Director of Education

General Description

The Be On Air  Network is an organization that instructs students in all areas of the broadcast industry to become the next generation of media professionals. Our brand promise is “Learn from a Pro to Become a Pro”; students are trained by broadcast media professionals working in the field. The organization operates as seven campuses across Ohio, Illinois, Colorado, and Miami.

Like all members of the Be On Air  Network staff, the Director of Education is expected to project the organization's core values and core purpose. This position supports a college and creative culture and ensures graduates are fully ready for entry‑level employment opportunities.

A key role for the Director of Education is providing support to students, instructors, and administrative staff with a focus on retention. The Director of Education provides training in the use of educational materials and techniques to the department staff. The Director of Education advises instructors on how to comply with the organization’s education standards, as well as work closely one on one with instructors.

The Director of Education is responsible for curriculum delivery and course scheduling for day and evening classes, as well as hiring, daily management and supervision, and if needed, dismissal of all instructors working. The Director of Education has full responsibility for campus maintenance and security upon the departure of day/night shift personnel. Additional responsibilities may include orientation, graduation, planning of special events, training workshops, and a variety of tasks.

The Director of Education will be expected to have extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish campus and/or department goals.

Scorecard accountabilities: active drop rate, term 3 drop rate, term 3 students, weekly student survey results, active online participation, active internships, faculty interviews, instructor walk throughs, and instructorobservations.

Core Values – personal, ethical, and ideological guidelines that set the standard for every aspect of
business operation from hiring to decision making to strategic planning.

• Integrity
  -Deliver your accountabilities by always doing the right thing!
• Passion - Positive emotion that drives successful actions
• Customer Centric - WIFC ( What’s in it for our customer?)
• Creativity - Think outside the box!
• Winning
  -Winning is not a sometime thing; it's consistently achieving your accountabilities.
• Reason - Getting to the real why?

Graduate students who are preferred choice of broadcast media business to hire, partner or outsource entry‑level opportunities.

• Accurately manage and maintain all student academic records (grades, lab hours, attendance).
• Actively monitor and proactively prevent students from dropping the program.
• Control, monitor, and mitigate the student absence rate to meet scorecard goals.
• Prevent, monitor, and/or graduate students on Term 3.
• Promote student satisfaction on a daily basis. Review student survey results with Campus, including instructors, for areas of opportunity and success.
• Actively monitor and proactively promote students to be on track with the online curriculum.
• Hire, onboard, train, and schedule all instructors.
• Maintain a positive student‑centric culture for student learning and retention.
• Responsible for class announcements to reinforce attendance policies, relay campus events, and other relevant information
• Understand, deliver, and follow the school syllabus and lesson plans from the curriculum.
• All class scheduling should be completed in advance in order to schedule instructors in advance and maintain campus efficiency.
• Make sure that students are kept on task and engaged for the entire session, no idle time.
• Seek, recruit, and meet with new potential instructors at the school for an interview and discussion on teaching opportunities or at minimum guest lecturing. (Target major station personalities from major TV and radio stations. Include all station departments as we need to target qualified production, traffic, engineering and promotion personnel as…