Joan C. Clark, M.S., Senior Associate

A highly qualified senior program director with a proven record of increasingly responsible positions in the direction of high-level management/administrative functions; including: strategic planning, human resources/organizational management, recruitment/retention, strategic policies and procedures, organizational training and development and diversity/minority supplier development.  Proven expertise in developing and implementing strategic initiatives to achieve organizational goals and objectives based on workforce development, performance and productivity enhancement and management of core business challenges.  Demonstrated success in partnering with senior management, community, public and private sector leaders and constituencies to develop effective business solutions for the challenges of activating change. 

Highlights of Professional Experience

Experience includes project assignments with the Los Angeles and Orange County Workforce Investment Boards (under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998), the University of California, Irvine Workforce Development Department, multiple departments of the County of Los Angeles, and the City of Los Angeles.  Accomplishments include:

Temporary Personnel Services/Job Placement, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

·          This project involved providing temporary staffing services to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The services included community outreach to qualified candidates from a diverse group of classified positions:  1) Administrative; 2) Data Entry; 3) Medical Records; 4) Warehouse Workers; 5) Dietitians, and 6) Pharmacists.

Career Transition Services, Orange County Workforce Investment Board

·          The Career Transition Program for delivery of the Orange County Workforce Investment Board’s (WIB) Rapid Response Services was developed under the guidelines of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA).  Joan Cummings Clark’s firm, Workforce Development Group, was awarded the contract by the Orange County WIB to provide outreach to small, medium and large businesses that were in the process of downsizing, or closing facilities with pending reductions in force. 

·          The deliverables included the development and implementation of a comprehensive program in career transition training and job development services for the displaced workers impacted by the layoffs.  The project tasks were to assist the workers in the steps necessary to find new careers; including resume preparation, determination of relevant skills and expertise, interview preparation, and usage of resources (internet, “hidden job marketing”, etc.) to locate sources of new jobs.

Career Transition Services, Disney Imagineering, Burbank

·          Joan provided career transition services to The Disney Imagineering during a major downsizing of administrative, managerial and technical employees in the Burbank facility. Many of the employees were relocating to the Orlando facility; while a sizeable number were involved in the outplacement project.  The initial stages of the project required conducting extensive labor market research of the entertainment industry to assist participants with current information and assessment of opportunities throughout regions of California, Nevada and other media and high-technology employment regions and sectors. 

·          The outcome was that a large number of the displaced employees were able to transfer their technical skills and abilities to related emerging industry sectors, i.e., development of major animated projects in other emerging sub-sectors of the entertainment industry.

County and City of Los Angeles, CA

·          Wrote and managed grants, and developed multiple funding for major programs, with an annual budget of approximately two million dollars.

·          Successfully negotiated large contracts for funding for various community rehabilitation projects, housing, and skills training programs under ETP, HUD, CalWorks, and Workforce Investment Act funding.

·          Designed and directed programs to enhance public information channels; including marketing, media relations and participation in diverse political, business and industry events and networks to identify and expand opportunities for collaboration and funding of core programs and initiatives.

University of California, Irvine, CA

·          Designed and facilitated the first Patient Diversity program for the University of California Irvine Medical Center.  The program, which focused on skills, cultural sensitivity and compliance regulations for the medical community, won the American Society for Training and Development’s outstanding training for the medical sector.

·          Industry Liaison Group, Small Business Supplier Committee

·          Professionals in Human Resources Association, Member/Speaker

·          Los Angeles Workforce Investment Board, Certified Minority/Woman Vendor

·          Orange County Workforce Investment Board, Certified Minority/Woman Vendor

·          Orange County Transportation Agency, Member, Minority Supplier Task Force

·          Southern California Air Quality Management District, Community Advisory Board

B.A., English/Secondary Education, California State University, Los Angeles, CA

M.S., Urban Planning and Development/Public Administration, Pepperdine University, CA

Certifications

Senior Process Consultant, IBM Global Leadership Group

Certified Consultant, Human Resources and the Law (American Bar Association)

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