Senior Director, Open Enrollment - Wharton Executive Education

Senior Director, Open Enrollment - Wharton Executive Education

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Posted Job Title
Senior Director, Open Enrollment - Wharton Executive Education

Job Profile Title
Director E

Job Description Summary
The Senior Director Open Enrollment is accountable for designing high-quality, high-impact executive education programs aimed at individuals. He/she leads and manages a team of program directors who collaborate with faculty in designing, developing and delivering high quality executive education programs as measured by participants' evaluations and external rankings. The Senior Director is responsible for overall financial performance for programs in her/his Team's portfolio to assure the appropriate contribution to the profitability of the division, including managing costs. The Senior Director is directly responsible for a portfolio of strategic programs.

The Senior Director works closely with Wharton and Penn faculty, other instructors and external speakers to help them understand industry changes to suggest and create new Open Enrollment programs. He/she is expected to be knowledgeable about the teaching experience, professional interests, preferred teaching methods and strengths of the instructors. The Senior Director is also expected to develop a relationship with instructors that encourages and promotes their involvement in program design and new program creation. The Senior Director will work collaboratively with the Managing Director to diversify the faculty pool by including new Wharton/Penn standing faculty and speakers from the industry in their programs.

Throughout the program experience, the Senior Director and Team members are accountable for assessing the quality of instruction, responding to participants' questions and concerns, and resolving problems to the satisfaction of the participants. Immediately after a program concludes, he/she is expected to determine participants' satisfaction and suggestions, if any, for improving the program. He/she is also responsible and accountable for overseeing a consistent approach to post-program follow-up.
The Senior Director could serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) to the Business Development team as well as custom colleagues to support the proposal process and program design. The Senior Director is also expected to know about OE offering from competing institutions and articulate Wharton's key differentiating elements.

The Senior Director must have demonstrated ability and willingness to work with ease across cultures and geographies and be willing to travel as needed.

Job Description

Quality Management

• Ensure high quality customer experience throughout the learning journey (pre, during and post program) across his/her portfolio, as well as the larger team portfolio.
• Design and oversee a consistent approach to post-program follow-up for each program in the team's portfolio.
• Review all program evaluations and oversee consistent practice of disseminating those evaluations to key stakeholders. When necessary, act quickly to understand issues/problems raised by the evaluations and initiate corrective actions to reaffirm Wharton's commitment to high quality and participants' satisfaction as measured by participant's evaluations and external rankings.
• Assume overall financial responsibility for programs in her/his Team's portfolio to assure the appropriate contribution to the profitability of the department, including managing costs.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Client Relations and BD colleagues to support all efforts to market and sell Open Enrollment programs.

Leadership

• Provide leadership and oversight to a team of program directors and program managers who collaborate in designing, developing and delivering high quality executive education programs.
• Collaborate with other Team Leaders and with Team members to determine appropriate goals and performance measures. Insure that Team members know what is expected and how their performance will be evaluated.
• Responsible for the development and career progress of Team members. Provide encouragement and timely, constructive feedback to support Team members in the continued development of their capabilities. Create a continuous learning environment.
• Leverage strengths of team members as needed (in the form of SME, product specialist, etc.).

Stakeholder Management

• Develop effective working relationships with Wharton and Penn faculty, other instructors and external speakers. Proactively work with faculty to identify and refine content for new and existing programs.
• Act as SME regarding OE to BD and custom teams to support proposals and program design.
• Inform other teams of new faculty and/or new content developed for OE programs that could be used in Custom and/or Online programs.

Administrative

• Follow established best practices and policies regarding use of Sales Force and other tools to support the efficient operations of the team and division.

• Lead and manage the Delivery Team during program runnings.
• Participate in regularly scheduled team meetings. Interface with other team members to ensure full support of strategic priorities. Share best practices.

Professional Development

• Work with the Managing Director, to determine appropriate performance goals and measures.
• Serve at all times as a professional and knowledgeable representative of Wharton executive education.
• Maintain a working knowledge of developments and trends in executive education. Communicate with all colleagues on competitive intelligence and share best practices adopted by other leading providers of executive education.

Perform additional duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS: Master's degree in a related field preferred and a minimum of 10 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience in designing educational solutions preferably in a high-end solutions environment or higher education, academic environment. Understanding of the sales and business development cycles and experience.

• Demonstrated track record of designing innovative educational solutions for senior leaders in global companies. Work with Executive Director and Program Design & Management team to create and implement a portfolio of OE programs that provide sophisticated educational solutions to business challenges of executives and corporations.

