Senior Director of Workforce Development and Economic Mobility

OIC of South Florida is seeking a strategic, experienced, and mission-driven Senior Director of Workforce Development and Economic Mobility to provide overarching leadership for the organization’s workforce development division.

This position reports to the Chief Program Officer and is responsible for aligning OIC’s workforce development programs, training pathways, employer engagement, youth-to-adult career pipeline, placement strategies, retention efforts, and economic mobility outcomes.

This is a senior leadership role designed for someone who can think strategically, lead teams, strengthen systems, use data, build partnerships, and help position OIC for the evolving workforce of 2026 and beyond.

The Senior Director will work closely with the Director of Training, Admissions, Director of Partnerships and Employer Engagement, program managers, career coaches, workforce navigators, and other team members to ensure OIC’s workforce development efforts are coordinated, employer-responsive, participant-centered, and outcome-driven.

• Lead the implementation of OIC’s workforce development strategy across programs and funding streams.
• Align workforce development services with OIC’s mission, organizational priorities, employer needs, and participant outcomes.
• Support the Chief Program Officer in strengthening OIC’s workforce development model, systems, partnerships, and performance.
• Ensure workforce programs operate as one coordinated system rather than separate program silos.
• Monitor workforce trends, labor market needs, emerging industries, and futureofwork opportunities.
• Help position OIC as a regional leader in workforce development, career pathways, and economic mobility.

• Provide leadership, supervision, and support to assigned workforce development staff and program leaders.
• Work closely with the Admissions, Director of Training and Director of Partnerships and Employer Engagement to ensure strong alignment between training, employer demand, job placement, and participant advancement.
• Strengthen communication, workflows, accountability, and coordination across workforce development programs.
• Lead team meetings, planning sessions, performance reviews, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Support staff development, coaching, onboarding, and performance accountability.
• Promote a culture of excellence, collaboration, innovation, professionalism, and mission driven service.

• Strengthen career pathways for youth, young adults, adults, families, justiceinvolved individuals, unemployed workers, underemployed workers, and individuals facing barriers to employment.
• Support a youthtoadult workforce pipeline that includes career exposure, workbased learning, internships, credentials, training, placement, retention, and advancement.
• Ensure participants receive coordinated support from enrollment through training, employment, retention, and career growth.
• Promote strategies that support longterm economic mobility, wage growth, family stability, and self sufficiency.
• Ensure workforce services are responsive to barriers such as transportation, childcare, housing instability, digital access, justice involvement, and limited work experience.

• Ensure training programs are connected to employer needs, labor market demand, credential requirements, and career pathway opportunities.
• Work with the Director of Training to monitor training quality, completion, credential attainment, and participant readiness.
• Work with the Director of Partnerships and Employer Engagement to align employer partnerships with training, hiring, internships, apprenticeships, retention, and…