Assistant Director - Workforce Development Board

POSITION SUMMARY:

Responsible for the successful overall management of all Berks County Workforce Development Board (WDB) operations, including implementation, oversight, and attainment of the WDB’s program performance goals and outcomes.

Responsible for managing the WDB’s contracting process and policy framework to support such performance and regulatory compliance.

This involves providing strong and active leadership and management of the “mission-critical” contract administration function for workforce development activities under the jurisdiction of the Berks County Workforce Development Board and supervision of WDB staff assigned to the monitoring of all workforce development activities conducted with such funds, including, but not limited to the One-Stop and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I operations.

This is the WDB’s key operational leadership role to support the Director of Workforce Development by managing assigned staff to ensure competent planning and performance of WDB operations.

This entails training all WDB staff regarding the necessary policies and best practices to negotiate and achieve annual performance measures as specified by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as well as for meeting local WDB targets and priorities. 

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

Essential Functions

The duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not necessarily limited to:


* Responsible for managing staff directly performing the following: continuous improvement and quality systems, development of strategic planning documents, and development of discretionary grant proposals; building and leveraging collaboration with the WDB’s key workforce development partners inside and beyond Berks County, and overseeing the WDB’s responses to State monitoring requests and activities.


* Serves as a strategic liaison with other local WDBs (particularly our regional partners) and executes mutually beneficial resource sharing strategies for performance/quality improvement, cost reduction, and/or revenue enhancements. 


* Effective supervision, direction, and evaluation of subordinate staff is expected.


* WDB Strategic Performance


* Works closely with the Director and WDB leadership to negotiate annual performance goals with the Commonwealth of PA that are relevant, impactful, and achievable. 


* Proactively implement processes, systems, and reporting to ensure success. 


* Take and recommend timely corrective action as necessary. 


* Contract Administration


* Collaborate directly with the County Purchasing Department in the Request for Proposal (RFP) procurement process from the identification of need through contract execution, including development of statement of work, RFP timeline, requirement for bidder’s conference and/or proposer interviews, proposal evaluation, contract budget, and any future amendments as necessary. 


* Oversee the development and mainte...