Director, PaCE Innovation and Partnerships

Director, PaCE Innovation & Partnerships

Job no: 557443. Work type:
Management (MPP).

Location:

Chancellor's Office, Long Beach, California. Classification:
Administrator III.

Salary up to $135,000 per year, commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Work Arrangements:
Flexibility to telecommute two days a week, with three days on‑site.

Benefits:
Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits;
Generous vacation plan; 15 paid holidays a year;
Tuition waiver education program (applicable to eligible family members);
Membership in the California Public Employees Retirement System (PERS).

The California State University, Office of the Chancellor seeks a Director, PaCE Innovation & Partnerships to provide systemwide leadership and oversight of self‑support operations, initiatives, and solutions that advance CSU goals for student access, success, and a student‑centered approach to enrollment management. The role focuses on strengthening collaboration across CSU and PaCE campuses to improve policies, processes, and practices that enable innovative, flexible, and scalable programs and student services.

It also builds and sustains workforce‑aligned partnerships with employers and system stakeholders, supports governance and data‑informed decision making, leads PaCE professional development initiatives, oversees integrated data and analytics, and provides strategic advisory support to the Commission on PaCE and other stakeholders.

• Manage self‑support operations, projects, and systemwide solutions focused on cultivating programs, services, partnerships, and activities supporting systemwide professional and continuing education.
• Provide leadership for growth, supporting development and implementation of new academic initiatives and programs.
• Attend meetings on behalf of the Assistant Vice Chancellor (AVC), prepare reports and presentations for systemwide dissemination, and serve as first point of contact for employers seeking system‑level educational solutions.
• Oversee systemwide initiatives, programs, and projects ensuring objectives and scope of work are met within budget, including vendor selection and collaboration.
• Keep the AVC abreast of mitigating factors affecting initiatives, programs, and projects important to professional and continuing education.
• Engage in effective written and verbal communication with campus leaders and staff, engaging campus leaders and staff systemwide, nationally, and globally.
• Maintain and develop employer‑systemwide relationships, partnerships, and initiatives, including internships, externships, and employment.
• Lead in developing workforce development partnerships with local, regional, and statewide agencies.
• Create, develop, and execute initiatives expanding workforce development programming supported by PaCE divisions at each CSU university.
• Seek avenues to build relationships with industry partners to expand educational programming partnerships statewide.
• Integrate resources and develop innovative practices to facilitate development, review, and implementation of strategic plans within PaCE aligned with the mission and strategic plan of CSU.
• Serve as strategic partner for planning, developing, and executing Commission on Professional and Continuing Education (CPaCE) objectives, goals, and key results.
• Advise the Commission on Professional and Continuing Education Chair, Vice‑chair, and AVC on meeting content, practices, cost recovery, strategic budget planning, and strategic planning.
• Oversee and lead operations, programs, initiatives and activities in support of CPaCE.
• Serve as lead for PaCE learning and development initiatives, oversee strategic and operational management, development, and leadership of curriculum, content and outcomes.
• Supervise and direct the work of professional and administrative staff, providing feedback for growth and performance development.
• Provide oversight and project management for data collection projects to automate and extract student and program data for internal and external audiences at C‑level, federal, state, and local levels.

• Master's degree or equivalent combination of education and…