Sr. Director Workforce Grants, Compliance and Revenue

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Strategic Oversight & Risk Mitigation: Provide leadership and strategic oversight for workforce

grant compliance, funding performance monitoring, and revenue stewardship across Workforce
and Continuing Education programs, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities and
regulatory requirements.

• System-Wide Internal Controls: Lead the development, implementation, and systematic

monitoring of system-wide internal controls and business processes to safeguard the integrity of
grants and other revenue supported programs.

• Regulatory Acumen & Compliance Assurance: Serve as an authority and Subject Matter Expert

(SME), rigorously tracking and applying current/pending revisions to federal regulations (e.g.,
CFR, FAR), state laws, and college policies to ensure proactive, continuous compliance.

• Process Optimization & System Enhancement: Lead the revision of operating procedures and

internal systems/workflows to address emerging regulatory challenges and accommodate
significant growth in the grant portfolio.

• Grant Performance Monitoring: Track workforce grant performance metrics including measurable

skill gains, credentials, enrollments, and other required outcomes to ensure compliance with
funding requirements.
Revenue Management: Monitor workforce funding streams and support strategies that maximize
allowable revenue recovery and responsible fund utilization across grant-funded and revenue-
generating programs.

• Effective Staff Leadership & Capacity: Provide exemplary supervision, including development,

coaching, performance management, and strategic workload assignment to build and maintain
the team's operational capacity and expertise.

• Perform People Leader Responsibilities: Exercise full discretion and decision-making authority in

the recruitment, selection, hiring, mentoring, coaching, development & termination of staff,
ensuring alignment with organizational goals, budgetary constraints, and workforce planning
strategies.

• Lead Team Performance Management: Drive high performance by administering the

performance management process timely, setting clear expectations, conducting performance
evaluations, and implementing initiatives that enhance employee engagement, motivation, and
retention.

• Perform other duties not listed as assigned

• Required Dallas College Professional Development Hours per Academic Year.

• All employees are required to complete a minimum of 19 hours.

• People leaders are required an additional 16 hours of leadership development.

The following duties are required for People Leader roles specifically:

• Exercises full discretion and decision-making authority in the recruitment, selection, hiring, mentoring,

coaching, development & termination of staff, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, budgetary
constraints, and workforce planning strategies.

• Drive high performance by administering the performance management process timely, setting clear

expectations, conducting performance evaluations, and implementing initiatives that enhance employee
engagement, motivation, and retention.

Minimum and Preferred - Education, Experience, and/or Certifications

Required Qualifications for Role (necessary or mandatory)

• Master's degree required (Doctorate preferred).

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in grant administration, compliance, or related

field, including three (3) years in a leadership role.

• Demonstrated success in managing complex grants, sponsored programs, and/or

compliance.

• Official transcripts required. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with students from the full range of diverse

populations.

• EO Specific Language (IT specific) - Ability to maintain the security or integrity of the critical infrastructure of

Dallas College.
Other Preferred Qualifications for Role (not mandatory, but advantageous)

• Bilingual or multilingual preferred

*** Will be subject to a criminal background check. Some positions may be subject to a fingerprint check. ***

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of federal, state, and sponsor regulations governing grants and workforce funding

• Understanding of grant lifecycle management, including compliance monitoring, reporting

• Ability to monitor funding performance and ensure responsible stewardship of grant and program

• Ability to analyze program performance data and ensure accurate reporting of required metrics

• Experience monitoring grant deliverables, milestones, and compliance indicators.

• Ability to design and implement internal controls and operational processes that support

• Strong problem-solving skills to identify operational issues and implement corrective actions.

• Demonstrated experience leading and supervising staff, including performance management,

• Ability to work effectively across departments including academic leadership, workforce program

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex compliance or

• Monitor funding performance and increase revenue enhancement across grant-funded and

• Experience managing grants or workforce funding programs within a higher education or public

• Experience collaborating with external partners including funders, workforce boards, community

• Ability to monitor and improve program performance metrics tied to funding outcomes, including

Work Condition Environment / Physical Requirements
Normal physical job functions performed within a standard office environment. Reasonable accommodation(s)
may be made to individuals with physical challenges to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.