School Director

Job Type

Part-time

Full Job Description

School Director

Medical Training Institute of New York is seeking a transformational leader to serve as Director of the School. Medical Training Institute is one of the fastest-growing schools in the region and home to three program areas: Medical/Healthcare school, school of Technology, and Language school. MTINY operates across two campuses (New York City, New York, and Orlando, Florida ). The School Director is a full-time position as regional school director. The successful candidate for this position will join the faculty, staff, students, and the broader academic community in guiding the Medical Training Institute of New York to new levels of achievement,

Primary Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for Medical Training Institute programs, oversee accredited programs, and ensure that curricula, instruction, assessment, research, and outreach are innovative, of the highest quality, and aligned with college and institutional strategic plans.
• Oversee School administration, including developing the schedule and staffing courses, managing the budget, overseeing staff, and ensuring efficient/effective day-to-day operations of the School.
• Provide leadership and effective representation and advocacy for the School at the higher education levels, including implementation of School policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Promote a healthy climate and collaborative internal and external working relationships; engage in effective, regular, and transparent communication with faculty and other stakeholders; foster effective relationships with local, state, and national educational entities.
• Facilitate faculty development and collaborative engagement in the meaningful evaluation of faculty (i.e., annual evaluations and goal setting, promotions).
• Teach one course in the School per year.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Earned MBA from an accredited college or university in one of the disciplines represented in the School or a closely related field.
• A record of success in higher education as a faculty member, having held the rank of associate professor or above.
• Demonstrated experience in an administrative role in higher education.
  
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Knowledge of accreditation standards and processes
• Experience collaborating effectively with diverse individuals, groups, and programs, including counterparts in other units
• Ability to effectively advocate for units within the School and the School as a whole
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including frequent communication within the unit; Experience encouraging productive and equitable dialogue
• Collaborative goal-setting and strategic planning; dispositions focused on team-building, inclusiveness, and transparency
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (e.g., equity and justice in recruitment, hiring, and admissions; support of learning opportunities that acknowledge, draw upon, and are enriched by diversity; understanding of inequities impacting education)
• Ability to model and support effective teaching and learning in a range of formats
• Ability to advocate for and leverage resources to support the success of the school
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Substantial record of scholarship (e.g., peer-reviewed publications, scholarly activity at the national level)
• Demonstrated record of managing budgets and/or securing and successfully administering internally and/or externally funded projects/programs
• Record of successfully mentoring, developing, and/or leading a diverse group of faculty
• Current BPSS Director/Teacher License preferred
  
  
  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Hire and retain qualified and caring staff and faculty.
• Provide guidance and formal training to all staff and faculty.
• Communicate effectively (by both written and oral methods) institutional and corporate goals/objectives to all staff, faculty, and students.
• Monitor the work of all staff and faculty regularly to ensure quality and accuracy in all tasks performed.
• Hold regularly scheduled weekly meetings with each direct report to gain feedback, gather ideas, assign tasks, and provide direction regarding prioritizing work.
• Attend and significantly contribute to staff/faculty meetings within the school and school director meetings at the corporate level.
• Be (or learn to be) computer literate. Use email and Internet systems proficiently. Ensure that important files are properly saved and backed up.
• Monitor and maintain the institution's computerized data system to ensure that information contained therein is accurate, entered in a timely fashion, and backed up to guard against loss of crucial data.
• Monitor the institution's collection efforts to ensure that students participating in loan programs are making timely payments and students who are late with payments are receiving effective counseling.
• Monitor the institution's default and cohort rates on a regular and timely basis.
• Monitor the institution's placement rates and provide guidance and direction to the institution's career services director on a regular and timely basis to meet institutional goals and objectives.
• Monitor the institution's externship program by frequently visiting externship sites to ensure students benefit from the experience.
• Monitor educational effectiveness by frequently sitting in on various classes offered by the institution to ensure that each student receives quality training and that instructors follow approved guidelines for classroom instruction. Monitor retention percentage in each program.
• Provide computerized reports to corporate management regularly regarding placement, accounts receivable/accounts payable, cash flow, retention rates, licensure percentages (for those programs that emphasize licensure for placement purposes), student attendance, and marketing/admission results.
• Be knowledgeable of and follow all state, accrediting, and financial aid compliance standards in a timely and complete manner, and ensure that all other schools and corporate personnel are made aware of these compliance standards.
• Maintain and secure institutional, procedural manuals and other documentation required by the state, accrediting, and federal agencies.
• Conduct and attend regular student services activities, including new student orientation, graduation ceremonies, holiday parties, and student education achievement award ceremonies, and provide students with information in areas such as child care and transportation.
• Monitor student attendance/performance to ensure that students are successfully meeting the goals and objectives of each program and advise and provide guidance to students who are not meeting the designated requirements of the program in which they are enrolled.
• Be readily accessible for meetings requested by students, staff, and faculty and "manage by walking around."
• Assisted and supported the admission team by being available to meet prospective new students.
• Create an atmosphere within the school where all staff and faculty are aware that admissions personnel are trustworthy and that it is crucial to the success of the school that everyone is available to assist admissions to bring in new students.
• Monitor marketing and admission activities daily.
• Be interested in and knowledgeable of departmental details in all areas of the school's operation.
• Follow all procedures and standards as defined by Education Affiliates Inc.
• Meet or exceed the bottom-line requirements of the approved school budget.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Regular and reliable attendance.
  
  
  

Requirements

The Campus President must have a doctorate at a higher level than any conferred by the institution and/or at least three years of significant supervisory and management work experience, preferably within the private school industry.