Manager, International Association of Tao Academy

Overview

International Association of Tao (IAT) is a non-profit member association focused on assisting its members - Professionals of the Master Sha Tao Academy - to receive benefits to maintain their professional good standing in their programs, build their image and grow professionally, and establish their fields as professionally recognized and credible careers.

About the Role

**Responsibilities**:

- Work with the Secretary to assist in the preparation and coordination of the yearly business plan, marketing plan, and financial plan/budget for the IAT. This will include KPI’s, milestones, monthly forecasts, growth projections, risk management, capital investment requirements, and reports underpinning analysis and recommendations.
- Grow and expand IAT as a professional membership association, including membership, providing the members with benefits to grow professionally and maintain their professional good standing, and establish their fields as professionally recognized and credible careers.
- Create, manage, follow and continuously improve the IAT’s Quality Management System (QMS), including documenting all QMS projects and timelines to ensure their proper execution and compliance.
- Globally recruit, coordinate, and manage staff and volunteer team members, including recruitment, on-boarding, management and mentoring.
- Facilitate/Lead on all major IAT projects and team meetings.
- Lead and coordinate all IAT Team Coordinators, Program Coordinators, and Team Members to ensure successful planning, and courses, programs, and events are developed, launched and run on time as per the IAT Calendar.
- Coordinate projects and partnerships with other customers, partners, stakeholders, providers/vendors/suppliers, and contractors.

COMPETENCIES:
Competencies related to the delivery of learning services, which include:
Personal competencies, which concern the individual's personal qualities as a facilitator, and include:

- Listening and communicating effectively;
- Making presentations;
- Managing conflicts;
- Continuous professional development;
- Using information technology effectively;
- Sensitivity to equality and diversity issues;
- Adherence to a code of conduct or statement of values;
- Intercultural competencies;
- Passion for structure and quality

Business competencies:
Objectives, and include:

- Innovation and use of emerging technology;
- Commercial acumen (planning, budgeting);
- Management of interested parties;
- Formulating and regulating learning policy;
- Understanding the ever-changing nature of work, i.e. On a social, technological, industrial, political and cultural level;
- Using technology to manage communications;
- Working on organizational development and effectiveness;
- Learning administration;
- Customer and student service.
- Quality Systems and Quality Management

Qualifications:

- Proven business management experience in a professional association demonstrating successful track record of delivering on time, within budget, and target KPS’s and milestones.
- Understanding, knowledge or experience of other alternative healing and/or teacher training modalities would be an advantage.
- Excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of people on all levels of the organization.
- Manage multiple stakeholders for time sensitive tasks concurrently while meeting deadlines.
- Genuine desire to focus with tenacity on meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
- Proven bias for action, excellent critical thinking and time management skills.
- Excellent knowledge of general computing skills as well as advanced technical competency in all computer systems/technology that forms the foundation of the department.
- Additional language skills are an asset.

WHAT WE OFFER:

- Competitive Salary
- Group Medical and Dental Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Training & Development
- Annual bonus

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Additional pay:

- Bonus pay

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Flextime
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Profit sharing
- Relocation assistance
- RRSP match
- Vision care
- Wellness program
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

**Education**:

- Bachelor's Degree (required)

**Experience**:

- Business development: 5 years (required)
- strategy & planning: 5 years (required)