Senior Vice President, Professional Development

Washington, DC, The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) seeks a strategic and innovative leader to serve as Senior Vice President, Professional Development. This position leads DBIA's strategy for developing the knowledge, skills, and credentials professionals need to successfully implement design-build project delivery. This newly established executive position reflects DBIA's commitment to strengthening its professional development capabilities as demand for design-build education and credentials continues to grow. The SVP provides executive leadership for DBIA's education and certification portfolios, ensuring that professional development offerings remain rigorous, relevant, and responsive to evolving industry needs. The position will strengthen existing programs while identifying new audiences, learning model, and opportunities to expand DBIA's reach, value, and impacts. As a member of DBIA's senior leadership team, the SVP will guide a growing professional development enterprise, integrating strategy, innovation, operational excellence, and financial sustainability. Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership: Lead DBIA's overall professional development strategy, aligning education and certification with Design-Build Done Right® best practices, organizational priorities, and evolving industry needs.

Portfolio Growth & Innovation: Guide the growth and evolution of public education, company-based training, leadership development, digital and on-demand learning, and university partnerships, identifying new audiences and delivery models.

Certification & Credentialing: Provide executive leadership for DBIA's certification programs and operations, supporting the independent governance of the Design-Build Certification Board while strengthening program integrity, candidate experience, and credentialing pathways.

Quality & Participant Experience: Establish high standards for learning quality, program effectiveness, and participant experience, using data and feedback to drive continuous improvement.

Systems & Infrastructure: Strengthen the technology, processes, data, and organizational capacity needed to support an integrated, scalable professional development portfolio.

Organizational & Financial Leadership: Lead and develop high-performing teams, manage portfolio budgets and performance, and collaborate across DBIA to align professional development with broader organizational strategy.

Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience, including substantial leadership responsibility for education, professional development, credentialing, workforce development, or a related portfolio. Demonstrated experience leading a significant portfolio of programs, with responsibility for strategy, quality, growth, financial performance and organizational Strong understanding of adult learning, professional education, and evolving learning models, with experience translating subject-matter expertise into effective learning Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams and managing through other leaders, with the ability to build organizational structures and systems that support growth. Experience with credentialing or certification programs, volunteer governance bodies and/or professional standards strongly preferred. Knowledge of design-build, project delivery, architecture, engineering, construction, or the built environment is preferred but not required. Eligible for consideration for a discretionary year-end bonus based on organizational and individual performance.