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Job Description

Job Description

Description : Position Summary

The Programs Director role provides overall direction of programmatic and social development areas to include career preparation, academic programs, career technical training, counseling, residential, and work-based learning / career transition readiness.

Essential Functions

• In response to annual DOL Outcome Measurement System (OMS) goals, design program activities and monitor monthly to achieve targeted outcomes.
• Plan for weekly student inputs and separations in collaboration with Admissions to always maintain 100% on board strength (OBS) and to achieve program goals.
• Evaluate staff performance, provide staff training, and implement organizational and personnel changes as approved by the center director.
• Ensure compliance with established budgets, purchase limitations, travel restrictions and general contract limitations
• Assist in analyzing statistical trends, organizational problems and operational requirements for review and appropriate action.
• Oversee the design and administration of standards-based academic and career technical training curricula, contemporary instructional approaches, and lesson planning to ensure tailored student instruction.
• Implement overall case management, and career and personal counseling services to assist students to address personal barriers to progress in academic and career technical training programs.
• Develop and monitor career preparation and career transition program activities to ensure each student acclimates to the Job Corps program, conducts career exploration to establish short- and long-term goals, and is properly prepared to transition to the workforce.
• Liaison with national training contractors (NTC’s) as needed to advance apprenticeship training and complete career technical skills training (CTST) plans and projects.
• Oversee student test administration procedures to ensure quality outcomes, compliance with the Policy and Requirements Handbook (PRH), and Strategix data integrity controls.
• Implement overall student scheduling to ensure PRH-required student to teacher ratios are maintained and students are balanced in their pursuit of academic and technical training.
• Oversee information technology support functions to ensure equipment and staff meet Job Corps Data Center requirements including the protection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and staff and student computers are maintained in working order.
• Provide temporary Center oversight in the absence of the center director.
• Utilizes information systems and handles student data in strict adherence to Job Corps and Strategix policies to protect student’s personally identifiable information (PII) and reduce network security threats.

Requirements :

Qualifications and Experience Minimum

Bachelor’s Degree and three (3) years’ experience working with youth and in program administration.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Effective relationship-building skills with students and staff. Information technology proficiency including MS Office.

Preferred

Master’s degree and previous Job Corps experience. Statistical trend analysis. Curriculum design

experience strongly preferred.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may be requested to perform other reasonable related duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and other management as required. The company reserves the right to revise or change job duties as business requirements dictate with or without notice. It is mutually agreed that the job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment. It is also understood that the company reserves the right to change work schedules as required, including overtime.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, operate a computer, hand-held learning device and other office equipment, reach with hands and arms, and must occasionally lift and / or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision capabilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and peripheral vision.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to outdoor weather conditions ranging from extreme cold in Winter to an average of 90 degrees in the Summer and Fall months, and occasional poor air quality. The noise level can vary from moderate to loud.