Career Opportunity
Vice President, Strategic Initiatives – PE Backed Education Group
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.
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:
- Manage multiple projects and drive fast-paced execution.
- Provide steady leadership in the face of uncertainty, change, and aggressive deadlines common to company growing rapidly through acquisitions.
- Responsible for managing the overall planning, execution and success of 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.
- 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.
- Support execution of Company’s acquisition strategy supporting diligence workstreams.
Qualifications:
- 5 – 7 years’ experience in various aspects of strategic management/leadership ideally in the education space.
- Bachelor’s degree and MBA or a combination of equivalent education / work experience.
- Proven ability to build and lead diverse and distributed teams from various internal and external organizations across multiple locations.
- Experience developing workplans, project scopes, pricing estimates, and presentations to assist in project planning and execution.
- Ability to promote innovative ideas and accept the risks that are required to lead change.
- Ability to achieve broadly communicated objectives with a minimal amount of supervision.
- Ability to make decisions independently and to assume higher-level leadership responsibilities in critical situations.
- Proven problem-solving, decision-making, and financial skills.
- Effective consultative and influencing approach.
- Ability to enact change quickly.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and proven ability to work effectively with all organizational levels.
- Willingness to travel.
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