Director, Workforce Development - Springfield, United States - Missouri State University

Description

• Provides leadership and oversight of continuing education programs including workforce development and occupational training, customized business and industry training, non-credit training, community education, personal enrichment courses, college and career readiness, and workplace employability skills.
• Manages the university innovation hub/maker space, including equipment specification, purchasing, maintenance, and community training and use of the innovation hub/maker space.
• Creates and maintains strategic partnerships with regional business and industry to support economic development and workforce development activities and to develop new services in response to the business environment.
• Plans, implements, coordinates, and evaluates all customized non-credit training delivered to area businesses and industries and the community, with a focus on professional credentialing.
• Coordinates efforts to develop programming for elementary and secondary students.
• Recruits, supervises, and evaluates the staff of the Workforce Development and Community Education department. Manages recruitment, promotion and outreach activities for non-credit workforce development and community education courses and programs along with related credit courses and programs.
• Manages budget accounts, including targeting income, setting fees, writing proposals for funding, approving expenditures, coordinating client billing and invoicing, and coordinating workforce agency financial aid funding.
• Actively researches, develop, writes, submits, and manages workforce training and community education-related grants and pursues other avenues of training funds.
• Works with academic program coordinators, department chairs, and faculty to coordinate scheduling of classes, personnel, equipment, space, and funding to maximize resources.
• Serves on various University committees.
• Contributes to a work environment that encourages knowledge of, respect for, and development of skills to engage with those of other cultures or backgrounds.
• Remains competent and current through self-directed professional reading, developing professional contacts with colleagues, attending professional development courses, and attending training and/or courses as directed by the supervisor.
• Contributes to the overall success of Missouri State University-West Plains by performing all other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the supervision.