Regional Program Lead Northwest Region
Company: Higher Ground Education
Location: Portland
Posted on: March 19, 2023
Job Description:
Higher Ground is bringing on a Regional Programs Lead to join
our regional support team. A high-quality authentic Montessori
program is core to our success, so this is a critical role in our
organization. The Regional Programs Lead works alongside school
leaders in achieving programmatic excellence by leveraging personal
and in-house deep experience and knowledge of the Montessori
pedagogy, helping to hire, train, and retain strong talent across
our campuses, and supporting effective parent and staff
communications. Each of these elements leads to full, thriving
school communities. We're scaling quickly and have over 115 schools
with a current pace of growth of 50 new schools per year. We're
looking for an individual who is both a big-picture thinker capable
of surveying our vast landscape of school needs and a hands-on doer
with the skills to quickly solve problems and scale practical,
effective practices that help us have thriving and profitable
schools. If you're excited about working in an entrepreneurial
environment and building capacity in others to enable widespread
change in education today, this role is for you.
Responsibilities
The Regional Programs Lead will be a member of a small but mighty
regional team supporting a portfolio of about a dozen schools. This
team functions in a cross-functional manner including enabling
school leaders and teams to own the holistic success of their
school. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Build programmatic excellence in school teams. This individual
will play a key part in supporting our school teams to have
excellent Montessori programming. Utilizing both deep experience
and knowledge of the Montessori pedagogy alongside data-rich
metrics, this regional team member ensures that we hire, coach,
support and retain excellent Montessori educators in our schools.
Behind this individual is our in-house Montessori training
institute that provides Montessori teacher certification for all
team members within our network.
- Hire, grow and retain excellent classroom teachers. A key part
of this role will be securing, supporting, and retaining
mission-driven talent. It's not enough to coach from afar, in our
organization we jump in and do alongside others as they are
building their capacity to do for themselves. You'll be coaching
teachers and shaping Heads of School who are instructional leaders
of their campus. As part of this work, you will model in classrooms
with teachers and provide action oriented and practical feedback to
improve program quality quickly. You will also build capacity in
school leaders to observe and provide meaningful programmatic
feedback and coaching as the leaders of their schools. This work
will include a focus on a teacher interviewing, hiring, onboarding,
and managing a solid and reliable Montessori substitute teacher
pool in your region.
- View Program Quality within the lens of a profitable and
thriving school. Having a high-quality Montessori program is
mission critical. We believe that when you have an excellent
program, successful student outcomes, thriving enrollment and
passionately engaged staff --profitability is the outcome. We are
unapologetically a for-profit education organization; this is how
we can carry out our mission to bring Montessori education far and
wide. To this end, profitability of each school within a region is
the responsibility of every regional support team member, including
the Programs Lead. This role will work collaboratively with the
Regional Manager, Regional Operations Lead, and Regional Community
Lead to ensure a full portfolio of thriving, successful and
profitable schools
Skills
We'd love to talk to you if you have---
- 5+ years' Montessori classroom experience and
certification
- Drive to dig in and do, not just direct or coach, including a
propensity to get in the classroom and know every child and teacher
at every school
- Rigorous analytical and problem-solving, including ability to
assess a situation by gathering facts and evaluating data (esp.
Excel, PowerBI, etc.)
- Ability to operate independently, and execute from end-to-end
(incl. communication, time management, project management)
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple
competing priorities
- Clear and succinct written and verbal communication
skills
- A passion for education
About us
At Higher Ground, we're driven by a deep desire to bring about
widespread change in education today. Since our founding 7 years
ago, we have opened 115+ beautiful schools across the world serving
brick and mortar and virtual students from birth through high
school. We offer:
- Hybrid work: approx. 50% remote, 50% travel to schools in your
region
- A competitive salary
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- 100% tuition discount for two children at any school within our
network
- Career growth and promotion opportunities, and a leadership
team who wants you to thrive on your own terms
Keywords: Higher Ground Education, Portland , Regional Program Lead Northwest Region, Other , Portland, Oregon
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