Director of Industry Partnerships

GENERAL SUMMARY

The Center for Workforce Initiatives (CWI) at CCD serves as a strategic hub for noncredit education, work-based learning, and community workforce development. CWI delivers programs in Adult Education, Career Connected Learning, and Workforce Education—connecting students, job seekers, and workers with upskilling and employment opportunities in high-demand industries. CWI supports employer training partnerships, career exploration activities, and customized education solutions that meet the evolving needs of our regional talent pipeline development system.

The Director of Industry Partnerships provides leadership and operational support to foster the development and implementation of industry-aligned corporate upskilling and broad industry engagement aligned college wide. This position works closely with the Director of Adult and Workforce Education, and the Director of Career Connected Learning to support growth of employers in career and workforce education services and leads the tracking and facilitation of strong industry partnerships for new education and training initiatives across campus. This position leads expanded and improved services to business and industry in close collaboration with Academic Affairs and Student Services representatives.

Duties and Responsibilities

Departmental Leadership

• Foster a culture and environment where local and regional employers will look to the College as an exceptional source of responsive, nimble, and flexible training for employees including non-credit, for-credit and work-based learning opportunities, student hiring, and new curriculum development.
• In partnership with college senior leadership, consider and execute education offerings for industry specific programming to support incumbent worker upskilling
• In partnership with CWI’s Director of Adult Education, industry, and department chairs, identify, research and implement new workforce and continuing education non-credit program development opportunities that increase economic mobility opportunities for incumbent workers, students, and job seekers.
• Develop and maintain corporate training offerings for local employers to include both CCD non-credit and for-credit training, as well as training vendors specialized in upskilling workers
• Lead outreach efforts with industry for corporate custom upskilling and state training grants that may include CWI training, contracted training vendors, and / or Academic Affairs department-led training.
• Facilitate professional development and communication of trends and strategies impacting industry outlooks and effective employer engagement; this includes assisting Academic Affairs in its program vitality review to ensure college programs and services are aligned to industry workforce needs.
• Share industry engagement efforts and referrals with CWI division Directors for career and adult education activities
• Build and maintain employer engagement tracking and metrics college wide
• Build templates, tools, processes to grow industry partnerships and corporate training offerings

Division Operations

Other duties

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :   Any equivalent combination of education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Education : (Minimum / Required)

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Workforce Training, or Higher Education

Experience : : (Minimum / Required)

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities : (Minimum / Required)

Education : (Preferred)

Master’s Degree in higher education, adult education, workforce development, or business administration.

Licensure / Certification :   Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Equipment Used :   General Office Equipment including phone and computers.

Supplemental Information

Our campus is located in downtown Denver, adjacent to two light rail stations, and just minutes away from shopping, restaurants, and event venues. When you visit our campus, it will be immediately evident that our faculty, staff, and instructors are passionate about serving our diverse student population. At CCD our passion is to help others, and we offer career pathways that will make a difference in the lives of our students.