Our team members enjoy competitive salaries, a well-rounded benefits package, generous paid time off (including 25 holidays, vacation, and sick leave), and an array of professional development opportunities. We’re always looking to add to our team of more than 3,000 dedicated professionals who are leading online education worldwide with transformative digital solutions – personalized to every student.
Deadline to apply is 11:59 PM on
01-30-2026Position General Summary:
The President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) directs FLVS and FlexPoint in the successful pursuit of its mission, optimal revenue growth, customer satisfaction and high student achievement.
Essential Position Functions:
Champion efforts to prioritize student achievement by setting high expectations, aligning resources, and fostering a culture of academic excellence.
Refine and implement a strategy for the organization that is consistent with its mission and aligns the organization and its resources with key opportunities and drivers in the marketplace.
Be accountable for the organization’s profit and loss. Ensure the organization meets or exceeds its targets for revenue, profitability, and growth. Ensure appropriate controls are in place across the organization.
Develop an excellent leadership team through both internal development and external recruitment efforts. Ensure effective systems are in place to recruit, develop, reward, and retain high-performance talent.
Establish and lead a highly ethical culture of growth, quality, and performance across the organization and with its stakeholders.
Spearhead development of the organization’s brands. Ensure that FLVS is the provider of choice within Florida and is recognized as a leading provider nationally through FlexPoint.
Ensure development and deployment of products, services, and technologies that exceed standards for customer satisfaction and effective operations.
Actively represent the organization, engage with its marketplace and maintain effective relationships with education administrators, business leaders, and government officials. Promote the organization as its key spokesperson at relevant education sector venues.
Effectively engage with the FLVS Board of Trustees. Inform the Board and other important constituents on a timely basis of key developments and results.
(These essential functions are not to be construed as a complete statement of all duties performed.)
Minimum Requirements:
Education/Licensure/Certification:
Master’s degree in Business Management, Educational Leadership, Public Administration or a related field or equivalent experience
Suggested Experience:
Ten years’ executive-level educational administration and/or business management experience
Ten years’ progressive experience leading and managing others
Experience in strategic planning and policymaking
Experience in public speaking
Five years’ experience in a Florida Public K-12 Education System
Experience in a K-12 online environment
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):
Pivotal Experience and Expertise
Strategic Leadership: Current or prior experience in the development and successful implementation of a strategic plan to refocus a company with a complex set of products and services strategic growth plan.
Operating Management: Demonstrable success leading a complex entity with a full range of functional activities, sales, product development and management, marketing, business development, technology, and finance in a unified manner that drove operational excellence. An adept manager of both a centralized leadership team and a substantial workforce of remote professionals.
Online Model: Experience leading a business or organization that utilizes online platforms to deliver products and/or services and enhances customer experience.
Leadership Capabilities
Shape Strategy: Identify the most appropriate opportunities in the market to pursue, build implementable plans, and evolve the organization to support those plans.
Put Customers First: Create distinct value for the customers by understanding customer needs and building deep customer relationships.
Inspire and Influence: Create meaning and purpose for the organization by engaging and energizing team members partially by leading through influence. Understand what motivates various team members and, thus, how to influence performance.
Build Talent and Teams: Implement systems and processes that develop teams and strengthen organizational capacity.
Drive for Results: Drive excellence by continuously improving the organization and reallocating resources at pace.
Lead Innovation: Scale and invest in new ideas by creating a culture that promotes experimentation and collaboration across boundaries.
Agility and Potential
Foresight: Ability to simplify complex problems, develop creative solutions, and thinking dexterity.
Learning: Self-awareness, curious, and open-minded.
Adaptability: Authenticity, empathy, and ability to flex and transform.
Resilience: Ownership mindset, purpose, and persist and sustain energy.
Culture Fit and Impact
Champion for the FLVS Mission: Persuasive advocate with a passion for the organization’s purpose and educational mission. Capable of representing the organization’s value to a wide variety of external constituents and partners.
Collaboration and Teamwork: Collaborative and engaging individuals who can relate to people at all levels of an organization. Demonstrated ability to build new teams and supportive systems and cultures.
Ensure Accountability: Ability to instill ownership of quality and effective performance throughout the organization.
Communication Skills: Communicates complex ideas in a clear, transparent way to key stakeholders, colleagues, and media.
Relationship Builder: Form networks of positive relationships throughout the organization, and with educational, government, and other partners.
Core Competencies for Success:
JOB KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Carries out essential job functions with accuracy, engages in ongoing and relevant professional learning, applies new knowledge effectively, and demonstrates mastery of job-specific skills
PRODUCTIVITY
Produces high quality work, meets organizational and departmental deadlines, balances multiple responsibilities, manages time effectively, and seeks ways to improve processes and productivity
COMMUNICATION
Communicates clearly in written and verbal formats, collaborates effectively, demonstrates professionalism in all interactions, exhibits strong interpersonal skills, and contributes to a positive team and professional community
CUSTOMER FOCUS
Addresses the needs of internal and external customers, analyzes problems effectively, contributes to innovative solutions, seeks opportunities for improvement, and successfully adapts to change
Chief Office/Vice President Competencies for Success:
MANAGING VISION AND PURPOSE
Communicates a compelling and inspired vision or sense of core purpose; Is consistently optimistic; Creates mileposts and symbols to rally support behind the vision; Can inspire and motivate entire departments; Makes the vision shareable by everyone; Talks beyond today; Speaks of possibilities
INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
Is good at bringing the creative ideas of others to market; Exercises good judgment about which creative ideas and suggestions will work; Has a sense about managing the creative process of others; Can facilitate effective brainstorming; Can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace
NEGOTIATING
Negotiates skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups; Can be both direct and forceful as well as diplomatic; Gains trust of other parties to the negotiations quickly; Has a good sense of timing; Persuades others to adopt or build on ideas or recommendations; Facilitates “win-win” situations; Advocates position effectively; Engages in healthy, constructive debate and dialogue
PERSPECTIVE
Looks toward the broadest possible view of an issue/challenge; Has broad-ranging personal and business interests and pursuits; Can easily pose future scenarios; Thinks globally; Can discuss multiple aspects and impacts of issues and project them into the future
STRATEGIC AGILITY
Formulates objectives, priorities and plans consistent with long-term vision; Perceives the impact and implications of strategic decisions; Capitalizes on strategic opportunities and manages risks; Considers the impact of economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal trends to help inform strategic decisions; Anticipates potential or competitor threats to the organization; Seeks out competitor opportunities for the organization; Can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans; Is future oriented and can see ahead clearly; Can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; Aligns organizational structure to support strategic direction
Physical Requirements and Environmental Conditions:
Frequency of travel: The Orlando Headquarters shall be the primary office of the CEO and will include regular and frequent operations at this office. Frequent travel is required for meetings, trainings, and conferences; locations may vary.
Light physical activities and efforts required working in an office environment
(Reasonable accommodations will be made in accordance with existing ADA requirements for otherwise qualified individuals with a disability.)