Do you thrive in a high paced environment? Is building relationships and interacting with new people something that makes you come alive? Do you love seeing the light bulb come on as a child learns something new? In this high performing, fast paced environment, you’re meeting new faces and tackling new challenges every day. No day and no solution looks the same at Sylvan—and you’ve got to love that to be a Center Director! If it sounds like something you would love, keep reading…

Sylvan Learning of Ames is currently hiring a Center Director. Sylvan Learning provides academic tutoring for students from Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade so that students can get ahead or just get caught up. The Center Director role is to put the plan together that achieves success for every child that walks through their doors. This position is both business, education, customer service and sales wrapped up into one.

Benefits:

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Sylvan Tuition Incentives
• Up to 2 weeks of PTO from the start of employment (start date dependent)
• Company 401K Match
• Small business owned with a strong team dynamic

If you’re a force to be reckoned with in the world and you want to hear more about our dream and how it fits with your dream, and if you’re excited to be a part of a fast growing and fast paced company, take the leap and submit your application today!

Requirements/ Skills:

• Hold a bachelor’s degree
• Experince in sales or education an added win
• Find working with kids fun—and is willing to work with them!
• Can define what your “win” is
• Is hungry–and no, we don’t mean for pizza!
• Multitask like it is going out of style
• Kept your first checkbook balanced
• Have a memory like Rain Man
• Know how to control and manage your own time—Ferris Bueller should not be your role model
• Like people—seriously, do we need to say more?
• You’re a leader who pulls not pushes
• Can embrace the phrase—“it always works out”
• Loves the non traditonal work schedule- who really wants to work at 8:00 AM?
• Loves to learn and sees feedback as an opportunity to grow
• Believes education is valuable and important

Essential Job Functions:

• The Center Director is responsible for supporting the overall customer experience, education, sales, operations and local marketing activities of the center.
• Meets sales targets
• Ensures timely and high-quality personal customer service response to all calls and walk-in inquiries; Ensures calls get answered during business hours
• Assess student progress and in collaboration with the Director of Education, determine initial overall academic placement and program length
• Oversees and ensures good instructional management
• Confers with customers at each stage of the customer lifecycle; Directs the sales and service process throughout the customer lifecycle to keep customers enrolled
• Promotes financing options that meet the customer’s needs and manages the application/closing process
• Manages marketing and sales activities to drive new enrollments
• Establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with teachers, educational specialists and other school administrators and parent/teacher organizations
• Conducts school visits to establish and maintain relationships with school personnel for partnership and marketing purposes
• Ensures the professional appearance of the Center according to Sylvan standards
• Ensures adherence to established Sylvan operating standards with attention to student safety and well-being
• Normal Work week schedule is 9:30-5:30 two days, 11-8 two days and alternate a short day on Friday or Saturday.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be a complete list of all job responsibilities or skills, knowledge and abilities required.

Send resume and letter of interest to Jody.Simpson@iowa-sylvan.com