Director of Educational and Clinical Services

GLO•Saint Louis, MN

About The Position

The Director of Educational and Clinical Services leads Groves Learning Organization’s multidisciplinary Learning Center team and its educational and clinical services, including diagnostic assessments, tutoring, ADHD and executive functioning coaching, speech-language services, summer programming, and related student and family supports. The role builds on established programs while helping the organization strengthen operations and explore opportunities for growth. The director assesses current programs and operations, develops clear direction, and works with staff and stakeholders to improve services and the experience of students, families, and employees. The role guides program development, service models, partnerships, and sustainable growth using data, experience, and collaboration. It also leads financial and operational performance and improves systems for scheduling, staffing, service capacity, enrollment, family communications, and program delivery. The director supports experienced educators, clinicians, specialists, and operational professionals through change by setting expectations, developing leaders, encouraging collaboration, and establishing accountability. The position ensures services are delivered effectively and safely at Groves, partner schools, and other community locations, addressing staffing, space, supervision, safeguarding, and operational risks. The director collaborates across Groves Academy and organizational departments, as well as with community partners, to align priorities and create opportunities for shared resources and coordinated services.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required.
Significant leadership experience in education, student services, human services, or another complex, people-centered environment.
Demonstrated responsibility for budgets, operations, staffing, and multidisciplinary teams.
Experience building, expanding, or substantially improving programs, services, or operating systems.
Understanding of students with learning disabilities and attentional differences, and ability to lead specialized professionals while respecting their expertise.
Experience managing relationships across multiple departments, disciplines, or organizational partners.
Genuine passion for education and student success.
Strong operational leadership, including management of budgets, staffing, complex workflows, service delivery, and competing priorities.
Strategic and financial judgment connecting program decisions to resources, performance, capacity, and long-term organizational health.
Experience leading through change and building trust while maintaining accountability.
Strong stakeholder leadership and ability to collaborate across disciplines and build alignment with educators, families, executives, community partners, and other stakeholders.
Systems perspective encompassing staffing, safety, space, processes, and service models.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in education, leadership, business, nonprofit management, or a related field.
Experience launching a program, developing a service, redesigning an operating model, establishing new systems, or helping an organization grow.

Responsibilities

Lead the multidisciplinary team delivering diagnostic assessments, tutoring, ADHD and executive functioning coaching, speech-language services, summer programming, and related student and family supports.
Protect and strengthen the quality of existing programs while exploring services and approaches that address evolving student and family needs.
Use data, experience, and collaboration to guide program development, service models, partnerships, and responsible growth.
Lead the financial and operational performance of educational and clinical services.
Strengthen systems for scheduling, staffing, service capacity, enrollment, family communications, and program delivery.
Translate operational challenges into practical solutions that improve effectiveness and sustainability.
Build trust with educators, clinicians, specialists, and operational professionals; set expectations, develop leaders, encourage collaboration, and establish accountability.
Ensure Learning Center services are delivered effectively and safely at Groves, partner schools, and other community locations.
Identify and address staffing, space, supervision, safeguarding, and operational risks, working with Facilities, partner organizations, and appropriate specialists.
Collaborate with Groves Academy, Finance, Human Resources, Advancement, Marketing, Admissions, and community partners to align priorities and develop shared resources and coordinated services.