for policy changes and implementation of approved and published tuition pricing.
• Drives continuous improvement of key educational and administrative processes to improve financial results and educational excellence through demonstrated discipline and consistency.
• Evaluates general and specific business conditions as they relate to operational issues and keeps appropriate corporate departments fully informed.
• Ensures adherence to legal requirements and government reporting regulations affecting the campus. Continually monitors exposure of the organization. Directs the preparation of information requested or required for compliance. Submits information to appropriate company function leaders e.g., Human Resource, Compliance, Financial Aid, Education, Admissions, Finance, etc. prior to distribution to government agencies.
• Establish/maintain a high performance team of professional, motivated and engaged staff utilizing effective training, performance management and career-development activities while leading them to achieve established business results and performance metrics.
• Recognizes and rewards employee contributions and achievements.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education / Experience

• A Baccalaureate Degree in Education, Healthcare Management, Business, or related field. A Master’s degree is preferred
• Minimum of five years of experience in a leadership role in Career Education Management.
• Related experience in Healthcare Provider Management, Financial Services Management, Military Operations, or another related field could also be considered
• Requires an accomplished executive with outstanding leadership, team-work and general management skills with a for-profit company with revenues in excess of $10 million per year. Strategic, operational, and financial experience in a career education or healthcare services business where the primary drivers are marketing of services, quality of service, and optimal utilization of assets
• Evidence of creativity, intensity, high integrity, reasoned and thoughtful judgment, sense of urgency, a balance between analytical and intuitive skills and a willingness to “roll-up sleeves” and apply these attributes. Accustomed to working in a rapidly changing environment, able to provide inspirational leadership, and capable of making touch decisions and acting on them.
• Able to articulate clear, meaningful goals and focus peoples’ efforts to get results
• Demonstrated strong listening and oral communication skills on an individual and group basis on all levels; excellent writing skills, negotiating skills, financial acumen, and executive demeanor
• Evidence of the ability to rapidly establish credibility at all levels of the corporation, particularly at the front lines with professional and administrative personnel. Requires maturity, self-confidence, and sensitivity to function comfortably and effectively in a demanding environment
• Demonstrated capability to analyze the operational details and self-correct
• Evidence of the ability to navigate the dynamics, and politics of the various personal, professional, and economic considerations e.g., within staff, student, and employee groups
• Has the stature to be credible with educators and accrediting agencies, able to gain trust quickly

Abilities

• Other Requirements: Business Acumen - Acquires and applies, keeps up to date with the information from the business world, education and healthcare industries and applies cross-functional knowledge. Acquires, applies, and uses current knowledge in all areas of their own specialty or profession; is regarded as an expert; identifies and uses other expert resources as needed.
• Strategist - Understands strategic concepts; develops and influences distinctive and competitive strategies; aligns the organization with the local business community to support priorities, embrace change and deliver results.
• Relationship Builder - Establishes friendly, candid, and trusting relations; cultivates a network of contacts throughout the organization and community; treats others fairly and with respect; seeks resolution of disagreements through open, constructive discussion.
• Problem Solver/Decision Maker/Executor - Recognizes problems and devises and implements action plans. Specifies goals and constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses best alternatives. Is results focused and maintains a healthy balance between efficiency and effectiveness.
• Change Agent - Serves as a catalyst for initiating change and innovation within the campus. Demonstrates and involves others in learning about ongoing needs for change. Supports experimentation to test new approaches.
• Effective Negotiator - Demonstrates ability to effectively facilitate parties toward a “win-win” agreement; identifies key players; defines objectives, significant issues, and shared interests; determines motivational drivers and potential obstacles for all parties; communicates effectively; gains result without either party losing face.
• Staff Development & Team Building - Identifies goals and vision for group; guides individuals and teams toward priorities; clarifies roles and responsibilities of others and energizes individuals to achieve; coordinates resources and arranges organizational systems to meet objectives. Encourages personal investment and a desire to excel by others; spurs other to action; recognizes and rewards other’s accomplishments. Able to identify key talent and build a pipeline of next generation talent. Develops those employees through the application of talent management methods to include mentoring, individual development planning, and career pathing.
• Talent Manager - Employs creative sourcing and critical selection techniques to recruit and retain a higher caliber, highly energized, and highly effective workforce. Recognizes individual contributions within an integrated team environment that challenges staff to deliver against high and demanding standards. Engages in multi-dimensional interaction with all levels of employee resulting in clear and understandable outcomes. Manages the workplace with a sense of vision and passion that motivates and unleashes staff potential.
• Effective Communicator - Speaks clearly and expresses self well in all situations; listens to others’ ideas and opinions; keeps others informed; writes clearly and concisely; extracts substance from complex issues and organizes content effectively; selects appropriate media and message for the audience.

Standard Abilities

• Able and willing to: · Communicate, think, learn, and reason · Use computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to process transactions, store documents, enter data, or perform assigned tasks · Safely ambulate and/or maneuver when on-site at Company locations · Demonstrate and utilize active listening, inductive reasoning, information ordering and category flexibility
• Ability to use good judgment, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage sensitive information with discretion
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where deadlines are essential and multiple projects are worked simultaneously
• Ability to gain, understand and apply information and data as it relates essential functions of the position
• Ability to foster long-term relationships with stakeholders

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Concorde Career Colleges is a proud Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, genetic information, national origin, religion or belief, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, immigration status, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, or protected veteran status, are encouraged to apply and will receive equal consideration based on merit, qualifications, and business need.