Vice President of Programs

The San Diego Workforce Partnership is the leader for innovative workforce solutions in San Diego County. We fund and deliver job training programs that enable all job seekers to develop the skills and knowledge needed for in-demand careers. Our vision is that every business in our region has access to a skilled workforce and every job seeker has access to meaningful employment. We seek to earn trust and inspire growth in every action we take.

Position Summary

Reporting to and under the general guidance of the CEO, the Vice President (VP) of Programs serves as a key member of the organization’s Executive team and is responsible for the oversight of outcomes, staff, and budget, and leadership of a range of teams focused on programmatic design and implementation. The VP is expected to be a highly collaborative and skilled leader experienced in nurturing and building high performing teams, designing high impact programs, and executing on key operational and strategic priorities. This includes proactively pursuing new funding opportunities to build long-term, sustainable programs that have a measurable impact in all communities we serve. In addition, this position will develop strategic departmental annual plans with KPIs and guide external relationships as it relates to business development and strategic partnerships with external partners including industry associations and other private sector related organizations. The VP will specifically oversee programs design, implementation and fundraising across both private and public sourced grants as well as those integrated with federal funding and will oversee multiple programmatic facing teams that support the design and execution of programs and fundraising including teams that interface with private sector and industry groups, targeted populations and education and training partners.

Essential Functions

Executive Leadership Capabilities

• Executive-level leadership and decision-making capacity based on the success of the larger organization.
• Models and reinforce team culture consistent with our core values.
• Develops a clear vision, goals, and expectations for the department.
• Sets outcome, impact, and financial reporting structure to understand progress towards goals for all programs.
• Builds team structure to meet daily operational responsibilities while planning for and executing on long term strategies and goals.
• Ability to connect the daily, weekly, and monthly responsibility of team members with grant goals, organizational priorities, and revenue and impact targets.
• Identifies and addresses department and intra-department challenges directly and proactively.
• Attracts, retains and develops high-performing teams.
• Effectively communicates all relevant issues to colleagues proactively, directly, and productively.
• Engages and connects with team and stakeholders to understand the needs, challenges, and opportunities for the diverse communities we serve.

Programs Development & Oversight

• Responsible for developing and implementing multi-year fund departmental plans that provide the necessary financial resources to achieve SDWP’s strategic goals, including providing organizational leadership in the area of fundraising, management and development of leadership and staff, implementation of best practices and directing all aspects of fundraising for the non-profit arm of the organization.
• Works closely with community partners, businesses, and government to develop the funding and resources necessary to sustain SDWP’s non-profit programs aimed at improving the lives of San Diego County and City’s communities.
• Responsible for reporting to the Boards and other stakeholders on performance, health, and key updates on programs with direct responsibility.
• Ability to blend funding across funding streams and types to launch, sustain, and grow long term initiatives related to population specific interventions and in partnership with other departments.

Fundraising and Fiscal Management

• Leads responsibility for generating leads to secure long term, sustainable grant opportunities to grow and develop programs, including multi-year private and public grants, fee for service opportunities, and other strategies to build long term funding streams to support the service delivery system and initiatives related to specific populations.
• Ability to lead large, multi-million-dollar programs in a complex, fast paced environment.
• Stewards resources toward the highest and best use, with a focus on getting as much funding as possible into the community through direct programming, the career centers and/or service provider network, and directly to customers through training and supportive services.
• Responsible for aligning training investments and program strategies with strategic plan.

Data and Impact Orientation

• Ability to identify and leverage latest research on San Diego’s labor market and on specific sectors, industries and populations and provide direction and vision for how the service delivery system and interventions must evolve to meet the everchanging needs of the San Diego economy.
• Evaluating training provider, staff, and other partner contracts and performance to ensure funding is aligned with outcomes.
• Ability to understand and report on impact of portfolio, including proactive assessment of how work is impacting different demographic groups and return on investment of specific programs and projects.

External Partnerships

• Act as a reputable and reliable liaison with external partners, fostering mutually beneficial relationships to support programmatic initiatives including serving on relevant Boards.
• Creates, represents and fosters strong external partnerships in areas related to the workforce system and other networks and leaders driving and funding solutions related to interventions.
• Builds and maintains relationships with a range of external stakeholders from private industry groups to foundations, non-profits and foundations.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

• Master’s degree in non-profit management, organizational development, business administration or related field.
• Six to eight (6-8) years managerial experience in a non-profit or governmental setting.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience program planning and implementation, operationalizing strategies, goals and change management.
• Demonstrated ability with grant writing, developing, and achieving robust strategic goals and objectives with KPIs.
• Strong communicator, effective relationship builder, results-oriented that provides vision and leadership to fulfill organizational mission.
• Management experience in personnel management and oversight of multi-million-dollar budgets.
• Managing, motivating and leading large, multi-functional teams with multiple management-level direct reports.
• Intentionally incorporates inclusive leadership principles and has a demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion.
• Strategic and operational planning and execution of programs
• Outstanding written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Takes ownership for work and demonstrates autonomous, yet highly collaborative leadership capabilities.
• Proficiency in a Microsoft Office environment; utilize spreadsheets, analyze data, create high quality PPTs and performance monitoring reports as needed.

Fundamental Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in non-profit management, organizational development, business administration or related field.
• 10 years of related managerial experience in a non-profit or governmental setting.
• Strong track record of mentoring and managing senior level staff.
• PMP or Lean Six Sigma.
• Salesforce or other CRM tool experience.

Our Values

Collaboration:

Engaging in inclusive, respectful relationships among colleagues, customers and community that foster the achievement of shared goals.

Excellence:

Driving quality, innovation and measurable outcomes through a customer-centered focus and a high-performance culture.

Stewardship:

Strategic, efficient, effective use of resources to meet the evolving needs of our customers and community with the highest levels of integrity.

Inclusion:

Taking responsibility for creating a culture where everyone is welcomed, heard, valued and empowered to fully participate and reach their full potential.

Equity:

Prioritizing those who have been systemically denied opportunity through policies, priorities, practices, and behaviors that result in access to opportunity for ALL colleagues, customers, and communities.

We Love to Take Care of Our Workforce Associates–

We offer a great work environment, a culture that values individuality and inclusion, collaborative and innovative teams, and a competitive pay and benefits package. Our benefits include: PTO, PTO sell-back program, generous employer-paid benefits (platinum plans), company-paid learning and professional development program, pension plan and 457 retirement plan additional employee wellness. Compensation for this position ranges from $142,974-$209,326.

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position. If you are hired at San Diego Workforce Partnership, your final base salary (within the pay range), will be determined based on factors such as education, knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider the internal equity of our current team members when determining any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer generous benefits and retirement plans.

At the Workforce Partnership, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, and the work that we do in the communities we serve. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace for all. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.

San Diego Workforce Partnership is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.