Director of Water & Environmental Center

Join our team to help inspire all students to discover their potential and achieve their goals by providing relevant equitable and innovative learning opportunities and services.

Walla Walla Community College (WWCC) is seeking applicants fora full-time Director of the William A. Grant Water and Environmental Center at the Walla Walla campus.

At Walla Walla Community College we inspire all students to discover their potential and achieve their goals by providing relevant equitable and innovative learning opportunities and services. As an organization we value learning opportunities a sense of community diversity health and humor excellence integrity teamwork innovation personal and professional growth and sustainability.

This position is open until filled. First consideration will be given to applicants whose complete application has been received by August 16 2026 @ 11:59pm PST. See Required Application Materials section for more information

General Description:
The mission of the Water & Environmental Center (WEC) is to serve as a resource where people can learn share knowledge and work together to create healthy natural environments engaging community dialog and thriving local economies. The Director provides leadership and support for the WEC initiatives projects partnerships and programs. The Director works collaboratively with administration faculty and staff to cultivate and support effective WWCC WEC co-locator and external partnerships. Current co-locators include: Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Snake River Salmon Recovery Board Sustainable Living Center and Washington State Department of Ecology.

Essential Functions:

• Provide leadership vision planning grant writing and reporting and budget oversight for the Water & Environmental Center.
• Oversee the development promotion presentation and evaluation of community professional and youth education programs and events to address current and emerging water land and environmental issues.
• Maximize use of the WEC interior facilities and exterior spaces in support of academic instruction community education and collaboration.
• Foster ongoing communication with and in support of WEC co-locators.
• Strengthen existing and identify new external program partnerships.

• Demonstrated leadership and organizational skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships within the college with WEC co-locators and in the community.
• Capacity to maintain a working knowledge of significant developments and trends in the field and use this knowledge in planning programs and activities at the WEC.
• Ability to convey ideas concepts facts and strategies orally visually and in writing at a level appropriate for the intended audiences both in person and virtually.
• Ability to work with students staff co-locators and external partners from diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to prepare and manage budgets.
• Capacity to write grants reports and other documentation in support of the WEC.
• Ability to manage facility and landscape operations and improvements.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Teams programs; knowledge of or ability to learn webpage editing videography photography and social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook; ability to operate maintain and facilitate the use of WEC display/exhibit materials and conference room and classroom equipment and technology.

• Supervise the WEC Staff WEC Interns and support staff.

• Develop and manage the WEC budget and grant budgets as secured.
• Successfully complete funding reports on or before due dates including Department of Commerce funding reports due December and June annually.

• Bachelors degree in water resources environmental studies natural resources natural sciences agriculture or related field
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience in preparing conducting and evaluating community and/or youth informal education programs community events and programs and/or classroom curriculum.

• Advanced degree in related field
• Experience cultivating internal and external partnerships or collaborations
• Experience creating and presenting curriculum interpretation materials and working with social media videography or photography
• Experience in managing conference and classroom facilities and facility landscapes and exterior spaces
• Spanish language proficiency

This is a full-time overtime exempt professional position. Persons hired must be able to provide acceptable documentation of lawful authorization to work in the United States within three (3) days of employment. WWCC participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Official college transcripts required at time of hire. Candidates may be subject to a criminal history background check as a condition of employment. Information from the background check may not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining the applicants suitability and competence to perform in the position. The college is a tobacco free institution.

Work will be performed both inside and outside including WWCC and WEC facilities display gardens and outdoor classroom plus K-12 classrooms fairgrounds and other community event venues. Work will be performed during normal business hours plus occasional weekday evenings and weekends. Duties require the use/manipulation of hands-on activity and demonstration tools such as water quality testing equipment stream simulation table fish tanks and gardening tools. Limited regional travel is required (valid drivers license is required) generally to K-12 schools and community venues within the region. During the summer work schedule is Monday through Thursday 10-hours each day.

Compensation:
Annual salary range for initial placement based on the non-represented exempt salary schedule is NR10 Step A-F: $90519-$102414 with scheduled salary increment increases every 12 months until you reach the top of the scale. The college has an excellent benefit program including paid sick leave; paid vacation leave; medical dental life and long-term disability insurance; retirement and two optional deferred compensation programs. All full-time employees will automatically have 3% of taxable income deferred into the State of Washington Deferred Compensation Program (DCP). All administrative exempt staff set aside 1% of their gross salary in a Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) (VEBA). All exempt employees are required to participate in this program. Walla Walla Community College requires all employees to participate in direct deposit for payment of salary.

This position is open until filled with priority consideration given to those applicants who submit a complete application byAugust 16 2026 at 11:59 PM PST. To qualify for priority consideration applicants must submit a complete application packet which includes the following:

• Online NEOGOV application.
• Cover letter
  • Please provide a cover letter detailing your interest in this position. Please describe any professional experience experience in developing and implementing education programming and/or educational background that makes you an ideal candidate.
• Resume
• Names and contact information for three professional references
• Answers to four (4) supplemental questions
• Unofficial transcripts for application purposes; official transcripts are required prior to an official start date.

Please ensure you have attached all required application materials as you will not be able to attach any documents after you have submitted your application. If you have difficulty logging into your account attaching documents submitting your application etc. please call NEOGOV Applicant Support at 1- or email them directly at

WWCC reserves the right to not fill this position reject all applicants or reopen the position. Applications received during this recruitment may be used to fill future vacancies at the Colleges discretion.

Walla Walla Community College is committed to provide equal opportunity and nondiscrimination for all educational and employment applicants as well as for its students and employed staff without regard to race color creed national origin sex sexual orientation including gender expression/identity marital status age (over 40) the presence of any sensory mental or physical disability the use of trained guide dog or service animal by a person with a disability or status as a Vietnam and/or disabled veteran National Guard member or reservist in accordance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 the Federal Rehabilitation of 1973 the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and any other applicable Federal and Washington State laws against discrimination. The Human Resources Office is accessible to persons with disabilities. If you need accommodations in the application/employment process please contact the Human Resources Office at - TDD email address: 500 Tausick Way Walla Walla WA 99362.