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Cognia · 21 hours ago

Regional Director, Alabama

Alpharetta, GA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

3+ years exp

Cognia is a company dedicated to improving education through partnerships with schools and education agencies. The Regional Director will build strong relationships within the education community and manage membership and continuous improvement services to enhance learning outcomes.

Education

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain meaningful local working relationships with education agency representatives, partner organizations, schools, and districts to strengthen efficient and effective collaborative culture in support of Cognia’s mission

Serve as the key contact for all Cognia services for education agencies, partner organizations, schools, and districts

Retain, engage, and grow membership and continuous improvement services

Collaborate with internal stakeholders in the development of proposals for services

Manage current and future Cognia activities with all clients

Provide quality assurance supervision and oversight of contracts with school districts, schools, education agencies, and education organizations

Utilize educational knowledge combined with expertise for strategic, customized, and technical understanding of Cognia’s Continuous Improvement System to successfully provide guidance, and solution recommendations, qualifying new and perspective member institutions for the most appropriate continuous improvement service(s)

Craft and drive an implementation plan aligned to organizational strategic priorities to meet quarterly and annual benchmarks

Maintain and grow knowledge to serve in thought leadership on state and federal program regulations, requirements, funding, best practices, future trends, and current issues aligning to continuous school improvement

Provide advocacy for continuous improvement in education with all constituencies

Contribute to meaningful collaboration with Cognia colleagues to ensure quality service

Market Cognia brand with educational entities to promote advocacy for education

Collaborate with internal departments to create and implement solutions for clients

Engage in support of continuous improvement services delivery for the purpose of managing the overall relationship management

Lead, manage and facilitate the Advisory Committees to cultivate thought leadership and advocacy

Provide progress reports as requested by the Senior Director or Regional Vice President or other Cognia leadership

Successfully meets established goals and priorities for membership and continuous improvement services

Participate in continued personal and professional growth, including updating of job and industry knowledge, through participation in educational opportunities, professional associations, and networking to best lead Cognia Continuous Improvement efforts

Provide other services as assigned by the Senior Director and/or Regional Vice President

Generate an annual state budget for travel and operation of state office

Follows in all respects the Cognia code of ethics

Perform duties and fulfill responsibilities that may, from time to time, include related or unrelated tasks

Qualification

K-12 Education ExperienceContinuous Improvement FacilitationRelationship BuildingEducation Policy KnowledgeSales ExperienceQuality Learning EnvironmentsMulti-Priority ManagementMicrosoft Suite ProficiencyGoogle Suite ProficiencyCommunication Skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Education, Education Policy or related field required

Three (3) to Five (5) years of related experience preferred with a proven track record of success as a leader and/or partner providing continuous improvement facilitation and support in an education-related organization required

A proven track record of successfully assessing institutions' needs to improve learning and organizational effectiveness required

Demonstrated experience in building relationships and/or strategic partnerships

Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of education, quality learning environments, curriculum and effective instruction, program development and evaluation, learning assessment and diagnosis, and /or research related to teaching and learning

Extensive knowledge base of current issues in education, especially continuous improvement

Strong oral and written communication skills

Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Ability to attain an extensive knowledge of all products, services and solutions offered by Cognia

Ability to deliver high quality oral and written presentations

Ability to build and maintain connections and relationships with leaders of educational organizations and agencies within the territory as assigned

Ability to work with minimal supervision and assume personal initiative to promote Cognia

Ability to work and communicate effectively using the Microsoft Suite (Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, Teams, Sharepoint, PowerPoint, etc.), Google Suite, Dropbox and other software and web-based applications

Ability to train, guide, and contribute to the oversight, and evaluation of others