Associate Director, Operations Support

Associate Director, Operations Support

• Employee Type:
  Regular
• Start Date:
  
  11‑01‑2025
• Job Exempt:
  Yes
• Recruiting End Date:
  Open Until Filled

Aloha mai! Mahalo for your interest in Kamehameha Schools. If you are looking for an opportunity to utilize your skills and talents and grow in your profession, while serving and strengthening our Native Hawaiian community, we would love to have you join our ʻohana!

Kamehameha Schools Hawaiʻi is a mission‑driven organization, dedicated to education, well‑being and success.

We are seeking an experienced, collaborative, and solutions‑oriented leader to serve as Associate Director of Operations Support. This role is instrumental in ensuring a safe, efficient, and well‑maintained campus environment that supports the success of our students, faculty, staff, and broader school community.

The Associate Director is a key member of the Operations Support leadership team, and as such, must possess the judgment, interpersonal skills, expertise, and accountability to lead the division in the absence of the Director. The Associate Director identifies, develops, analyzes, and implements new programs and initiatives that improve safety, increase service quality and reliability, and maximize overall value for Kamehameha Schools.

The role leads multiple work groups to execute daily services for transportation, facilities maintenance and repair, custodial services, grounds keeping, recreational facilities, dining, and a wide range of other service offerings that meet and exceed client expectations. The Associate Director streamlines business processes, reduces costs, and enhances overall value while modeling best‑practice management skills, motivating the workforce, managing performance, and resolving conflicts.

• Innovative and Collaborative Management
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  For all functions in the Associate Director's responsibility, innovates and develops standards for safety, service quality, productivity, individual and team performance, and costs to fulfill campus needs, and develops and executes the strategies for achieving them. Utilizes a wide range of resources, including full‑time, part‑time, and on‑call employees, vendors, and contractors, to determine the optimum combination of resources and attain value‑added objectives while working with other campus and KS departments to ensure consistency with KS policies and values.
• Tactical and Daily Operations
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  Aligns Operations Support programs and initiatives with the KS vision and strategic plan, monitors tactical plans, identifies risks, and develops contingency plans. Delegates authority to managers, monitors progress, and provides course corrections to ensure safe, reliable, timely, high‑quality, and cost‑effective daily operations.
• Policies and Confidentiality
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  Familiarizes oneself with all KS policies, codes, regulations, statutes, and internal resources to ensure high levels of ethics, compliance, and confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Fiscal Management
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  Develops, forecasts, manages, and monitors the budget for the functions under the Associate Director’s direction, ensuring responsible funding requests, appropriate expenditures, and predictable year‑end results.

• High School Diploma.
• Experience as a business owner or 10+ years in a related field with proven leadership experience and business results.
• Ability to use management best practices to motivate employees to achieve high standards of inclusion and performance.
• Excellent judgment for prioritizing work to meet competing needs and resolve conflicts.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and assignments, set priorities, and execute appropriate action.
• Proven analysis experience.
• Proven experience in visioning and implementing change for increased efficiency and effectiveness.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to work successfully with a diverse range of internal and external individuals and groups.
• Excellent verbal and written skills to communicate effectively with all levels of staff, meet and resolve community and neighbor concerns, and to prepare written reports and correspondence on behalf of the Operations…