Director of the City College for Municipal Employment (CCME) Program Development, City of Philadelphia

Posted by City of Philadelphia on January 13, 2026

Agency Description

The City College for Municipal Development & Workforce Programming (CCME &WP) unit sits within the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO).

The City College for Municipal Employment (CCME) launched in October 2024 as an investment by the Parker Administration to create economic opportunity and open doors of access to residents seeking sustainable and fulfilling career pathways. The training and education CCME provides prepares Philadelphians to work and serve in a number of critical areas and industries with good paying jobs, health care and retirement benefits. CCME serves as a hub for the City’s investments in workforce development across Philadelphia’s economy and seeks to foster systemic solutions to City and external employers’ human capital challenges and strengthen Philadelphia’s workforce development ecosystem.

Position Summary

The Director of CCME (City College for Municipal Employment) Program Development leads the design, coordination, and implementation of enterprise-wide workforce development initiatives that prepare current City employees for new career pathways. This role is an enterprise-wide workforce development function designed to focus on program design, implementation and evaluation of signature CCME workforce programs to support opening doors of access to municipal jobs, as well as upskilling current employees to support career progression.

The Director plays a pivotal role in developing high-quality, engaging technical and career readiness training programs for the City of Philadelphia workforce The Director of CCME Program Development coordinates, evaluates, and develops programs designed to provide opportunities for potential new and current employees to develop and improve their job readiness skills for new career paths. The Director works with operating departments to access current programs that identify new opportunities. Programming can be initiated and developed at the department level or from a central position to impact employees citywide. Understanding this, the Director will not only partner with departments but develop and implement new programing that reaches across city agencies. This position is distinguished from other training and development positions by its focus on training potential new applicants to municipal jobs and upskilling current employees to assume new roles, often in different career paths.

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