WHAT DOES AN EDUCATION DO?
Published: Jun 6, 2025 - The Education Professional designs and delivers engaging instructional programs that meet diverse learner needs across academic levels. This role involves implementing evidence-based teaching strategies to enhance knowledge retention, critical thinking, and classroom participation. The position also collaborates with stakeholders to assess curriculum effectiveness and promote continuous educational improvement.
A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Education
1. Educational Consultant Roles
- Educational Program Presentation: Demonstrate various educational programs, enrolment processes, and provide information about different institutions.
- Student Decision Support: Access and evaluate information related to students and their choices to help them make the right decisions for their higher studies and career goals.
- Program Planning Assistance: Help students develop and design their educational programs by assisting with various learning aspects for a positive outcome.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate and coordinate with parents, teachers, and students to offer ongoing support, advice, and assistance in implementing functional processes and their improvement.
- Event Coordination: Organize various workshops, meetings, conferences, and committees to promote and deliver student welfare programs.
- Problem Resolution: Discuss and work on various issues to solve their problems within official guidelines and regulations.
- Policy Assessment: Assess various educational policies, standards, measures, and guidelines to update the current curriculum.
- Educational Research: Undertake thorough research about various educational programs and institutions to provide recommendations to the students.
- International Student Advising: Offer consultation to international students and help them understand various educational programs, professional programs, admission procedures, enrollment processes, and institutions as per their requirements.
- Immigration Assistance: Help international students with immigration processes after successful enrolment in a program for the visa application and approval process.
- Documentation Management: Maintain and manage documentation, records, reports, and success stories for future reference.
2. Special Education Coordinator Responsibilities
- IEP Records Management: Manage all school IEP records
- Training Coordination: Organize and carry out training for appropriate school personnel
- Compliance Monitoring: Monitor and manage records to ensure compliance with federal and state special education regulations
- Placement Consultation: Consult with the Director to ensure appropriate placement for students within the school programs for year-round intake
- Instructional Support: Provide instructional support to classroom teachers in overseeing the delivery of special education services
- IEP Oversight: Oversee all aspects of IEP development, diagnostic assessments, and annual reviews
- IEP Facilitation: Facilitate the IEP process, information exchange, preparation, and scheduling for IEP meetings
- Instructional Collaboration: Work closely with teaching staff to ensure that instructional modifications/accommodations are met during classroom instruction
- Accommodation Implementation: Oversee the development, tracking, dissemination, and proper implementation of IEP-mandated accommodations for students during state testing events
- Parent Communication: Work directly with parents to answer questions and ensure that all school actions are in compliance
- Special Education Instruction: Work with ED students, the curriculum, and a variety of instructional strategies and assessment tools
- Annual Placement Planning: Work with directors, teachers, and parents to determine appropriate placement for students annually
- District Engagement: Develop relationships with district representatives to showcase the program and encourage enrollment
3. Education Director Additional Details
- Educational Leadership: Lead the education department at the campus level, providing oversight and leadership to ensure successful student outcomes and compliant campus operations
- Outcome Achievement: Meet educational outcomes objectives for the programs offered at the campus, and ensure sound academic practices
- Instructional Integration: Monitor and promote the integration of the Learning Philosophy and Core Classroom Principles in daily instruction and student interaction
- Student Experience Management: Lead services and activities to ensure a quality educational experience for students
- Data Analysis and Reporting: Conduct departmental meetings, review and analyze assessment data, compile reports, and meet operational and administrative deadlines
- Faculty Orientation and Development: Lead the orientation of new faculty and provide ongoing development and consistent implementation of campus curriculum, course learning materials, educational resources, and student assessments
- Instructional Resource Oversight: Ensure that instructional materials and equipment are sufficient in quality and quantity, similar to those found in common occupational practice, are properly maintained, and are in working order
- Faculty Assessment and Development: Lead ongoing faculty assessments and professional development activities that are appropriate to the school’s size and educational offerings to ensure an active, engaged, and up-to-date classroom experience for all students
- Strategic Implementation: Establish departmental priorities and goals, and implement the actions aligned with the larger company strategy
- Regulatory Compliance Monitoring: Monitor and ensure departmental compliance with all federal, state, and regulatory bodies’ guidelines, along with the internal policies of the company
- Staff Development and Supervision: Ensure that each staff member has the knowledge and skill to successfully meet the requirements of their position through hiring, training, coaching, and supervising of personnel
4. Executive Education Essential Functions
- Sales Target Achievement: Achieve the company sales plan for the assigned territory
- Team Recruitment and Management: Recruit, train, and manage a team of sales and education specialists across specific markets
- Schedule Compliance: Ensure all specialist schedules and calendars are submitted on time to the Regional Sales Manager
- Call Cycle Planning: Build monthly call cycles for each SES
- Talent Acquisition and Retention: Consistently recruit and hire top talent while maintaining a 30% or lower turnover rate
- Territory Visit Management: Visit each SES in their respective territory at least once per quarter or as budget permits
- Event Execution: Execute in-store events with the team or independently to ensure company targets are met
- Product Training Coordination: Schedule and execute product knowledge training activities to drive retail sales
- Schedule Alignment: Maintain a cohesive monthly schedule that aligns with territory volume, top volume door focus
- Schedule Submission: Submit the monthly schedule to the manager before its commencement
- Freelance Scheduling: Maintain a cohesive freelance schedule to meet each retailer’s needs and increase profitability
- Budget Management: Budget/Plan and spend within the limits of the allocated budget
5. Education Manager Role Purpose
- Education Material Initiation: Initiate all education materials, activities that align brand vision and equity.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Primary focus on engaging all brand and commercial stakeholders, categories include fragrance, make-up, and skincare.
