Program Team Lead

Overview

Are you someone who strives for excellence, values accountability, provides the best service, all while reflecting unwavering integrity? Our talented team members across the state follow these core values to ensure that our vision is met. If you're ready to join the TSTC family and make great memories, please complete our application process.

Job Description

As a Program Team Lead reporting to the campus Provost offices, you will shape TSTC's relationships with faculty and students. You will be accountable for an instructional program or group of programs and guide a program and faculty team at a campus location toward achieving strong performance and growing capabilities in placing more Texans in great paying jobs. You will accomplish results by fostering a high-trust culture, communicating a path to success, executing goals, and coaching and developing faculty and students.

The role emphasizes leading for performance and empathy toward teammates and students, collaborating with campus leadership, statewide partners, and cross-functional departments to align with TSTC's mission.

The role includes management responsibilities such as goal setting, strategic alignment, personnel management, local participation in statewide activities, hiring qualified team members, budget accountability, and other day-to-day tasks. Occasionally, the Program Team Lead may provide course coverage if credentialed, but the role generally does not include a teaching load.

Salary Range: $88,000 - $101,000

The final salary offer will be determined based on the candidate's qualifications and experience.

• Team Leadership:
  Build quality relationships with faculty, students, and industry clients, fostering trust, respect, and empathy toward team members.
• Provide guidance to assigned students and instructors.
• Recruit and retain a highly qualified faculty team, support faculty development, and cultivate a learning environment that develops students as productive workforce members.
• Establish clear performance expectations for faculty and manage instructors' performance to achieve goals and initiatives.
• Create a culture of feedback within the team and learning environment.
• Develop a team environment focused on trust, accountability, candor, commitment, and results.
• Communicate regularly with faculty to ensure engagement and accountability.

• Participate in the program's sales and marketing efforts.
• Assist with recruiting efforts, coordinating campus and statewide campaigns, and engaging faculty in student recruitment.
• Represent the program to stakeholders.

• Monitor student learning outcomes and leading indicators, coordinating with faculty, campus, and statewide resources for evaluation and intervention.
• Monitor student persistence to identify and remove systemic barriers.
• Manage student and faculty grievance processes with shared service providers and local leadership.

• Serve as the primary coordinator for local industrial employer engagement.
• Form and cultivate local industrial employer councils, facilitating annual workshops to align curriculum with labor market trends.
• Research and apply industry trends and emerging technology.

• Coordinate program resources for recruiting, safety, and course scheduling.
• Participate in budget development with statewide partners and manage ongoing operational budgets.
• Collaborate with shared services on curriculum and content development, ensuring industry and community relevance in the vetting and submission of statewide advisory committee membership and contributing to placing more Texans in great-paying jobs.

• Demonstrated leadership and guidance in enhancing student achievement in a competency-based learning environment.
• Effective coaching and communication skills with a diverse student population.
• Successful communication and collaboration with diverse professional colleagues, partners, and stakeholders.
• Understanding of a competency-based education model.
• Experience leading a team focused on student support and instruction.
• Proficient in technology-based educational delivery systems.
• Proven ability to work with struggling or at-risk students.

• Demonstrated ability to lead a team using a relational leadership style (influence over authority).
• Familiarity with stakeholders within the related program discipline (e.g., employers, faculty, vendors).
• Ability to drive organizational change.
• Relevant credentials from an accredited institution as required by program (e.g., program-specific accreditor).
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.

• Experience recruiting and developing a team.
• Experience with profit and loss responsibility and accountability.
• Experience working with adult learners and distance learning environments.
• Experience with Change Management and leading change.
• Experience working as faculty within TSTC or a similar environment.
• Demonstrated project…