Director of Workforce Development

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Full Time Professional US

3 days ago Requisition

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The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) is the collective spirit and unifying voice of our nation's Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). AIHEC supports American Indian and Alaska Native higher education through dedicated research and programmatic initiatives designed to strengthen Native languages, cultures, and Tribal communities. By leveraging its unique position, AIHEC serves as a collaborative partner, providing essential services to member institutions and emerging TCUs.

Additionally, AIHEC produces the Tribal College Journal (TCJ), a premier national publication sharing insights on American Indian education.

The Director of Workforce Development provides strategic leadership of AIHEC’s newly established Tribal Workforce Development Initiative, which works to strengthen the ability of TCUs to serve as workforce and economic development partners with Tribal Nations by improving access to workforce education and training funding, strengthening workforce development policy, expanding workforce data and forecasting capacity, supporting institutional participation in emerging workforce development initiatives, and better aligning the workforce education and training programs of TCUs with Tribal Nation priorities, community needs, and labor market opportunities.

This position will report to the Vice President for Programs and Member Services.

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for AIHEC’s Tribal Workforce Development Initiative.
• Design concrete strategies to advance AIHEC’s work in the initiative’s policy, data, and funding focus areas.
• Design and implement the initiative’s primary activities to enact those strategies.
• Coordinate with other key AIHEC staff to carry out those activities.
• Regularly assess and refine activities based on lessons learned from implementation.
• Supervise initiative consultants and any future initiative-based staff.

• Develop and sustain structured working relationships with TCU leaders and workforce development professionals.
• Advance the federal and state policy and data-focused activities of the initiative.
• Facilitate relationship building between TCUs and federal, state, and local policymakers and agencies.
• Develop technical assistance resources and provide/facilitate training on federal workforce development policy and program implementation.

• Coordinate with AIHEC’s Vice President of Congressional and Federal Relations.
• Oversee AIHEC’s tracking federal workforce development policy and program developments.
• Monitor impact on TCUs, federal agency partnerships, and the building of a national Native workforce development policy coalition with key Native organizations.
• Establish formal partnerships with leading non-Native workforce development organizations to elevate advocacy and funding priorities of TCUs in federal policy making for workforce development.

• Leadthe design and facilitation of the initiative’s Tribal Workforce Development Data Project.
• Collect and analyze data from Tribal Nations about their workforce development priorities.
• Collect and analyze data from TCUs about their resource needs to meet those priorities.
• Determine the real and potential impacts of new and proposed changes to federal policies and funding on TCUs.

• Foster increased philanthropic investments in TCUs in support of their workforce development-focused certificate credential and degree programs.
• Build relationships with private and corporate foundations.
• Facilitate partnerships between TCUs and their area Tribal and non-Tribal employers to maximize the hiring, career advancement, and long-term success of TCU students.

• Monitor,evaluate, and reportinitiative outputs and impacts while ensuring full…