• Identify the best faculty to deliver educational content.

• Assume overall financial responsibility for programs to assure the appropriate contribution to the profitability of the department, including managing costs and ensure accurate pricing. Coordinate efforts with the finance staff.

• Experienced, skilled, highly effective leader who is able to motivate and manage a diverse staff through outstanding verbal and written communications. Must have demonstrated personal strengths that contribute to building a strong, dynamic and unified organization. Ability to design, manage and lead teams and individuals and to manage multiple priorities and projects.

• Maintain Wharton as a leader of innovative and financially successful programs by: designing innovative programs and products to expand Wharton's markets, developing analytical processes to measure the investment returns for Executive Education clients and the participants. Suggest improvements to programs and processes.

• Collaborate with Managing Director and Business Development Team to support the proposal process.

• Experience utilizing business development, sales or other CRM systems, and the ability to develop and drive metrics and dashboards. Action-oriented, results-driven approach to a professional team.

• Independent, self-confident and highly credible in representing WEE. Proven ability to work within a team

• Ability to negotiate complex and difficult environments.

• A proven ability to foresee, analyze and understand international and domestic business trends and the concerns of executives. Be innovative in approaches to educational and management problems, including electronic media.

• Ability to travel internationally and domestic.

• Must be able to work in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

Job Location - City, State
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Department / School
Wharton School

Pay Range
$108,411.00 - $173,457.66

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Special Requirements
Background check required after a conditional job offer is made. Consideration of the background check will be tailored to the requirements of the job.

University Benefits

• Health, Life, and Flexible Spending Accounts: Penn offers comprehensive medical, prescription, behavioral health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits to protect you and your family's health and welfare. You can also use flexible spending accounts to pay for eligible health care and dependent care expenses with pre-tax dollars.
  
• Tuition: Take advantage of Penn's exceptional tuition benefits. You, your spouse, and your dependent children can get tuition assistance here at Penn. Your dependent children are also eligible for tuition assistance at other institutions.
  
• Retirement: Penn offers generous retirement plans to help you save for your future. Penn's Basic, Matching, and Supplemental retirement plans allow you to save for retirement on a pre-tax or Roth basis. Choose from a wide variety of investment options through TIAA and Vanguard.
  
• Time Away from Work: Penn provides you with a substantial amount of time away from work during the course of the year. This allows you to relax, take vacations, attend to personal affairs, recover from illness or injury, spend time with family-whatever your personal needs may be.
  
• Long-Term Care Insurance: In partnership with Genworth Financial, Penn offers faculty and staff (and your eligible family members) long-term care insurance to help you cover some of the costs of long-term care services received at home, in the community or in a nursing facility. If you apply when you're newly hired, you won't have to provide proof of good health or be subject to underwriting requirements. Eligible family members must always provide proof of good health and are subject to underwriting.
  
• Wellness and Work-life Resources: Penn is committed to supporting our faculty and staff as they balance the competing demands of work and personal life. That's why we offer a wide variety of programs and resources to help you care for your health, your family, and your work-life balance.
  
• Professional and Personal Development: Penn provides an array of resources to help you advance yourself personally and professionally.
  
• University Resources: As a member of the Penn community, you have access to a wide range of University resources as well as cultural and recreational activities. Take advantage of the University's libraries and athletic facilities, or visit our arboretum and art galleries. There's always something going on at Penn, whether it's a new exhibit at the Penn Museum, the latest music or theater presentation at the Annenberg Center, or the Penn Relays at Franklin Field to name just a few examples. As a member of the Penn community, you're right in the middle of the excitement-and you and your family can enjoy many of these activities for free.
  
• Discounts and Special Services: From arts and entertainment to transportation and mortgages, you'll find great deals for University faculty and staff. Not only do Penn arts and cultural centers and museums offer free and discounted admission and memberships to faculty and staff. You can also enjoy substantial savings on other goods and services such as new cars from Ford and General Motors, cellular phone service plans, movie tickets, and admission to theme parks.
  
• Flexible Work Hours: Flexible work options offer creative approaches for completing work while promoting balance between work and personal commitments. These approaches involve use of non-traditional work hours, locations, and/or job structures.
  
• Penn Home Ownership Services: Penn offers a forgivable loan for eligible employees interested in buying a home or currently residing in West Philadelphia, which can be used for closing costs or home improvements.
  
• Adoption Assistance: Penn will reimburse eligible employees on qualified expenses in connection with the legal adoption of an eligible child, such as travel or court fees, for up to two adoptions in your household.
  

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