Regional Director Jobs

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• Vision, dental, and disability insurance
• Valuable, low-cost, low-deductible medical plan
• Tuition Discounts
• Employee Assistance Program for mental health

• Summer Fridays (half-days!)
• Financial Peace University classes to grow in money management
• Annual employee wellness benefits
• Competitive PTO, even for part-time staff
• Retirements saving with matching 403b plan

• Bi-annual In-Service + monthly staff development
• Continuing education credits
• RightNow Media subscription to stream 20,000+ videos for spiritual, personal, and leadership development
• Career growth opportunities

Operations

• This position will manage multiple academy sites and new launches. This position will be instrumental in building brand and “bench” strength for the continued growth of Lionheart. A strong operational foundation in existing academies is crucial to staying on mission and a new academy’s first year is critical; thus, this position will focus keenly on excellence in operations, people management, and building a successful relationship with the partnering churches.

People Management

• Manage academy leaders while displaying an entrepreneurial "hands on" leadership approach.
• Train and develop directors to ensure high quality leadership and employee satisfaction.
• Oversee the interview process and schedule the new employee orientation/training for all levels in new launches.
• Collaborate with the talent management department to hire director level leaders for new launches and open director positions.
• Lead academy leaders with a resilient commitment to creating and maintaining a workplace culture that reflects the LCA mission, vision, and culture.
• Promote and support good working relationships for new academy leaders with other existing academy leaders for resourcing, encouragement, and best practice reinforcement.
• Communicate clearly, fairly, honestly - treating all employees with dignity and respect concerning performance expectations, productivity and accountability; ensure directors model this same behavior with their team.

Church Relations

• Facilitate communication between church and LCA
• Build a solid relationship with key church leaders, representing LCA in its relationship with the church as well as within the community the church reaches.
• Ensure church satisfaction.

Marketing & Enrollment

• Researching the local market for highest visibility.
• Developing relationships at local schools and churches and looking for ways to promote LCA to target students; promoting LCA at associated activities.
• Determining and developing relationships with other community partners, groups and families (i.e.: youth sports events, playgrounds, etc.).
• Assist the marketing department in use of social media marketing strategy, including implementation, and maintenance as needed.
• Driver on-the- ground marketing strategy for new launches which will likely include activities such as:
• Proposing and supporting high-level marketing initiatives, activities, and campaigns (community, web/social media, e-mail, direct mail, direct sales using collateral, etc.) and the execution points of each. Expound upon and improve results by developing, driving, and maintaining tactics, initiatives and programs.
• Promoting LCA at local businesses (especially pediatricians, dentist offices, hair salons, places where young moms or children frequent).
• Supporting Academy Directors with grassroots marketing efforts. Helping them create marketing plans and following up after events to determine if it was beneficial.
• Representing LCA at Chamber of Commerce and other key networking groups and community events.

Background, Experience and Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Development/Child Development or related field or Business/Marketing Degree preferred with experience as noted below.
• Must be Director Certified.
• CPR/First Aid Certified.
• At least 3 years of leadership experience in the Early Education and Care industry.

Success Factors:

• One of our organizational principles is to define corporate, academy, and individual goals to maintain a united focus on the vision and mission of LCA and to ensure all employees have a clear picture of success for their specific position. The critical success factors for this role include:

Competence:

• Networking and relationship management
• Solid business acumen, management, analytical, and problem-thinking skills
• Multi-site management
• Detail oriented
• Knowledge of state licensing and laws governing children’s care and academies in multiple states
• Spiritual Leadership
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Organization and time management
• People management skills
• Social media/tech/computer skills
• Professionalism
• Marketing of Early Education and Care Centers