Campus Director Role Overview

Excelon Associates is recruiting a Campus Director to oversee the daily operations, strategic planning, and overall performance of a postsecondary campus in Morrow, Georgia. The role carries full accountability for instruction quality, student outcomes, administrative processes, and compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.

The Campus Director provides direct supervision to campus personnel, drives enrollment and retention initiatives, manages budgets, oversees student services, and fosters a supportive learning and working environment. Depending on experience and campus needs, the Campus Director may also directly manage the Education Department or serve as the Admissions Manager.

Morrow sits in Clayton County within the metro Atlanta region, an area served by a mix of career colleges, community colleges, and workforce training providers. Campus leaders in this market routinely work alongside U.S. Department of Education Title IV requirements, state authorization rules, and the standards set by national and programmatic accreditors recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

Key Responsibilities

Campus Leadership and Operations

• Lead the overall success of the campus, including enrollment growth, student retention, marketing effectiveness, and achievement of financial targets.
• Oversee day-to-day campus operations to ensure a compliant, high-quality academic and administrative environment.
• Maintain a strong campus culture that supports student achievement, employee engagement, and operational excellence.

Personnel Management

• Recruit, interview, hire, and supervise all campus personnel in accordance with organizational policy and needs.
• Approve all personnel actions and ensure staff adhere to assigned responsibilities and schedules.
• Conduct regular staff and faculty meetings to support communication, prioritization, and productivity.
• Ensure timely completion of employee evaluations and promote ongoing professional development among all staff.

Financial Oversight

• Monitor and control campus expenses and revenues to meet established budget goals.
• Conduct weekly accounts-receivable reviews and track outstanding financial aid, cash balances, and student payment arrangements.
• Ensure all students remain in good financial standing to participate in classes.

Enrollment Management and Student Success

• Maintain daily awareness of admissions activity, including lead flow, appointments, conversions, and new student starts.
• Take full responsibility for admissions outcomes and ensure consistent follow-up practices.
• Oversee a thorough and effective student orientation program.
• Ensure the campus meets or exceeds student completion, placement, and Quality Placement Rate (QPR) goals.
• Maintain a compliant and supportive student advising program.

Compliance and Reporting

• Ensure complete compliance with all state, federal, and accreditation standards.
• Prepare and submit accurate reports as required by institutional leadership or regulatory bodies.
• Maintain operational adherence to personnel policies, procedures, and accreditation and licensing standards.

Leadership Development

• Demonstrate continuous improvement in leadership skills to build trust, accountability, and high performance across the campus.
• Engage in ongoing professional development and training to strengthen management capabilities.

Other Duties

• Perform additional responsibilities as assigned to support institutional goals and campus needs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of one year of experience in administration or institutional management, or a combined total of five years of administrative or management experience and higher-education coursework.
• Ability to manage stressful situations, maintain composure, and work a demanding schedule.
• Strong skills in personnel management, administrative oversight, communication, and organizational leadership.

Who Thrives as a Campus Director

The strongest Campus Directors treat the position as a general manager role with an academic mission attached. They read the daily admissions numbers as closely as a sales leader reads a pipeline, then connect those numbers back to instruction quality and student support, because retention and placement are where a campus earns its reputation.

Candidates who do well here are comfortable owning compliance rather than delegating it. Familiarity with Title IV financial aid processes, accreditation self-study cycles, and state licensing reviews turns audits from a source of stress into routine operating discipline. The role maps to the postsecondary education administrator profile, and the ability to build a team matters just as much: hiring well, setting clear expectations, and keeping faculty and staff engaged so the student experience stays consistent.

This is a hands-on leadership post. The work spans budgets, people, students, and regulators in the same week, and the people who enjoy it are the ones who like seeing all of those threads connect on a single campus.

About Excelon Associates

Excelon Associates is a retained executive search firm founded in 2007, headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina, with offices in Boca Raton and Delray Beach, Florida. The firm recruits leadership and specialized talent across higher education, healthcare, financial services, and government.

This Campus Director search is managed directly by an Excelon recruiter, which means candidates work with a single point of contact through screening, interviews, and offer. You can explore the firm’s higher education recruitment practice, browse current open roles, or review recent campaigns to see the kinds of searches Excelon runs.

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