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Director, Campus Management and Operations

Position Number: 6899390
Location: Austin, TX
Position Type: Facilities Management

Director, Campus Management and Operations

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:
Director, Campus Management and Operations

Job Description Summary:
Responsible for the leadership, coordination, and oversight of operational functions across all campuses within the Community College District. The Director ensures consistent, high-quality operations that support the district's mission of academic excellence, student success, student completion and community engagement. This role serves as the strategic and operational leader for campus infrastructure and support services, ensuring campuses are safe, accessible, well-maintained, and operationally efficient.

Job Description:

Supervision Received and Exercised

Reports to an Administrator and collaborates extensively with other department heads and executive leadership to ensure alignment with college-wide initiatives. This role exercises supervision and oversight over a team of managers and individual contributors. The Director is responsible for guiding, mentoring, and evaluating performance, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.

Competency Expectations

Provide district-wide leadership for the development and on-going support of operational and strategic relationships with community-based organizations and other external partners including, but not limited to, community businesses, non-profits and educational partners to support student success initiatives, especially for low income and other targeted student populations.
Lead the creation and execution of a strategic plan, in concert with leadership from ACC and its partners.
Plans, develops, recommends, and oversees ACC budgets; approves expenditures.
Develops, writes, and implements operating policies and procedures.
May represent ACC at local community events or in area-specific contexts
Responsible for all campus operations in assigned region, including hiring, training, supervision, and evaluation of staff; budget development and monitoring; facilities contracts; course scheduling; and classroom scheduling and maintenance.

Description of Duties and Tasks

Leads campus operations and staff management, including supervision, hiring recommendations, training, evaluation, professional development, and performance management of campus management and operations staff, in compliance with HR policies and employment laws.
Oversees all campus operations, including budget development and monitoring; approval of expenditures; facilities and infrastructure coordination; course and room scheduling; classroom and space maintenance; work order oversight; and long-range space and infrastructure planning.
Ensures safe, compliant, and well-maintained campus environments by monitoring facilities conditions; coordinating building systems (HVAC, electrical, plumbing); overseeing risk management, safety inspections, ADA compliance; and participating in emergency planning, drills, and incident response in collaboration with district and campus safety teams.
Develops and implements operational policies, procedures, and reporting, including preparation of campus operational, space utilization, fixed asset, and ad hoc reports; and dissemination of college-wide and campus information.
Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders, including campus leaders, deans, student services staff, Facilities Planning and Construction, and community partners, to support campus operations, capital projects, and community engagement initiatives.
Leads special projects and provides executive-level reporting, representing ACC at community events as needed, providing regular updates to leadership on campus conditions, projects, and performance metrics, and traveling to other campuses as required.

Job Requirements

Knowledge:

Understand and perform administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
Apply principles and processes for providing customer and personal services including customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Basic principles of college-level administration.
Utilize effective communication techniques and strategies.
Operate standard office equipment including computers, telephones, copiers, and scanners.
Follow and apply knowledge of college policies and procedures.
Principles, best practices, and trends in administrative and/or facilities management.
Supervisory principles, practices, and methods.

Skills:

Demonstrate required skills and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
Make decisions based on thorough analysis of issues and sound judgement.
Exhibit strong interpersonal skills, tact, discretion, and ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of individuals and constituents in a multicultural college community.
Show effective leadership, team building skills, and strong customer orientation when working with students, faculty, administration, community and business leaders.
Utilize organizational and planning skills, and ability to meet deadlines.
Maintain confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
Maintain an established work schedule, with occasional nights and weekends. Required to respond to emergencies after hours, weekends, holidays, and during emergency closures.
Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
Use query and control languages, web technology, client-server technology, data extraction and reporting, troubleshooting enterprise software applications, testing new program releases and patches, and integrating data from external sources.
Apply accounting and financial management principals.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's degree or higher.

Experience:

5 years of related experience including one year of supervisory experience.
Completion of the ACC Supervisor Certificate Series Program will satisfy the supervisory experience required for this position.

Supplemental Experience:

Valid Texas Driver's License and reliable transportation for travel in the Austin area as required.

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Facilities Management, Public Administration, or a related field.
Master's degree in a related field.

Experience:

Five (5) or more years of related experience in business operations, facilities management, or higher education, including at least three (3) years of supervisory experience; education may not be substituted for supervisory experience.
Experience working with community organizations.
Experience in facilities management and/or supervising business operations.

Knowledge/Skills:

Strong understanding of campus or office management systems.
Experience with building operations functions.
Demonstrated leadership skills.
Demonstrated project management skills.
Understanding of business/project management specifications.
Ad Astra scheduling software.

Physical Demands:

Standard office environment.

Work Environment:

This position falls under ACC's Remote/In-Person framework.

Salary Range

$99,155 - $123,943

Number of Openings:
1

Job Posting Close Date:
February 17, 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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