Job Posting Title:
Associate Director for Community Partnerships and Strategy_UT Social Work
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Hiring Department:
School of Social Work
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Position Open To:
All Applicants
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Weekly Scheduled Hours:
40
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FLSA Status:
Exempt from FLSA
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Earliest Start Date:
Immediately
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Position Duration:
Expected to Continue
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Location:
UT MAIN CAMPUS
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Job Details:
Purpose
The Associate Director for Community Partnerships and Strategy serves as the operational lead for the School of Social Work's Community Partnerships and Strategy unit, reporting to the Director for Community Partnerships and Strategy. The position builds and sustains the systems, data, reporting, and processes that connect the School's partnership work into one coordinated, School-wide approach, and leads day-to-day execution of the unit's objectives. This position is based in Austin, TX, with on-site or hybrid work per School policy, and has an anticipated start of January–February 2027. This 3-year, contract-funded appointment is contingent on renewal, which is anticipated but not guaranteed.
Responsibilities
Partnership Operations and Systems
- Implement, operate, and continuously improve the systems that support the School's partnership work, including the shared inventory, partnership data structure, taxonomy, and templates.
- Own the integrity, consistency, and usability of partnership data across the School, setting the standards and practices that let partnerships be seen and connected.
- Translate strategy and framework into durable operating processes that scale across units without adding burden.
Stewardship, Recognition, and Communications
- Support and oversee stewardship, recognition, and storytelling operations, so priority relationships are consistently maintained and surfaced.
- Support stewardship and recognition processes in partnership with units and Development, ensuring each priority partnership is owned and sustained over time.
- Partner with Marketing & Communications to turn documented partnerships into reputation, donor, and community impact.
Unit Operations and Collaborative Leadership
- Serve as the primary operational partner to unit liaisons, equipping them with the tools, training, and support to document and steward partnerships well.
- Lead the operations of a cross-unit partnership working group and drive School-wide adoption of shared partnership practices.
- Align partnership operations across Development, Marketing & Communications, Academic Affairs.
Reporting, Measurement, and Strategic Insight
- Lead partnership reporting, dashboards, and impact measurement that inform the Director, School leadership, and School planning.
- Develop the baseline metrics and proof-point portfolio that demonstrate partnership impact across identified partnership areas.
- Translate partnership data into insight that shapes priorities and decisions.
Unit Leadership and Execution
- Serve as the operational backbone of Community Partnerships and Strategy, managing execution of its objectives and key results and the day-to-day running of the unit.
- Act for the Director on operational matters as delegated, and help lead the unit as it builds out.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree in social work, public administration or affairs, nonprofit management, higher education, or a related field; or a bachelor's degree with substantial equivalent experience.
- Five or more years of progressively responsible experience in partnership, program, or operations leadership, relationship or stakeholder management, or a comparable area.
- Demonstrated ability to design and run the systems and processes that bring consistency to complex, decentralized work.
- Strong data and information management skills, including experience with databases, CRM, or relationship-management tools, and with building reports that inform leadership.
- Excellent written, interpersonal, and facilitation skills, with the ability to work across units and influence without direct authority.
- Sound judgment and discretion in handling sensitive partner, donor, and relationship information.
- Ability to work independently, set priorities, and lead execution in a small, growing team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in higher education, social work, healthcare, or nonprofit and community-partnership settings.
- Experience standing up a new function, office, or system.
- Familiarity with development or advancement operations, donor or partner stewardship, or community-engaged work.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives or coordinating distributed teams.
- Commitment to the School's mission and to making partnership work visible, consistent, and sustainable.
Salary Range
- $125,000 + depending on qualifications
Working Conditions
- Standard office conditions, with most time spent working with School leadership, unit partnership liaisons, faculty and staff, and community partners during usual office hours.
- This position is based in Austin, TX. On-site or hybrid work is available per School policy.
Work Shift
- Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 5:00PM. Hours and days may vary due to business needs.
- Occasional evening and/or weekend work to support partner events and recognition activities.
Required Materials
- Resume/CV
- Letter of interest
- 3 work references with contact information; at least one should be from a supervisor
Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.
Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.
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Employment Eligibility:
Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.
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Retirement Plan Eligibility:
The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.
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Background Checks:
A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.
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