Dallas College is deploying an ESL Coordinator to anchor its adult education apparatus. This is not a purely academic curriculum role; it is a high-stakes administrative and compliance mandate. Adult ESOL programs in Texas run on strict federal and state workforce grants. Your primary function is to protect that funding by enforcing rigorous testing metrics, standardizing instructional quality, and managing a massive, decentralized roster of adjunct instructors across the Dallas metroplex.
Institutional Politics & Grant Defense
The reality of adult education funding is that institutional survival depends entirely on demonstrable student level gains. You sit at the friction point between state auditors and the classroom. You must enforce Texas Adult Education and Literacy (AEL) standards without alienating the adjunct faculty who actually deliver the instruction. If student contact hours drop or testing data is improperly logged, the college loses its Title II funding. You are the bureaucratic firewall ensuring the pedagogical mission remains financially solvent.
Compliance Execution & Adjunct Wrangling
- The Testing Crucible: Own the logistics and integrity of CASAS and BEST Plus assessments. You must ensure thousands of intake and post-tests are administered flawlessly to capture the measurable gains required by state funders.
- Adjunct Faculty Management: Conduct formal, high-stakes classroom observations for 30+ adjunct instructors. You need the emotional intelligence to critique veteran teachers and enforce syllabus standardization across multiple campuses.
- Database Bureaucracy: Wrestle with TEAMS (Texas Educating Adults Management System). You must ensure every student contact hour and demographic metric is accurately tracked and reported to the state without fail.
- Curriculum Alignment: Audit legacy ESOL materials, stripping out outdated content and forcing alignment with current workforce integration and AEL standards.
Academic Pedigree & Bureaucratic Grit
- The Academic Gatekeeper: A Master’s degree in TESOL or Applied Linguistics is a hard institutional requirement to command respect from the faculty you will be evaluating.
- Trench Experience: 4+ years of direct ESL teaching experience with adult populations. You cannot evaluate adjuncts effectively if you haven’t survived the realities of community college teaching yourself.
- Compliance Literacy: Proven experience managing Title II AEL grants and navigating complex state reporting databases. You must understand the financial weight of the data you manage.
The Dallas Equation & Institutional Leverage
A $58,000 to $72,000 base salary requires careful financial management in the current Dallas housing market. The true compensation strategy here lies in the public sector safety net.
- Base Compensation: $58,000 – $72,000 USD / Year. Modest by corporate standards, but highly predictable.
- The TRS Golden Handcuffs: Enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS). You are trading the high salary ceiling of corporate L&D for a defined-benefit pension plan that guarantees long-term financial security.
- Institutional Burnout Mitigation: Unlike the private sector, this role benefits from the generous community college holiday schedule, including extended winter breaks and federal holidays, providing crucial recovery time from the administrative grind.
- Resume Equity: Managing a program of this scale acts as a direct springboard to a Director of Adult Education or Dean-level position within the massive Texas community college ecosystem.
Campus Logistics & Operational Deployment
- The On-Site Mandate
- Location: Dallas, TX. Status: 100% On-Site. You cannot conduct a formal faculty observation, manage a physical CASAS testing center, or interface with underserved adult learners over Zoom. This role demands daily physical presence across the Dallas College campus network.
- Relocation Posture
- Zero relocation assistance. The institution requires an administrator who is already embedded in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and familiar with the local workforce demographic.
