Regional Director

Cognia, Inc.-posted 3 months ago
Full-time • Senior
Middletown Township, NJ
251-500 employees
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The Regional Director is a leadership position as a member of the regional team with a primary responsibility of building strong relationships with education agencies, schools, districts, and the education community. The Director utilizes knowledge and expertise in education to manage and facilitate membership and continuous improvement services, growth, and expansion for the organization. The Director has a deep understanding of Cognia’s products and services to support high-quality delivery to schools and districts. The Director works in collaboration with Cognia colleagues to ensure quality and relevant solutions are delivered to institutions and key stakeholders. The Director cultivates relationships to expand capabilities across institutions of all types.

  • Develop and maintain meaningful local working relationships with education agency representatives, partner organizations, schools, and districts to strengthen efficient and effective collaborative culture in support of Cognia’s mission.
  • Serve as the key contact for all Cognia services for education agencies, partner organizations, schools, and districts.
  • Retain, engage, and grow membership and continuous improvement services.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders in the development of proposals for services.
  • Manage current and future Cognia activities with all clients.
  • Provide quality assurance supervision and oversight of contracts with school districts, schools, education agencies, and education organizations.
  • Utilize educational knowledge combined with expertise for strategic, customized, and technical understanding of Cognia’s Continuous Improvement System to successfully provide guidance, and solution recommendations, qualifying new and perspective member institutions for the most appropriate continuous improvement service(s).
  • Craft and drive an implementation plan aligned to organizational strategic priorities to meet quarterly and annual benchmarks.
  • Maintain and grow knowledge to serve in thought leadership on state and federal program regulations, requirements, funding, best practices, future trends, and current issues aligning to continuous school improvement.
  • Provide advocacy for continuous improvement in education with all constituencies.
  • Contribute to meaningful collaboration with Cognia colleagues to ensure quality service.
  • Market Cognia brand with educational entities to promote advocacy for education.
  • Collaborate with internal departments to create and implement solutions for clients.
  • Engage in support of continuous improvement services delivery for the purpose of managing the overall relationship management.
  • Lead, manage and facilitate the Advisory Committees to cultivate thought leadership and advocacy.
  • Provide progress reports as requested by the Senior Director or Regional Vice President or other Cognia leadership.
  • Successfully meets established goals and priorities for membership and continuous improvement services.
  • Participate in continued personal and professional growth, including updating of job and industry knowledge, through participation in educational opportunities, professional associations, and networking to best lead Cognia Continuous Improvement efforts.
  • Provide other services as assigned by the Senior Director and/or Regional Vice President.
  • Generate an annual state budget for travel and operation of state office.
  • Follows in all respects the Cognia code of ethics.
  • Perform duties and fulfill responsibilities that may, from time to time, include related or unrelated tasks.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Education, Education Policy or related field required; Master’s Degree preferred.
  • Three (3) to Five (5) years of related experience preferred with a proven track record of success as a leader and/or partner providing continuous improvement facilitation and support in an education-related organization required.
  • A proven track record of successfully assessing institutions’ needs to improve learning and organizational effectiveness required.
  • Demonstrated experience in building relationships and/or strategic partnerships.
  • Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of education, quality learning environments, curriculum and effective instruction, program development and evaluation, learning assessment and diagnosis, and/or research related to teaching and learning.
  • Extensive knowledge base of current issues in education, especially continuous improvement.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Ability to attain an extensive knowledge of all products, services and solutions offered by Cognia.
  • Ability to deliver high quality oral and written presentations.
  • Ability to build and maintain connections and relationships with leaders of educational organizations and agencies within the territory as assigned.
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision and assume personal initiative to promote Cognia.
  • Ability to work and communicate effectively using the Microsoft Suite (Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams, Sharepoint, PowerPoint, etc.), Google Suite, Dropbox and other software and web-based applications.
  • Ability to train, guide, and contribute to the oversight, and evaluation of others.
  • Generous paid time off and holiday breaks.
  • Comprehensive insurance plans.
  • 12.5% retirement savings contribution which is immediately vested, all effective on your date of hire.
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