Senior Director of Workforce Development and Economic Mobility

OIC of South Florida; Oakland Park (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OIC of South Florida is seeking a strategic Senior Director of Workforce Development and Economic Mobility to lead the organization’s workforce division. This role reports to the Chief Program Officer and focuses on aligning programs, training pathways, employer engagement, and youth-to-adult pipelines to deliver strong outcomes.

The Senior Director will partner with program managers, career coaches, and other leaders to ensure coordinated, participant-centered, and outcomes-driven workforce

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in workforce development or related field.
• Experience aligning programs with employer needs and participant outcomes.
• Strategic thinker with ability to lead teams and use data.
• Ability to build partnerships and position the organization for future workforce needs.
• Excellence in coordination across multiple programs and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of OIC’s workforce strategy across programs and funding streams.
• Align workforce services with OIC’s mission, priorities, employer demand, and participant outcomes.
• Strengthen systems, partnerships, and performance in workforce development.
• Coordinate across programs to operate as a single, integrated workforce system.
• Monitor labor market trends and future-of-work opportunities to adapt programs.
• Provide leadership and supervision to workforce development staff and program leads.

Job description

OIC of South Florida is seeking a strategic, experienced, and mission-driven Senior Director of Workforce Development and Economic Mobility to provide overarching leadership for the organization’s workforce development division.

This position reports to the Chief Program Officer and is responsible for aligning OIC’s workforce development programs, training pathways, employer engagement, youth-to-adult career pipeline, placement strategies, retention efforts, and economic mobility outcomes.

This is a senior leadership role designed for someone who can think strategically, lead teams, strengthen systems, use data, build partnerships, and help position OIC for the evolving workforce of 2026 and beyond.

The Senior Director will work closely with the Director of Training, Admissions, Director of Partnerships and Employer Engagement, program managers, career coaches, workforce navigators, and other team members to ensure OIC’s workforce development efforts are coordinated, employer-responsive, participant-centered, and outcome-driven.

Key Responsibilities

Workforce Strategy and Leadership

• Lead the implementation of OIC’s workforce development strategy across programs and funding streams.
• Align workforce development services with OIC’s mission, organizational priorities, employer needs, and participant outcomes.
• Support the Chief Program Officer in strengthening OIC’s workforce development model, systems, partnerships, and performance.
• Ensure workforce programs operate as one coordinated system rather than separate program silos.
• Monitor workforce trends, labor market needs, emerging industries, and futureofwork opportunities.
• Help position OIC as a regional leader in workforce development, career pathways, and economic mobility.

Division Coordination and Team Leadership

• Provide leadership, supervision, and support to assigned workforce development staff and program leaders.
• Work closely with the Admissions, Director of Training and Director of Partnerships and Employer Engagement to ensure strong alignment between training, employer demand, job placement, and participant advancement.
• Strengthen communication, workflows, accountability, and coordination across workforce development programs.
• Lead team meetings, planning sessions, performance reviews, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Support staff development, coaching, onboarding, and performance accountability.
• Promote a culture of excellence, collaboration, innovation, professionalism, and missiondriven service.

Career Pathways and Participant Success

• Strengthen career pathways for youth, young adults, adults, families, justiceinvolved individuals, unemployed workers, underemployed workers, and individuals facing barriers to employment.
• Support a youthtoadult workforce pipeline that includes career exposure, workbased learning, internships, credentials, training, placement, retention, and advancement.
• Ensure participants receive coordinated support from enrollment through training, employment, retention, and career growth.
• Promote strategies that support longterm economic mobility, wage growth, family stability, and selfsufficiency.
• Ensure workforce services are responsive to barriers such as transportation, childcare, housing instability, digital access, justice involvement, and limited work experience.

Training and Employer Alignment

• Ensure training programs are connected to employer needs, labor market demand, credential requirements, and career pathway opportunities.
• Work with the Director of Training to monitor training quality, completion, credential attainment, and participant readiness.
• Work with the Director of Partnerships and Employer Engagement to align employer partnerships with training, hiring, internships, apprenticeships, retention, and advancement opportunities.
• Support sectorbased strategies in highdemand fields such as healthcare, skilled trades, construction, logistics, information technology, clean energy, infrastructure, and related industries.
• Promote the integration of digital literacy, AI readiness, essential workplace skills, professionalism, financial capability, and career navigation into workforce programming.

Data, Performance, and Compliance

• Monitor key workforce outcomes, including enrollment, training completion, credential attainment, job placement, retention, wage growth, employer engagement, and participant advancement.
• Use data to identify gaps, improve program quality, and support decisionmaking.
• Ensure accurate documentation, reporting, compliance, and audit readiness across workforce development programs.
• Support funder reporting, monitoring visits, performance reviews, and corrective action plans.
• Develop performance summaries and updates for the Chief Program Officer, executive leadership, funders, and partners as needed.

Partnerships, Funding, and Growth

• Support the Chief Program Officer in identifying new workforce development opportunities, partnerships, grants, and program growth strategies.
• Participate in funder meetings, employer