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Coordinator, Central Texas Healthcare Academy

Position Number: 6963073
Location: Austin, TX
Position Type: Health - Healthcare Administration

Coordinator, Central Texas Healthcare Academy

Austin Community College

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.
Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes
Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:
Coordinator, Central Texas Healthcare Academy

Job Description Summary:
The Coordinator, Central Texas Healthcare Academy (CTHA), serves as the primary support contact for high school students participating in ACC's healthcare-focused Career Academy pathways. The Coordinator works directly with independent school district (ISD) partners, ACC Health Sciences departments, Workforce Solutions Capital Area, and industry and clinical partners to expand student access to high-quality healthcare career exploration, early college credit, credential attainment, and employment pathways.
This position provides outreach, advising, enrollment coordination, scheduling support, and student persistence interventions while maintaining a strong presence on designated high school campuses and within regional healthcare workforce networks.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Student Advising & Success Support

Serves as the primary student support contact for Central Texas Healthcare Academy pathways.
Provides targeted academic advising, including onboarding, degree planning, mid-semester progress checks, Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) discussions, and referral to ACC support services.
Coordinates and delivers CTHA-specific new student orientations.
Maintains a consistent presence at assigned high schools to support student enrollment, progress, and belonging.
Guides students and families in understanding healthcare career opportunities, certification requirements, clinical expectations, and continuing education pathways.
Enrollment, Scheduling & Program Operations
Assists in the development of semester and annual course schedules with ISD partners and ACC program departments.
Ensures accuracy of student registration, class rosters, and schedule adjustments.
Supports faculty assigned to high school locations with facility/access needs and course delivery logistics.
Tracks enrollment patterns, persistence data, and program outcomes for reporting and improvement efforts.
Coordinates and facilitates healthcare-focused career exploration presentations, recruitment events, parent nights, and classroom engagements.
Conducts recruitment strategies that intentionally support historically underserved and underrepresented student populations.
Industry and Workforce Partnerships
Collaborates with the Workforce Solutions Capital Area K-12 Healthcare Coordinator to:
Organize employer engagement events, site visits, job shadowing, and internship/clinical observation opportunities.
Maintain awareness of local healthcare labor market trends and employer workforce needs.
Develops and sustains relationships with industry partners, community-based organizations, and healthcare employers to expand work-based learning access.
Supports regional efforts to align healthcare education-to-workforce pipelines.
Program Development & Continuous Improvement
Works with ACC Health Sciences faculty and leadership to ensure pathways remain aligned to credentialing and progression into degree programs.

Knowledge

Must possess required knowledge and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
Knowledge of student support services, college advising, and academic pathway planning.
Understanding of healthcare career fields, workforce credentialing, and/or clinical training pipelines (or ability to learn quickly).
Ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships with ISD partners, faculty, and community stakeholders.
Strong communication and public speaking skills, with the ability to work effectively with students and families.
Organizational, project coordination, and follow-through skills; ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
Ability to use spreadsheets, student information systems, CRM tools, and Google Workspace applications.

Skills

Must possess required skills and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
Maintaining an established work schedule.
Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
Interpreting and applying rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
Making individual and group presentations.
Ordering and maintaining supplies and equipment.
Coordinating administrative support services.
Making travel arrangements and processing related documentation.
Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills, including tact and diplomacy.
Effectively using organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.

Technology Skills

Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.

Required Work Experience

Two years related work experience.

Required Education

Bachelor's degree. Experience cannot be substituted for education.

Other Preferred Qualifications

Bilingual a plus
Two years of related experience in education, counseling, student services, healthcare workforce development, or CTE coordination.
Experience working in high school or early college environments.
Experience supporting students in healthcare, STEM, or career and technical education programs.

Special Requirements

Licenses/Certifications; Other

Valid Texas Driver's License and reliable transportation needed for local Austin area travel.

Physical Requirements

Work is performed in a standard office or similar environment.
Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Work Environment/Schedule

Work is performed at multiple high school campuses, ACC campuses, and partner facilities.
Some evening and weekend activities required for recruitment events, parent nights, or industry partner engagements.
This position reports directly to the Career Programs Manager with ACC College and High School Relations.
This position will work very closely with outside stakeholders including Central Texas Healthcare Partnership, hospital systems as well as our ISD partners in this initiative.
This is a grant funded position. The term of the grant will not exceed 5 years.

Salary Range (PG 120)

$52,600 - $65,749

Number of Openings:
1

Job Posting Close Date:
March 12, 2026

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information.

For direct access to the current Annual Security Report, visit www.austincc.edu/asr . You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance Officer ( CleryComplianceOfficer@austincc.edu ). For an overview, see ACC's Clery Act website.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.

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