Coordinator, Texas Healthcare Academy

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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

Coordinator, Central Texas Healthcare Academy

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.

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

• 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…