Description

At SUNY Corning Community College (CCC) we promote intellectual and personal growth through individualized education, inspire innovation to meet the educational and workforce needs of the community and leverage a variety of partnerships to help our students and community succeed.

As the Chief Academic Officer, the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty will provide dynamic and visionary leadership, strategic planning, support, and evaluation for all areas of the College’s credit and non-credit programs and academic services. The Vice President of Academic Affairs will collaborate with the Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Development to facilitate the development and implementation of the College’s strategic enrollment management plan and to promote institution-wide recruitment and retention initiatives.

Occasional meetings at different SUNY CCC locations and in the community may be required. Prolonged time sitting/standing working with computers and monitors, ability to walk/move across campus including walking up and down stairs, ability to lift up to 20 pounds (occasionally may be more), repeated motions may include keyboard typing. Typical office and indoor building environments, occasional outdoor activity may be required. Incumbent must perform the essential duties and responsibilities with or without reasonable accommodation. The summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of work and is not intended to be a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities.

SUNY CCC embraces diversity and values an inclusive culture where every person is able to succeed to their full potential. If you require an accommodation for the recruiting process, please contact hr@corning-cc.edu or 607.962.9229.

Essential Functions

Academic Affairs Leadership 40%

• Leads the Academic Affairs team to formulate and propose policies, subject to presidential and trustee approval as needed, concerning all facets of academic affairs.
• Respond to regional workforce development needs by leading the faculty in establishing career and training programs.
• Maintain high quality standards of existing programs.
• Ensure support and resources for academic programs.
• Building external relationships supporting new collaborations and partnerships that support academic excellence, program integrations with local workforce needs, increasing student recruitment/enrollment/retention, and increasing resources for the College, especially through grants.
• Effectively communicates with other areas of the College and works with them to achieve institutional priorities.
• Annually reviews the academic program offerings to ensure they directly support the needs of the community and remain relevant to workforce and transfer needs. oversees program review process and ensures adherence to high academic standards.
• Monitors the effectiveness of the program advisory boards in ensuring the currency of the academic curriculum.
• Manage fiscal resources for all instructional areas.
• Ensures compliance with academic policies, procedures, regulatory bodies accrediting agencies and collective bargaining agreements.

Workforce Education Leadership 25%

• Provide leadership and oversight of all aspects of Workforce Education, community and continuing education programs and services, credit and non-credit course offerings, facility management, assessment and evaluation, Prison Education Program, grant and fiscal management.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with business, industry, and other community agencies and represent CCC on appropriate community boards and committees.
• Establish benchmarks and business plans to ensure Workforce Education matches community workforce needs and is a flexible, market-oriented, customer-focused operation.
• Keep current with workforce and job market statistics and serve as a resource for such information, for use in data-driven decisions and identifying employment trends and training opportunities, including corporate training to meet the employee development needs of regional businesses. Collaborate with funding sources to provide training funds to support this initiative.
• Supervise the maintenance of the College program offerings on the Eligible Training Provider List for both New York and Pennsylvania to allow the college to receive WIOA funding.

Faculty Support 15%

• Maintain a high standard of faculty performance and ability by celebrating the art and science of teaching.
• Fosters faculty development and engagement strategies that lead to innovative programs, curriculum, technology, pedagogy, and related initiatives.
• Makes promotion and tenure recommendations to the President and Board.
• Stimulate new teaching techniques on the part of faculty and initiate and conduct studies to improve the overall effectiveness of educational programs.
• Champion full-and part-time faculty development as an integral component of academic quality.

Enrollment Management 10%

• Work collaboratively with the VP and Dean of Student Development and Enrollment Management to implement the Strategic Enrollment Management Plan.
• Ensures that academic policies and practices (e.g. course scheduling, academic calendar) support enrollment goals.
• Work collaboratively with the VP of Student Affairs to ensure the growth of the individual student in a supportive environment.
• Work collaboratively with the VP of Student Affairs, Associate Deans, and appropriate committees to ensure an effective advising program, including the Academic Progress policy.

Executive Leadership 10%

• Serves on the president’s leadership team and other committees (internal and external) and represents the president in a variety of settings as requested.
• Embodies the College’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion through leadership and action.
• Advises the president for execution of the goals and mission of the college.
• Collaborates with counterparts in the SUNY system, as well as other education leaders in business and industry, the non-profit sector and K-12/post-secondary education.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Motivated self-starter with the ability to work collaboratively and independently with purpose and accuracy in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent writing and verbal skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Be highly organized with the ability to implement systems and follow-up processes;
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Demonstrates commitment to accomplishing work in an ethical, efficient, and cost-effective manner.
• Ability to effectively convey information verbally and in writing, demonstrate effective listening skills, and display respect for and openness to other people’s ideas and thoughts.
• Ability to accept changes to job requirements, policies, workload, etc., as well as learn new methods, procedures, or techniques resulting from change with the ability to clearly approach problems and find solutions.
• Demonstrates support for the College’s goal of becoming a more diverse, inclusive, and culturally aware community and practicing anti-racist/biased behaviors.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree required;
• Five years of progressively responsible experience in the administration of academic programs
• Must be a demonstrated leader with a proven track record
• Experience in strategic and operational planning, budgeting and supervision of managers and their staffs
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  Preferred Qualifications:
• Ph.D./Ed.D
• More than five years of experience in academic administration and a minimum of three years of successful, full-time teaching, preferably in a community college setting.
• Experience working effectively within academic shared governance and collective bargaining environments

Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including, but not limited to relevant experience, education, market demands, and training.