Deputy Executive Director, TXHES

Job ID: 15110
Location: Austin, TX
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular

FLSA Status
Exempt

Earliest Start Date

May 01, 2026

Salary

$144,000 annually/commensurate with experience

Hours per Week

40 hours weekly

Hiring Department

Texas Health Education Service (TXHES)

Required Application Materials

A resume and letter of interest is required to apply. Candidates under final consideration will also be required to submit professional references, college degree information, and employment history to an online third-party vendor.

About Us

For more than 140 years, The University of Texas System has improved the lives of Texans - and people all over the world - through education, health care, and research. The System consists of nine academic institutions, four health institutions, and The University of Texas System Administration. The institutions of the UT System employ more than 160,000 faculty, health care professionals, researchers, support staff, and student workers.

The UT System Administration is primarily based in Austin, Texas. It supports the missions of the System's thirteen institutions by providing financial, legal, planning, purchasing, government relations, communications, development, and other central services. Serving a growing state, the UT System Administration strives to provide a welcoming, supportive work environment that embraces different perspectives - not only because it enables the organization to be stronger, creative, and thoughtful, but because it is the right thing to do. To that end, UT System Administration embraces state laws on military and former foster children employment preferences.

Purpose of Position

About TXHES

The Texas Health Education Service (TXHES), within The University of Texas System Office of Health Affairs, serves as a statewide coordinating entity focused on strengthening the health professions pipeline. TXHES administers centralized application services, including TMDSAS, and supports pathway programs such as JAMP, while working collaboratively with institutions, state leadership, and stakeholders to improve access, processes, and align education with workforce needs. Through its work, TXHES plays a key role in advancing data-informed strategies and scalable solutions to prepare Texans for careers in the health professions and address the state's evolving healthcare workforce needs.

About the Role

The Deputy Executive Director will serve as a key strategic and operational partner to the Executive Director, responsible for translating TXHES's vision into sustainable, scalable systems that support long-term growth. This role will oversee core business functions-including finance, budgeting, revenue strategy, and business development-while helping to build the infrastructure needed to expand statewide initiatives such as centralized application services and workforce pipeline programs. The Deputy will play a critical leadership role in aligning operations, partnerships, and resources, ensuring that TXHES is positioned not only to execute on current priorities but to evolve into a more integrated, data-driven, and financially sustainable organization capable of meeting Texas' future health workforce needs.

