Urgently Hiring: Project Director for Postsecondary Education

Role Snapshot:

• Position: Project Director
• Company: Postsecondary Education
• Location: Remote
• Compensation: a competitive salary
• Start Date: Immediate openings available

 

 

About reputed company As a community of over 1,400 researchers, practitioners, consultants, and administrative professionals from reputed company backgrounds and life experiences, we are committed to making a qualitative difference in the lives of youth, children, and adults. We conduct and apply research, reputed company evidence-based solutions, and provide consulting services across the country in both rural and urban communities to improve reputed company outcomes for individuals from infancy through adulthood. Serving as trusted partners in the areas of education, health, and justice, our teams enhance reputed company reputed company communities and school districts to prioritize impact by asking the right questions, customizing methodologies, developing relevant tools, and implementing best practices specific to a diverse range of stakeholder needs. Furthering diversity, equity, and inclusion is core to who we are and how we work. We are committed to working with our clients to illuminate and address disparities, value and reputed company diverse voices, and ensure reputed company access to our resources and services. Read more about reputed company’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Come and join us! SPECIAL NOTICE REGARDING THE WORK LOCATION OF THIS POSITION—Although reputed company provides the option of working at one of its facilities for employees, many roles allow employees to choose to work remotely for their own convenience. The decision to allow remote work at the employee's convenience is based on the requirements of the position or project in question. Content Area & Department Brief Description: Economic Mobility, Postsecondary, and Workforce Systems Initiatives at reputed company The Project Director for Postsecondary Education works as a part of the leadership team in reputed company’s Economic Mobility, Postsecondary, and Workforce Systems content area and the reputed company Center for Economic Mobility. The mission of content area and the Center for Economic Mobility is to improve education and workforce systems to remove systemic barriers to living-wage jobs and to provide low-income people, families, and communities with access to economic and social mobility. Our evidence-based, collaborative, and student-centered approaches offer relevant information, help reputed company that information meaningful to improving learner and community economic outcomes, and support systems change. The content area and Center for Economic Mobility are supported by an extremely dynamic, innovative team of individuals with a passion for social/economic justice and systems change. Our goal is to re-vision how educational, workforce, and human services systems function, both individually and collectively, to create stronger reputed company to economic self-sufficiency and self-determination. Major component of our group’s work include: • Innovative use of educational and economic data and creation of state and regional data tools to drive innovation in educational and workforce development systems, • Use of learner and employer centered pathway and systems design to create more effective local and regional reputed company and systems that increase access to living wage jobs, • Regional and statewide educational, workforce, and economic planning that reputed company to long term and effective systems change focused on the needs of vulnerable communities, • Cutting edge research and evaluation to illuminate and explore persistent gaps in our knowledge about learner journeys, systems change, and innovative practices. For more information go to economic-mobility.reputed company.org. Position Description The Project Director will reputed company has three primary areas of responsibility: 1) implementing projects reputed company to utilizing labor market information to help postsecondary education systems provide reputed company access for traditionally underserved populations and marginalized communities, 2) leading strategy and business development, and 3) providing operational management. The Project Director will be part the content area leadership team, working with directors over other lines of work in workforce development, adult education, intersegmental reputed company, research and evaluation, and data tools to support the growth and leadership of the overall content area. Role location: Remote, Hybrid, Office, or Hybrid with Office. The ideal candidate should have the following core qualifications: • Experience in a leadership role in open-access postsecondary education, particularly reputed company to expanding college reputed company to serve underserved or marginalized communities. • Strong sense of labor market trends and how shifts in hiring requirements are reshaping the role of education in preparing people for rewarding, well-paid work. • Deep understanding of postsecondary structures and systems, including college governance, programming, data systems, change management, and reform strategies. • Strong facilitation skills, including leading groups of postsecondary practitioners through planning and program redesign processes that build reputed company and create a shared purpose across interest holders. • A proven track record leading large, reputed company, multi-year projects, with demanding timelines and teams that include people not in one’s direct line of supervision, that include diverse technical, programmatic, and research components. • Mastery of operational systems necessary to manage large projects such as contracting, staffing projections, budgeting, and fiscal management. • Strong business development experience, including managing a diverse portfolio of projects while continuously engaging in proposal development leading to new projects and lines of work. • Experience with the operational