Job Description

The Director, Secondary Education Partnerships is a full-time, 12-month position. Under the direction of the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs for Student Success, the Director promotes and maintains operations of a comprehensive educational experience for students in dual credit high school programs to include Career and College Promise and Cooperative and Innovative High Schools.

The Director works collaboratively with Local Educational Agencies (LEAs), SPCC faculty, and staff to promote completion and success of high school students in college certificates, degrees, and pathways. The Director serves as the point of contact for program inquiries.

This is a supervisory position and requires travel to high schools and middle schools throughout the College’s service areas.

Job Duties

• Provide leadership and responsibility for management, operations, and promotion of High School programs including, but not limited to, Career and College Promise (CCP) initiatives for Anson and Union Counties (public, private, charter, and home schools), Cooperative and Innovative High Schools (CIHS), Career Coaching, and related programming.
• Collaborate with Local Educational Agencies (LEAs), academic divisions, and curriculum committee to develop, plan, implement, and administer high school programs and the curriculum courses offered in both transfer and career and technical education pathways.
• Identify and promote strategies for students to explore pre-apprenticeshps, industry certifications, and other workforce preparedness opportunities.
• Provide quality supervision and ongoing professional development for personnel reporting to the Director to include career coaches, early college coordinators, and other program staff.
• Provide support in the effective advising, enrollment, and registration of high school students both on-site and off-site at their local high schools as needed. Interpret test scores and high school transcripts to determine eligibility criteria. Administer career assessment as needed.
• Create and maintain effective relationships with high school partners. Maintain a consistent flow of commmunication via on-site visits, virtual meetings, email, and phone calls with prinicipals, counselors, career development coordinators and other stakeholders.
• Provide reports as needed to high school partners on book needs, student schedules, student progression, etc.
• Identify course needs and delivery to promote student progression.
• Work collaboratively with college support units such as admissions, records, academic support centers, counseling, and library services to ensure services are appropriately provided to students.
• Ensure compliance with all policies and procedures of the College, NC Community College System, NC Department of Public Instruction, and applicable state and federal guidelines.
• Contact and meet with high school career development coordinators, counselors, teachers, and principals to explain benefits of SPCC program offering and maintain SPCC materials at the service area high schools.
• Coordinate and faciliate SPCC open houses, parent nights, classroom visitations, career expos, college fairs, and other special events to discuss program options to potential students.
• Regularly audit and update reports associated with high school student progression, performance and eligibility. Ensures documentation and record keeping of student advising sessions utilizing college’s retention software.
• Collaborate with Academic and Student Affairs leadership to continuously develop policies and processes to improve the quality of high school programs and promote college completion.
• Contribute to the authoring of reports and evidence gathering related to high school populations to ensure compliance with the College’s accreditation through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).
• Attend local, regional, and state conferences/workshops to explore trends and best practices that will assist and enhance student completion in high school programs.
• Perform other duties as assigned.