Campus Executive Director

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Job Description

The Campus Executive Director serves as the senior executive leader of an assigned Texas State Technical College campus, providing strategic leadership, institutional representation, and accountability for campus vision, instructional performance, organizational effectiveness, and enterprise integration.
The Campus Executive Director is the principal author and champion of a compelling, market-based campus vision that advances TSTC's mission to place more Texans in great-paying jobs. The position requires entrepreneurial ambition, substantial independent leadership judgment, and the ability to recognize, develop, and advance significant opportunities that strengthen TSTC's contribution to regional economic prosperity.
Operating within TSTC's statewide organizational model, the Campus Executive Director leads the assigned campus instructional organization and serves as a principal integrator of capabilities and services delivered through Operations, Business Development, and Administrative Support. The position exercises substantial influence across organizational boundaries, recognizing that responsibility for advancing a cohesive campus experience frequently extends beyond direct supervisory authority.
The Campus Executive Director serves as TSTC's principal executive representative in the assigned local market, exercising substantial delegated authority in industry, governmental, community, and economic development relationships. The position independently leads campus strategy and performance while engaging the assigned AVC or COO in strategic dialogue, executive coaching, and collaboration when beneficial.
The position is distinguished by the substantial scope and complexity of its campus assignment, meaningful institutional exposure, and the developed executive judgment and organizational influence required to fulfill its responsibilities.

1. Campus Vision, Market Strategy, and Long-Term Development

• Serves as the principal author and champion of a compelling, market-based campus vision informed by prospective student demand, labor markets, industry developments, regional economic opportunities, and TSTC's employment-outcomes mission.
• Exercises ownership of the campus vision, leading its development, communication, and execution in collaboration with campus personnel and institutional partners.
• Demonstrates entrepreneurial ambition and initiative in identifying, developing, and advancing opportunities for campus growth, instructional expansion, market responsiveness, and regional economic impact.
• Takes ownership of the campus's long-term development, pursuing opportunities with creativity, persistence, and sound judgment while engaging appropriate enterprise partners to strengthen strategy, evaluate risks, and mobilize institutional capabilities.
• Leads long-range campus development planning, considering instructional portfolio opportunities, facilities, equipment, productive capacity, market positioning, and institutional investment needs.
• Exercises substantial independent judgment in evaluating and advancing significant campus opportunities, including those involving meaningful organizational complexity, resource implications, or institutional risk.
• Engages the assigned AVC or COO in strategic dialogue, constructive challenge, and executive coaching while retaining primary ownership of campus strategy.

2. Campus Performance, Enterprise Integration, and Student Experience

• Provides leadership for campus performance and effectiveness, advancing instructional production, student success, market responsiveness, and the campus's contribution to TSTC's employment-outcomes mission.
• Serves as a principal integrator of capabilities and services provided by Operations, Business Development, and Administrative Support, recognizing the distinct responsibilities and decision-making authority of each function.
• Exercises courageous, mature, and influential interfunctional leadership to advance coordinated campus performance and a cohesive student experience, including collaboration concerning student engagement, student support, facilities, housing where applicable, dining, campus stores, and other campus services.
• Builds effective working relationships with enterprise partners, advocating for campus needs, addressing service challenges, and helping resolve competing priorities.
• Identifies barriers to campus effectiveness and works with appropriate enterprise leaders to strengthen institutional processes, capabilities, and service delivery.
• Exercises constructive challenge and organizational influence to resolve complex service and operational issues across functions.
• Engages the Core team or appropriate enterprise executives when significant issues require broader institutional decisions or intervention.

3. Instructional Leadership, Production, and Organizational Development

• Provides leadership and accountability for the assigned campus instructional organization, generally supervising Program Team Leads (PTLs) directly, with additional supervisory layers, including Senior Directors, where warranted by campus scale, complexity, and organizational design.
• Leads, coaches, develops, and evaluates assigned instructional leaders, establishing clear expectations for instructional quality, faculty effectiveness, organizational accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Exercises delegated authority for faculty employment decisions, including hiring and separation, in accordance with institutional policy, established procedures, and applicable requirements.
• Leads the performance and continuous improvement of instructional programs delivered at the campus, with particular attention to instructional quality, faculty effectiveness, productive capacity, resource utilization, student progression, and employment outcomes.
• Uses program-level performance information and operational insight to identify constraints, challenge assumptions, improve execution, and strengthen instructional effectiveness.
• Partners with instructional portfolio leaders, deans, and other enterprise stakeholders to align local instructional delivery with industry needs, institutional standards, and broader portfolio strategies.
• Advocates for instructional improvements, program investments, and changes in productive capacity based on market opportunity, operational performance, and anticipated employment outcomes.
• Develops an effective instructional leadership organization capable of translating campus and institutional priorities into local execution.
• Ensures that campus instructional personnel fulfill local production responsibilities and commitments to enterprise-wide instructional initiatives.

4. Campus Culture, External Leadership, and Institutional Representation

• Serves as the principal leadership influence in shaping the culture, character, and identity of the campus, cultivating an environment that reflects TSTC's mission, values, and commitment to technical excellence.
• Champions a campus culture that celebrates technical mastery, professional identity, student achievement, belonging, and shared expectations associated with preparation for meaningful careers.
• Builds shared commitment among faculty, staff, students, and enterprise partners to the campus vision and culture.
• Serves as TSTC's principal executive representative in the assigned local market, developing productive relationships with employers, business executives, civic leaders, elected officials, economic development organizations, educational partners, and community stakeholders.
• Identifies and advances industry partnerships, community initiatives, and regional opportunities that strengthen the campus's market position and institutional contribution.
• Represents TSTC's mission, capabilities, and institutional interests with credibility and sound judgment, operating within established delegated authority.
• Exercises substantial independent judgment in significant external engagements and recognizes when the scope or institutional consequences of an opportunity warrant broader executive participation.
• Recognizes opportunities requiring broader institutional engagement or authorization and facilitates involvement by the Core team or appropriate enterprise leaders while maintaining continuity of local relationships.

5. Financial Stewardship, Program Economics, and Investment Planning

• Develops and applies a sophisticated understanding of the economic and operational drivers of campus performance, including instructional production, program costs, capacity utilization, resource requirements, market demand, and employment outcomes.
• Exercises responsible stewardship of assigned financial, human, physical, and instructional resources within established authority.
• Partners with Finance, facilities and equipment deployment, instructional leadership, and other enterprise functions to strengthen the practical use of program-level economic and operational information.
• Evaluates potential returns on campus investments, including anticipated contributions to instructional capacity, student success, employment outcomes, and long-term institutional effectiveness.
• Develops and advocates for campus capital and resource priorities grounded in market opportunity, strategic alignment, institutional readiness, productive capacity, and responsible stewardship.
• Exercises sound judgment in evaluating significant investment opportunities, resource constraints, financial exposure, and institutional implications, engaging appropriate executive...

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