- Brand Vision Communication: Immerse the brand vision, storytelling, and articulate, influence critical stakeholders (brand, commercial team) to get on board with the strategy, optimizing brand growth.
- Industry Trend Leadership: Lead the industry trend to inspire LL souls and frontline BAs.
- Training Innovation: Bring in new and creative ways of training materials and methodology regularly, inspiring BAs to engage customers strongly and to increase the conversion.
- Customer Complaint Investigation: Direct investigation of customer complaints regarding quality, tolerances, specifications, and the delivered condition of products.
- Cross-Regional Relationship Management: Manage the relationship among local, regional, and global regarding material development and local insight inputs.
- International Education Impact: Significant impact in international education programs to drive local influence and elevate local needs.
- BA Inspiration and Leadership: Lead and inspire BAs to work with brand purpose and a strong customer in mind, providing high-touch services and professional knowledge.
6. Education Program Manager General Responsibilities
- Cultural and Linguistic Workshop Facilitation: Help provide culturally and linguistically competent educational and training workshops to participants, covering issues and topics that encourage college retention and college success
- Mentor and Staff Support: Provide needed support to CREAR student mentors and college staff through ongoing “check-in” sessions
- Mentorship Coordination: Coordinate monthly meetings with CREAR mentors and provide mentee assistance
- Student Resource Linkage: Link CREAR students with HF’s comprehensive network of Latino social service agencies
- Career Mentor Recruitment: Help recruit Latino professionals from nonprofit, government, and private sectors to serve as career mentors and support Leader Day events
- Internship and Employment Placement: Secure summer internships and employment opportunities for participating CREAR students
- Partnership Development: Leverage partnerships with local community-based organizations, higher education institutions, elected officials, and media to support systemic educational change and Latino student achievement
- Outcome Evaluation: Measure change through outcome evaluations and survey tools
- Bilingual Seminar Facilitation: Coordinate and facilitate bilingual educational seminars on Early Childhood Literacy activities and College Preparatory skills with Latino parents and families
- Community Collaboration: Develop collaborative relationships with local schools, community organizations, and civic associations to promote HF education initiatives
- Behavioral Change Measurement: Measure behavioral change through outcome evaluations and survey tools
7. Special Education Supervisor Key Accountabilities
- Regulatory Compliance Support: Assist with ensuring compliance with Department of Education regulations.
- IEP Process Participation: Participate in the individual education plan (IEP) process by attending IEP meetings, working collaboratively with IEP team members, completing and preparing IEP paperwork, and delivering instruction in a meaningful and appropriate way to enable students to progress towards goals outlined in the IEP.
- Individualized Instruction Development: Assist in the development of individualized lesson plans, goals, and success criteria for specially designed instruction.
- Training Delivery: Conduct training needs assessments and provide initial and ongoing training for employees.
- Teaching Practice Oversight: Ensure special education teachers follow appropriate teaching practices, curriculum, and outcome measures.
- Classroom Observation: Observe classrooms to assess curriculum, staff, and resource needs.
- Curriculum Differentiation Support: Assist in the differentiation of the curriculum to meet individual learning needs.
- Classroom Support: Support the special education classroom in the absence of the teacher.
- State Testing Coordination: Assist in the coordination and administration of state testing.