Job Description

Job Summary

The Deputy Chief of Grants, Reporting, and Revenue provides senior-level oversight of operational and quality control components within the Workforce and Continuing Education unit. This role ensures workforce grant oversight and aligns the college’s workforce and continuing education programs with institutional standards. Collaborating with various academic and compliance offices, the Deputy Chief ensures that programs are designed, delivered, and reported in accordance with IHE best practices. Additionally, this position monitors the portfolio to maintain a balanced mix of tuition revenue-generating and grant supported programming.

Key Responsibilities

• Grant Strategy Oversight : Lead the development, implementation, and oversight of workforce and continuing education grant strategies, including opportunity identification, compliance management, and performance tracking.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration : Collaborate across academic, finance, data, and compliance units to ensure non-credit and workforce programs are properly built, credentialed, scheduled, and reported within institutional systems.
• Accurate Reporting : Maintain accurate, timely, and complete reporting on all revenuegenerating and grant-supported programs, ensuring compliance with applicable laws, policies, and contractual obligations.
• Budget Model Development : Develop and monitor budget models for workforce education offerings, balancing revenue targets with strategic goals and grant requirements.
• Financial and Grant Strategy Management : Create and manage a multi-year financial and grant strategy that supports innovation while ensuring sustainability of workforce and continuing education programming.
• Performance Measures Implementation : Direct the development and implementation of data-driven performance measures and dashboards to assess program efficacy and fiscal performance.
• Audit Readiness : Oversee internal audit readiness for grant-funded activities, ensuring clear documentation, tracking, and reporting systems are in place.
• External Liaison : Serve as the key liaison to external funding agencies, ensuring transparency, alignment with deliverables, and successful grant renewals or audits.
• Strategic Planning Support : Support workforce leadership in strategic planning and deployment of programming aligned to labor market demand, available funding, and organizational goals.
• Reporting Infrastructure Contribution : Contribute to the creation of a comprehensive reporting infrastructure that informs executive leadership and the Board of Trustees on progress toward strategic workforce goals.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Fiscal Management Expertise: Demonstrated expertise in fiscal management, budgeting, and revenue forecasting within higher education and workforce training contexts.
• Grant Compliance Knowledge: Deep understanding of federal, state, and local grant compliance, reporting requirements, and workforce development funding structures.
• Instructional Quality Standards: Strong working knowledge of instructional quality standards, curriculum development frameworks, and reporting protocols aligned with IHE best practices.
• Program Alignment Experience: Proven experience in aligning continuing education and workforce programs with institutional academic systems (e.g., course builds, catalog, credentialing).
• Regulatory Interpretation: Ability to interpret and apply regulatory guidelines to maintain accreditation standards and external accountability.
• Analytical Skills: Exceptional analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to synthesize data and translate findings into actionable strategies and reporting deliverables.
• Leadership and Partnership Development: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and build strategic partnerships internally and externally.
• Communication Skills : Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills to convey complex regulatory or financial information to diverse audiences.
• Performance Metrics Management : Proficiency in managing performance metrics and KPIs related to grant outcomes, tuition revenue, and overall program health.

Minimum Requirements

• Master’s degree required.
• Eight years of progressive responsibility in grants or budget management, program management, or workforce development.
• Five years of experience working with faculty, staff, registrar, or other core higher education academic and enrollment management functional areas.
• Demonstrated success in program evaluation and quality assurance.
• Experience in budget management and funding development.
• Bilingual or multilingual preferred.

Job Tags

Similar Jobs