Senior Director of Workforce Development and Economic Mobility in Oakland Park, Florida at OIC of South Florida Inc

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.

Key Responsibilities
Workforce Strategy and Leadership
• 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 future-of-work opportunities.
• Help position OIC as a regional leader in workforce development, career pathways, and economic mobility.

Division Coordination and Team Leadership
• 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.

Career Pathways and Participant Success
• Strengthen career pathways for youth, young adults, adults, families, justice-involved individuals, unemployed workers, underemployed workers, and individuals facing barriers to employment.
• Support a youth-to-adult workforce pipeline that includes career exposure, work-based 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 long-term 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.

Training and Employer Alignment
• 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 advancement opportunities.
• Support sector-based strategies in high-demand fields such as healthcare, skilled trades, construction, logistics, information technology, clean energy, infrastructure, and related industries.
• Promote the integration of digital literacy, AI readiness, essential workplace skills, professionalism, financial capability, and career navigation into workforce programming.

Data, Performance, and Compliance
• Monitor key workforce outcomes, including enrollment, training completion, credential attainment, job placement, retention, wage growth, employer engagement, and participant advancement.
• Use data to identify gaps, improve program quality, and support decision-making.
• Ensure accurate documentation, reporting, compliance, and audit readiness across workforce development programs.
• Support funder reporting, monitoring visits, performance reviews, and corrective action plans.
• Develop performance summaries and updates for the Chief Program Officer, executive leadership, funders, and partners as needed.

Partnerships, Funding, and Growth
• Support the Chief Program Officer in identifying new workforce development opportunities, partnerships, grants, and program growth strategies.
• Participate in funder meetings, employer meetings, partner convenings, and workforce development planning sessions.
• Help strengthen relationships with workforce boards, employers, community colleges, technical schools, apprenticeship programs, funders, government agencies, and community partners.
• Provide input into grant proposals, scopes of work, program designs, budgets, and partnership concepts.
• Support OIC’s growth as a trusted workforce development and talent pipeline partner.

Qualifications
Required
• Bachelor’s degree in workforce development, business administration, public administration, education, human services, nonprofit management, organizational leadership, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in workforce development, nonprofit leadership, education, training, human services, economic mobility, or related work.
• Minimum of 4 years of supervisory or management experience.
• Experience leading workforce development programs, career pathway initiatives, training programs, employer partnerships, or grant-funded programs.
• Experience working with underserved communities and individuals facing barriers to employment.
• Strong understanding of workforce development, career pathways, job placement, retention, employer engagement, and participant support.
• Strong leadership, communication, planning, problem-solving, and team-building skills.
• Ability to manage multiple programs, priorities, deadlines, and stakeholders.
• Strong data, reporting, documentation, and performance management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and experience using case management, data, or reporting systems.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to travel locally for meetings, employer visits, partner meetings, and program activities.

Preferred
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience with WIOA, workforce boards, apprenticeships, sector partnerships, credentialing, or employer-driven training.
• Experience supervising directors, managers, career coaches, workforce navigators, or program teams.
• Experience developing youth-to-adult career pathway models.
• Familiarity with South Florida’s workforce system, employer base, and labor market needs.
• Knowledge of future-of-work trends, including digital skills, AI readiness, automation, and skills-based hiring.
• Bilingual ability preferred but not required.

Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a strategic and hands-on workforce development leader who can see the big picture while managing details, people, systems, and outcomes. This person should be comfortable leading change, building structure, supporting staff, working with employers, using data, and keeping participant success at the center of the work.

The ideal candidate will be:
• Strategic, organized, and results-driven.
• Mission-focused and community-centered.
• Strong in staff leadership and accountability.
• Skilled at building systems and improving program performance.
• Comfortable working with employers, funders, partners, and internal teams.
• Knowledgeable about career pathways, workforce trends, and economic mobility.
• Committed to helping individuals and families move toward long-term stability and self-sufficiency.