Senior Associate Vice Chancellor, Workforce and Continuing Education

Job Description

Dallas College is seeking an accomplished, forward-thinking workforce education leader to serve as Senior Associate Vice Chancellor, Workforce Continuing Education. This executive leadership opportunity will help shape the future of workforce development, continuing education, professional training, adult education, and accelerated career pathways across Dallas College.

The Senior Associate Vice Chancellor will provide strategic leadership for a comprehensive portfolio of workforce education initiatives designed to respond to evolving industry demands, strengthen economic mobility, and expand access to high-value credentials, certifications, and lifelong learning opportunities. The role combines strategy with execution, leading efforts across workforce programming, industry engagement, operational performance, resource stewardship, credential attainment, and workforce outcomes.

Working collaboratively with academic, workforce, industry, community, and governmental partners, the Senior Associate Vice Chancellor will help translate labor market needs into innovative education and training solutions. The leader will play an important role in creating stronger connections among education, employers, career advancement, and regional economic growth.

Why This Role Matters

Workforce needs continue to evolve, creating new opportunities for Dallas College to connect individuals with the education, skills, credentials, and training needed to advance their careers while helping employers develop the talent required for a changing economy.

In this role, the Senior Associate Vice Chancellor will have the opportunity to:

Shape workforce education strategy by aligning programs with labor market demand, economic development priorities, workforce trends, and institutional goals.
Expand access to high-value career pathways through continuing education, professional education, integrated adult education, fast-track programs, credentials, certifications, licenses, upskilling, and reskilling opportunities.
Strengthen industry talent pipelines across sectors including Aerospace, Automotive, Business and Finance, Construction Trades, Healthcare, Information Technology, Advanced Manufacturing, Logistics, and other emerging workforce sectors.
Build meaningful employer and community partnerships that support customized training, contract education, apprenticeships, workforce grants, and pathways to employment.
Advance economic mobility by creating flexible, responsive educational pathways that accelerate workforce entry, career advancement, and lifelong learning.
Drive sustainable growth and performance through enrollment growth, revenue generation, resource stewardship, workforce funding strategies, and data-informed decision-making.

The Leadership Opportunity

Workforce Strategy & Innovation

Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Workforce Continuing Education programs, professional education, integrated adult education, and accelerated career pathways. Drive long-range workforce planning and identify opportunities to expand credential attainment, incumbent-worker upskilling, reskilling, and career advancement.

Industry & Employer Partnerships

Develop and sustain relationships with employers, industry associations, workforce boards, governmental agencies, community organizations, and economic development entities. Translate current and emerging employer talent needs into responsive education and training solutions.

Workforce Programs & Pathways

Provide strategic oversight for a broad portfolio of Workforce Continuing Education programs and help advance curriculum, work-based learning, apprenticeships, and training models that connect education with employment and career advancement.

Growth & Resource Stewardship

Provide executive oversight for budgets, resource allocation, financial performance, revenue generation, enrollment growth, expense management, and established workforce education performance metrics. Lead funding strategies involving Workforce Pell initiatives, grants, and state and federal funding opportunities.

Organizational Leadership

Lead and develop teams while establishing clear performance expectations and accountability. Build leadership capacity and foster a culture centered on trust, engagement, collaboration, innovation, service excellence, professional development, and continuous improvement.

Ideal Leadership Profile

The successful candidate will be an experienced workforce education executive who understands the intersection of education, industry, workforce development, and economic opportunity.

This leader will bring the ability to:

Anticipate emerging workforce and labor market needs and translate those needs into scalable education and career pathways.
Develop and execute complex workforce strategies while balancing long-term priorities with operational demands.
Build strong partnerships across employers, government, workforce boards, communities, and educational institutions.
Use labor market intelligence, enrollment, financial, workforce, and performance data to inform strategy and measure results.
Lead organizational change and continuous improvement across a complex, multi-functional workforce education environment.
Communicate, negotiate, influence, and build consensus with executive leaders, boards, elected officials, employers, community stakeholders, faculty, staff, and students.

About Dallas College

Dallas College is one of the largest community college systems in Texas, committed to transforming lives and communities through higher education. The College provides accessible, affordable, and high-quality education designed to empower students to achieve their academic and career goals. Dallas College's core values include integrity, respect, opportunity, collaboration, accountability, engagement, and support.

Join Us

This is an opportunity to help shape the future of workforce education at Dallas College and strengthen the connection among education, industry, career opportunity, and economic mobility.

If you are an accomplished workforce leader energized by building industry partnerships, developing innovative workforce and continuing education solutions, expanding access to high-value credentials, and creating pathways that help individuals and communities thrive, we invite you to consider joining Dallas College.

Minimum Requirements for Position

Doctorate degree in a related field.
Ten (10) years of executive leadership experience in contract negotiations, educational partnerships, higher education workforce development, continuing education, adult education, grant development and implementation, and corporate training.
Strong and proven positive track record background in industry partnerships, budgeting, and regulatory compliance
Current and valid Texas driver's license required
Bilingual or multilingual preferred.
Official transcripts required.