Associate Director

Temple University • Philadelphia, PA

55d • $49,250 - $75,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Temple University's College of Education is searching for an Associate Director of College Access and Pathway Programs. This role provides administrative and logistical direction and supports the strategic direction for college access, dual enrollment, and pathway/pipeline programs and initiatives of CREATE, the Center for Reimagining Excellence, Access and Transformation in Education, within the College of Education and Human Development at Temple University. The Associate Director supervises Assistant Directors and a Team Leader for various programs including Upward Bound, NextSteps AmeriCorps, and early pipeline initiatives. Key responsibilities include outreach and collaboration with school districts, local education agencies, funders, government, and community partners to initiate, maintain, and report on programs. The role also involves supervising program implementation quality, supporting data collection and analysis, promoting programming with marketing personnel, and identifying funding opportunities. Additionally, the Associate Director provides leadership for Temple’s backbone support for the early pipeline into teaching ecosystem in Philadelphia, coordinating collaborations to create financially feasible pathways to college and teaching certification for high school students.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in education or related field.
• At least four or more years of directly related professional experience working in schools or in the field of education.
• Must include teaching and/or school counseling experience in K-12 education.
• Must include program administration experience.
• Strong technology/computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite, database maintenance and social media.
• Demonstrated success supervising and mentoring youth.
• Experience supervising other Administrators and professional staff in educational or human service organizations.
• Awareness of and comfort with issues of diversity, specifically around race, class, and gender, as well as an ability to easily engage in and facilitate discussions about diversity without unduly focusing on them.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to move within diverse communities/environments with ease & confidence.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, flexibility to take on new responsibilities as they arise, and ability to multi-task.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet goals, deadlines, and competing priorities both independently and cooperatively.
• Ability to demonstrate passion and commitment to promoting education reform agenda.
• Ability to develop innovative teacher preparation programs.
• Excellent skills in analyzing and solving problems.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple partners & navigate varying interests and priorities.
• Strong interpersonal skills, along with the ability to interact with a diverse group of faculty, administrators, and external stakeholders.
• Ability to travel to schools in Philadelphia for school site visits; some locations may not be accessible by public transportation.
• Ability to obtain background clearances (PA Child Abuse, FBI Criminal Background Check, and PA State Police) that would approve one to work with minors.
• PA Child Abuse Clearance
• FBI Fingerprint Criminal Background Check
• PA State Police Criminal Background Check

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree
• 8 years of experience
• Experience working in an urban public school, with a deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges within that dynamic environment.
• Experience working within higher education or a college access program or initiative, with an understanding of the college admissions and financial aid processes.
• Experience working in a TRIO program and/or working knowledge of TRIO Federal regulations and requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provides administrative and logistical direction and supports the strategic direction for college access, dual enrollment, and pathway/pipeline programs and initiatives of CREATE.
• Supervises Assistant Directors of Dual Enrollment and Early Educator Pipeline Initiatives, Upward Bound (UB), and Upward Bound Math & Science (UBMS), as well as the Team Leader of the NextSteps AmeriCorps program.
• Conducts ongoing outreach to and collaboration with current and potential school district, local education agency, funder, government, and community partners.
• Facilitates contract, agreement and/or opportunity initiation, maintenance, reporting, expansion, and visibility for college access, dual enrollment, and early pipeline/pathway programs.
• Supports strategic collaboration for positive systems change and improvements in college access, readiness, persistence, and completion, and in the educator workforce and its diversity.
• Supervises the quality and consistency of program implementation.
• Supports the Senior Director with all program and initiative data collection, analysis, and reporting for internal and external audiences.
• Works with CEHD marketing and communication personnel to promote programming.
• Works with the Assistant Dean/Executive Director and Sr. Director to identify and pursue funding and scholarship opportunities.
• Provides facilitative leadership of Temple’s backbone support for the early pipeline into teaching ecosystem within the city.
• Convenes system and program leaders and early pipeline participants for ongoing direction and feedback.
• Leads the design, implementation, collaboration, and data collection for early pipeline ecosystem backbone support.
• Coordinates collaborations across the city among district, school, government, non-profit, philanthropic, and other community leaders.
• Manages University purchasing card and reconciles transactions.
• Manages access to Confidential or sensitive Personal Identifiable Information (PII).

Benefits

• A hybrid work schedule
• Full medical, dental, vision coverage
• Paid time off
• 11 Paid Holidays (including the day after Thanksgiving & winter break)
• Tuition remission - eligible employees and their dependents can obtain a degree TUITION FREE
• A generous retirement plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director