Executive Director

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)