Director of K-12 Engagement and Dual Credit

Compensation:

$78,708 - $100,402

Compensation Type:

Salary

Employment Type:

Regular

Grade:

E10

Position Summary

The Director of K–12 Engagement and Dual Credit reports to the Executive Director of P20 Strategic Partnerships and provides institutional leadership for CNM's K12 engagement strategy and serves as the operational leader of the CNM Dual Credit Office. The Director develops and manages strategic relationships with school districts, schools, and community partners while coordinating the college-wide dual credit program across academic, enrollment, learner success, and engagement functions. The position is responsible for ensuring that K12 partners and students experience CNM as a coordinated institution, even when services are delivered by different departments. The Director establishes program strategy, operating standards, partnership expectations, performance measures, and cross-functional processes and serves as the primary institutional escalation point for complex K12 and dual credit issues.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead CNM's K12 engagement strategy to advance college and career readiness, postsecondary access, and education-to-career pathways.
• Supervise staff by prioritizing work, conducting performance evaluations, coaching employees, and ensuring alignment with departmental priorities.
• Serve as the institutional leader of the CNM Dual Credit Office, providing strategic and operational leadership for program strategy, policy, standards, and performance.
• Coordinate the college-wide Dual Credit operating model, integrating Student Recruitment, Admissions and Registration, Advisement, Academic Affairs, and other functional areas while respecting decentralized functional ownership.
• Lead the K12 partnership portfolio, including strategic relationship management, partnership planning, shared goals, agreements, and performance expectations.
• Advance Dual Credit learner success and matriculation, coordinating pathway development, readiness, intervention, and transition strategies.
• Establish and monitor K12 and Dual Credit outcomes and KPIs, using data, stakeholder feedback, and continuous improvement practices to strengthen program effectiveness and impact.
• Provide institutional leadership and cross-functional problem-solving, serving as a senior liaison to K12 partners and CNM leadership and leading assigned staff and collaborative teams.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in education, public administration, business administration, workforce development, or a closely related field. AND Five (5) years of experience in higher education, secondary education, dual credit programs, workforce programs, and/or community partnerships

PLEASE NOTE: Only completed applications that include a cover letter will be considered for review

Preferences:

• Experience with K12 and higher education systems and partnerships
• Experience leading or administering a dual credit, early college, college access, or similar K12/postsecondary program
• Bilingual English/Spanish

EEO STATEMENT:

As an EEO employer, Central New Mexico Community College will not discriminate in our employment practices based on an applicant’s race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, serious medical condition or status as a protected veteran or spousal affiliation. Central New Mexico Community College hires only U.S. citizens and individuals lawfully authorized to work in the U.S.