The Vice President of Operations, Startups leads new campus openings and new program implementation, overseeing hiring and training of campus presidents, performance development, and execution within budget and timeline. This role drives operational, financial, and people outcomes while optimizing campus build and operations. The VP collaborates with key home office teams—including Start-Up, Academics, Marketing, Admissions, HR, Finance, and IT—to develop strategies for campus success. A strong leader of leaders, this individual fosters talent, promotes a great workplace, and instills a culture of continuous improvement.

In addition to joining an organization with an outstanding mission, Concorde is happy to provide the following Benefits You'll Love - 

• Tuition Waiver: Enjoy a tuition waiver after 6 months of employment for you AND your immediate family for all eligible Concorde and UTI programs of study.
• Flexible Time Off for Exempt Employees (FTO): Take time off as needed with no limit, no accrual, and full pay—just get approval in advance.
• Accrued Vacation for Full-Time and Part-Time Non-Exempt Employees: Full-Time employees accrue 2 weeks of paid vacation per year and Part-Time employees accrue based on the number of hours worked each week. This is in addition to paid holidays and paid sick leave. 
• Retirement Matching: 50% match on the first 6% of your contributions after 90 days.
• Paid Parental Leave: 4 weeks of paid leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents to bond with a new baby.
• Competitive Insurance: Health, vision, and dental coverage for you and your dependents.
• Pet Insurance: Competitive coverage for your furry family members through ASPCA.
• Health Plan Enrollment: 30 days to choose your health plan with coverage starting after one full month of employment.

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• Lead, design, implement and execute an integrated operations strategy
• Drive successful financial outcomes and optimization on items such as revenue, EBIT, operating margin, bad debt expense, and cost management
• Advance the placement of talent
• Drive successful student outcomes on items such as professionalism, technical ability, readiness for the workplace, and alignment with Industry customer needs
• Lead successful operating outcomes on items such as staffing and opening new campuses and programs that achieve starts, show rate, persistence, employment, student experience, and education delivery quality, delivering on proforma outcomes
• Oversee and guide talent acquisition
• Drive successful people outcomes around creating a great place to work, successful leadership coaching and development, effective talent and performance management, rigorous and successful hiring and training practices
• Partner effectively with Admissions and Marketing, including ownership and successful implementation of key strategies and initiatives to ensure successful and profitable student recruitment outcomes
• Partner with key stakeholders to promote campus/organization capability, creation, and successful outcomes, including Centralized Start-up, Marketing, Academics, Admissions, Human Resources, IT, Finance, and others
• Create a culture of (and capabilities around) continuous improvement that consistently improves organization effectiveness and efficiency around student, financial, operational and people outcomes and processes
• Assure consistency of campuses to the standards of excellence with regard to facilities, Training Aids, and infrastructure while driving the optimization and advancement of new campus design and programs, staffing, operations, and student experience\outcomes
• Create, foster, and support positive community and public relations in the communities of our campuses
• Ensure various regulatory, state licensure, and accreditation approvals of assigned locations
• Establish/maintain a high performance team of professional, motivated and engaged staff utilizing effective training, performance management and career-development activities while leading them to achieve established business results and performance metrics
• Recognizes and rewards employee contributions and achievements
• Other duties as assigned

Education / Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business management, or related field (required)
• Master's degree in business, management, or other related field (preferred)
• Minimum of twelve of professional experience, including significant P&L/general management leadership positions (required)
• Experience to include both operations and sales responsibilities (preferred)

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills (verbal and written) and strategic thinking skills with the ability to lead and influence vertically and horizontally in a matrixed organization
• Participative management approach with strong staff development skills
• Experience in Continuous Improvement methodologies
• Intermediate Computer Skills (including Microsoft Office Products)
• Knowledge, experience, and a history of success in managing functions and people from a distance

Abilities

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where deadlines are essential
• Ability to provide flexible and adaptable work schedules
• Proven ability and experience developing a budget
• Proven ability to evaluate profit and loss financial statements
• Must have the ability to maintain confidentiality and professional decorum
• An ability to develop and execute a strategic plan for areas of responsibility

Standard Abilities

• Able and willing to:
• Communicate, think, learn, and reason
• Use computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to process transactions, store documents, enter data, or perform assigned tasks
• Safely ambulate and/or maneuver when on-site at Company locations
• Demonstrate and utilize active listening, inductive reasoning, information ordering and category flexibility
• Ability to use good judgment, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage sensitive information with discretion
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where deadlines are essential and multiple projects are worked simultaneously
• Ability to gain, understand and apply information and data as it relates essential functions of the position
• Ability to foster long-term relationships with stakeholders

Work Environment

• Work is performed indoors in a climate-controlled environment when on site at assigned company location. Employees must be able to safely ambulate when on company premises.
• This position is designated as Remote. Employees must meet minimum technical standards for eligibility and participation.
• Overnight and/or Local travel required (up to 50%)