Job Description: Dean of Educational Partnerships

Department: Student Learning & Success

Reports To: Vice President of Student Learning & Success

Pay Classification: 20 (Min Starting: $82,000)

FLSA Status: Exempt

Job Summary: Provides strategic, collegewide leadership for Hill College's educational partnership continuum, connecting K-12 and dual credit pathways, the Hill College student experience, and transfer to four-year institutions. The Dean leads the development, implementation, assessment, compliance, and continuous improvement of educational partnerships and serves as the institutional lead for education-related agreements, including dual credit, early college high school, P-TECH, transfer and articulation, co-enrollment, external learning partners, and other academic memoranda of understanding and agreements. The position advances seamless student pathways by aligning partnerships with curriculum, transfer, state requirements, enrollment, student success, and institutional priorities.

Minimum Required

Education: Master's degree from a regionally accredited institution in education, higher education, business, or a related field, or a combination of education and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Preferred: Doctorate

Minimum Required

Experience: Three (3) years of progressively responsible supervisory, management, and/ or administrative experience in higher education, educational partnerships, academic affairs, student services, or a related field.

Preferred: Experience developing or managing K-12, dual credit, transfer/articulation, or other post-secondary partnerships and agreements and higher education teaching experience.

Core Duties and

Required Knowledge: Provide strategic leadership for the College's educational partnership continuum, creating intentional and connected pathways from K-12 and dual credit through Hill College completion and transfer to four-year institutions.

Provide strategic leadership for the College's educational partnership continuum, creating intentional and connected pathways from K-12 and dual credit through Hill College completion and transfer to four-year institutions.

Lead the planning, development, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of collegewide educational partnerships, including dual credit/dual enrollment, early college high schools, P-TECH, transfer and articulation, co-enrollment, early outreach, external learning partnerships, and other academic collaborations.

Serve as the institutional lead for education-related memoranda of understanding, memoranda of agreement, articulation agreements, and related contracts; coordinate development, review, renewal, implementation, recordkeeping, and monitoring with appropriate College offices and external partners.

Ensure educational agreements and partnership practices align with Hill College policies, curriculum requirements, accreditation expectations, and applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations, including Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) requirements.

Maintain working knowledge of state requirements and institutional processes related to curriculum, the Texas Core Curriculum, Academic Course Guide Manual (ACGM), Workforce Education Course Manual (WECM), dual credit, transfer, articulation, faculty qualifications, and instructional delivery as applicable to partnership programs.

Coordinate with academic leadership and faculty to support curriculum alignment, course applicability, transferability, and clearly articulated pathways that minimize unnecessary credit loss and support efficient student progression.

Provide leadership and oversight for dual credit operations and K-12 partnerships, including agreements, program models, partner communication, service standards, student access, compliance, and alignment with institutional and state priorities, including applicable outcomes-based funding measures.

Develop and strengthen transfer and university partnerships that extend Hill College pathways into baccalaureate completion; identify opportunities for articulation, co-enrollment, university presence, shared programming, and other transfer-focused initiatives.

Coordinate educational relationships with external learning partners and organizations that support instruction, student progression, credential attainment, or transfer; ensure appropriate academic \oversight and agreement management.

Monitor partnership and student outcomes; prepare reports and recommendations for college leadership using data to evaluate effectiveness, identify gaps across the educational continuum, and guide strategic decision-making.

Develop and maintain operational standards, procedures, communication plans, and service practices for educational partnerships; identify process improvements and promote consistent implementation across campuses, centers, and partner organizations.

Provide leadership for departmental workforce planning, supervision, performance management, budgeting, resource allocation, and process improvement; recruit, supervise, evaluate, and mentor assigned staff in accordance with college policies.

Contribute to institutional and master planning, policy development, enrollment strategy, and student success initiatives related to educational pathways and partnerships.

Represent Hill College with school districts, colleges and universities, state agencies, community organizations, and other external entities; build and sustain relationships that advance the College's mission and strategic priorities.

Strategic Vision and

Program Development: Lead development of a cohesive educational partnership strategy that positions dual credit, Hill College programs and credentials, and transfer pathways as connected stages of a student's educational journey rather than separate initiatives.

Advances Hill College's Four Pillars work by developing and strengthening educational partnerships, pathways, and transfer opportunities that support students from initial connection and entry through completion and successful transition to their next educational or career destination. Collaborates across the College to identify and address partnership, pathway, and transfer barriers that may impede student progression.

Identify and expand opportunities for seamless pathways, including structured dual credit sequences, early college models, transfer agreements, co-enrollment, shared programming, and other innovative partnerships that improve access, completion, and transfer.

Guide long-range planning and assessment of partnership programs using student outcomes, enrollment patterns, transfer data, partner feedback, state policy, and institutional priorities.

Evaluate proposed partnerships for academic quality, student benefit, sustainability, compliance, operational feasibility, and alignment with Hill College's mission and strategic plan.

Collaboration: Work collaboratively with K-12 partners, colleges and universities, faculty, deans and Student Information Services, Advising & Success, Institutional Effectiveness, Institutional Advancement Services, and other internal and external stakeholders to align curriculum, agreements, communications, services, and student pathways.

Establish effective communication channels among college leadership, faculty, staff, and educational partners; provide training, resources, and professional development to support consistent implementation and shared understanding of partnership requirements.

Partner with academic leaders and faculty to ensure partnership decisions preserve academic integrity, faculty governance responsibilities, curriculum standards, and transfer applicability.

Participate on institutional committees and contribute to strategic initiatives across Hill College.

Demonstrates a commitment to maintaining a welcoming and safe environment that provides a sense of belonging for all.

Demonstrated Attributes: Strategic and systems-oriented leader with the ability to see connections across K-12, community college, and university systems and translate them to coherent student pathways.

Strong knowledge of community college operations, educational partnerships, curriculum and transfer practices, program evaluation, and continuous improvement.

Exceptional communication, negotiation, relationship-management, and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively across institutions and stakeholder groups.

Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage a complex portfolio of agreements, regulatory requirements, projects, deadlines, and partner relationships.

Strong leadership, supervisory, team-building, decision-making, and conflict-resolution capabilities.

Ability to analyze data and partnership outcomes, identify opportunities and risks, and make recommendations that support student success and institutional goals.

Commitment to innovation, service excellence, ethical leadership, confidentiality, and responsible stewardship of institutional resources.

Professional, student-centered approach that supports collaboration, accountability, and institutional success.

Other Information: Evening and weekend work may be required.

Regular travel within the Hill College service area and to partner locations is required.

Must hold a valid Texas driver's license.

Security-sensitive position.

Performs additional duties as assigned.

Physical Requirements: Light work; exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. The use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of force greater than that for sedentary work.