Dean of Education

• Location 10314 East Freeway,Houston, TX, 77029,United States
• Employee Type Full Time Exempt (Salary)

As a Dean of Education, you'll lead the campus's educational operations, developing and supporting faculty while ensuring students receive a high-quality, engaging, and consistent learning experience. You'll oversee instructional performance, monitor student attendance, retention, academic progress, and program outcomes, and implement strategies that support student satisfaction, successful completion, licensure, and career readiness. You'll also partner closely with the Campus Director and other departments to maintain educational standards, strengthen accountability, and drive campus success.

If you're an experienced education leader who is passionate about developing instructors, improving student outcomes, building high-performing teams, and creating a culture of accountability and continuous improvement, we invite you to bring your leadership and expertise to Milan Institute.

This position will serve in the Dean of Education role as two locations:
Gessner and Freeway.

• Completion
  - All programs exceed the minimum accreditation (NACCAS 50 % or COE 60%) benchmark completion annually.
• Employment – Partner with Career Services to ensure all programs exceed a minimum of 70% placement annually.
• Exam Pass Rate (Licensure), as applicable – All programs exceed a minimum of 70% exam pass rate annually with 90% of graduates successfully passing exams.
• Quality Graduates – Ensures graduates are career minded and career ready to achieve placement goals in all program.
• Support, communicate, and model the concepts taught in the curriculum to ensure students are embracing the processes that will aid them in their future success at Milan, their career, and professional life.
• Student Satisfaction – Ensure that students participate in the All-Department surveys to ensure that consistent and accurate feedback is being received. Student Satisfaction should be 85% of the student population responding with a satisfaction rate of 93% or higher. Communication with students is vital by providing a memo/action plan responding to the feedback within 5 days of the survey data being received.
• Welcome to Milan Start Day Orientation and other orientations – Conduct orientations with enthusiasm, excitement and passion following the company guidelines.
• Coach and Develop Students – meet with students regarding Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP), FA warnings, FA probations, Academic Plans, and other progress opportunities, mediate between registrar and instructors as needed, advise students in crisis situations, mediate disputes, inspire and encourage students, provide student services and resources available in the community by maintaining the Campus Resource Binder, and ensure students have the tools to succeed.
• Proactively monitor student attendance and coach students who fall below 85% attendance.
• Respond promptly to email requests regarding Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP), Financial Aid (FA), Attendance, and important communication from other departments.
• Coach and advise students regarding Milan’s Professional Expectations to develop students to become career focused from day one by focusing on their habits, attitudes, and beliefs that lead students to successful careers.
• Partner with Career Services regarding any student issues or concerns prior to and during externship. Students are Education’s responsibility through externship.
• Student Events – Organize and execute Guest Speakers, Student Appreciation events and Celebration of Success activities monthly within budget guidelines; organize and execute graduation and other special events.
• Cosmetology related programs
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