Regional Director - Fort Wayne
Responsibilities/Functions
General:
Demonstrates strong commitment to the Crossing’s mission, strategic plan, and students.
- Actively model a lifestyle consistent with the Crossing’s core values including participation on Faith-based character education programs.
Ensure alignment and accountability of all location Academic, Job Training and Faith-Based Mentoring programming to district best practices.
- Work with the Executive Team, Director of Career Pathways, Local Boards and Businesses/Communities to develop Career Pathway programs
- Develop leadership capacity of Coordinators and Site Leaders through coaching, development, monitoring and aligning to the “why and how” of the vision and mission
- Ongoing meetings with Coordinators, site leaders and site visits
- Ongoing communication with Directors and Departments
- Monitoring outcomes of each location
- Ensuring proper professional development of site leader and staff at each location - utilizing corporate resources when applicable
Manage various administrative/financial functions
- Liaison with corporate operations in the area of building leases, vehicle's, safety compliance, grant administration/reporting, workman’s comp reporting, staff evaluations, etc.
Strategic and Financial Oversight:
Develop Regional Budget w/ 3 months reserve funding
- Maintain monthly and annual P&L
Develop and lead all Strategic Plan regional initiatives
- Provide Data Driven accountability for performance of locations including: Financial/Fundraising, Staff, Culture and Climate, Programs, and Student performance.
- Develop and sustain Career Pathway programs
- Healthy climate and culture
- Ensure sustainable location budgets
- Leads and meets yearly fundraising goals (SGO, Banquets, DAD, etc.)
- Leads and meets yearly student recruitment goals
- Maintain and monitor relationships with public school partners (i.e. Superintendents) and area public schools with the Campus Administrators.
- Communicate with Guidance Counselors to ensure they have the information necessary to recommend students to the Crossing
- Provide superior knowledge, practice and oversight to regional billing/funding in regards to pertinent deadlines and school contracts.
Student Enrollment:
Recruitment outcomes: assigned locations meet or exceed yearly goal
- Student Recruitment strategies are utilized via relationships with public schools and the community to ensure student enrollment numbers meet or exceed yearly projections.
Active enrollment: maintains and monitors (with HR) active enrollment in keeping with minimum 1:10 teacher/student ratio.
Student FTE: maintains FTE per location in keeping with budget
Community Development:
Share the Crossing story passionately and consistently utilizing an outcomes based approach within the community to forward the mission of the Crossing.
- Schedule speaking engagements with social clubs &
- CRM: Input all contacts and log meeting notes.
- Develop and maintain Career Pathways at each location for ALL students
- Identify local grants to generate funds. Consult with corporate grant writer.
- Monitor volunteer engagement for each campus.
Career Pathways:
Develop and maintain Career Pathways at each location for ALL students
Partner with HR Ensure alignment of staffing via hiring, license area, training and location master schedules
Collaborate with community to ensure graduate job placements
Faith Based Character Education:
Monitor and ensure the spiritual health of campuses including effective Heart Checks, Family Times, God Talk, Family Nights and quarterly Spiritual Retreats.
- Attend all Spiritual Retreats and Family Nights at each location.
Monitor networking with community members to participate in programming.