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Certification Director
Viroqua, Wisconsin, United States · Director · Full-time
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About the role
- Job Description: Certification Director The Certification Director provides strategic leadership for MOSA's certification services to ensure accurate, timely, consistent, and compliant organic certification.
- The Certification Director serves as a member of the Executive Leadership Team and contributes to organization-wide planning, policy development, and strategic decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Fosters a positive, collaborative, and inclusive workplace culture that supports employee engagement and organizational success
- Partners with Human Resources to address operational, personnel, and performance issues, managing discipline and terminations while ensuring consistent compliance with MOSA policies, employment practices, and collective bargaining agreements
- Develops and maintains certification policies, procedures, guidance documents, and technical resources
- Develops and implements certification strategies that support organizational goals and regulatory requirements.
- Leads initiatives that strengthen certification quality, consistency, efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
- Represents MOSA on certification and regulatory matters and maintains productive relationships with USDA, accreditation bodies, industry organizations, and other stakeholders
- Partners with organizational leaders to establish and monitor certification goals, key performance indicators, workload trends, and organizational performance measures
- Collaborates with organizational leaders to improve workflows, implement technology solutions, and ensure certification functions are effectively supported across the organization
- Develops strategies to balance staffing capacity, workload distribution, and certification timelines and service quality
- Supports implementation of new certification programs, services, and strategic initiatives
Requirements
- Ability to spend long periods of time working on a computer
- Extensive knowledge of USDA National Organic Program regulations and certification processes
- Ability to prioritize competing priorities, allocate resources effectively, and make sound regulatory decisions
- Demonstrated systems thinking with the ability to identify opportunities for certification process improvement and organizational effectiveness
- Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, coach, and develop managers and high-performing teams
- Strong strategic leadership and organizational management skills
- Ability to build trust, foster accountability, and cultivate a positive organizational culture
- Strong decision-making, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively across departments and build strong organizational relationships
- Strong project management and organizational planning skills
- Proficient with certification databases, workflow systems, Google Workspace, and other business technology applications
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in agriculture, biological sciences, environmental science, business administration, public administration, or a related field
- Minimum of five years of leadership experience supervising managers, supervisors, or professional staff
- Minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in organic certification, regulatory compliance, or a related field
- Demonstrated expertise interpreting and applying USDA National Organic Program regulations
- Demonstrated experience leading organizational change, quality improvement, and cross-functional initiatives
- Project management experience preferred
Benefits
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