Regional Director, Advanced Transportation, BACCC

Salary: See Position Description
Location : Online/Remote within California ONLY, CA
Job Type: Full-time (100%)
Remote Employment: Remote Only
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Department: Bay Area Community College Consortium/Instruction
Division: BACCC (Bay Area Community College Consortium)/Instruction
Opening Date: 10/07/2026
Closing Date: 11/4/2026 11:59 PM Pacific

Please apply for this job directly on the Cabrillo College job opportunities page here.
Employment Opportunity
Cabrillo College is seeking a Bay Area Community Colleges Consortium (BACCC) Regional Director, Advanced Transportation, who, under direction, is responsible for facilitating and leading collaborative efforts by colleges in the Bay Area Community College Consortium (BACCC) and workforce development partners to achieve the region's workforce development goals and the California Community College system's Vision for Success goals. The Regional Director convenes stakeholders to review labor market, student outcomes, and other data; reviews subregional, regional, and state goals and priorities; convenes colleges within the region/subregion, often with other stakeholders, to determine how to work together, invest resources and design projects to close labor market gaps while meeting equity goals; develops agreement with the stakeholders on a set of objectives, work plans and key performance indicators to achieve Regional Plan goals; secures resources as needed with the support of the stakeholders; performs project management duties including work plan tracking, execution, progress reporting and outcomes analysis to inform the next cycle; and performs related duties as assigned.

Why this opportunity is for you:

BACCC is committed to achieving the following goals.

1. Provide pathways that enable all Bay Area students to find employment and advance to livable wages;
2. Meet the needs of employers in the Bay Region for well-qualified candidates for positions that pay livable wages;
3. Ensure equity in participation, completion, and employment.

The successful candidate shares these goals and will bring relevant experience, knowledge, and skills to the work of effectively engaging colleges, K-12 districts, adult schools, industry, and other workforce development providers in achieving these goals.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

Salary:

Full-time administrative/management assignment (220-day work year), 12 months per year, Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., with evenings and/or weekends as needed. Current eight-step schedule ranges from $108,495 to $152,663 per year. Salary placement is determined by documented education and experience. A doctoral stipend of $4,983 per year is provided to eligible employees. Position scheduled to begin as soon as possible, pending categorical funding and Governing Board ratification. Cabrillo is unable to sponsor work visas.

Benefits:

Cabrillo College currently provides a generous benefit stipend for employees plus dependents that employees apply towards benefit selections for medical, dental, life, and short-term/long-term disability insurance provided at a share of cost on a pre-tax basis, PERS Retirement, and an employee assistance program (EAP). Additionally, employees have the option to enroll in vision insurance at a discounted group rate. Depending on health plan selections, in many cases full-time employees' net out-of-pocket for benefit premiums may be as low as $0.

Classified administrators are required to join the Public Employee's Retirement System (PERS) and, as such, must contribute 8% of their monthly salary to PERS on a pre-tax basis. Please see the Benefits link on the HR webpage for more information.

Work-Life Balance:

This opportunity is a full-time assignment, 12 months per year. Cabrillo administrators enjoy a 220-day work schedule, which equates to an average of 19 self-selected non-work days,22 set holidays, 3 individual responsibility days off annually, 12 days of sick leave accrue annually, 7 days of which can be used as Personal Necessity.

Cabrillo's Commitment to Diversity:

The ideal candidate will share Cabrillo's commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. Cabrillo College serves approximately 10,500 students per term. As of 2025, 71% of Cabrillo students are members of minoritized populations, identifying themselves as LatinX (49%), Multi Ethnic (20%), Asian (1%), Black Non-Hispanic (
Cabrillo College has a tradition of collegial governance, and employees at all levels possess a long history of participatory governance in all levels of decision-making at the college. Cabrillo provides an excellent opportunity to learn, collaborate, create, and make a difference in the lives of its students and community.

Employees at Cabrillo College support quality programs and services to students that promote their diverse and evolving needs as they progress toward their individual educational goals. Come join us in our vision to improve the world, one student at a time!

Examples of Duties
The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to this class.

