Job Description

🌟 Deputy Center Director

🚀 Lead. Inspire. Empower. Change Lives.

📍 Distinction, LLC | St. Louis Job Corps Center

Are you an experienced leader who believes education, career training, and opportunity can change the trajectory of a young person's life?

Do you have the leadership skills, passion, and vision to help young people discover their potential while guiding a team toward meaningful results?

✨ If so, we want to hear from you!

🏢 About Distinction, LLC

Distinction, LLC is a Mississippi-based business that oversees the operations of the St. Louis Job Corps Center. We are looking for qualified, enthusiastic, energetic, and purpose-driven professionals who are passionate about helping young people build brighter futures.

💙 Working with at-promise youth at a Job Corps Center is more than a career—it is an opportunity to make a lasting difference.

💼 We offer competitive pay, a positive work environment, and opportunities for personal and professional growth and development.

🎯 About the Deputy Center Director Role

The Deputy Center Director is a key leadership position at the St. Louis Job Corps Center and serves as the second-in-command on Center.

This position provides leadership and oversight of the Career Services Program, including:

• 🎓 Career Preparation
• 💬 Counseling
• 📚 Academics
• 🛠️ Career Technical Training
• 🤝 Work-Based Learning
• 🚀 Career Transition

The Deputy Center Director is responsible for ensuring students receive the education, training, guidance, and support necessary to make meaningful progress, successfully complete the Job Corps program, and transition into quality full-time employment, higher education, or advanced training.

🌱 This position plays a critical role in achieving positive student outcomes and maintaining a Center culture focused on accountability, achievement, personal growth, and career success.

The Deputy Center Director has overall responsibility for student outcomes related to appearance, conduct, behavior, language, and statistical program achievement. This position also ensures the strict confidentiality of sensitive information and the accuracy and integrity of student data.

⭐ The Deputy Center Director may serve as Acting Center Director in the absence of the Center Director.

🧭 What You'll Do

As the Deputy Center Director, you will provide strategic leadership, program oversight, and accountability across key education and career development functions.

📚 Lead Education & Career Development

• 🎓 Ensure approved curricula are effectively taught in all academic and vocational classrooms.
• 📊 Provide direct oversight and overall management of the Center's Academic Program, including staffing, personnel matters, TABE compliance, high school credential attainment, math and reading improvement, driver education, and OMS outcomes.
• 👥 Provide oversight of Career Services and Student Support functions and related outreach and placement outcomes.
• 🌟 Ensure students have access to meaningful Career Success Skills, Personal and Youth Development, and Work-Based Learning opportunities.
• 💡 Ensure high-quality PYD and CSS programming is an integral part of Center life, particularly within Career Services and Education program areas.
• 🛠️ Oversee training activities provided at off-center sites, including training quality assurance, safety standards, and related concerns.
• 📋 Administer training subcontracts as required.

❤️ Champion Student Success

• 🎯 Monitor student progress, retention, completion, and career transition outcomes.
• 📈 Monitor implementation of Career Services and Education initiatives and measure achievements against established objectives.
• 🔄 Identify areas for improvement and direct modifications to plans when conditions or program needs change.
• 🌱 Promote a positive, structured, and student-centered environment that encourages achievement and personal responsibility.
• 🚀 Help ensure students are prepared for successful employment, higher education, or advanced training.

👥 Lead & Develop Staff

• ✅ Ensure Career Services and Education staff adhere to the Policy and Requirements Handbook (PRH), Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), corporate policies, contractual requirements, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) policies, and applicable state and federal requirements.
• 🎓 Ensure staff are trained on new Job Corps programs and applicable revisions to DOL-approved SOPs.
• 🤝 Participate in the staff selection process, including conducting final interviews with candidates recommended for hire by the Area Manager.
• 💪 Provide leadership, direction, accountability, and support to staff across assigned program areas.

🌎 Build Partnerships & Career Opportunities

• 🤝 Engage community stakeholders to ensure program areas and systems meet Job Corps and WIOA requirements.
• 🏢 Develop and maintain productive relationships with employers, governmental entities, labor unions, military recruiters, advanced training programs, community colleges, and other community partners.
• 🔗 Help strengthen pathways that connect students to employment, education, training, and long-term career opportunities.

🛡️ Ensure Compliance & Operational Excellence

• ✔️ Ensure program areas and systems comply with the Center contract, DOL directives and guidelines, program manuals, SOPs, company standards, and related requirements.
• 📢 Maintain a quality communication system for reviewing and disseminating key correspondence from corporate, Job Corps Regional, and National Offices to students and staff, as appropriate.
• 💰 Prepare and monitor functional department budgets.
• 📝 Ensure all required reports and plans are completed accurately and submitted in a timely manner.
• 🔐 Protect the confidentiality, accuracy, and integrity of student information and program data.

🌟 The Leader We're Looking For

We are looking for a purpose-driven leader who understands that student success is about more than meeting performance measures—it is about helping young people recognize their potential and giving them the tools and support to succeed.

The ideal candidate is:

• ❤️ Passionate about education, career development, and youth success.
• 🌟 An experienced leader who can inspire and develop others.
• 🧩 Comfortable managing multiple programs, priorities, and teams.
• 🎯 Committed to accountability, compliance, and continuous improvement.
• 🗣️ A strong communicator and relationship builder.
• 🤝 Skilled at working with community partners, employers, educational institutions, and workforce organizations.
• ⚖️ Able to balance compassion and understanding with high expectations and professional standards.
• 🔥 Motivated by the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of young people.

🎓 Minimum Qualifications

• 🎓 Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.
• 👥 Two (2) years of leadership experience with direct reports.
• 📚 Two (2) years of experience in Academics, Career Technical Training, education, or a related field.
• ⭐ Job Corps experience preferred.

💙 Why Join Distinction, LLC?

As the Deputy Center Director, you will have the opportunity to influence the educational, professional, and personal development of young people while working alongside a dedicated team committed to student success.

🌱 This is a position where your leadership can have a direct and lasting impact.

You won't just manage programs. You'll help build pathways to opportunity.

You won't just lead a team. You'll help develop people who change lives.

You won't just have a job. You'll have a purpose.

🚀 Bring Your Leadership. Bring Your Passion. Bring Your Purpose.

If you are ready to lead with purpose, inspire others, and help prepare the next generation for success, we encourage you to apply for the Deputy Center Director position at the St. Louis Job Corps Center.

🌟 Your leadership could be the difference that changes a life.

Distinction, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.