Business Innovations, Education & Opportunity

This Office is responsible for managing the innovation process inside the organization that identifies new strategies, new business opportunities and new technologies, processes and architectures, with internal and external stakeholders and partners, and develops new business models and new industry structures to serve those opportunities.

This Office’s directive is to administer federal and state job training funds for the benefit of County residents. This Office also acts as liaison between the Board of Chosen Freeholders and the Middlesex County Workforce Investment Board to establish programs to prepare youth and adults for entry into the labor force and to afford job training for eligible individuals facing serious barriers to employment, who are in special need of training to obtain productive employment.

This Office is cooperatively funded by the Board of County Commissioners, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, provides practical education and research regarding agriculture, nutrition and more; and oversees various community programs. The Department’s other work with Extension Services includes coordination and acting as a liaison with the Superintendent of Schools, Middlesex County Vocational - Technical Schools and Middlesex County College.

The Middlesex County Office of the New Jersey Department of Education functions as a state/county coordinating agency charged with providing educational leadership for all public school districts in the County. To facilitate this agency, the Superintendent is responsible for acting as a representative of the Commissioner of Education of the State Department of Education regarding education laws, rules and regulations; assisting applicants in obtaining Teacher Certification; working with school administrators; and serving on the Board of Education, among other duties.