Education Manager

Valid8 Financial, Inc.; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

Vision Insurance

Long and Short-Term Disability

Life and AD&D Insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

401(k) Plan

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Job summary

Mark Arts seeks an Education Manager to develop, administer, and promote educational courses for the community. This role oversees the School of Creativity's administrative functions, enrollment support, class rosters, contracts, and documentation for classes, workshops, and private events.

You will lead instructors, manage the department budget, facilities, and supplies, and collaborate with Marketing to promote a wide range of educational opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Education, Fine Arts, or closely related field.

Responsibilities

• Oversees educational programming across eight art studios and develops schedules.
• Serves as primary contact for culinary independent contractors and coordinates workshops and private parties.
• Manages instructor performance, student feedback, and program trends.
• Develops and manages department budget, scholarships, and grants in collaboration with leadership.
• Coordinates with Marketing to promote classes and events through website, social media, and mailers.
• Plans annual events such as Open House and community art projects.

Skills

Effective communication

Microsoft Office

Analytical skills

Entrepreneurial spirit

Independent & deadline-driven

Detail oriented

Organization

Multi-tasking

Team leadership

Planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Education, Fine Arts, or related field

2+ years in arts education program management

2+ years supervisory experience

Non-profit experience preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

The Education Manager is responsible for developing, administering, and promoting educational courses at Mark Arts to the community. This role is also responsible for managing the administrative functions of the School of Creativity such as assisting with enrollment, maintaining class rosters, providing updates for the website and class schedules, maintaining appropriate contracts and documentation for the classes, workshops and private parties, managing the instructors, budget, facilities, and supplies for the School of Creativity.

Essential Functions:

• Oversees and facilitates educational programming for eight art studios, developing class and workshop schedules for the School of Creativity.
• Primary point of contact for culinary independent contractors which includes scheduling culinary workshops and private parties. Oversees maintenance of the studio and equipment including ensuring supplies are put away correctly.
• Provides positive and constructive feedback to instructors from student experience surveys.
• Develops STEAM Academy youth programming and curriculum implementation.
• Promotes and schedules youth and adult arts and culinary arts private parties in the School of Creativity.
• Visits classrooms regularly to make announcements, monitor instruction, classroom appearance, engage with students and support instructors.
• Develops studio cleaning schedule between every course session and regularly monitors studio housekeeping needs.
• Develops and manages the Education department budget to ensure financial goals are achieved.
• Manages educational scholarships with the bookkeeper and CEO and promotes scholarships in coordination with Marketing.
• Trains new instructors, culinary aide(s), and independent contractors on expectations, policies and procedures.
• Coordinates with Marketing to produce course content promoting a variety of educational opportunities (weekly classes, Make Your Mark workshops, Artisan Academies, Continuing Education Workshops, Culinary Arts workshops, STEAM Academy, Kids Day Out workshops, etc.) to include on website, promote through social media, mailers, etc. Observes classes and workshops to identify opportunities with Marketing Manager to promote classes on social media.
• Schedules biannual instructor meetings and engages instructors in the organization’s onsite and offsite events.
• Plans and coordinates annual Open House event in conjunction with the Art Market and community art project.
• Promotes the School of Creativity in the community.
• Proposes ideas and information for educational grants to Development & Marketing Director.
• Researches and evaluates trends in arts education and makes recommendations for new program opportunities to CEO and staffing requirements to HR.
• Works with Development Director to recruit guest chefs and/or schedule existing chefs for culinary workshops during Crave and aids in recruitment of vendors for Crave Foodie Fair.
• Work schedule is set at Tuesday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with evenings and weekends as needed.
• This role is heavily focused on administrative and customer service responsibilities.

Skills & Abilities Required:

• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Analytical skills to manage classroom trends, course timing, etc.
• Ability to take calculated risks and experiment with programming
• Ability to coach and lead a team to achieve goals
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit
• Able to work independently & manage deadlines
• Detail oriented & organized
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects with conflicting deadlines
• High degree of flexibility
• Ownership and adaptability
• Detail oriented
• Learning orientation
• Organizational skills
• Thoroughness
• Teamwork orientation
• Staff/client focus
• Discretion
• Planning and multi-tasking

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

Education/ Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Education, Fine Arts, or closely related field.
• Two years of preferred experience in management of arts education programs, including curriculum development.
• At least two years of supervisory experience.
• Prefer experience working with non-profits.

Benefits offered to full-time employees include the following:

• Health Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Vision Insurance
• Employer Paid Long and Short-Term Disability
• Employer Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid Time Off (PTO)