Description:
The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) is seeking a dynamic and collaborative Executive Director of Corporate and Continuing Education (C&CE) to lead a diverse team of 70+ staff across multiple portfolios of non-credit, upskilling, and reskilling training products. Reporting to the Associate Vice-President Industry Solutions the Executive Director C&CE provides strategic leadership for a team focused on enrollment growth, enhanced customer experiences, and development of initiatives to realize institutional and business unit priorities.
As a senior leader in NAIT’s Industry Solutions portfolio the Executive Director inspires staff to build a strong team culture rooted in NAIT’s five values: creativity; collaboration; accountability, respect, and celebration. We see this strong team culture as the foundation of this market-driven, innovative, growth-oriented and profit-generating department that serves over 15,000 B2C and B2B learners every year. In collaboration with leaders across NAIT, the Executive Director also supports and shapes NAIT’s Product/Program mix and new product line development initiatives by providing insights and perspectives that are representative of C&CE and in alignment with Institutional priorities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Co-creates and facilitates the implementation of short, medium-, and long-term priorities and plans for Corporate and Continuing Education, in alignment with Industry Solutions’ strategy.
- Inspires a strong collaborative team culture based on teamwork.
- Develops and nurtures collaborative partnerships internally and with external stakeholders, including government officials, leaders of other educational institutions, and industry partners.
- Leads and collaborates on the development of marketing and sales strategies that align across teams and product lines.
- Build future leaders by fostering exceptional talent and amazing teams to enable succession planning.
- Accountability for the C&CE budget.
- Holds responsibility for leading teams in achieving revenue targets
- Insures full department involvement in product and market opportunity identification, locally, regionally, and internationally.
- Works closely with leaders across the institute to support the strategic goals of C&CE, Industry Solutions, and of NAIT.
- Works closely with the cross-functional Product/Program Mix team.
- Drives internal and external communications strategies.
Skills & Abilities:
- Significant experience in leading diverse teams toward a common vision.
- Strong financial acumen.
- Desire to implement change in a collaborative and inclusive manner that drives innovation, and business transformation, and challenges the status quo.
- Acute customer focus paired with sharp commercial acumen.
- Extensive experience in stakeholder engagement and relationship management focused on instilling trust and credibility.
- Sharp and engaging negotiation skills.
- Proven ability in operating a business profitably within a highly regulated context.
- Is at the forefront of understanding technology and markets that drive transformation within training and assessment services and immersed in the latest thinking around higher education and training.
- Awareness of academic structures and program types/delivery within a post-secondary institute.
- Excellent communication skills.
- General working knowledge and application of:
- project management methodologies
- customer relationship management (CRM)
- organizational development theories
- learning management systems (LMS)