Vice President, Education ​/ Teaching

College Unbound (CU) is a small, private, open-access college whose mission is to reinvent the higher education experience for underrepresented returning adult learners. Through rigorous and engaged scholarship, College Unbound integrates students’ own purposes for learning with the needs of their workplaces and communities, improving the lives of the students and the lives of those they touch. College Unbound’s student body is currently 530+ students with a full-time staff of 28 colleagues and a part-time faculty of 68 “Lab Faculty” and 120+ “instructional faculty.”

Started in RI, College Unbound now supports students across multiple states and looks to continue to develop an infrastructure to support strategic growth and long-term sustainability . This position comes as an exciting inflection point time for CU as the institution looks to grow from supporting hundreds to thousands of learners.

There are 2 positions!

1) The Vice President of Enrollment & Partnerships will serve as a senior leader of the College, reporting directly to the President and working closely with the Office of Community & Belonging. The VP will work to shape, align, and advance the College’sengagement across internal and external audiences while driving strategic enrollment growth.

The VP will cultivate and manage relationships with institutional partners, ensuring shared goals around outreach, recruitment, and student retention and persistence. They will provide strategic direction for CU’s Community Ambassadors—our recruitment team—supporting their work in engaging prospective students and strengthening our presence across regions.

The VP will supervise Community Organizers across multiple regions, aligning their community outreach and partnership development work with institutional goals and ensuring localized strategies reflect the College’s broader narrative and enrollment priorities.

2) For College Unbound “sustainability” is not about remaining what we are as an institution but about continually reasserting what we need to be in order to ensure students can thrive as full participants in their learning. The CFO/VP of Institutional & Student Sustainability is a critical partner in helping the college build capacity to get there and to steward the institution to its next iteration.

Reporting to the President, serving as Chief Financial Officer, and a member of the College’s collaborative leadership team, the Vice President of Sustainability oversees sustainability efforts and initiatives across the college and aligns those efforts with our commitment to supporting student sustainability.. The CFO & Vice President of Sustainability facilitates the strategic alignment of student, institutional, and community priorities; ensuring the College functions in a manner that is authentic to the equity imperative that drives College Unbound’s student success work.

The individual in this unique position is responsible for ensuring the College can effectively support and advance programmatic initiatives that promote student success, as well as the development, implementation, and maintenance of the necessary operational, administrative, and financial infrastructure of the College to support a thriving community and institution with national impact.

The VP of Sustainability acts as the Chief Financial Officer of the college by overseeing the business and finance operations of the college (strategic oversight of financial accounting, payroll, accounts payable/accounts receivable, tax, grant accounting, compliance, bursar functions), as well as areas of the College that support operational success in service of student success.

The VP of Sustainability also helps the college move toward new financial models and technological services that are not yet in place but may support the values of CU and the needs of its students, faculty, and staff. Possibility and imagination drive the work of this role as much as the current realities of the school and its allocation of resources.

• Demonstrated cultural competence and evidence of a deep commitment to equity and social justice.
• 7-10 years of relevant leadership and…