Director, College Access Programs

Director, College Access Programs

Grant Funded position

Overview:

Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, through its College Access Programs (CAP) Department, provides multiple services that assist prospective and current college students in achieving their academic goals. From secondary school students to first generation college students, the College''s access programs build awareness of and deliver resources that have supported the higher education aspirations of hundreds of college students in the region.

CAP programs include:

• Two (2) U.S. Department of Education TRIO grants:
• Traditional Upward Bound (TUB), serving Mt. Healthy High School (Funded 2022-2027*)
• Student Support Services (SSS), serving first generation students enrolled at Cincinnati State (Funded 2025-2030*)
• Funding is contingent on meeting annual performance outcomes*

The Director of College Access Programs serves as the project director of all TRiO grant projects and oversees all programming, charged with the delivery of specific program services, both on the College''s Clifton campus, and throughout the community. The Director and Manager of Student Support Services are responsible for ensuring compliance with all grant requirements, successful completion of all performance outcomes, data collection, and reporting.

Essential Duties:

• Responsibility for the successful day- to-day operations of CAP operations, including programming, financial accountability, and reporting.
• Responsible for financial management, reporting and documentation related to the expenditure of grant and college funds supporting all activities.
• Program development, execution and ongoing evaluation of grant priorities, strategies and outcomes.
• Interface and communication with the internal strategic partners to include the College''s division resources and supporting departments; external partners such as community- based organizations; and overall marketing, outreach and collaboration within the service areas.
• Records administration and organization to include developing policies and procedures to capture and record data, data integrity, annual program performance reviews and reporting.
• Problem solving, resource deployment and/or troubleshooting barriers and issues related to grant implementation, partners, grant vendors, participants and/or other stakeholders.
• Monthly evidence-based progress reports, and other quantitative and qualitative data that may be requested and/or will contribute to continuous quality improvement of the project and its impact on student success and grant outcomes.
• Participation in and representation of the College in meetings, conference calls, site visits as required.
• Integrate and ensure CAP contributions in support of the College''s Student Success and Completion Plan, the Cincinnati State Strategic Plan, and continuous improvement efforts associated with Higher Learning Commission accreditation requirements.
• Disseminate ongoing education and information of project progress, results, best practices and key learnings of CAP projects and impacts on student success.
• Assist in developing protocols and policies to increase quality, timeliness and effectiveness in responding to student needs, including assisting students with action-planning for success, managing referred student concerns and issues, and data collection.
• Effective management of and ongoing professional development of personnel.
• Other duties as may be assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Master''s Degree in a relevant discipline
• At least three (3) years of experience in managing a grant-funded project or program, including budgeting, and performance outcome reporting
• At least three (3) years of experience in higher education
• At least three (3) years of experience hiring, supervising and developing personnel
• Exceptional proficiency with all Microsoft Office programs, with significant experience working with Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Experience in data base and case management systems to include data entry and aggregating data for reporting purposes.
• Travel to designated TUB high schools (Mt. Healthy and North College Hill) and participate in all program related activities
• Serve as chaperone for TUB programming including Summer College Tour (includes overnight stays)
• Ability to work evenings and weekends as may be needed

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing federal grants and/or TRiO grant projects
• Experience working with Ellucian/Colleague, Blumen data systems
• Experience working within a community and/or 2-year technical college
• Experience performing research and data analysis, developing relevant metrics to track program effectiveness and ensure appropriate accountability measures.

Desired Competencies:

• The ability to relate to racially and culturally diverse groups including low-income, first-generation and disabled populations.
• Familiarity with student retention theories/practices and knowledge of instructional practices related to student development and success and/or developmental learning at the post-secondary, particularly, the community college level.
• Superior writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently, without supervision and as an inspirational team leader.

Details:

Reports To: Sr. Director of Student Success & Development

Minimum Compensation: $65,000/year

Contract Affiliation: Non-Bargaining

Status: Fulltime

Classification: Exempt

Benefits:

Cincinnati State provides employees with high quality and cost-effective benefits with a variety of options:

• Medical Insurance (PPO- employer covers up to 92% of the premium, HDHP- employer covers 100% of the premium)
• Dental Insurance (employer covers 100% of the premium)
• Vision Insurance
• NO WAITING PERIODS! Medical, Vision and Dental benefits are effective from day one of employment!
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account (employer contributions)
• Short-Term Disability: Offering 60% of your salary with a max of $500 weekly
• Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance (employer paid)
• Supplemental Life Insurance, Critical Illness and Accident: Optional at employee expense
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance Plan for employees, spouse and dependents
• Tuition Waiver for employees, spouse and dependents
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Free parking
• 11 annual paid holidays in addition to generous paid time off options including vacation, sick, personal leave, and winter season days.
• Employees at Cincinnati State qualifies for Public Service Loan Forgiveness

Retirement:

As a Cincinnati State employee, and an employee of an Ohio public institution, you will not contribute to the Federal Social Security system. Instead, our employees will contribute to a State Retirement Plan (SERS or STRS) or an Alternative Retirement Plan (ARP): 403B and/or Deferred Compensation Program 457 Plan.

Cincinnati State is an E-Verify employer:

• If you''re hired, you must complete a Form I-9, which verifies your identity and your legal right to work in the U.S.
• You''ll need to provide original, acceptable documents-no photocopies-to complete the I-9 process.
• A list of acceptable documents can be seen here: USCIS I-9 website

STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT

• The institution declares that it will educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth.
• The institution declares that its duty is to equip students with the opportunity to develop the intellectual skills they need to reach their own, informed conclusions.
• The institution declares its commitment to not requiring, favoring, disfavoring, or prohibiting speech or lawful assembly.
• The institution declares it is committed to create a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth, and tolerates the differences in opinion that naturally occur in a public higher education community.
• The institution declares that its duty is to treat all faculty, staff, and students as individuals, to hold them to equal standards, and to provide them equality of opportunity, with regard to those individuals'' race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.