Summary
Description
In this role you will be responsible for helping to redefine how employers, industries, and educators collaborate to shape Colorado’s future workforce. You will ensure that employer demand consistently informs how CCCS designs learning, recognizes talent, and prepares learners for meaningful careers. Housed within the Workforce Solutions and Innovation Division, the Director provides system-level leadership to coordinate, strengthen, and scale CCCS’s relationships with employers, industry sectors, workforce boards, chambers of commerce, and regional economic partners. This role serves as the primary statewide convener for employer and sector partnerships, ensuring that employer demand consistently informs program design, credentials of value, work-based learning opportunities, and regional workforce strategies. This leader designs and advances the enterprise partnerships, operating models, and engagement strategies that enable Colorado’s employers to shape the future of learning while enabling CCCS colleges to respond more effectively to workforce demand.
Note: Three days per week in our Lowry office is required for meetings with other System Office staff.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Lead the development and execution of a coordinated, systemwide employer and sector partnership strategy aligned with Colorado’s Talent Pipeline priorities and economic development priorities.
- Prospect, cultivate, and manage relationships with employers, industry associations, and sector leaders to identify partnership opportunities aligned with CCCS priorities and assess workforce needs, hiring challenges, talent priorities, and opportunities for collaboration with CCCS colleges and System Office teams.
- Develop and advance employer partnerships that may include industry roundtables, advisory committee participation, curriculum and pathway input, support for new or revised programs, work-based learning and internship opportunities, graduate hiring pipelines, and engagement in learner record or credential ecosystems.
Serve as the primary CCCS convener for industry sectors, sector partnerships, chambers, workforce boards, and regional summits.
- Establish processes to translate employer input into actionable guidance for colleges, including curriculum alignment, program updates, credentials, and work-based learning opportunities.
- Provide consultation and strategic support to CCCS colleges on employer engagement, sector partnership development, and the interpretation and application of labor-market information to workforce initiatives.
- Build and maintain strategic alignment with state and regional partners, regional economic development organizations, and local workforce areas.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, workforce development, public administration, education, higher education, sociology, psychology, or a related field.
- Five progressively responsible years of experience in leading employer engagement, sector partnerships, workforce development, or economic development in a system-level role.
- Experience convening employers and partners for the purpose of translating input into organizational action in more than one industry sector or region.
Benefits
CCCS System Office offers health, dental, vision, and life insurance as well as generous time off accruals (both annual and sick leave). For more information about our benefits, visit the Why Work Here page on our careers site.
