Among the key responsibilities of the Associate Director is the ongoing outreach to and collaboration with current and potential school district, local education agency, funder, government, and community partners on behalf of the college access, dual enrollment, and early pipeline / pathway programs and initiatives within CREATE, which facilitates contract, agreement and/or opportunity initiation, maintenance, reporting, expansion, and visibility and which supports strategic collaboration for positive systems change and improvements in college access, readiness, persistence and completion and also in the educator workforce and its diversity. Under the leadership of the Senior Director of College Access and Pathway Programs, the Associate Director supervises the Assistant Directors of Dual Enrollment and Early Educator Pipeline Initiatives, Upward Bound (UB), and Upward Bound Math & Science (UBMS) as well as the Team Leader of the NextSteps AmeriCorps program, which is operated at Temple in collaboration with PHENND.