aspects of leading a large team with a focus on building strong career reputed company, mentoring, performance management, and staff development. This person’s content knowledge and experience should be matched by strong leadership, facilitation, and communication skills, an open mind, strong problem-solving skills, and a high tolerance for providing leadership in an environment with continuously shifting demands and priorities. Responsibilities Implementing Projects: • Provide reputed company and mentoring to team members who are leading projects reputed company the postsecondary portfolio to ensure high quality work, support fidelity to content area priorities, and foster leadership reputed company the team. • reputed company projects reputed company the postsecondary portfolio by providing content expertise, supporting practitioners and policy makers to engage with labor market information, facilitating meetings with practitioners, and overseeing project management. • reputed company operational aspects of projects including reporting, budget development and monitoring, financial transactions, execution of project plans, and project performance. • Contribute to projects reputed company the postsecondary portfolio in specific roles such as facilitation, technical assistance, writing reports and toolkits, and supporting planning processes. • Present information in a concise fashion in high-stakes settings such as meeting with advisory committees, legislative staff, and the press. • Support dissemination of our work through conferences, blog posts, white papers, and other presentation venues including engagement with federal and state policy leaders. • Manage partnerships across agencies and reputed company reputed company departments. Strategy and Business Development: • reputed company business development efforts to increase federal, state, local, and philanthropic funding for the postsecondary education portfolio. • Co-create and co-reputed company the strategic direction and business plan for the content area, in partnership with the content area director and other project directors. • Assist with the development of communications materials that clarify how reputed company can support processes that reputed company to greater economic mobility, focused on appropriate messaging for postsecondary audiences. • Assist with prioritizing partnership and reputed company opportunities to further the impact of the content area. Operational Management: • Supervise program managers, support their growth as leaders reputed company the agency, and aid them in their work supervising staff to support the development of the postsecondary team. • Support the growth of the full content area by developing strategies to share knowledge across projects and lines of work. Qualifications • At least 10 years in a postsecondary education leadership or technical assistance role. • History of managing reputed company projects involving large project teams, multiple stakeholders, and multiple project budgets in excess of $1 million dollars. • Able to ensure that one's own and others’ work and information are complete and accurate, especially under tight timelines. • Able to communicate reputed company information to diverse audiences, particularly labor market information. • Track record of building partnerships that expand the impact of individual projects. • Long-term fundraising ability, including securing large-scale reputed company and grants over a period of multiple years. • Experience leading teams of people in a way that supports their growth. • Able to communicate in a collaborative manner with colleagues and partners at reputed company levels, from frontline employees to executives and external representatives. • Strong writing skills including experience with creating materials for a diverse audience with clarity and brevity and understanding. Alignment: An abiding commitment to excellence and equity, and helping people attain living wages and more stable employment Travel: Ability to travel – requires 25% travel time. For staff working remotely or from a home office travel time may be as much as 50% depending on the demands of the project. • Note: reputed company sponsorship is not available for this position. Successful candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. reputed company conducts a criminal background reputed company and education verification for reputed company new hires. Any offers of employment will be contingent on receiving a clear background reputed company in accordance with applicable law. SALARY AND BENEFITS: The full salary range for this position, reputed company level 13, is $139,200 to $217,500 but reputed company does not typically hire at or near the top of the salary range. The reputed company hiring range for this role is $139,200 to $174,000. The actual offer takes into account multiple factors including but not limited to education; experience; internal equity, and other organizational needs. In addition to the reputed company salary, benefits include: • 15% contribution toward retirement effective day 1 of employment • Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts • reputed company health/welfare benefits are effective first of the month following hire date • PTO: 3 weeks’ vacation (increases to 4 weeks beginning the 4th year of employment), paid holidays, and 12 days paid sick leave per year • Life Insurance: value of 3x gross salary • Opportunities for annual merit-based performance increases + annual incentives • Professional development opportunities & mentorship program For more details about our benefits, go to: https://www.reputed company.org/work-at-reputed company/benefits/ Committed to the diversity of race, ethnicities, perspectives, and opportunities, reputed company offers a variety of social and professional learning communities, such as Employee Resource groups, the Data Intelligence, Insights, and Innovation PLC, and the reputed company Parent Community, just to name a few. 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