Program Director

Program DirectorAs Program Director you run a community college district's entire construction program. Not one building. Every capital project the district has going at once, plus the ones that have not started yet.Bond measures already pay for work in the ground, and a new $375 million measure passed in 2022, so there are at least five more years of building ahead. You decide what gets built and in what order, you keep the money and the calendar honest, and you are the person the district calls when something is going wrong.Week to week that means setting the sequence and the budgets, choosing and directing the architects, checking the builders' numbers against your own, watching every schedule against the academic calendar, and telling the district early when a project starts to drift. You run the reporting that keeps all of it visible, so nobody finds out about a problem late.A real part of the job is public. Bond money is taxpayer money, so you present to the governing board, you sit with the citizens oversight committee, and you take questions from faculty, students, and neighbors. This job needs someone who can stand in front of a room and explain plainly why a number changed.And the campuses never close. Students are in class through all of it. Building around academic calendars, phased move-ins, and short summer windows is the craft of this job, not an obstacle to it.What You Will OwnThe program. What gets built, in what order, for how much, and by when, across every project at the same timeThe money. Your own independent cost estimates, a hard look at what the builders say things cost, change order negotiations, and a forecast the district can rely onThe schedule. Holding builders to it, catching slippage early, and working out how to recover it without shutting down a campusThe architects and consultants. Helping choose them, giving them direction, and reconciling their workHow each project gets delivered and bought, whether that is design-build with a guaranteed price or a traditional bid, and which one suits each jobThe reporting. Regular, honest status on the whole program and on every project in itThe public face of the program: board meetings, the oversight committee, presentations, and community questionsGetting projects finished and certified, including the state approval process, closeout documents, and handing the building over to campus staff