Job details
Job type full-time
Full job description
If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider wgu as the next step in your career.
Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, wgu is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionalsThe university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leadersWhatever your role, working for wgu gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.
Current wgu employees must submit their internal application before 9/29/2021 to be considered for the position.
Job profile summary:
Western governors university (wgu) is looking for a dynamic leader to develop and strengthen key partnerships to drive the skills-based education and hiring movementTo further wgu’s mission “to create pathways to opportunity”, wgu works to ensure that all programs and credentials align to marketable skillsThis leader will create partnership development and management strategies to further the work of wgu’s skills and credential integrity goalsThis position will develop and grow partners in the open skills ecosystem, promoting the value of open skills, learning and employment records, wgu’s educational programs, and executing a flywheel approach to effectively benefit both the university and its partnersThis leader will play a key role in ensuring the value and relevancy of wgu’s credentials while building towards a global open skills ecosystem.
Essential functions and responsibilities:
Devise new and better ways of accelerating and advancing our vision of a skills-based ecosystem
Create a systematic, process-driven approach to partner outreach and relationship management
Identifies, develops, organizes, and manages the partnership, business development, and alliance opportunities to support the skills-based education and hiring movement
Own the relationship with key strategic partners, overseeing day-to-day interactions, and looking for ways to further deepen those relationships
Continue to build our partner ecosystem by facilitating and developing strategic alliances with new partners
Research potential partners and identify key players
Manager partner relationships across their full lifecycle from the exploratory phase to onboarding to continued success
Keep leadership apprised of partner updates including, progression and development of new and existing partner plans and relationships, as well as industry trends – who’s who, who’s new, and who’s doing what
Be a voice for wgu and the skills-based education and hiring movement, speaking on behalf of the department at industry events
Work with internal stakeholders across the organization to build a bridge with external partners
Plan and participate in wgu and open skills network hosted events
Evaluate partnership opportunities, performing quantitative and qualitative due diligence to prioritize them
Oversee and lead strategic partner communication efforts
Develop and maintain deep understanding of the open skills and learning and employment record ecosystem
Participate in employer research and needs analyses around skills
Performs other related duties as assigned.
Knowledge, skill and abilities:
Self-directed with strong initiative
Exceptional interpersonal skills and proactive communication across all levels
Skilful influence and negotiation skills, while maintaining relationships
Comfortable with ambiguity and change
Prioritization
Strategic and innovative thinking to develop new ideas that will enhance partnerships
Attention to detail
Networking
Leadership skills and ability to work both autonomously and as a team player
Competencies:
Organizational impact:
Develops and recommends plan to accomplish division or job area responsibilities that align with the department.
Performance affects department resultsWork requires extensive knowledge of the university to recognize impact of decisions.
Responsible for compiling data to produce a budget or a portion of a budget for a department or job area.
Problem solving & decision making:
Responsible for making significant improvements to processes, programs, and systems to enhance the outcomes of the division or job area.
May create and direct policy decisions within scope of responsibilityAccountable for coordinating activities and maintaining relationships with external parties as needed.
Problems faced are numerous and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis, and prior experienceSolutions to problems typically affect multiple departments.
Communication & influence:
Represents the division or job area as the primary internal contact for operations.
Influences others to accept the division or job area’s views, practices, concepts, and approachesInteracts with equivalent level management concerning matters of significance to the university.
Conducts briefings with senior leadership to gain approval.
Leadership & talent management
Manages teams of managers and professionalsResponsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for areaDirectly oversees hiring, firing, promotion, performance management, employee training, and other personnel decisions of significance within the division or job area.
May spend time as completing functional tasks, but primarily achieves goals through leading a team.
Job qualifications:
Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in business administration, management, marketing, communications, or related field
10 years experience with proven success in building and managing strategic partnerships
Minimum of 5+ years leading a team
Department specific minimum qualifications:
Strong business networks are highly desirable
Experience managing partnership programs
Preferred qualifications:
Master’s degree in business preferred
Physical requirements:
Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
Optional letter of introduction
We want every candidate to do their very best throughout their entire career search with wguYour resume will no doubt have amazing facts and details and we know it will be impossible to add every amazing accomplishment to your resumeWe want to give you an opportunity to tell us about a few specific areas that are germane to this senior manager of compliance and accreditation in the teachers college openingTo that end, we are encouraging every candidate to tell us about your achievements in an organized letter of introductionHere is what we are looking for:
Tell us about your experience where you were proactive in building, developing, and nurturing new business relationships.
Tell us about how you have identified and vetted potential strategic relationships that you would like to leverage to advance your organization’s goals.
A letter of introduction is not required; we simply offer this opportunity to interested candidates who want to better help us understand their achievements.
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