Reports To: | CEO |
Location: | Lakewood, NJ |
Website: | www.achieve3000.com |
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With Achieve 3000’s recent acquisition by Insight Venture Partners, a leading private equity firm in the Education industry, company CEO Saki Dodelson and the investors have launched a national search for a CFO to be responsible for managing all finance, accounting and reporting functions for this rapidly growing company focused on online differentiated instruction in literacy and other K-12 course areas.
The CFO will (1) implement KPIs and drive alignment on financial metrics; (2) provide strategy, leadership and coordination of all company financial practices, including M&A, forecasting, budgeting, financial reports, accounting, taxes and audit functions; and (3) work with the leadership, board of directors and investors to assess and upgrade financial operations and processes as necessary for scalability in a rapidly growing company.
The CEO and IVP share the conviction that the room for future growth is substantial, and that the company's growth objectives will come largely through the acquisition of new schools in the United States and globally, and in cross selling the current portfolio of products to the established customer base.
For more than a decade, Achieve3000® has supported the individuality and potential of every student by reaching them where they are to help them reach higher levels of reading and writing proficiency.
The company’s fundamental belief is that literacy unlocks achievement, and that the key to improving literacy is differentiated instruction. Today, Achieve3000 is the leader in differentiated online instruction, serving more than one million students across the United States. In 2011, Inc. magazine included Achieve3000 on its annual 500/5000 list for the fifth consecutive year, the exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest growing private companies.
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Achieve provides the only web-based, differentiated instruction solutions designed to reach a school's entire student population — mainstream, English Language Learners, special needs, and gifted. In addition to KidBizPRO®, TeenBizPRO®, EmpowerPRO™ and other literacy solutions, Achieve launched its first differentiated core curriculum solution, eScience3000® in 2011.
Founded in 2000, Achieve has grown quickly, and today serves more than one million students across America. Today, Achieve3000 is leading the way towards helping every student become independent, reaching higher standards and becoming prepared for college and the workforce.
Achieve3000® believes in the power of truly differentiated online instruction to enable significant and sustained Lexile®/reading growth — a belief supported by a decade-plus of scientifically proven performance.
The need for differentiated instruction has never been greater. With the increased demands of the Common Core State Standards, the imperative for students to become independent readers of complex text grows by the day.
By setting reading levels, differentiating non-fiction text based on each student's unique academic profile, and continually assessing and increasing the complexity of text, Achieve solutions steadily increase students' ability to read, comprehend, apply and communicate information derived from complex text — prerequisites for success in school and beyond graduation.
Achieve3000® is accelerating college and career readiness like never before with differentiation that not only embraces individual student reading levels, but also considers where they live and the specialized populations they belong to. They support teachers and administrators in new and exciting ways, making sure they can implement the differentiated solutions more quickly and more effectively.
KidBizPRO, TeenBizPRO and EmpowerPRO
KidBizPRO® for grades 2 to 5, TeenBizPRO for grades 6 to 8, and Empower PRO for high school are the powerful, proven, differentiated online literacy instruction literacy solutions that reach every student at his or her Lexile®/reading level. They deliver truly differentiated reading and writing assignments — using high-quality, non-fiction content based on each student's reading level - and that automatically adapts content via ongoing, real-time Lexile assessment.
Importantly they align closely delete with objectives of the Common Core State Standards to give students the content area literacy skills they need to succeed on the standards and prepare for college and career.
Powered by Achieve3000's LevelSet™ Lexile assessment tool and proprietary software engine that distributes assignments to the entire class, but tailors them according to each student's reading level, KidBizPRO, Teen BizPRO, and EmpowerPRO enable all students to make continual progress and improvement.
Achieve Access, Achieve Boost, and Achieve Español
These solutions do more and go further to meet the needs of the entire population – English language learners, struggling students and students with special needs.
Newly Developed Science Solutions
As it has with its differentiated literacy instruction, Achieve is leading the way in science with a fresh approach and powerful partnerships. The new solutions promise to make science a passionate pursuit for students.
About Insight Venture Partners
In 2014 Achieve 3000 entered into a new business alliance with Insight Venture Partners (IVP), a private equity and venture capital firm based in New York City. The firm focuses exclusively on investing in technology, software and Internet-enabled businesses and currently has a capital base of approximately $7.6 billion for this purpose. The company has invested in well-known companies such as Twitter, Chegg, Tumblr, Flipboard, Zynga, Quest Software, and Hotel Urbano, a company established in Brazil. Insight’s investments include growth equity, capital for M&A, buyouts, take-privates, pre-IPO rounds, and recapitalizations.
The partnership with Insight will help advance Achieve 3000’s market leadership position and accelerate revenue growth through acquisitions and building of new products for the education market.
Achieve 3000 is seeking a Chief Financial Officer to help drive all financial management decisions for the company as it achieves healthy growth.
Specific responsibilities and expectations include the following:
To an experienced CFO, this opportunity offers several attractive features:
Specifically, this individual has –
Culturally and temperamentally, the ideal candidate is a team player who believes that individual success flows from the overall success of the organization. This involves a range of personal attributes-- flexibility and adaptability; a great work ethic; leadership with minimal supervision; an ability to analyze and evaluate one’s own (and other’s) performance and to develop plans to improve performance; excellent presentation skills; willingness to take responsibility for both success and failure—a thick skin; self-confidence and a positive attitude about self, company, and marketplace; consistent, effective people skills; sincerity, trust, believability and warmth; and a strong desire for success.
Compensation will include salary, commissions, bonuses, and equity in line with the individual’s experience.
Travel will be no more than 20% in a year.
Achieve3000 has an Employment Application, Work History and Background Check (provided to candidates). The background check includes compensation verification, professional references, employment and education verifications, state and federal criminal history reports, and drug screen.
Resume should be sent as a Word document to Ralph Protsik and Todd Hand, and also posted on the BSG website, www.bsgtv.com. No phone calls please.