Mt. Hood Community College Hiring for Business Partnership Coordinator at Gresham, OR Full Time

This is a grant funded, limited-term position with a grant end date of January 31, 2025.
Position can work remotely or on campus. Must be able to travel to college consortium
member colleges, including monthly or more frequent trips to the MHCC Gresham
campus for meetings as needed.

Initial Salary Placement: $50,064 – $58,038

Job Summary
Coordinates, manages, and evaluates employer engagement activities as related to USDOL Strengthening Community Colleges (SCC) Training Grant. Collaboratively develops and implements key strategies related to employer engagement in sector industries, increases coordination with workforce development agencies, and deepens engagement with industry partners to enhance accelerated learning pathways for target industry sectors. Creates business and employer relationships across the consortium college regions. Convenes and facilitates the Employer Engagement Committee meetings.

Essential Duties

1. Convenes, facilitates, and leads the work of the SCC Employer Engagement Committee. Creates inventories of existing industry recognized credentials, micro-credentials, and badging, existing associates degrees, technical diplomas, certifications, and stackable credentials across the consortium related to target industry sectors.
2. Provides consultative services and recommendations to consortium colleges as they select and implement best practices as related to employer engagement strategies and practices related to the mission, vision, and grant outcomes. 
3. Represents the SCC on external committees including regional chambers of commerce, economic development, state workgroups, regional business associations, and other relevant organizations.
4. Engages and fosters relationships with community colleges, business associations, chambers of commerce, local workforce investment boards and community based organizations, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) workforce staff/team, and other industry partners and similar organizations to increase the number of employer partners engaged in grant project activities, improve employer workplace training and tuition reimbursement and compensation policies and programs, and facilitate discussion about the return on investment for workplace education and training,
5. Conducts research and analysis of labor market information, demographic trends, and community needs to continuously improve the workforce development system.
6. Supports employers to increase engagement on college career technical education (CTE) program advisory boards. 
7. Engages with the curriculum and design team to create or adapt flexible delivery and assessment modalities and open educational resources (OER) as well as identify and create new stackable credentials with embedded industry certification that can be implemented in consortium colleges.
8. Participates as a member of the SCC Curriculum, Infrastructure, and Delivery Team.
9. Serves as a liaison to increase and improve coordination between the Workforce Talent Development Board WTDB, Oregon Workforce Partnership OWP, regional offices, HECC and individual colleges across target sectors and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act WIOA plan development. 
10. Communicates program and project objectives to a broad range of stakeholders and convenes community and industry partners to achieve desired outcomes.

Additional Duties

1. Performs all other related duties as assigned.

Examples of Duties:
Minimum Qualifications (Education, Experience, Computer Skills, etc.)

• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, math, education, career and technical education (CTE) fields, business or public administration, or related fields 
• Five (5) years of experience in the design, implementation, and/or evaluation of programs directly related to workforce development, economic development, human services, and/or community development, including experience in grant administration, tracking, and outcomes achievement.
• Knowledge of career technical education programs, apprenticeships, and other career pathways. 
• Experience working with individuals of diverse backgrounds; demonstrated commitment to promoting access and diversity through career development
• Possession of an appropriate, valid driver’s license, access to a reliable vehicle as needed, and the ability to be insured through the College insurance carrier. Must have three (3) years of driving history.
• Intermediate skills in Microsoft Excel and Word and Adobe Acrobat. 

At the college’s discretion, additional education/experience may be substituted for experience/education on a year-for-year basis

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working with career technical education programs, credentialing, apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeships, and/or other career pathways.
• Experience working with community colleges
• Experience with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), workforce development programs and/or agencies, and/or federal grant programs. 

Qualifications:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeships, and other career pathways
• Knowledge of industry credentialing process for manufacturing and cybersecurity industries
• Knowledge of and ability to apply the College’s interpretation of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
• Knowledge of trends and issues in distance learning and online instructional modalities
• Ability to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with business and industry, agencies, community organizations and/or education institutions
• Understanding of and the ability to promote diversity in staffing, curriculum, programs and services
• Ability to work independently without direct supervision
• Project management and problem-solving skills with the ability to anticipate needs and make decisions
• Strong organizational, oral, and written communication and interpersonal skills, with a collaborative- approach to leadership
• Skills in building community/workforce education programs and collaborative community partnerships
• Knowledge of how to facilitate and leads trainings and professional development
• Ability to work effectively with diverse internal and external stakeholders, including high-level officials
• Knowledge of institutional budgeting and accounting processes
• Knowledge of fundraising, including grant writing, grants management, and working with foundations and corporate and private donors
• High personal integrity and sound professional ethics

Supplemental Information:

Working Conditions
Works assigned schedule, and exhibits regular and predictable attendance. May need to work outside of typical schedule including evening and weekend hours as necessary to meet workload demands. Remote work is permitted. Work requires frequent travel to college consortium member colleges, and monthly check-in meetings at the MHCC Gresham campus.  

Salary:
Initial salary placement will be based on years of relevant full-time equivalent experience at the sole discretion of the College, per the guidelines in the applicable Handbook or Collective Bargaining Agreement.  Please include all relevant full and part-time experience in your application that you want the College to review towards potential placement.  Hired employees will not have an opportunity to update past experience or appeal initial placement after the time of hire.

Important Information:
MHCC only accepts applications through our online application system at http://agency.governmentjobs.com/mhcc/default.cfm. For technical assistance, please call 855-524-5627.

Please note:  We do not request or read letters of recommendation.  Also, it is not necessary to upload a large number of documents with your materials.  We are looking for the required documents and perhaps one or two additional documents of your choosing (optional).  Faculty applications require a current resume, cover letter and official transcripts (copies are fine for application purposes) and/or any required certificates or licenses.

Please note:  this is initially a self-screening system.  We recognize that our application process can be lengthy, so before you begin, please read all of the stated requirements to determine if you meet them.  Applicants must meet all of the stated minimum qualifications and additional requirements to be considered for this position.  Based on your responses to the qualifying questions, the system may automatically screen you out from further consideration.

Position subject to budget consideration and approval.  

Final candidates will be subject to a criminal background check as part of the employment process.

MHCC is NOT able to support Visa applications for employment at the college. Applicants must already be eligible to work in the United States to be considered.

MHCC provides qualifying veterans and disabled veterans with preference in employment in accordance with ORS 408.225, 408.230, and 408.235; OAR 105-040-0010 and 105-040-0015.

Qualifying veterans and disabled veterans may obtain preference by submitting as verification of eligibility a copy of the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214 or 215) or a letter from the US Dept. of Veteran’s Affairs indicating receipt of a non-service connected pension to your application. Disabled Veterans must also submit a copy of their Veteran’s disability preference letter from the Dept. of Veteran Affairs, unless the information is included in the DD Form 214 or 215.

If you are seeking this preference, appropriate documentation must be provided at the time of application.  You may submit an electronic copy in the document upload area of the application in the section marked “veterans’ preference document,” or fax to 503-491-7257 or mail to Human Resources, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR   97030.  If you do not have your documentation, you may request it through your Veterans’ Administration Office.

Applicants with disabilities may request accommodation to complete the application and interview process. Please notify Human Resources at least three working days prior to the date of need.

Mt. Hood Community College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that actively supports workforce diversity.