Chief College Pathways and K-12 Partnerships Officer

Job Title
Chief College Pathways and K-12 Partnerships Officer
Agency
Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Department
Vice President for Student Success
Proposed Minimum Salary
Commensurate
Job Location
Kingsville, Texas
Job Type
Staff
Job Description
About Texas A&M University–Kingsville
Texas A&M University–Kingsville (TAMUK), the oldest institution of higher learning in South Texas and a proud member of the Texas A&M University System, stands as the region’s premier university. TAMUK offers the widest range of academic programs and degrees in South Texas, provides exceptional learning and residential facilities, conducts impactful research, awards substantial scholarships, and has awarded more than 80,000 degrees in the institution’s 100-year history. The university is recognized for its unwavering commitment to student success, meaningful research, and deep community engagement. With a welcoming campus culture and strong regional partnerships, TAMUK offers faculty and staff a unique opportunity to make a lasting difference in the lives of students and the broader South Texas region.
Location: The University is located in historic Kingsville, a friendly, safe city of 25,000 that is the home of the legendary King Ranch. Corpus Christi and its beaches are just 40 miles to the northeast, and the border with Mexico is 120 miles to the south at Brownsville or 119 miles to the west at Laredo.
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Position Overview
The Chief College Pathways and K-12 Partnerships Officer provides strategic leadership for Texas A&M University–Kingsville’s efforts to expand and strengthen postsecondary opportunities for secondary students throughout South Texas and the University’s broader service region.
Reporting to the Vice President for Student Success, the Chief provides administrative leadership and oversight for Dual Credit and serves as the University’s senior relationship manager for school district partnerships related to Dual Credit, Early College High Schools (ECHS), Pathways in Technology Early College High Schools (P-TECH), academic pathways, Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathways, workforce-aligned credentials, and other innovative secondary-to-postsecondary initiatives.
This position supervises the Director of Dual Credit and works collaboratively with academic colleges, Enrollment Management, Academic Affairs, Student Success, school districts, education service centers, workforce and industry partners, and other stakeholders to develop intentional academic and career pathways that increase college access, accelerate credential attainment, reduce time and cost to degree, and create seamless transitions from high school to Texas A&M University–Kingsville.
This position serves as an external-facing institutional leader responsible for developing relationships with superintendents, district administrators, principals, counselors, CTE leaders, and other educational and community partners throughout the region. They will identify opportunities for strategic growth, develop new partnerships, coordinate institutional resources, and ensure that high school programs advance the University's enrollment, student success, workforce development, and regional engagement priorities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership and Program Development
Provide strategic vision and administrative leadership for the University's portfolio of high school and pre-college partnership programs.
Develop and implement a comprehensive regional strategy for expanding Dual Credit, ECHS, P-TECH, academic, CTE, workforce, and other college pathway opportunities.
Establish short- and long-term goals for growth, student participation, geographic reach, pathway development, credential attainment, matriculation, persistence, and completion.
Identify emerging opportunities for secondary-to-postsecondary partnerships based on student demand, workforce needs, institutional capacity, and regional priorities.
Develop scalable models that allow TAMUK to serve school districts of varying sizes, including rural and geographically isolated communities.
Ensure that program expansion remains intentional and aligned with academic quality, student success, institutional capacity, and University priorities.
School District and Regional Partnerships
Serve as a primary senior-level University representative to superintendents, central office administrators, principals, counselors, CTE directors, and other K–12 leaders regarding high school and college pathway partnerships.
Maintain an active presence throughout TAMUK's service region through regular meetings, district visits, regional convenings, superintendent engagement, and other partnership-development activities.
Build trusted, long-term relationships with existing partners while actively developing relationships with prospective school districts, charter schools, private schools, education service centers, and other organizations.
Conduct strategic discussions with districts to identify student and community needs and develop customized partnership solutions.
Lead or support the development and renewal of agreements associated with Dual Credit, ECHS, P-TECH, CTE, and related programs.
Represent TAMUK at regional and statewide meetings, conferences, educational forums, and community events related to college access, college readiness, workforce development, and secondary-postsecondary partnerships.
Intentional Academic and Career Pathways
Work with academic colleges and departments to develop coherent pathways that connect high school coursework with certificates, undergraduate degrees, graduate opportunities, and careers.
Promote purposeful Dual Credit course-taking so that students earn credits that advance them toward a defined academic or career goal.
Develop pathways that may allow students to progress from Dual Credit into bachelor's degrees, accelerated degree programs, 4+1 opportunities, graduate education, or workforce credentials.
Partner with academic leadership to expand CTE and workforce-aligned pathways in areas that respond to regional and state workforce needs.
Explore opportunities to embed industry-recognized certifications, workforce credentials, and other career-connected learning experiences within high school partnerships.
Coordinate with advising and academic units to improve degree applicability and minimize unnecessary or excess credit accumulation.
Early College High School and P-TECH Development
Lead TAMUK's institutional strategy for developing and expanding Early College High School and P-TECH partnerships.
Work directly with interested school districts to assess readiness, identify academic programs, develop implementation plans, and coordinate institutional participation.
Convene appropriate academic, enrollment, advising, workforce, and administrative stakeholders in support of new ECHS and P-TECH initiatives.
Ensure that pathways are structured to provide students with meaningful progress toward degrees, credentials of value, or workforce opportunities.
Build partnerships with employers and workforce organizations when appropriate to strengthen career-connected and P-TECH programming.
Dual Credit Leadership and Oversight
Provide administrative oversight and strategic direction for the Office of Dual Credit.
Supervise and evaluate the Director of Dual Credit and support the Director in establishing annual priorities and performance expectations for the department.
Ensure high-quality and consistent service to partner school districts, students, families, faculty, and counselors.
Work with the Director to identify operational barriers and continuously improve application, registration, advising, communication, onboarding, and student-support processes.
Monitor program capacity and identify infrastructure, staffing, technology, faculty, and resource needs necessary to support responsible growth.
Support compliance with applicable University policies and state, system, accreditation, and regulatory requirements.
Faculty Capacity and Educator Credentialing
Collaborate with Academic Affairs, academic colleges, graduate programs, and school districts to address