Career Services Program Manager - Central Office

Responsibilities

• Design and implement workforce development strategies that prepare justice-involved individuals for successful employment and long-term economic stability.
• Develop and maintain strong employer partnerships that create direct hiring pipelines, transitional employment opportunities, apprenticeships, and industry-aligned workforce pathways.
• Serve as NDCS' key employer engagement liaison, cultivating relationships with business leaders, chambers, workforce boards, American Job Centers, training providers, unions, educational institutions, and community partners.
• Lead strategic special projects, pilot initiatives, and innovative workforce development opportunities that expand participant access to meaningful employment.
• Identify labor market trends and align career programming, credential opportunities, and training pathways with high-demand occupations.
• Oversee performance metrics, reporting, outcome tracking, and quality assurance efforts to ensure program effectiveness and measurable employment outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with operational standards, documentation expectations, grants, workforce partnership requirements, and applicable policies.
• Lead employer-facing recruitment initiatives including hiring events, employer engagement activities, mock interviews, talent pipeline development, and partnership-building efforts that expand employment opportunities for participants.
• Requirements / Qualifications
• Legal Requirements: Must be at least 18 years of age. No felony or domestic abuse related convictions.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience with workforce development initiatives or grant programs, employment-focused programming or services, talent pipeline strategies, or workforce readiness programs.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining partnerships with employers, workforce boards, economic development organizations, apprenticeship programs, educational institutions, or community-based service providers.
• Demonstrated experience working with justice-involved individuals, reentry populations, probation/parole populations, behavioral health populations, or other complex service populations facing barriers to employment.
• Experience supervising, coaching, mentoring, and developing professional staff in a performance-driven service environment.
• Experience using performance metrics, program outcomes, quality improvement methods, or data-informed decision-making to evaluate program effectiveness and drive operational improvement.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Benefits

Additional Information

The work we do matters! Hiring Agency: Correctional Services - Agency 46 Location: Lincoln, NE Hiring Rate: $37.065 Job Posting: JR2026-00026820 Career Services Program Manager - Central Office (Open) Applications No Longer Accepted On (If no date is displayed, job is posted as open until closed): 06-18-2026 Job Description: Meaningful employment changes lives - lead the team making that possible. The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) seeks a transformational Career Services Manager to lead innovative workforce development efforts that prepare justice-involved individuals for meaningful employment and long-term success after incarceration. This role leads a dedicated team delivering career coaching, workforce readiness, and employment pathway development while building strong partnerships with employers, workforce systems, and community stakeholders. NDCS recognizes that lived experience can be a powerful asset in reentry work. Individuals with prior justice involvement who meet position qualifications are welcome to apply, consistent with applicable employment policies and requirements. Information about the Department can be found at: www.corrections.nebraska.gov. For more information call 402-471-2654. For Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accommodations, please contact Megan Jones at megan.jones@nebraska.gov

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