International Education Corporation (IEC) is the parent company for U.S. Colleges, United Education Institute, Sage Truck Driving Schools and UEI College. Our mission is to drive personal and community transformation by empowering students to make a positive and enduring life change. We are consistently searching for like-minded compassionate professionals who strive to be the best in their respective fields. Our top candidates share our commitment to helping students build the skills to create a future of which they can be proud. We operate with a vigilant focus on five strategies and drivers of success: growth, quality, regulatory compliance, one standard of excellence, and financial effectiveness.

We are looking for a Regional Director of Education to join our corporate education team to support our Pacific and West Region campuses.  This position will work out of one of our UEI College campuses in Sacramento or a nearby campus and includes travel as needed.

The Regional Director of Education is responsible for managing and leading the region’s campus Education Teams by overseeing the delivery of quality educational programs and the development and implementation of effective strategies to meet campus student retention, completion and Active Earning Population goals.  Essential day-to-day job responsibilities include:

• Complying with applicable federal and state laws and regulations, accreditor standards, and institutional policies and procedures;
• Recruiting, training and developing faculty members and staff for region’s campuses;
• Providing guidance, leadership and support to region’s campuses to ensure effective achievement of education objectives, including targets and goals in student retention, completion, and Active Earning Population;
• Mentoring region’s Directors of Education;
• Traveling weekly to region’s campuses;
• Developing and managing region’s Education budget, including staff, faculty, and resources allocation;
• Developing and implementing professional development programs for IEC faculty members, education staff, and education managers;
• Reviewing feedback from region’s faculty members and students and implementing initiatives to address any concerns;
• Developing, updating and implementing the onboarding process and training materials for new hires in Education Vertical.
• Participating in the onboarding and training process for Directors of Education and Associate Directors of Education; and
• Other duties as assigned.

The Regional Director’s performance is measured by the region’s campuses meeting their student retention, graduation, placement rate and Active Earning Population goals.

Key Success Factors

• For region’s campuses, maintain student retention and completion rate for all programs at least at the campus as well as the Company and regulatory standard minimum benchmarks for all programs.
• Ensures that at minimum 90% of the programs for the region are at or above benchmarks per accreditation standards.
• Ensures that the region’s campuses consistently meet and exceed the overall minimum of 85% student retention, with no program below 80%.
• Ensures that the region’s campuses consistently maintain at or below budget attrition.
• Satisfactory or above feedback and comments from student surveys from region’s campuses.
• 100% instructional coverage, with every instructor, including substitute instructors, sufficiently trained prior to instructing a class for region’s campuses.
• For region’s campuses, maintain Active Earning Population at expected levels.

Essential Experience, Education and Skillset

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• Relevant education and/or training in instructional delivery and management.
• Minimum 3 years of combined management, teaching and education administration experience.
• Successful track record of effective teaching, curriculum development, and education administration.
• Above average user skills in computer and information technology (e.g. student database, social media, online educational resources).
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to build and lead a team.

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At IEC, we don't just embrace diversity we crave it. We have purposefully built a team of talented people not only with different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, but professional diversity as well. We believe that a team of people with diverse backgrounds and experiences bring different perspectives and ideas to the table as we endeavor to help our students succeed. What will you bring?

Our students are making an investment in their futures, and joining the IEC team is an investment in your future. We are an employee-owned company with mentorship, training, and career pathways in every department. You chart your own success at IEC.

The Perks

We are engaged in meaningful, purposeful work that is transforming lives and communities every day. In addition, our team members enjoy a host of perks including ownership in the company. What does that mean? IEC has a structured Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP), where employees earn shares of the company every year; the longer you're part of our team, the more shares you earn. When you're ready to retire, IEC buys those shares back so you can live out your retirement dreams. Other employee benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life Insurance; a generously matched 401(k) plan; and accrued paid-time-off and 10 company holidays every year. The biggest perk of all? The monumental sense of pride as you help students overcome obstacles to improve their lives. We live for that.