Northern Indiana Workforce Board, Inc. (NIWB)

Serving: Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall and St. Joseph Counties

Position: President/CEO

If you would like to submit a resume, please reach out to:

Barbara White

Administrative Coordinator

Barbarba.White@GoToWorkOne.com

Job Summary

The President/CEO is a visionary leader responsible for inspiring and directing the efforts of all NIWB, WorkOne and Employ Northern Indiana staff and staff of partner agencies to ensure excellence in the provision of employment and training services through the public workforce system. The incumbent is accountable for developing and implementing a regional demand-driven workforce system that aligns with the Indiana Governor’s Workforce Cabinet’s State Plan, ensuring fiscal integrity in all operations.

The President/CEO works with partner agencies, economic development agencies, chambers of commerce, local elected officials, post-secondary institutions and all others engaged in workforce development activities to elevate and support their efforts to ensure a seamless delivery of Career Pathways, Sector Strategies, and cohesion of duplicated services to serve as many individuals in the region as possible.

This position sits at the table in workforce discussions in Economic Growth Region 2 (EGR2), looking for opportunities to collaborate and strengthen the economic and workforce development activities within the region. As the President/CEO, the goals of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) for the Board to manage, provide strategies, optimize the efforts of all agencies and their resources to provide quality workforce opportunities for jobseekers and employers, while convening stakeholders to ensure the outcomes of the strategies meet the needs of employers and jobseekers alike. The role seeks every opportunity to collaborate to build a better, more-skilled workforce for EGR2.

Organizational Status

The position reports directly to the NIWB Board of Directors.

As the most senior staff position within the organization, the President/CEO is responsible for the strategic leadership of the organization to guarantee its current and future relevance, credibility, and viability. The incumbent is responsible for establishing organizational objectives and priorities and for reviewing and evaluating the progress toward attainment of performance goals, strategies for improving the seamless system, and collaborative efforts between agencies.

Working Relationships

The President/CEO actively facilitates collaborative partnerships with businesses, economic development organizations, other agencies providing workforce development services, and education agencies in the Northern Indiana region. It is highly important that the President/CEO seeks input from other workforce Board executives, both statewide and nationally, to remain on the cutting edge of innovation in the new, emerging economy.

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Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Provides the organization with the vision, leadership, and motivation to carry out its mission.
Maintains staff and partner agencies’ focus on mission, vision and balancing organizational priorities through an inclusive strategic planning and management process.
Seeks out opportunities to improve organizational operations and shift organizational culture to integrate staff and programs in order to function as a strong, cohesive operation and system.
Oversees all operational processes and reinforces organizational structures to ensure the effectiveness of major programs and initiatives; focuses energies and operations to achieve agreed upon objectives.
Encourages the application of technology to enable the re-engineering of programs and services to make optimal use of resources.
Serves as the regional economic development interface in the interest of the NIWB.
Identifies and fosters resource and fund development to find financial and budget solutions that meet NIWB goals.
As a result of the 2014 implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the NIWB and all workforce development boards have been tasked to serve as Manager, Optimizer, Strategist, and Convener of workforce development activities in the five county region known as Local Workforce Delivery Area 2 in Indiana.

As Manager, this means managing relationships and activities relevant to the specific needs of local employers and jobseekers to connect one to the other in a robust partnership between agencies – managing the solutions to local employment needs.
As Optimizer, the NIWB President/CEO reviews all workforce programs within the region to optimize opportunities to implement new strategies and cohesive partnerships to locate and resolve workforce issues in the leanest means possible.
As Strategist, the NIWB President/CEO and staff to the board, working in the strongest collaborative ways, develop solutions and strategies to best meet the needs of our local economic climate – building jobseekers up through coaching and skill enhancement, while assisting employers in taking risks on individuals and training opportunities within their organizations to meet the workforce development needs.
As Convener, the NIWB President/CEO convenes and meets strategically and practically with all workforce development, economic development, and other entities engaged in the development of a stronger community, including legislators and national advocates and peers, to build a stronger, more diverse, and skilled workforce for region 2.

Competencies:

Minimum of five years of related experience including experience in a senior managerial capacity
Demonstrated ability to oversee large scale initiatives involving significant dollar amounts, and ability to manage a large staff and many diverse stakeholder groups
Proven leadership and team building skills; ability to build consensus and rally support of groups and individuals around common goals.
Proven negotiation and mediation skills.
Ability to overcome obstacles to cooperation and to foster harmonious relations.
Ability to balance competing priorities, complex situations and tight deadlines.
Ability to think strategically and creatively.
Ability to rapidly process and comprehend large amounts of detailed information and to consider the implications and consequences of new facts in decision making.
Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communications skills; ability to be articulate, concise, compelling and diplomatic.
Ability to provide guidance and direction for goal formation and committee work.
Ability to translate and maintain data integrity
Ability to hold staff members accountable and provide coaching to excellence
Ability to meet deadlines and provide high-quality, strategic reports to funders and to the Board

If you would like to submit a resume, please reach out to:

Barbara White

Administrative Coordinator

Barbarba.White@GoToWorkOne.com

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