• Convenes regional collaboratives to facilitate alignment of workforce efforts; facilitates identification of shared interests, setting of goals, objectives, and development of projects and workplans; provides responsible and complex staff assistance, professional expertise, and project management to assigned projects and workgroups including tracking action plans, coordination of efforts across multiple organizations, and maintaining project records; disseminates all formal actions including minutes, records and data.
• Performs needs assessments including researching programs and best practices; identifies, documents, and tracks subregional and regional college and employer needs and trends related to workforce development; makes recommendations on potential service areas, industries, and educational gaps; assists with minimizing unproductive overlap of programs and services.
• Researches market intelligence information through CCCCO and Centers of Excellence data; collects and analyzes complex data sets, prepares narrative and statistical reports, and develops presentations of research findings and results appropriate to various audiences; analyzes and compiles research data to provide evidence-based support for grant-funding applications and projects; identifies and assesses industry and specific business training needs and identifies resources needed to develop educational programs.
• Develops and monitors individual program tracking and data input and ensures stakeholder, state, and federal guidelines are met; oversees and participates in the collection, aggregation, analysis, and reporting of qualitative and quantitative data from multiple sources, including data extracted from multiple databases potentially across multiple colleges; analyzes, evaluates, and develops reports, recommendations, and plans; ensures accuracy and timely submission of mandated reporting.
• Conducts presentations to stakeholder groups, including college and stakeholder leadership, to achieve a variety of goals including demonstration of need/ progress, sharing value propositions for stakeholder consideration, identifying institutional barriers and possibilities for addressing them, and promoting assigned programs and related plans and activities to ensure integration into BACCC/ stakeholder priorities and funding.
• Chairs, staffs, and/or serves on statewide, regional, and/or subregional committees and represents BACCC at local, regional, state, and national conferences, meetings, workshops, and training seminars.
• Provides support and assistance to the BACCC Dean/Co-Chairs as needed; maintains a variety of standard and specialized records and files; maintains spreadsheets and databases; generates sensitive and complex reports and documents.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to and understanding of diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and racial and ethnic backgrounds of colleagues, community college students, faculty and staff, stakeholders, and community members.

As assigned to an Industry Sector:

• Provides staff leadership and facilitation of an industry sector-based stakeholder/advisory group in the planning, development, update, and implementation of a regional plan that defines, supports, and reflects the regional sector strategy; ensures the sector activities, programs, and fiscal operations comply with the Chancellor's Office and funding sources.
• Develops and manages regional partnerships with businesses and industry groups.
• Coordinates sector-focused faculty professional development that aligns with changes in sector industries; leads or facilitates the formation and operation of regional CTE faculty communities of practice.
• Creates and/or facilitates the development of program enrichment proposals responsive to stakeholder interests and data analysis for consideration by the colleges and stakeholders and assists in successful execution to increase enrollment, enhance Guided Pathways, close supply/demand, skills and equity gaps, align with regional industry priorities and industry-recognized credentials, and increase living wage opportunities for students.

As assigned to BACCC subregion or Area of Focus:

• Provides staff leadership and facilitation of colleges and stakeholders within the subregion to establish priorities and develop and implement work plans based on subregional economies, informed by data analysis, and responsive to individual colleges' strengths and priorities and opportunities for positively impacting regional and state goals, including increasing access to work-based learning, improving student employment outcomes and closing labor market and equity gaps.
• Convenes, facilitates, and collaborates subregionally with employers, community colleges, and workforce and economic development agencies on workforce development strategies, work plans, programs, and engagement; acts as liaison to, and builds partnerships with county officials, employers, community colleges, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitates career pathway connections between two- and four-year colleges, industry, Adult Education, K-12 and Workforce Development Boards to provide more entry points to career pathways, to provide pathways that are more responsive to students' immediate and long-term career objectives, and to provide career pathways that extend to higher skills and higher wages.
• Facilitates alignment, coordination and integration of services provided by colleges and other workforce development stakeholders to provide supportive services that enable students to enter, persist, and complete career pathway programs and credentials, to participate in work-based learning, and to find employment at higher wages.
• Assist colleges with identifying and applying for grants and other sources of funding; facilitate braiding of funding from multiple sources to address subregional and area of focus priorities, and seek effective usage of apportionment and grant funding.
• Provides staff leadership, facilitation, and project management of colleges and stakeholders within a BACCC-defined area of focus to work collaboratively to attain the goals and objectives of the area of focus. This may include collection and analysis of relevant data; development and sharing of expertise in particular funding streams, programs, services, or systems relevant to workforce development; analysis of stakeholders' assets, services, policies, and constraints to identify and propose ways to benefit from opportunities for collaboration and to resolve or mitigate barriers to collaboration; seeking of resources to support development, alignment, coordination and integration of programs and services; and project management of efforts across multiple organizations.

OTHER DUTIES

• Provide and support strategies to assist colleges in providing career education and workforce training to all in a manner that is accessible, efficient, responsive and data driven; work with the colleges and key stakeholders in the regional workforce and economic development ecosystem to help drive: collaboration and coordination of career education programs among colleges; regional and subregional strategies and partnerships to reduce skills, employment and equity gaps; capture and dissemination of valuable, region-specific employer, industry, and student success data; develop and expand work based learning opportunities; develop strategies and structures that provide comprehensive support to serve part time and adult learners; and evolution of current regional governance structures and employer engagement functions that are much more inclusive and outcomes based.
• With BACCC leadership and college deans and faculty, identifies curriculum gaps and recommends training programs, courses, and curriculum areas for development; ensures pathways include career paths for industries and sectors with high employment opportunities.
• Monitors political and fiscal landscape affecting college, Strong Workforce Program and BACCC funding streams, program areas and strategic priorities; identifies new funding sources and grant opportunities and works to position the region to secure.
• Submits required reports in a timely manner.
• Participates in special projects and applicable BACCC meetings.
• Collaborates with other Regional