Director of Community Partnerships and Learning

Clark University

Location: Worcester, MA Category: Staff and Administrators Job Type: Full-time - Exempt Posted On: Tue Jul 7 2026 Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities

I. Community Partnership Development and Management (30%)

• Work with community partners, faculty, staff, and campus offices to translate partner needs into structured internships, projects, research placements, course-based experiences, or other student learning opportunities.
• Help community partners understand the range of possible student engagement models, including internships, short-term projects, course collaborations, research partnerships, and funded placements.
• Maintain strong working relationships with community partners. Communicate with community partners to clarify and confirm student roles, supervision, learning goals, timelines, deliverables, expectations, and/or feedback. Document engagement in shared community partner CRM.
• Ensure that opportunities are appropriately posted, promoted, matched, and supported.
• Collaborate with the Director of the Collaborative for Community Engagement to ensure that partner-facing communication and student opportunity development are coordinated. Help ensure that community-based student opportunities are reciprocal, ethical, appropriately scoped, and useful to both students and partners.

II. Equity, Access, and Funded Opportunity Pathways (10%)

• Support other staff in the Career Exploration and Experiential Learning unit to do the following:
• Expand community-based internships, projects, research opportunities, and other experiential placements.
• Support efforts to expand equitable access to community-based internships, research experiences, and experiential learning opportunities, including connecting students to available opportunity funding.
• Partner with advisors, career staff, faculty, and student-facing offices to help students identify and pursue community-based opportunities aligned with their goals.
• Identify and address barriers that prevent students from participating in community-based experiences.
• Help develop pathways that make community-engaged learning accessible to students across majors, class years, identities, and financial circumstances.
• Track participation patterns to help Clark understand who is accessing community-based opportunities and where additional support is needed.

IV. Tracking, Assessment, and Student Opportunity Data (20%)

• Support tracking of student participation in community-based internships, research, projects, course-based experiences, funded placements, and other experiential learning opportunities.
• Coordinate with the Director of the Collaborative for Community Engagement to ensure that student opportunity data connects with broader institutional partner records and community engagement reporting.
• Support integration among relevant systems, including Handshake, Slate/Insight, Airtable or other project-tracking tools, community partner CRM, ePortfolio, public-facing web displays, and internal reporting systems.
• Develop reports on student participation, experiential placements, partner engagement, reflection, career readiness, equity of access, and outcomes.
• Collect partner and student feedback related to the quality of specific placements or learning experiences.
• Use data to improve opportunity design, student preparation, partner communication, and institutional decision-making.

V. Faculty, Staff, and Campus Partner Support (20%)

• Serve as a resource for faculty and staff seeking to build student-facing community-based learning opportunities. Support faculty and staff in designing appropriately scoped community projects, internships, research placements, or course collaborations. Help clarify operational needs such as timelines, student preparation, partner expectations, deliverables, supervision, risk considerations, and reflection.
• Coordinate with schools, departments, centers, Community Engagement and Volunteering, Student Success, and other offices to align student-facing community opportunities.

VI. Communications, Promotion, and Strategic Alignment (20%)

• Help ensure that student-facing opportunities developed across the university are visible, coordinated, and assessable. Ensure that students can easily find community-based internships, research opportunities, projects, funded placements, and experiential learning options.
• Promote opportunities through appropriate platforms, including Handshake, webpages, newsletters, advising channels, events, and other student-facing communications.
• Support the development and maintenance of the opportunity-facing portions of the Collaborative for Community Engagement web presence.
• Work with Marketing and Communications, the Director of the Collaborative for Community Engagement, and campus partners to identify student stories and partner examples that demonstrate the value of community-engaged learning to make Clark's community-based student learning opportunities visible to prospective students, families, donors, community partners, and external reviewers.

Expected Outcomes

• Build a coherent student-facing community opportunity pipeline connected to Career Exploration and Experiential Learning.
• Increase the number and quality of community-based internships, research opportunities, course projects, funded placements, and experiential learning opportunities available to students.
• Connect community-based opportunities to The Clark Experience, ePortfolio, career readiness, and professional identity development.
• Expand equitable access to paid and funded community-based experiential learning opportunities by expanding the number of partnerships available to students.
• Contribute to reliable systems for tracking student participation, placement quality, partner feedback, reflection, and outcomes.
• Provide faculty and staff with operational support for developing student-facing community-based learning opportunities.
• Feed student learning data, placement outcomes, partner feedback, and stories back into the Collaborative for Community Engagement, Carnegie evidence collection, institutional reporting, and public storytelling.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree preferred in a relevant field such as higher education administration, student affairs, career development, community development, education, public administration, nonprofit management, social work, urban studies, experiential learning, or a related field.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience is preferred, including experience in one or more of the following areas: experiential learning, career development, community-engaged learning, internship or placement coordination, undergraduate research support, student success, nonprofit or community partnership development, faculty support, or higher education administration.
• Equivalent combinations of education, professional experience, and demonstrated experience developing student learning opportunities may be considered.
• Experience working in a college or university setting is strongly preferred. Experience developing internships, community-based projects, research placements, course-based partnerships, or other structured student learning opportunities is highly desirable. Experience working directly with students, faculty, and community partners is required.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to develop high-quality community and/or industry partnerships for undergraduate internships, community-based projects, research placements, course collaborations, funded experiences, and other experiential learning pathways in at least one of Clark's areas of strategic focus: Media Arts, Computing, and Design; Science, Health and Human Development; Civic and Global Engagement; Climate, Environment, and Society; and/or Business
• Strong understanding of student learning, reflection, career readiness, professional identity development, and the ways students articulate skills gained through experiential learning.
• Demonstrated commitment to equitable access to experiential learning, including the ability to identify and address financial, advising, scheduling, transportation, identity, social capital, and other barriers to participation.
• Ability to translate community partner needs into realistic, reciprocal, ethical, and appropriately supported student learning opportunities, with clear roles, supervision, timelines, deliverables, learning goals, expectations, and feedback processes.
• Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills, including the ability to work respectfully and effectively with students, faculty, staff, community partners, career staff, advisors, schools, departments, centers, student-facing offices, families, donors, and external reviewers.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple placements, projects, partners, timelines, communications, systems, and follow-up processes simultaneously while working independently and collaboratively.
• Experience with or willingness to learn systems used to promote, track, assess, and report student opportunities, such as Handshake, Slate/Insight, Airtable or other project-tracking tools, ePortfolio platforms, shared documentation systems, and internal reporting tools.
• Strong communication, data, and assessment skills, including the ability to make opportunities visible to students, collect and analyze participation and outcome data, report on placement quality and equity of access, and communicate clearly with internal and external audiences.

Additional Information:

Expected Hiring Range: $60,900 to $78,650

Pay Transparency Disclosure:
The compensation for this position will be determined based on factors that include available budget, internal equity, and the selected candidate's qualifications, experience, education, and other job-related credentials. This range represents Clark University's good-faith estimate of the expected hiring range at the time of posting consistent with Clark's compensation philosophy and internal alignment.

At Clark University we believe that diversity of experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to a more innovative and productive work environment. We welcome and encourage individuals of all backgrounds to join our team and contribute their unique ideas to help us achieve our goals.

Clark University offers a generous benefit package for full and, if applicable, part-time employees that include; paid time off, generous retirement plan, group health and dental insurance, life insurance, and tuition, along with use of many campus amenities. For a complete list of benefits for eligible employees visit .

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Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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