Owensboro Community and Technical College
Director of Adult Education
🇺🇸 Owensboro, KY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $58K - $63K
💻 Operations
🗓️ December 4th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Provide leadership and supervision for adult education across multiple sites.
- Manage personnel, budget, grant reporting, and program operations.
- Ensure compliance with KCTCS and funding agency requirements.
- Oversee student recruitment and retention efforts.
- Establish partnerships with businesses and organizations to expand programming.
- Master’s degree in Education, Administration, Counseling, Student Services, or related field required.
- Minimum three years of relevant work experience and project management, with two years supervisory experience required.
- Preferred qualifications include a PhD, five years of relevant experience, and experience with under-skilled or at-risk populations.
- Salary range from $58,000 to $63,000 with a 12-month contract and exemption status.
- Benefits include health, vision, dental coverage, tuition reimbursement, 403(b) retirement plan with employer match, paid holidays, and employee assistance program.
Director of Adult Education Full Description
Total Rewards
- Exceptional health care, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
- Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
- 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
- Vacation/Sick Time
- Work-Life Balance
- 9.5 Paid Holidays
- 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
- Employee Assistance Program
Job Summary
The Director of Adult Education provides overall leadership, management, and supervision of all personnel, programming, operations, and curriculum planning for adult education programming across OCTC adult education sites and services. Primary services include GED-preparation, English proficiency, workforce preparation, and college/career transitions. In addition, the director establishes and develops external partnerships for increased adult education programming in collaboration within businesses and organizations. Position is grant funded and continuation is contingent upon future funding.
Job Duties:
• Provide administrative leadership for OCTC's adult education programming, including personnel management, budget/grant management and reporting, program delivery, and related program resources to meet funder-driven program goals.
• Ensure adherence to all KCTCS and funding agencies' operational and administrative requirements including accurate and timely budgetary reporting and data management.
• Provide direction and oversight for student recruitment and retention activities across all programming.
• Develop partnerships and programs to meet student needs including researching and securing additional external funding to ensure program growth and sustainability, serving as the program liaison to promote the college's adult education services to the community at large, and collaborating with other agencies and service organizations for recruitment purposes and to leverage resources.
• Manage and develop staff.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in Education, Administration, Counseling, Student Services, Academic Leadership, or related field is required.
• Three (3) years of relevant work experience required.
• Three (3) years of Project Management required.
• Two (2) years of supervisory experience is required.
Preferred Qualifications:
• PhD degree in Education, Administration, Counseling, Student Services, Academic Leadership is preferred.
• Five (5) years of relevant work experience is preferred.
• Four (4) years of supervisory experience is preferred.
• Experience working with under-skilled or at-risk youth or adult populations.
Additional Skills Requested:
Employee Rights - Employee Polygraph Protection Act
Equal Opportunity Employer - The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.
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