Executive Director
Credential Engine
Credential Engine seeks an innovative and entrepreneurial Executive Director who aspires to create credential transparency, reveal the credential marketplace, increase credential literacy, and empower everyone to make informed decisions about credentials and their value.
The Organization Launched publicly in December 2017, Credential Engine is tasked with bringing clarity, understanding, and connectivity to the vast and complex credential marketplace through the use of technology, partnerships, policy, and markets. Credential Engine provides a suite of technical services and tools to support its mission, and is building partnerships to extend its capabilities. As of 2019, Credential Engine has identified over 730,000 unique credentials offered across postsecondary educational institutions, massive open online course providers, nonacademic organizations, and secondary schools. To make sense of the data held by each unique credential, Credential Engine developed and maintains the first and only common language to describe credential information (the CTDL), and a related language to describe competencies (CTDL-ASN). These languages provide the backbone of the organization’s work, as they allow for both humans and machines to have a direct way to universally communicate and compare credentials and competencies of all types on over 400 unique data points. The Credential Registry serves as the cloud-based repository where up-to-date credential and competency information is housed, and the organization maintains a beta open-source application, Credential Finder, to serve as a public-facing window into the Registry. As the Registry captures more of the credential and competency landscape, it will enhance the utility of the information provided on Credential Finder. Credential Engine tackles some of the education and training industry’s most pressing issues around documentation, recognition, transferability, and portability of learning. Currently, 15 states are formally working with Credential Engine to make credentials and competencies more transparent. Credential Engine also engages closely with federal, state, and regional leadership, education and training systems and leaders, market players, and various initiatives and organizations. Through these and other partnerships, Credential Engine helps strategically connect the work of education and training providers of all types, the vast landscape of credentials, and related data regarding jobs, pathways, labor market outcomes, and more. Currently governed by an 8-member (with 15 total seats) Board of Directors, and informed by five advisory groups, Credential Engine boasts a 10-person team and has a proposed budget for 2020 of $3M. Over the past two years, Credential Engine has received significant philanthropic investments, securing support from major donors including Lumina, Walmart, Microsoft, Google and JP Morgan Chase. As more agencies learn about Credential Engine’s work and understand its value to the market, Credential Engine will leverage these opportunities and continue its history of successful fundraising and develop markets to become self-sustaining. For more information, please visit https://credentialengine.org/.
Recent Accomplishments In the past two years, Credential Engine has built its internal team and has had notable accomplishments, namely:
The Position The Board is looking for an Executive Director who understands how credentials affect the workplace and education domains, and who will seize opportunities to grow the organization.
Strategic Priorities The new ED will advance the following priorities identified by the Board and staff, which include:
Key Responsibilities Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
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Skills and Attributes The ideal candidate will understand and continue a commitment to Credential Engine’s mission. They will bring strong communications, policy, leadership and partnership skills and a tech-savviness to drive Credential Engine’s mission. They will ideally have both a sense of urgency, but also patience. The ED will bring a variety of experiences and attributes to Credential Engine, including, but not limited to:
Application Process To apply, upload resume, cover letter, and salary requirements by clicking here*. For other inquiries, contact Adrienne O’Rourke at Adrienne.ORourke@marcumllp.com . Resume reviews begin immediately. Credential Engine provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, pregnancy or recent childbirth or related medical condition, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, the use of a guide or support animal because of blindness, deafness or physical handicap of any individual, citizenship, veteran or military status, genetic information, marital status, familial status, domestic or sexual violence victim status, possession of a GED instead of a high school diploma, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state or local laws.
About Raffa – Marcum’s Nonprofit & Social Sector Group On behalf of Credential Engine, Raffa – Marcum’s Nonprofit & Social Sector Group is working with the Board of Directors to advance the search. Founded in 1984 and recently merged with Marcum, Raffa is, and always has been, a mission-driven professional services firm seeking to do more for nonprofits and socially conscious companies like Credential Engine. Learn more about our work at http://marcumllp.com/industries/nonprofit-social-sector.
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