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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
 
As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

Job Posting Title:

Associate Vice Chancellor, College and High School Relations

Job Description Summary:

The Associate Vice Chancellor of College and High School Relations (AVC) has primary responsibility for the planning, development, implementation and strategic direction of the College’s dual enrollment programs that serve area high school students. The AVC acts as the liaison with all independent school districts (ISDs) in the College’s service area. The AVC is responsible for leading, expanding, and maintaining partnerships with independent school districts, charter schools, private schools and other K-12 educational institutions in support of strategic growth in dual credit programs throughout the district.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Supervises, hires, orients, trains, and evaluates assigned employees, as well as monitors and coordinates development of programs. Adheres to organizational human resource policies and procedures as well as related employment laws.

• Provides overall leadership in the strategic planning, development, equity-minded implementation, and direction of all Austin Community College District dual enrollment programs, including  Early College High Schools, Career Academies, P-TECHs (Pathways in Technology Early College High Schools), dual credit in the District’s service area high schools, and Upward Bound.

• Develops and implements a strategic plan for all dual credit programs with a strong equity lens and a focus on social and economic mobility for all dual credit students.

• Develops and implements a communication plan for internal and external stakeholders in all dual credit programs.

• Provides leadership in improving equitable student retention and persistence in all dual credit programs, ensuring pathways to high demand, high wage career opportunities.

• Ensures all dual credit programs are compliant with standards of the College, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), the Texas Education Agency (TEA), the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSOC), and the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP).  

• Develops budget and monitors expenditures of all funds assigned to the dual enrollment programs to support strategic and equity-minded dual credit partnerships, courses and programs..

• Builds collaborative relationships among instructional AVCs, deans and department chairs, dual credit faculty and liaisons, dual credit staff, and independent school district (ISD) superintendents, principals, counselors, and faculty. Ensures that communication streams support collaborative and collegial decision-making.

• Works with ACC instructional leaders and ISD leaders to make scheduling decisions for dual credit courses and programs. Works with instructional leaders  to ensure continuity of faculty assignments as appropriate.

• Supports active hiring of qualified dual credit faculty from area high schools by ensuring ongoing communications among high school leaders, ACC department chairs and instructional deans, and others involved in faculty hiring.  

• Ensures that ACC faculty teaching in area high schools complete the necessary fingerprinting and criminal background checks before teaching on any high school campus.

• Oversees all pre-enrollment and advising services for dual credit students; manages ACC resources to ensure delivery of services on area high school  campuses and on ACC campuses.

• Convenes regular meetings with ACC faculty and staff, ISD staff, and high school staff to ensure successful program support and appropriate communication and collaboration.

• Provides campus orientations and support services to college faculty teaching in all dual credit programs. 

• Facilitates ACC faculty and instructional leader participation in professional development activities for all dual credit faculty, both new faculty and current faculty as well as participation in college orientation for high school personnel and dual credit students.

• Serves as a resource for district guidance and counseling to facilitate student enrollment in dual credit programs 

• Oversees provision of student support services, to students taking college classes on high school campuses.

• Ensures that collaboration supports high school staff with logistics related to college textbooks and guides collaborative efforts to support effective delivery of services.

• Communicates openly and effectively, and manages resources to support district goals.  Advises the Vice Chancellor of Instruction on matters regarding programs and services. Provides information, advice, updates, and other necessary resources to College  staff, administrators, and others as necessary.

• Develops and directs the plans and guidelines for the assigned programs and services; researches and investigates appropriate modifications for dual credit programs; develops and maintains programs, activities, and services which meet students’ academic needs and advance equity and access to higher education; provides materials, guidance and direction for teachers, campus staff, and parents as appropriate; initiates and provides professional development opportunities for related programs; visits campuses, provides on-site support, and attends meetings as necessary.

• Analyzes program facilities, equipment, and materials, and makes recommendations for needed changes.  

• Coordinates assistance to requesting departments; represents the department in meetings involving district, community, or state/agency representatives as necessary; and completes required reports/paperwork, maintains records, and monitors assigned budgets.

• Coordinates contractual services as needed.

• Conducting efforts to design, implement, measure, and refine programs and services.

Knowledge

Must possess required knowledge and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Knowledge and understanding of dual credit and concurrent courses and programs,Texas Education Agency (TEA) and/or Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and federal-related rules and regulations.

• Experience with Implementing integration and interaction of vertical and horizontal systems to guarantee the support of high student achievement and secondary partner satisfaction.

• Secondary and post-secondary academic policies and procedures. 

• Supervisory practices and principles.

• NACEP standards.

Skills

Must possess required skills and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Ability to work with K-12 and post-secondary staff, programs and services, customers and constituents, both internal and external to area school districts and ACC.

• Proficient in establishing communication and collaboration between and among various areas of the organization to enhance service delivery and program development.

• Directing the work of others.

• Organizing and delegating subordinate departmental responsibilities. Effectively communicating through oral and written presentations.

• Analyzing complex information and implementing long-range and immediate plans. Maintaining an established work schedule.

• Multitasking and meeting deadlines and timelines. Effective interpersonal relations, organization and planning.

• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.

Technology Skills

• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.

Required Work Experience

• Five years related work experience including managerial experience.

Required Education

• Master's degree. Experience cannot be substituted for required, applicable educational level.

Preferred Education

• Doctorate degree.

Physical Requirements

• Work is performed in a standard office or similar environment.

• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.

• Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Safety

• Provide resources for safe operation of units. Create and support workplace safety.

Salary

Commensurate with experience.

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

June 30, 2023

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.

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