Essential Functions

Strategic Integration
The Deputy Executive Director leads implementation of the TXHES strategic plan and ensures alignment across all programs and initiatives. This role integrates pathway programming, application services, vendor partnerships, advisory councils, and workforce priorities into a cohesive enterprise strategy. The Deputy identifies cross-functional dependencies, mitigates fragmentation, and ensures that program execution advances long-term institutional goals.
Financial Stewardship
The Deputy provides executive-level financial oversight and sustainability planning in coordination with UT System Finance, with a primary focus on business development and expansion. While day-to-day accounting functions are managed centrally, the Deputy ensures that budgets, forecasting, and resource allocation align with strategic priorities. This includes revenue modeling, fee structure evaluation, contract monitoring, and long-term financial planning to support organizational growth and stability.
Vendor Governance
As TXHES engages with external vendors for centralized application infrastructure, the Deputy serves as executive steward of vendor relationships. This includes oversight of contract performance, service-level compliance, strategic roadmap alignment, and issue escalation. The Deputy ensures that vendor operations meet institutional expectations and uphold TXHES's mission of transparency, access, and service excellence.
Membership & Institutional Strategy
The Deputy leads institutional engagement and membership development across participating professional schools and partner institutions. This includes recruitment of new members, stewardship of existing relationships, development of governance structures, and alignment of services with member needs. The Deputy ensures TXHES operates as a trusted statewide convener and infrastructure intermediary.
Government & Legal Liaison
The Deputy serves as coordinating liaison with executive director to UT System Government Relations and the Office of General Counsel. In this capacity, the Deputy ensures that TXHES initiatives align with system policies, legislative priorities, and legal requirements. The Deputy supports policy analysis, contract coordination, and issue management.
Strategic Communications Oversight
The Deputy oversees enterprise-level communications and public relations strategy to ensure consistent, transparent, and mission-aligned messaging across TXHES initiatives. Working through the Associate Director of Communications, the Deputy ensures that complex policy, financial, and operational developments are translated into clear narratives for institutional partners, advisory councils, and external stakeholders. This oversight supports trust, accountability, and statewide positioning.
Governor's Reports & Task Force Coordination
The Deputy Executive Director coordinates the development and submission of reports, briefings, and data requests associated with TXHES programs, legislative directives, and statewide task forces relevant to health professions education and workforce development. This includes organizing cross-program input, ensuring accuracy and consistency of data, aligning messaging with UT System guidance, and supporting TXHES participation in statewide workgroups or advisory bodies. The Deputy ensures timely, coordinated responses that reflect TXHES priorities while maintaining institutional neutrality and credibility.
Collaboration & Support for UT System Offices
The Deputy Executive Director collaborates with and actively supports University of Texas System Offices, including Academic Affairs and Health Affairs teams in advancing shared priorities related to workforce development, student pathways, strategic planning, and institutional alignment. This includes providing programmatic insight, coordinating cross-office initiatives, contributing to joint projects, assisting with system-level reporting and analysis, and helping operationalize initiatives that intersect with TXHES services. The Deputy serves as a strategic partner and resource to these offices, ensuring TXHES efforts complement and strengthen broader UT System objectives.
Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Experience supporting executive leaders in strategic planning, governance, growth, and cross-functional work.
Working knowledge of budgeting, financial oversight, forecasting, and resource allocation.
Experience collaborating with stakeholders, institutions, advisory bodies, and system-level partners.
Ability to navigate sensitive institutional, legal, and policy environments with sound judgment.
Strong written and verbal communication for executive and multi-institution audiences.
Familiarity with higher-education systems, structures, decision-making, and legislative contexts.
Understanding of strategic-planning frameworks, implementation, and performance monitoring.
Knowledge of governance practices, facilitation, stakeholder alignment, and consensus-building.
Knowledge of vendor management, contract oversight, performance tracking, and escalation processes.
Understanding of change management, stakeholder readiness, and organizational transitions.
Awareness of how communications influence trust, alignment, and initiative adoption.
Knowledge of systems thinking and coordination of complex, multi-institution initiatives.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree required and 10 years of progressively responsible experience i; or
Master's and 8 years of progressively responsible experience; or
Doctoral/JD and 8 years of progressively responsible experience

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree strongly preferred in public administration, higher education, healthcare administration, business administration, public policy, or related field
Experience in centralized application services, association management, or membership-based organizations
Experience in vendor governance or contract oversight
Experience in workforce development or pipeline initiatives
Experience supporting organizational growth or structural transformation
Substantial leadership experience in higher education, healthcare, government, nonprofit, or similarly complex institutional environments

Working Conditions

May work around standard office conditions
Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation
Uses standard office equipment
25% Travel
Requires occasional evening or weekend hours
Hybrid work environment (remote & office)

Additional Information

The standard retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. However, the incumbent of this position may elect the Optional Retirement Program (ORP) subject to the position being 40 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. Participation in either TRS or ORP is mandatory.

A background check will be conducted on applicants under final consideration. The background check may include any or all of the following: criminal history check, prior employment verification, education verification, professional references check, and motor vehicle records check. Background checks are conducted by third-party vendors. Upon request from the third-party vendor, candidates under final consideration must provide the required information for the background checks to be completed.

EO/AA Statement

The University of Texas System Administration is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all qualified applicants and employees in all terms and conditions of employment. U. T. System will provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state laws.

For information on accommodations for individuals with disabilities, please contact the Office of Talent and Innovation at oti@utsystem.edu .

To apply, visit https://zahr-prd-candidate-ada.utshare.utsystem.edu/psp/ZAHRPRDADA/EMPLOYEE/UTZ_CG/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=8&JobOpeningId=15110&PostingSeq=1

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