Executive Director of Career Development and Workforce Insights - Bay Path University

The Executive Director of Career Development and Workforce Insights provides leadership of the Sullivan Career and Life Planning Center (SCLP). Through the vision of the Executive Director, which is designed in collaboration with the Vice President of Learning Innovation, Analytics, and Technology, the staff of SCLP deliver two core service sets: career development for students and alumni and workforce insights for internal and external constituencies. The Executive Director ensures that career development and workforce insights contribute to students' persistence through their program of study, development of social capital, and access to good-paying jobs and career progression after exit.The incumbent also engages in innovative practice to design programming that will better meet students' and employers' needs and assesses the outcomes of the SCLP to drive continuous improvement in service efficacy and constituency satisfaction.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Career Development

• Ensures the University delivers high-quality, lifelong career coaching and associated career preparation and advancement services - interview practice, resume review, e.g.
• Collaborates with academics to build career touchpoints in the curriculum while considering workforce, industry, and employer needs.
• Provides oversight, innovation, and assessment of work-based learning programs - internships, micro internships, e.g.
• Curates non-credit, career-based, industry-recognized learning opportunities and promotes them to current students and collaborates with academics and the Office of Partnership Development to translate these products for other learners.
• Publishes a calendar of career development events and networking opportunities.
• Prepares departmental communications, including research briefs; training; and development to enable other constituencies to engage in delivering career development and/or with workforce insights services to students and alumni.
• Develops external contacts and networks that can contribute insights and support for delivering career development services, experiential learning, internships, and career opportunities to students and alumni.
• Researches, selects, implements, and sustains career-based technologies.
• Leads the institutional digital portfolio program with an emphasis on career readiness applications.
• Considers and helps manage career-based self-assessment tools and their application throughout the student journey.
• Stays informed on industry trends, best practices, and innovative solutions to help the University fulfill its career-focused organizational mission.

Workforce Insights

• Creates and oversees an agenda for the analysis of regional workforce needs, with an emphasis on identifying emerging industries and in-demand jobs and skills.
• Oversees the analysis of barriers to regional labor force participation to inform service design at the institution.
• Collaborates with the Office of Partnership Development to match workforce insights to development of non-credit learning opportunities and with academics to inform program design and redesign efforts.
• Executes an ongoing analysis of alumni career outcomes to inform multiple constituencies.
• Develops relationships with regional workforce boards, Springfield WORKS, and other organizations with a mission to study and impact the regional labor market.
• Disseminates research briefs and other insights to relevant constituencies.
• Uses data to drive strategy and inform decision making for efficacy of services provided by SCLP.

OTHER DUTIES

• Attend meetings, training, and professional development as requested.
• Represent the SCLP on University-wide committees as appointed.
• Administer grant and donor funding in accordance with award stipulations.

• Master's degree in human services, counseling, student personnel, psychology, organizational behavior/development, higher education, leadership development, or related field preferred.
• Skills in developing career and leadership programming and networks for students.
• Skills in developing experiential learning contacts and/or work-based learning experiences.
• Skills in developing curriculum, with a preference for knowledge of microcredentials and other short-form, skills-based forms of learning.
• Knowledge of women's leadership from a career development perspective.
• Skills in leading change and managing staff.
• Skills in program administration and outcomes assessment, including through quantitative and qualitative means.
• Skills working with donors and soliciting funding through grants, donations and campaigns to advance innovative solutions, as well as grant management and oversight for implementation.
• Skills in communications and collaboration.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including evenings and weekends.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion is critical; ability to adhere to FERPA and HIPAA guidelines.
• Ability to innovate.
• All new employees must complete the FERPA, Anti-Harassment, and any other required online trainings within 15 days of employment.
• Skills in productivity software and an ability to engage with technologies such as e-portfolios, career networking software, and social media.
• Knowledge of instructional technologies.
• Ability to think flexibly and creatively and skills to solve problems.
• Skills in teaching and leading in diverse settings.
• Valid U.S. driver's license.
• Must successfully pass the online Safe Driving Course (within 15 days of hire) and driving record check at time of hire and annually thereafter.
• Complete all other trainings as required.
• Should be committed to a culture of diversity, respect and inclusion; demonstrated ability to build working relationships with people having a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences different from one's own.
• Ability to adhere to University policies and procedures.
• General knowledge of the University's mission, purpose and goals and the role this position plays in achieving those goals.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Bay Path University is a diverse community devoted to proactively nurturing a campus-wide culture that promotes and ensures equity, respect, inclusion and safety for all members regardless of race, color, national origin, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity, socio-economic background, or physical ability. We are one University that opens our hearts and minds to conversations, to learning and to creating a community that is welcoming of all. Regardless of position, it is expected that each employee will embrace this commitment and demonstrate an attitude of respect toward and acceptance of all members of our community.