Education and Credentialing Manager - Tysons, VA

Overview:

About M.C. Dean

M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation’s most mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 7,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration.

Why Join Us?

Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values - agility, expertise, and trust - we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries.

Responsibilities:

This role leads enterprise credentialing, education pathways, and workforce readiness programs across M.C. Dean. The Education Manager ensures employees have the credentials, licenses, and academic qualifications required for business execution, contract compliance, and career advancement, and that the systems, partnerships, and processes are in place to get them there.

Credentialing & Licensing Operations

Maintain an accurate, current view of credentialing and licensing status by role, region, division, and contract requirement.

Identify compliance gaps before they become project risks and drive remediation plans.

Build and manage pathways for high-priority credentials; including electrical licensing, NETA, BICSI, CompTIA, CISSP, etc...

External Education Partnerships

Serve as M.C. Dean’s point of accountability for external academic and learning partners.

Establish partner selection criteria, support articulation and credit-transfer agreements, and oversee tuition assistance and PLA processes.

Conduct regular performance reviews to confirm programs are delivering workforce-ready outcomes.

Credential & Career Framework Alignment

Work with Talent, HR, Content, and Field/Operations to connect credentials and degrees to the career framework, promotion criteria, readiness indicators, and succession planning.

Design stackable micro-credentials that map to certificate and degree programs and translate into tangible career movement for employees.

Policy, Catalog & Governance

Maintain credentialing policies covering reimbursement, renewals, role-based requirements, exam scheduling, and documentation.

Keep the enterprise course catalog current; curated, tagged, and mapped to competencies and career pathways.

Coordinate across HR, Legal, and Operations to keep policy enforceable and current.

Reporting & Employee Guidance

Build and maintain dashboards giving leadership visibility into credential status, exam pass rates, upcoming expirations, and program ROI.

Translate complex credentialing and degree requirements into clear, actionable guidance for employees and managers.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Adult Learning, Education, Business, or related field preferred.

8+ years of progressive experience in learning and development, workforce development, credentialing, continuing education, or related program management. 13+ with a high school diploma / GED.

Demonstrated experience managing external education partnerships, credentialing or licensing programs, or workforce-readiness initiatives.

Experience designing or operationalizing credential pathways, reimbursement processes, academic programs, or equivalent workforce development systems

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in a technical, engineering, construction, manufacturing, or defense-services environment.

Familiarity with federal contracting environments and credential requirements embedded in contracts or compliance frameworks.

Experience supporting degree pathways, tuition assistance, PLA programs, or credential-equivalency/waiver frameworks.

Familiarity with credit-bearing partnerships, continuing education, credentialing bodies, and translating business requirements into education and credentialing pathways.

Strong partnership skills with Talent/HR, Operations, and business leaders.

Strong program management discipline; ability to manage a complex, high-volume portfolio across a dispersed workforce.

Analytical fluency with dashboards, credentialing data, and presenting findings to senior stakeholders.

We offer an excellent benefits package including:

A competitive salary

Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

401k Retirement Plan

Military Reserve pay offset

Paid maternity leave

Abilities:

Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.

Sitting for extended periods of time.

Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.

Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.

Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Identify and understand the speech of another person.