Regional Community Lead
Higher Ground Education
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Posted:
June 12, 2023
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Hybrid
About the position
The Regional Community Lead will be responsible for supporting school leaders in driving admissions, ensuring an excellent parent experience, and engaging with the community. They will work alongside school leaders on enrollment planning, parent onboarding and orientation, community events and partnerships, and building pedagogical understanding and branding. The role requires a big-picture thinker who can survey the organization's school needs and a hands-on doer who can quickly solve problems and scale effective practices. The Regional Community Lead will be part of a small regional team supporting a portfolio of schools and will play a key role in building enrollment and community engagement excellence, providing a surprise and delight parent experience, and ensuring the profitability of each school within the region.
Responsibilities
- Build enrollment and community engagement excellence in school teams
- Support school teams in delivering and converting touring families
- Conduct excellent and effective prospective and current family events
- Drive excellent retention efforts
- Provide a surprise and delight parent experience
- Embrace building a community that stays as a key enabler of a thriving school community
- Train, support, and model community leadership for Heads and Assistant Heads of School
- Provide action-oriented and practical feedback to improve enrollment skills
- Build capacity in school leaders to hold themselves and each other accountable to a high standard of community excellence
- View community and enrollment excellence within the lens of a profitable and thriving school
- Collaborate with the Regional Manager, Regional Programs Lead, and Regional Operations Lead to ensure thriving, successful, and profitable schools.
Requirements
- Experience in driving admissions and enrollment planning
- Ability to ensure an excellent parent experience and build community engagement
- Knowledge and understanding of Montessori programming and pedagogy
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to scale practical and effective practices
- Ability to work in an entrepreneurial environment and drive widespread change in education
- Experience in coaching and supporting school leaders and teams
- Ability to deliver a surprise and delight parent experience and build an inclusive community environment
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Ability to provide practical feedback and support to improve enrollment skills and problem-solving capabilities
- Understanding of the importance of profitability in a for-profit education organization
- Collaborative mindset and ability to work with regional support team members to ensure successful and profitable schools.
Benefits
- Hybrid work: approx. 50% remote, 50% travel to schools in your region
- Competitive salary
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- 100% tuition discount for two children at any school within the network
- Career growth and promotion opportunities
- Leadership team that wants employees to thrive on their own terms