FT - Associate Vice President, Short-Term Workforce Credentialing and Training

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION

The Associate Vice President of Short-Term Workforce Credentialing and Training provides strategic leadership and direction in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the College’s short-term workforce education and credentialing programs. Aligned with the Propel NC model, the Associate Vice President ensures programs directly respond to regional employer demands, statewide labor market data, and high-wage workforce sectors. The Associate Vice President fosters a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence across a unified instructional framework. Responsibilities include supervision of faculty and support staff, managing budgetary resources effectively, optimizing instructional funding allocations, ensuring compliance with state and accreditation standards, and fostering partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate seamless, stackable career pathways for all students. This position provides direct supervision and leadership to the College’s short-term workforce sector programs and serves in an advisory and collaborative role for short-term training pathways integrated within other academic divisions. This position reports to the Vice President of Academic Affairs.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Three years of leadership experience

Recommended:

• Master’s degree
• Teaching experience
• Program accreditation experience
• Community college leadership experience
• Experience with short-term workforce training

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Directs the planning, development, and triennial review of short-term workforce education and credentialing programs to align with high-demand, high-wage Propel NC sectors.
• Formulates annual budgets and audits divisional data to optimize unified instructional funding allocations and maintain compliance with NCCCS state guidelines.
• Supervises, recruits, and evaluates direct reports, full-time faculty, and adjunct instructional staff in coordination with Human Resources.
• Collaborates across academic divisions to build seamless, stackable credential pathways.
• Serves as the primary institutional liaison for short-term workforce training and credentialing to the NCCCS System Office and regional workforce development boards.
• Interprets, implements, and enforces federal, state, and regional compliance rules, accreditation standards, and institutional policies.
• Communicates effectively across diverse stakeholder groups, both internal and external to the College.

OTHER DUTIES

Leadership and Vision

• Provide primary leadership in developing the vision, long-range goals, and objectives of the College’s short-term workforce and sector training programs.
• Monitor enrollment trends and implement data-driven recruitment strategies to optimize instructional funding pathways.
• Lead the development of innovative credential programs responsive to high-demand, high-wage employer sectors, leveraging state data, industry knowledge, and labor market trends.
• Collaborate with faculty, employer partners, and community stakeholders to identify emerging industry sectors and opportunities for program expansion.
• Work with other Associate VPs, Deans, Directors, and Coordinators to administer workforce programs across campus, ensuring institutional alignment under a unified instructional model.
• Coordinate with Marketing/Outreach regarding targeted recruitment, retention, and workforce program promotion.
• Utilize regional labor market data and the state’s triennial workforce sector evaluations to shift and adapt program offerings, maintaining institutional competitiveness.
• Provide specific, data-driven leadership to workforce programs and other college initiatives.
• Identify areas of partnership between Short-Term Workforce Training, Curriculum, Customized Training, Career & College Readiness, Dual-enrollment, Apprenticeships, and other departments to meet local employer needs.
• Collaborate with Academic Affairs leadership to build stackable credentials, eliminating the operational friction between short-term training and degree tracks to maximize student mobility.
• Lead the development of innovative and relevant community education and personal enrichment courses.

Effective Communication

• Serve as the College’s primary point of contact for Workforce Education communication from the NC Community College System Office and workforce partners.
• Ensure state-level workforce and funding updates are disseminated to all necessary internal stakeholders.
• Hold regular meetings for staff and faculty involved with workforce training to establish excellent communication, support cross-functional collaboration, and enforce goal-centered accountability.
• Represent the College at regional workforce boards, meetings, conferences, and community economic development events.
• Serve as the primary liaison to promote the College’s workforce and credential offerings to various constituencies, including students, employers, community stakeholders, and K-12 partners.
• Work with Short-Term Workforce program leads to establish and maintain active industry advisory committees in support of high-demand workforce sectors.

Budget Management

• Receive, evaluate, and manage annual budgets, correlating fiscal requests to items necessary to implement the workforce strategic plan.
• Assume accountability for budget management across all workforce sector training areas, ensuring maximum alignment with Propel NC funding tiers and instructional allocations.
• Work closely with budget managers across divisions to ensure institutional fiscal responsibility under unified funding streams.

Personnel Management

• Provide guidance on the search, hiring, evaluation, and status of workforce instructional and administrative personnel.
• Serve on interview committees for workforce-related positions and other college positions as requested.
• Evaluate direct reports on an annual basis in coordination with the Vice President.
• Effectively manage disciplinary issues in coordination with Human Resources.

Student Services

• Support the seamless, frictionless matriculation of students from short-term credential tracks into degree-granting programs.
• Bridge workforce training and traditional academic tracks to form a cohesive, unified body of learning that benefits faculty, staff, and students.
• Provide leadership for the design of student support services tailored to accelerated, adult, and working learners.
• Pursue opportunities for increased articulation and pathways with senior institutions, community partners, businesses, and high schools.
• Participate as needed in student grievance processes.

General Administration

• Provide leadership for programmatic and administrative reviews to ensure compliance with state system guidelines and regional accrediting bodies.
• Maintain accurate correlation between workforce program pathways, the college catalog, and digital/webpage presentations.
• Research, develop, and implement professional development opportunities for workforce faculty and staff, with an emphasis on changing economic demands and funding models.
• Stay abreast of federal, state, regional, and local rules, regulations, and NCCCS state board policies to recommend updating or creating institutional policies.
• Present recommendations for policy formation, changes, and additions related to workforce education programs to senior leadership.
• Guide and direct administrative assistant(s) in supporting the division's goals.
• Serve on campus committees and perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.
• Ensure appropriate consistency and standardization of registration and documentation procedures for all short-term training across the institution, in coordination with the Registrar’s office.

JOB TRAINING:

Required Position Training to be completed in the first year of hire:

• Colleague/Datatel Training
• Canvas Training
• Self-Service Training
• Policy/Procedure Training
• Onboarding Training
• Training meetings with existing Academic Associate Vice Presidents
• NeoGov
• Symplicity

Suggested Training:

• School Dude
• NCCCS Leadership Training

Benefits

Benefits Summary

• Annual Leave (Vacation)
• Sick Leave (8 hours per month)
• Holidays (12 per year)
• Personal Leave
• Longevity Pay
• State Employees Credit Union
• Health Insurance - BCBS Medical
• Term Life Insurance - Colonial Life
• Superior Vision
• Assurant Dental
• Flexible Spending Account
• Colonial Products
• Flu Vaccinations
• Retirement Plan - NC State Retirement Plan
• Tax Sheltered Annunities - Prudential Retirement
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