Director of Virtual Schools

Summary:

The Director of Virtual Schools is responsible for leading strengthening and growing National Heritage Academies virtual school portfolio. This leader will ensure our virtual schools provide a distinctive high-quality experience for students and families while achieving strong academic enrollment operational and financial outcomes.

The Director will lead the continued development of NHAs virtual learning model including instruction student and family experience school leadership technology and student support. This position will directly supervise some virtual-school principals while providing leadership and expertise across NHAs broader portfolio of online schools.

Company Information:

National Heritage Academies (NHA) partners with communities to build and operate public charter schools. Founded in 1995 today NHA serves over 100 schools in nine states with more than 65000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Our schools are designed to eliminate the achievement gap and provide school choice to families so their children are prepared for success in college career and life. A majority of our schools consistently outperform their local district on the state test. According to the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University NHA is a leading performer among charter schools and management organizations outperforming both conventional district schools and other charter school addition according to our employee survey over 90% of respondents agree that the work they do is meaningful to them. Join our team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Lead Virtual School Performance

• Own the academic enrollment student experience operational and financial performance of NHAs virtual schools.
• Establish clear goals monitor results and drive continuous improvement.
• Coach and develop virtual-school principals and hold them accountable for results.
• Identify barriers to performance and lead improvement efforts with school and network teams.
• Ensure virtual schools reflect NHAs mission values and expectations for school quality.

Build a Best-in-Class Virtual Learning Model

• Define and continuously improve a distinctive NHA model for virtual education.
• Establish effective instructional practices student supports family interactions technology staffing models and school routines.
• Define the roles of teachers tutors families and technology in supporting student success.
• Identify opportunities to use technology and AI to improve instruction tutoring personalization engagement and student support.
• Identify test and scale practices that improve student outcomes.

Drive Student Success

• Partner with Academic Services and school leaders to ensure rigorous effective instruction.
• Monitor achievement growth engagement attendance course completion and other indicators of student success.
• Ensure struggling or disengaged students are identified early and receive effective support.
• Develop strong approaches to tutoring intervention acceleration and credit recovery for virtual learners.

Create a Distinctive Student and Family Experience

• Ensure students and families receive an intentional responsive and distinctively NHA experience.
• Establish expectations for communication responsiveness onboarding relationship-building and support.
• Understand why families choose virtual education and what they need to succeed.
• Use student and family feedback to continuously improve the experience.
• Build connection belonging accountability and community in the virtual environment.

Grow and Scale the Virtual Portfolio

• Help develop and execute NHAs strategy for virtual-school growth.
• Assess opportunities for new schools programs grade expansions partnerships and markets.
• Build scalable systems that support growth while maintaining quality.
• Define the leadership staffing technology curriculum enrollment and operational requirements for expansion.
• Monitor competitors and emerging trends in online education and identify opportunities for NHA.
• Support the successful launch of new virtual schools and programs.

Lead Across the Organization

• Partner closely with Academic Services Enrollment Technology Student Services Finance Human Resources Marketing and other network teams.
• Identify where NHA systems and practices need to be adapted for virtual education.
• Serve as NHAs internal expert and advocate for virtual education.
• Build external relationships that can accelerate NHAs learning and performance.

Leadership Expectations

The successful candidate will:

• Be highly focused on student outcomes and accountability.
  Combine innovation and entrepreneurial thinking with disciplined execution.
• Be a builder who enjoys creating testing improving and scaling new models.
• Develop strong leaders and high-performing teams.
  Use data and evidence to drive decisions and improvement.
• Operate effectively in ambiguity and bring clarity and momentum.
• Challenge assumptions learn quickly and seek ideas from inside and outside education.
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience with online virtual blended or technology-enabled education.
• Significant leadership experience with responsibility for measurable outcomes in the virtual space.
• Demonstrated success leading and developing leaders.
• Strong understanding of instruction student engagement and learning.
• Demonstrated ability to use data to diagnose problems and drive improvement.
• Experience building or improving programs through change and growth.
• Strong strategic thinking communication relationship-building and execution skills.
  

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National Heritage Academies is an equal-opportunity employer.