Associate Vice President of HBCU Programs
Roadtrip Nation
Remote
Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Would you love to play a direct role in transforming student success at HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges & Universities)? InsideTrack is looking for an experienced, results-oriented leader who feels motivated by our nonprofit mission of helping individuals reach their educational and career goals through the power of coaching. The ideal candidate will strengthen student outcomes at HBCUs across the nation that primarily serve low-income, first generation, and under-resourced learners. Through strong network partnerships, you will help us deliver results that increase enrollment, retention and graduation at these historical institutions. This is an opportunity to do work with a deep and fundamental commitment to equity and belonging.
If this speaks to you, please come join us as the Associate Vice President of HBCU Programs. Report to the Vice President of Operations to lead program execution at over 40 HBCUs. You will have 2-3 direct reports and a team of approximately 26, all focused on student success.
The Difference You’ll Make:
Your Responsibilities
You’ll ensure program excellence while managing our talented internal team, manage partner and funder relationships, and curate key learnings and best practices to share with the field. With a focus on impact, this role is intentional about how coaching can strengthen community, belonging, success and completion among students and the institutions that serve them. This role will also represent InsideTrack externally by speaking at conferences, publishing opinion pieces and joining conversations with other higher ed leaders.
- Manage the overall relationship with intermediary HBCU partners/clients, such as UNCF, Partnership for Education Advancement and Thurgood Marshall College Fund
- Provide strong leadership, oversight and coaching to the team that is focused on managing relationships at individual HBCU institutions
- Provide thought leadership through collecting and analyzing insights, lessons learned and best practices and share them with partners, internal marketing team and externally
- Serve as a member of the Operations Strategy Group (OSG) and provide leadership across Operations and in addition to HBCU team
- Gather insights relevant to unique HBCU attributes and work with internal teams to embed into InsideTrack’s Coaching and Training to deepen student engagement
- Develop, design and implement the strategies for the Communities of Practice for HBCU convening and shared learning regarding HBCU coaching and capacity building
- Develop a library of resources to support HBCU partnerships with their student success efforts and coaching program development
- Provide high level strategic consultation to leaders at partner institutions on best practices in areas including, but not limited to student success, support services, and change management
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of trends in higher ed and specifically HBCUs; share, as appropriate, with prospects and existing partners
Your Qualifications
Education requirements: Bachelor’s degree is required. Master’s degree is a plus. Preference given to HBCU graduates
Experience requirements: Ten (10) years of management experience, preferably with some experience in higher ed, a non-profit organization, philanthropy and/or with HBCUs. Experience with program design, execution and evaluation required.
Performance requirements:
- Experience leveraging relationships and leading strategic partnerships
- Proven track record of collaborating and implementing best practices with HBCU partnerships and initiatives
- Serve as an effective team leader and communicator with the ability to engage and maintain communication with cross-functional roles and departments
- Experience in relationship building and demonstrated competency in HBCU culture
- Stewardship of diverse partners with varying interests and resources
- Experience representing program outcomes with partners at funders and institutions with the goal of growing impact
- Strong business acumen, including analytical and quantitative skills (ability to understand complex financial models including ROI and operating margins)
- Strong project management skills and ability to direct internal and external stakeholders. Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with competing priorities and deadlines
- Requires the right mix of sales and partner management experience, industry knowledge, strategic thinking and discipline
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills strong and demonstrated public speaking and presentation skills
ABOUT INSIDETRACK:
InsideTrack is a nonprofit organization that’s passionate about empowering and advancing learners to achieve their education and career goals. By harnessing the power of coaching, our work creates opportunity, enhances individual well-being, facilitates economic and social mobility, and advances equity. Since 2001, we’ve served more than 3.5 million students, partnering with over 380 institutions and organizations to directly improve post-secondary enrollment, persistence and completion and increase career readiness. We partner with over 40 HBCUs thanks to support from and partnership with UNCF, Partnership for Education Advancement and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. To learn more about our HBCU work visit https://www.insidetrack.org/hbcu-pbis
Our growing organization offers a culture that promotes diversity and inclusion, job fulfillment, personal growth, and work-life balance. Join us in our mission to expand our impact as we improve lives and create social change.