
Director of Bridging Disciplines Programs
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The Director of Bridging Disciplines Programs provides strategic leadership for the certificate portfolio and leads evidence-based program review, renewal, and continuous improvement. The role oversees interdisciplinary learning opportunities, advising, assessment, program delivery, staff, curriculum processes, student services, data-informed decisions, academic workflows, partnerships, recruitment, communications, events, and program resources.
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Full job description
Provide strategic leadership for the certificate portfolio and lead evidence-based program review, renewal, and continuous improvement.Identify appropriate opportunities for innovation in interdisciplinary learning, applied experiences, advising, assessment, and program delivery.Supervise, coach, assign work to, and evaluate professional staff, graduate assistants, teaching assistants, and other assigned personnel.Lead curriculum and faculty panel processes, including meeting preparation, documentation, course-list management, follow-through, and the development or redesign of certificates, tracks, and related learning opportunities.Direct advising, student communication, enrollment management, progress tracking, Connecting Experience review, completion support, Integration Essay coordination, degree audit actions, and certificate status updates.Lead program assessment and use enrollment, application, completion, course access, scholarship, alumni, student outcome, and other data to prepare reports, guide decisions, and document improvement.Oversee MyBDP or any successor platform, student records, course scheduling, degree audit coding, and related academic and administrative workflows.Build productive relationships with faculty, departments, colleges, schools, advisors, Career Success, alumni, mentors, and other university partners.Lead recruitment, outreach, communications, events, and efforts that help students understand and explain the value of interdisciplinary learning.Manage the budget and steward staffing, scholarships, technology, events, and other resources; advise the Assistant Vice Provost regarding opportunities, risks, resource needs, partnerships, and priorities.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,042 open Program Director jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$145–150K/yr39 salary ranges
- US median$20–22/hr59 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 101 open Program Director jobs in Texas and 1,042 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)14 open
- Sevita8 open
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON5 open
- Experience
- Program Director postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 10 years (752 postings).
- Education
- 538 of the 1,042 open Program Director jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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