Skills Ontology and Learning Recognition Director

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $135k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

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UMGC Ventures

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Non-profit

UMGC Ventures is a 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting organization for University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC). It serves as a hub for innovation in learning design and development, aiming to create transformational solutions in higher education tailored to the needs of learners, businesses, community organizations, and governments. The organization focuses on digital learning experiences, modularized learning, and developing new credentialing and certification programs to support workforce development. UMGC Ventures is committed to delivering globally accessible, affordable, and quality adult education, leveraging agility and strategic thinking to adapt to evolving educational needs.

📋 Description

• Set the strategic direction for UMGC’s skills ontology, translation framework, and skills-to-credit methodology • Lead evaluation and institutional adoption of external taxonomies, standards, and mapping approaches • Define transparent, academically sound, auditable, and reusable crosswalk and review methodologies • Provide executive oversight of project plans, deliverables, milestones, and dependencies • Review progress, resolve escalated barriers, and make prioritization decisions • Direct the Project Lead’s day-to-day coordination work and approve implementation, sequencing, and resourcing decisions • Lead faculty engagement for methodology review, academic quality assurance, and governance decisions • Partner with Academic Affairs and subject matter experts on credit recommendations, PLA alignment, accreditation expectations, and faculty review workflows • Establish expectations for AI-assisted recommendation explainability, review traceability, and academic defensibility • Represent UMGC in partner planning, architecture, interoperability, standards, and multi-institution coordination activities • Contribute thought leadership on skills-to-credit approaches, data models, standards mappings, and dissemination outputs • Align UMGC contributions with ecosystem opportunities, partnership commitments, and implementation pilots • Supervise the Project Lead and provide performance feedback • Oversee reporting inputs, budget planning, staffing decisions, and resource allocation • Review internal and external reporting materials for accuracy, completeness, and strategic alignment • Monitor project risks, policy implications, accreditation expectations, and implementation dependencies • Approve mitigation strategies related to scope, timelines, staffing, compliance, AI quality assurance, and academic controls • Ensure activities align with institutional policy, accreditation expectations, academic standards, and grant requirements • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required • Master's degree in higher education, education, learning sciences, workforce development, assessment, instructional design, public policy, or a related field strongly preferred • Minimum 7–10 years of progressively responsible experience in higher education, prior learning assessment, learning recognition, academic affairs, workforce-aligned education, competency-based education, or a related field • Expertise designing and governing methodologies that translate workforce, military, or other non-traditional learning into faculty-reviewable academic credit, competencies, or learning outcomes • Familiarity with skills taxonomies, competency frameworks, credentials, and related standards • Ability to interpret and align external taxonomies or ecosystem standards within an academic framework • Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving faculty governance, academic affairs, technical partners, and external stakeholders • Experience supervising professional staff and providing strategic direction across planning, implementation, quality assurance, risk management, and decision-making • Strong written, verbal, and facilitation skills • Experience producing executive reports, governance materials, methodology documentation, and presentations • Experience with military learning evaluation, workforce-aligned learning recognition, or credit recommendation frameworks preferred • Familiarity with AI-assisted evaluation or recommendation tools, including explainability, traceability, quality assurance, and governance considerations preferred • Experience contributing to interoperability, learner record, digital credential, or skills data standards efforts preferred • Prior experience with foundation-funded, grant-funded, or multi-institution initiatives preferred • Cover letter and resume required

🏖️ Benefits

• 22 days of paid vacation • 15 days of sick leave • 3 personal days • 16 paid holidays (17 during general election years) • Health care, medical with vision, dental, and prescription plans for individuals and families • Subsidized State of Maryland medical and prescription benefits for eligible Contingent II employees • Health-plan purchase stipend for eligible part-time Contingent II employees • Term Life Insurance • Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance • Long-Term Disability Insurance • Retirement stipend equal to 7.25 percent of base salary • Supplemental retirement account (SRA) • 401(k), 403(b), 457(b), and Roth retirement options • Tuition remission at UMGC or University of Maryland College Park • Spouses and dependent children eligible for undergraduate tuition remission after two years of service • Workplace accommodations and inclusive working environment