Job Purpose: This position provides educational leadership for a self-supporting unit of the college devoted to the development management and administration of noncredit training and learning activities as well as services that promote economic community and personal development to citizens throughout the colleges nine-county service area.

Essential Functions:

1. Direct the development marketing and delivery of noncredit professional and personal development learning opportunities
2. Support external relationships within business industry government entities economic developers and communities throughout the colleges nine-county service area.
3. Assess training and related service needs of business industry and community organizations; serve as a community resource for service area entities to identify training needs and opportunities for the college to fulfill those needs through contract training or professional courses (credit or non-credit).
4. Collaborate with industry or business to design and deliver on-time training open-enrollment and/or customized noted for excellence and quality to meet the specific company or organizational goals.
5. Develop a strong pool of experienced and/or credentialed trainers.
6. Promote the college in the areas of credit and non-credit workforce training.
7. Strategically promote develop and deliver effective contract training to meet the needs of specific businesses and industries.
8. Develop and manage a generated budget that covers all direct and indirect costs of operating the unit and generates resources for expansion.
9. Monitor the units productivity using contact hours of workforce training with a goal of continued growth.
10. Deliver seminars workshops and training programs of general interest to the communities within the nine-county service area.
11. Report data as required or requested for internal and external constituents.
12. Be knowledgeable of credit programs for collaboration with academic divisions for the development and delivery of non-credit related programs and for articulating degree and certificate education options for business and industry employees and potential employees.
13. Supervise and evaluate WCE regular part-time or contracted personnel.
14. Prepare quarterly reports that include number and names of courses by type (professional contract personal camp; headcount enrollment course contact hrs. course CEUs total contact hrs. total CEUs Income Expenses Net per class.
15. Assure that Continuing Education Units are awarded and maintained in accordance with the standards established by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).
16. Provide development and oversight of programs and services that result in enrollment retention and graduation growth for the service area.

Supplemental Functions:

1. Serve on college committees as assigned.
2. Perform other duties as assigned.

Education Training and Experience Required:

1. Minimum of a bachelors degree in human organizational development Business/Industry Development Marketing Higher Education or related field.
2. Minimum of five years full-time administrative/managerial experience in business/industry or postsecondary education.
3. Demonstrated leadership in economic and community development continuing education or workforce training.
4. Demonstrated understanding of the relationship between economic development and education and the ability to listen and translate business and industry needs into training programs.
5. Demonstrated commitment to quality and experience in building teams and working collaboratively to build programs while utilizing data to support decisions.

Education Training and Experience Preferred:

1. Masters degree or doctorate in Human Organizational Development Business/Industry Development Marketing Higher Education or another related field.
2. Demonstrated experience in effectively managing multiple projects.
3. Experience assessing workforce training needs and designing appropriate curriculum for training programs.
4. Experience developing and administering training proposals.
5. Experience working with rural and suburban communities.
6. Experience identifying training or education needs of employers and providing training to meet those needs.

Knowledge Skills Abilities and Work Characteristics:

1. Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects effectively.
2. Ability to work effectively with faculty staff administrators and business/industry leaders
3. Strong networking skills.
4. Ability to analyze and use data effectively to make data driven decisions.
5. Above average ability to communicate effectively with a diverse population.
6. Ability to develop and deliver professional presentations.
7. Leadership supervisory planning marketing and budgeting skills.
8. Proficient in Word Excel and Presentation Software.

Titles Supervised:

1. Operations Manager
2. Coordinator
3. CDL Instructor
4. Part-time and contracted personnel

Working Conditions:

1. Normal sitting and movement in an office environment.

2. Visual and hand usage of a computer.

3. Travel to Columbia State centers and sites business and industry locations and other service area locations.

4. Varied work hours including days evenings or weekends as needed to carry out duties.

Hiring Salary Range:$63400 $79250

This position is based at the Columbia TN Campus.

About Columbia State Community College:

As Tennessees first community college (established in 1966) Columbia State is committed tocommitted to student success both in and out of the classroom as well as economic and community development in our nine-county service State is a member of the Tennessee Board of Regents.

Columbia State offers a comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to the following:

• Vacation and Sick Leave
• 14 paid holidays
• Medical dental vision and life insurance
• Retirement plans
• Optional 401K and 403B Deferred Compensation Plans
• Educational benefits for the employee and their spouse and dependents

Columbia State Community College does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion creed ethnicity or national origin disability age status as a protected veteran genetic information or any other class protected by Federal or State laws and regulations and by Tennessee Board of Regents policies with respect to employment programs and activities.

The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding nondiscrimination policies:

Executive Director of Human Resources

1665 Hampshire Pike Columbia TN 38401