Vice President, Strategic Initiatives – Pe Backed Education Group

Vice President – Strategic Initiatives
This role is with an educational organization comprised of specialized education schools. They offer an academic learning environment integrated with behavior support/clinical services for students K-16. The role requires a high degree of independence, initiative, judgment, and follow-through on a wide range of sensitive and complex issues and will report to the CEO.
Geography
Ideally this person is located in the northeast (current footprint) but this person can be located anywhere in the eastern half of the country and be permanent remote if willing to travel.
Responsibilities

• Provide steady leadership in the face of uncertainty, change, and aggressive deadlines common to company growing rapidly through acquisitions.
• Defining the timeline, milestones, budget, resource plan, and success metrics.
• Facilitating day-to-day coordination, steering committee meetings, and communication of roles and responsibilities to key functional leaders.
• Support execution of Company’s acquisition strategy supporting diligence workstreams.
• Responsible for managing the overall planning, execution and success of acquisitions.
• Manage multiple projects and drive fast-paced execution.
• Monitoring project health through the effective use of project dashboards.
• Driving escalation and resolution of critical project related issues that would impact launch live date.

Qualifications

• Experience developing workplans, project scopes, pricing estimates, and presentations to assist in project planning and execution.
• Effective consultative and influencing approach.
• Ability to enact change quickly.
• Ability to achieve broadly communicated objectives with a minimal amount of supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and proven ability to work effectively with all organizational levels.
• Ability to promote innovative ideas and accept the risks that are required to lead change.
• Proven ability to build and lead diverse and distributed teams from various internal and external organizations across multiple locations.
• Bachelor’s degree and MBA or a combination of equivalent education / work experience.
• Ability to make decisions independently and to assume higher-level leadership responsibilities in critical situations.
• 5 – 7 years’ experience in various aspects of strategic management/leadership ideally in the education space.
• Proven problem-solving, decision-making, and financial skills.
• Willingness to travel.

Job Responsibilities
Regional Vice President
This role is with an educational organization comprised of specialized education schools. They offer an academic learning environment integrated with behavior support/clinical services for students K-16. The role requires a high degree of independence, initiative, judgment, and follow-through on a wide range of sensitive and complex issues and will report to the CEO.
Qualifications

• Effective consultative and influencing approach.
• Willingness to travel.
• Ability to achieve broadly communicated objectives with a minimal amount of supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and proven ability to work effectively with all organizational levels.
• Bachelor’s degree and MBA or a combination of equivalent education / work experience.
• Ability to enact change quickly.
• Ability to make decisions independently and to assume higher-level leadership responsibilities in critical situations.
• Proven ability to build and lead diverse and distributed teams from various internal and external organizations across multiple locations.
• 5 – 7 years’ experience in various aspects of strategic management/leadership ideally in the education space.
• Proven problem-solving, decision-making, and financial skills.
• Ability to promote innovative ideas and accept the risks that are required to lead change.
• Experience developing workplans, project scopes, pricing estimates, and presentations to assist in project planning and execution.

Education and Experience
Bachelor’s Degree
Knowledge and Skill Requirements