(053) 507-0014
op@bipsu.edu.ph
Joedel O. Peñaranda serves as Executive Assistant to the University President of Biliran Province State University (BiPSU). He concurrently leads the Strategic Innovation & Knowledge Laboratory (SIKLAB) and previously directed the Institutional Planning Office. Beyond campus, he heads the Secretariat of Pangandoy sa Hiraya: The Futures-Thinking Consortium of HEIs in Eastern Visayas, where he advances collaborative foresight and policy work among state universities.
Joedel’s BiPSU journey began in June 2015 as a Secondary School Teacher at the University’s (then Naval State University’s) Laboratory High School, teaching English and mentoring student competitors in debate, public speaking, and campus journalism through 2019. Selected as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at Skyline College (California) in 2019–2020, he returned to BiPSU and continued to teach part-time—from 2020 until 2025—through team teaching, debate and public-speaking classes, and coaching, while taking on higher administrative responsibilities. This educator-administrator trajectory has remained constant up to his present executive assignment.
As an internationalization lead and co-founder of BiPSU’s International Affairs Office, Joedel helped initiate and steer institution-wide entries to three major platforms: QS Stars, UI GreenMetric World University Ranking, and Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings—frameworks that sharpen BiPSU’s quality benchmarks and sustainability posture.
His futures credentials include certificate work with the Institute for the Future and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (Foresight to Policy Masterclass), and full membership in the Association of Professional Futurists (APF). He also earned a fellowship under the UPLB Higher Education Leadership Mentoring (HELM) program.
Joedel has been recognized as Regional Winner and National Semi-Finalist in the Civil Service Commission’s 2023 Search for Outstanding Government Workers (Pag-asa Category). He has likewise served as a judge for the QS Reimagine Education Awards, reflecting his ongoing engagement with evidence-based teaching and learning innovation.
He holds a BSEd in English (magna cum laude) from BiPSU; an MA in Education (English Language Teaching) from the University of San Carlos; and a Master in Public Management from the Development Academy of the Philippines, where he graduated class valedictorian and received the Leadership Award. He is a PhD in Education (English) candidate. His teaching qualifications have been recognized by the Netherlands’ DUO, and he is a Licensed Professional Teacher in the Philippines and a registered teacher in both the Northern Territory (Australia) and Aotearoa New Zealand.
In consultancy and quality management, Joedel serves as an assessor for the Philippine Quality Award (PQA) and advises on DOST’s Harmonized Technical Consultancy Services (Quality Management), complementing his university work with systems-level improvement efforts across the public sector.
At heart, he remains an educator—continuing to teach public management, education policy, and strategic foresight in BiPSU’s School of Graduate Studies—and a coach whose debate and journalism mentees have won regional championships and top adjudicator honors.
Brilliance. Innovation. Progress. Service and Unity
P.Inocentes St, Naval, Biliran Philippines 6560
(053) 507-0014
op@bipsu.edu.ph