Regional Director, Advanced Transportation & Workforce Development

Cabrillo-College; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 108,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefit stipend

PERS retirement

Vision insurance

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Cabrillo College invites applications for a Bay Area Community Colleges Consortium Regional Director, Advanced Transportation. This full-time administrative role leads regional workforce strategies, collaborates with colleges, K-12, and industry, and oversees programs to advance student employment and livable wages.

The position offers a 220-day work year with a competitive salary, doctoral stipend eligibility, and comprehensive benefits.

Responsibilities

• Convenes regional collaboratives to facilitate alignment of workforce efforts; provides responsible and complex staff assistance, professional expertise, and project management to assigned projects and workgroups including tracking action plans, coordination of efforts across multiple organizations, and maintaining project records.
• Performs needs assessments including researching programs and best practices; identifies, documents, and tracks subregional and regional college and employer needs and trends related to workforce development; makes recommendations on potential service areas, industries, and educational gaps; assists with minimizing unproductive overlap of programs and services.
• Researches market intelligence information through CCCCO and Centers of Excellence data; collects and analyzes complex data sets, prepares narrative and statistical reports, and develops presentations of research findings and results appropriate to various audiences; analyzes and compiles research data to provide evidence-based support for grant-funding applications and projects; identifies and assesses industry and specific business training needs and identifies resources needed to develop educational programs.
• Develops and monitors individual program tracking and data input and ensures stakeholder, state, and federal guidelines are met; oversees and participates in the collection, aggregation, analysis, and reporting of qualitative and quantitative data from multiple sources, including data extracted from multiple databases potentially across multiple colleges; analyzes, evaluates, and develops reports, recommendations, and plans; ensures accuracy and timely submission of mandated reporting.
• Chairs, staffs, and/or serves on statewide, regional, and/or subregional committees and represents BACCC at local, regional, state, and national conferences, meetings, workshops, and training seminars.
• Provides staff leadership and facilitation of an industry sector-based stakeholder/advisory group in the planning, development, update, and implementation of a regional plan that defines, supports, and reflects the regional sector strategy; ensures the sector activities, programs, and fiscal operations comply with the Chancellor’s Office and funding sources.
• Develops and manages regional partnerships with businesses and industry groups.
• Coordinates sector-focused faculty professional development that aligns with changes in sector industries; leads or facilitates the formation and operation of regional CTE faculty communities of practice.
• Creates and/or facilitates the development of program enrichment proposals responsive to stakeholder interests and data analysis for consideration by the colleges and stakeholders and assists in successful execution to increase enrollment, enhance Guided Pathways, close supply/demand, skills and equity gaps, align with regional industry priorities and industry-recognized credentials, and increase living wage opportunities for students.
• Provides staff leadership and facilitation of colleges and stakeholders within the subregion to establish priorities and develop and implement work plans based on subregional economies, informed by data analysis, and responsive to individual colleges’ strengths and priorities and opportunities for positively impacting regional and state goals, including increasing access to work-based learning, improving student employment outcomes and closing labor market and equity gaps.
• Convenes, facilitates, and collaborates subregionally with employers, community colleges, and workforce and economic development agencies on workforce development strategies, work plans, programs, and engagement; acts as liaison to, and builds partnerships with county officials, employers, community colleges, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitates career pathway connections between two- and four-year colleges, industry, Adult Education, K-12 and Workforce Development Boards to provide more entry points to career pathways, to provide pathways that are more responsive to students’ immediate and long-term career objectives, and to provide career pathways that extend to higher skills and higher wages.
• Facilitates alignment, coordination and integration of services provided by colleges and other workforce development stakeholders to provide supportive services that enable students to enter, persist, and complete career pathway programs and credentials, to participate in work-based learning, and to find employment at higher wages.
• Assist colleges with identifying and applying for grants and other sources of funding; facilitate braiding of funding from multiple sources to address subregional and area of focus priorities, and seek effective usage of apportionment and grant funding.
• Provides staff leadership, facilitation, and project management of colleges and stakeholders within a BACCC-defined area of focus to work collaboratively to attain the goals and objectives of the area of focus; includes data analysis, funding streams expertise, and cross-organizational coordination.
• Provides strategies to assist colleges in providing career education and workforce training to all in a manner that is accessible, efficient, responsive and data driven; work with the colleges and key stakeholders to drive collaboration and reduce equity gaps.

Job description

Cabrillo College invites applications for a Bay Area Community Colleges Consortium Regional Director, Advanced Transportation. This full-time administrative role leads regional workforce strategies, collaborates with colleges, K-12, and industry, and oversees programs to advance student employment and livable wages.

The position offers a 220-day work year with a competitive salary, doctoral stipend eligibility, and comprehensive benefits.