Area Manager

**Description**

As Area Manager at Contour Education, you'll be the force that keeps our campus operations running seamlessly, while also empowering our leaders to grow and thrive. You’ll wear multiple hats — from leading infrastructure upgrades to coaching campus leaders, driving quality across our network, and being a trusted right hand to executive leadership.

If you're energised by fast-paced environments, passionate about team development, and love the challenge of scaling operations across multiple sites — this might just be your dream role.

**Who we are**

**Over 8,000 students and 250+ team members have joined Contour Education**since our founding in the beginning of 2020. Our growth is a testament to our dedication in providing **ALL** our students and parents with a premium learning experience (from 24/7 personal support to on-demand resources) and our commitment to helping them achieve their personal goals, and achieve success in their school assessments and exams. We've been listed three years in a row as one of the Fastest Growing Startups by the Australian Financial Review, and we're continuing to multiply year over year

It's our vision to **reshape education**,** one student at a time.**

**What you'll do**
- Oversee day-to-day campus experience, ensuring consistency and excellence across all locations (including facility management).
- Ensure every campus is safe, efficient, compliant, and aligned with Contour’s brand and educational standards.
- Mentor campus managers and team leads to become confident, accountable, and values-driven leaders.
- Lead onboarding, training and professional development for new and existing campus leaders.
- Embed a high-performance culture across campuses, with a strong emphasis on accountability and growth.
- Conduct audits and reviews to improve learning environments, service delivery and operational systems.
- Use performance data, student/parent feedback, and direct observation to drive service and experience improvements.
- Act as a tactical partner to executive leadership, handling operational challenges with autonomy and precision.
- Lead and execute cross-campus initiatives, change management, and strategic projects.
- Serve as the conduit between on-the-ground operations and high-level strategic goals, enhancing agility and responsiveness.

**Skill Requirements**:
**Honesty**and Integrity
‍ **Passion** for Teaching
**High Level**of Empathy
**Energy** and Enthusiasm
️ **Excellent** Communication Skills
**Independence**& Proactiveness
**Willing**to Listen, Learn & Lead
**Intelligence** & Creativity

**Experience Requirements**:

- ** Education**:Bachelor's degree in Business, Education, Operations, or related field
- ** Experience**:3-5+ years in a multi-site leadership, retail management or operational role
- ** Experience**:Experience managing facilities, compliance and/or capital improvement projects a plus
- ** Leadership**:Background in coaching, team development, or leadership training strongly preferred

**Personal Requirements**:

- A strong and empathetic leader
- An operations-driven problem solver
- A people and culture builder
- A strategic thinker with tactical execution
- A communicator and connector
- A data-informed and feedback-led operator
- Mission-aligned and impact-driven

**Benefits**:

- Above market rate compensation.
- Significant improvement in public speaking, team, and leadership skills _(and you get paid for it)._
- Personalised mentorship, training and feedback to improve your sales and communication skills.
- Creative freedom in a fun start-up environment _(no corporate walls, talk directly to the founders or students)._
- Satisfying and fulfilling work that ultimately helps students thrive and succeed _(it feels good when you help students enjoy their time at Contour, and do well at school)._
- Opportunities for career growth and long-term opportunities in a rapidly growing education company.

**The pay range for this role is**:
110,000 - 130,000 AUD per year(Australia)