Employer: Mesa Community College
Location: Mesa, Arizona (US)
Salary: $110,561.00 - $143,729.00/annually, DOE
Date posted: Feb 10, 2026
Position Type: Administrative, Student Affairs
Employment Type: Full Time
Job Details
- Design and launch the college’s first comprehensive retention and completion framework, including vision, goals, priorities, guided pathways, first-year momentum and success metrics, and strategic enrollment management.
Experience developing and executing multi-year strategies related to retention, completion, or enrollment stabilization.Enhance organizational infrastructure for retention and completion, including staffing models, workflows, policies, and governance structures.A record of measurable impact on student success outcomes in a community college or access-oriented environment.Deep understanding of guided pathways, case-management models, and data-informed decision-making.Build and integrate early alert, case-management, and intervention systems that span advising, enrollment services, academic affairs, and student support units.Lead the development and implementation of early alert and proactive intervention systems, including coordinated academic and student support responses.Identify, pilot, scale, and institutionalize evidence-based practices that improve course success, persistence, completion, and transfer.Establish clear metrics, accountability structures, and assessment cycles to ensure continuous improvement and sustained impact.Lead cross-functional collaboration and partner with academic deans, faculty, student services, institutional research, enrollment management, and executive leadership to embed completion-focused practices into programs, pathways, and curriculum and align policies and practices.Use disaggregated student success data to identify equity gaps, guide resource allocation, and drive continuous improvement.Develop assessment plans and dashboards to monitor outcomes and communicate progress to campus stakeholders and senior leadership.Develop, mentor, and supervise high-performing teams and execute and scale initiatives aligned with retention and completion goals; manage associated budgets and grants.The ability to lead through change, align diverse stakeholders, and establish a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.Translate data and outcomes into executive-level and accreditation-ready reporting.Represent the college in system-wide, state, and national student success initiatives.Serve as a campus leader and external representative for student success, retention, and completion initiatives.This inaugural role is responsible for designing, launching, and institutionalizing a comprehensive, college-wide retention and completion program.
