Academic Manager

The Opportunity: Indiana Wellness College is seeking an exceptional Academics Manager to provide hands-on leadership for daily academic operations across our Massage Therapy and Esthetics programs. This role is ideal for a leader who loves developing educators, creating clarity, strengthening systems, and building an academic environment where students and employees can succeed. What You'll Lead

• Lead daily academic operations, schedules, class coverage, learning spaces, testing calendars, and quarter readiness.
• Recruit, onboard, train, coach, and develop Classroom Coaches, Instructors, and assigned academic staff.
• Conduct structured weekly 1:1 meetings with direct reports to clarify priorities, document commitments, support development, and follow through.
• Monitor instructional quality through classroom observations, student feedback, gradebook review, attendance trends, and regular faculty communication.
• Monitor student progress and ensure timely outreach, coaching, MMOT intervention, remediation, and coordinated support when students are at risk.
• Oversee curriculum implementation, learning systems, academic records, faculty credentials, compliance, audits, reporting, and continuous-improvement initiatives. Who We're Looking For
• Bachelor's degree in education, higher education, business, organizational leadership, or a related field; equivalent education and progressively responsible experience may be considered.
• Three or more years of progressive experience in academic operations, education, training, program management, or a comparable student-focused environment.
• Two or more years supervising, coaching, or leading employees and holding others accountable for measurable outcomes.
• Strong communication, coaching, conflict-resolution, organization, analytical thinking, project management, and problemsolving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365, shared drives, calendars, reporting tools, and learning-management or gradebook systems. Career-education or regulated academic experience is strongly valued.

OUR MISSION: We elevate people to build stronger careers, stronger industries, and stronger communities. This leader creates the structure, support, accountability, and follow-through that help educators do their best work and students progress toward graduation and professional success. Could you make our academic team — and the student experience — stronger? Apply and tell us about a team you've developed, an academic system you've improved, or a student-success challenge you've helped solve