Vice President of Human Resources

Description

Are you ready to work at a dynamic institution that believes in higher education with lower obstacles? Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology (now known as Franklin Cummings Tech) is a nationally accredited non-profit, technical college serving Massachusetts. The college was seeded in 1791 with funds from the estate of Benjamin Franklin given to the City of Boston to proliferate access to apprenticeship and entrepreneurship.

Today, that legacy has evolved into an accredited college that delivers accessible tech and trade education to level the playing field for aspiring talent.

With a mission to deliver transformative technical and trade education that leads to economic advancement, Franklin Cummings Tech offers a unique mix of certificates and degrees that appeal to enterprising students from Eastern Massachusetts and respond to employer demand for a well-prepared workforce. Intentional partnerships with the industries we serve coupled with high graduation and job placement rates, recently attracted the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the college from the Cummings Foundation, helping to spur incredible growth in the past four years.

Franklin Cummings Tech educates more than 1,000 learners annually across three student types:
1) certificate and degree seekers,
2) continuing education enrollees, and
3) early college students. As evidence that our mission holds resonance student enrollment is up and Fall 2027 applications have sailed 16% year over year.

We seek optimistic, data-informed, and dedicated colleagues who are eager to increase student success outcomes and boost total enrollment to 1,500 learners by 2030. Join us in this mission-driven work.

The Vice President of Human Resources serves as the College’s senior human resources leader and a strategic advisor to the President and the executive leadership team. Reporting directly to the President & CEO and operating in close partnership with the Vice President of Finance and Administration, the Vice President ensures that talent priorities are directly connected to the College’s Building Momentum strategic plan.

The Vice President designs and owns the systems, frameworks, and programs that make up the College’s talent architecture — workforce planning, talent acquisition, performance management, learning and leadership development, succession planning, total rewards, compliance, and culture — for a community of approximately 130 faculty and staff. Serving as both a strategic leader and a hands‑on practitioner, the Vice President builds an engaged, high‑performing workplace culture that advances the College’s student-centered mission and supports student recruitment, retention, graduation, and career placement outcomes.

The following duties are representative of the work performed in this position. Other duties may be assigned based on organizational needs.

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the President and senior leadership on organizational design, workforce planning, succession, and institutional change initiatives
• Partner with senior leadership and department heads to translate the Building Momentum strategic plan into a rigorous workforce plan, defining the capabilities, career pathways, and skill requirements needed by function and level, and identifying buy, build, or borrow strategies to close gaps
• Coach leaders on critical talent identification, providing clear visibility into bench strength, succession plans, and development priorities
• Lead full-cycle talent acquisition for faculty, staff, and administrators, including sourcing, search committee support, offer development, and…