Project Director ? AAD Hendry TRIO Educational Center

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About the Organization The College Bound Institute (CBI) is a non-profit organization that utilizes a variety of educational consultants with expertise in their respective fields and represents more than 80 years of experience. CBI has a track record of serving over 200 different constituent groups (over 10,000 students) in the past 17 years in regard to assisting students with the college-going process through workshops, cultural enrichment trips, seminars, college residential programs, college tours, and webinars.

CBI partners with local educational agencies, school districts, middle and high schools, and colleges and universities to increase the educational access for students. The primary individuals that CBI serves are first-generation and/or low-income individuals at the pre-collegiate and collegiate levels.

Category Education

Open Date 10/5/2026

Exempt/Non-Exempt Non-Exempt

Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time

The Project Director supervises, manages, and evaluates AAD HEOC, a five-year federal TRIO Educational Opportunity Center serving 1,000 eligible adults age 19 and older each year across a rural, five-ZIP, four-county service area in Southwest and South-Central Florida. The Director is accountable for the project's four federal objectives: 27% secondary-diploma completion, 42% postsecondary enrollment (including Registered Apprenticeships), 50% financial aid applications, and 38% college admission applications.

The Director runs a lean hub-and-spoke operation of a primary office and three satellite sites, supervises two Counselors, manages the $280,000 annual federal budget, and leads four integrated delivery partners (Top Score Tutors, AI Guys, CBI Hub, Career Bound Institute). The Director has authority to monitor and direct all project activity consistent with 34 CFR Part 644, EDGAR, and 2 CFR Part 200.

• Supervise and direct the academic, advising, and support services of AAD HEOC across the primary office and the LaBelle, Clewiston, and Immokalee satellite sites.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve the advising program: assessment, Individualized Success Plans (ISPs), tutoring with Top Score Tutors, AI literacy with AI Guys, online workshops through CBI Hub, and non-traditional career programming with Career Bound Institute.
• Direct all recruitment, including bilingual PSAs, employer-site sessions, and meetings with superintendents and adult education directors in all four county school districts.
• Conduct the final eligibility review and selection of every participant under 34 CFR 644.3; ensure at least two-thirds are low-income and first-generation.
• Manage the waitlist in the approved priority order when the project reaches capacity: veterans; adults with disabilities; homeless or foster-care alumni; caregivers of dependent children; all other eligible adults.
• Provide participants with admissions, financial aid, and career-and-workforce information through…