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Dean, Teaching and Learning Support
Job Description
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The Dean of the Teaching and Learning Division serves as the College’s leader for the full integration of a proactive and responsive online curriculum and evolving contemporary vision for teaching and learning support. The Dean is responsible for the direct management of division operations, including personnel, budgetary, and curricular functions. The Dean manages appropriate functions to ensure the educational needs of students and the community are met, and serves as a principal advisor to the vice president. Working collaboratively with division personnel, sets goals, direction, and vision for the division. Provides leadership and participates in institutional planning and management of the College. Serves on appropriate college, community, and statewide councils, committees, and task forces.
Required Qualifications:
Applications are reviewed for minimum qualifications. In order to be considered, your application must clearly show you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.
Education and Training:
- Requires a master’s degree in a discipline, or related to a discipline, taught at LBCC.
Experience:
- Requires three (3) years’ teaching or related instructional experience at the college level, preferably at a community college; with a minimum of two (2) years supervisory, department chair, or equivalent management experience;
We will also consider an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience necessary to successfully perform all essential functions of the job.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Position requires broad understanding of community college management and administration ranging from academic to financial affairs.
- The position requires well-developed teamwork skills and a commitment to team collaboration, including facilitation of the decision-making process.
- Requires ability to foster collaboration among diverse personnel.
- Must have the ability to positively interact with a diverse student population, faculty, staff, and community.
- Highly developed written and oral communication skills are essential, including the ability to be a good listener.
- Must have public speaking skills.
- Requires strong planning, organization, and leadership skills.
- Creativity, innovation, and flexibility are vital in working with diverse and complex job components. Must have the ability to meet timelines and adapt to rushed deadlines is required.
- Requires knowledge of instructional delivery and the elements of effective teaching and learning.
- Must have a thorough understanding of division/program curriculum and college requirements for completion of degrees and certificates.
- Must be familiar with the preparation of course outlines and course/program approval process.
- Must have knowledge of retention theory, success indicators, statewide instructional service issues, and state program quality indicators.
- Requires knowledge of security and assessment procedures typical of standardized assessment instruments.
- Requires familiarity of local community services and ability to work with other agencies.
- Awareness of statewide educational reforms and changing skill requirements within the business community.
- Understanding of the external pressures and trends in community college education.
- Must understand general personnel/human resources practices.
- Must set clear expectations for employees.
- Requires an understanding of employee contracts, administrative rules, board policies, and state and federal statutes pertaining to personnel practices.
- Must have the ability to supervise others and to monitor and evaluate the work of a complex organizational entity.
- Excellent budget management skills are necessary with understanding of the legal requirements of public budget processes.
- Must be able to work comfortably with financial data and have well developed computational skills.
- Must have knowledge of established business office procedures.
- Requires knowledge of available sources for grants and familiarity with proposal and grant management processes.
- The ability to anticipate future needs and goals and to comfortably make decisions that can have substantial impact on students, the financial well-being and the image of the college is required.
- Must be computer literate with knowledge and efficiency in use of e-mail, internet, word processing, spreadsheets, and the ability to use multiple software applications and/or educational enterprise resource planning systems such as Ellucian Banner.
- A Master’s degree related to learning is preferred.
- Experience related to the division’s fields and programs is preferred.
- Thorough knowledge of institutional design and academic procedures, general college operations, and administration is preferred.
Work is performed in an office environment with frequent interruptions and irregularities in the work schedule. Incumbents must be able to use a computer and communicate effectively in person, over the phone and in front of groups. Working hours may vary and occasional early morning or evening work is required. Periodic travel is required. During term breaks in the academic calendar and summer session, the dean may assume the responsibilities of department chairs.
Essential Duties:
- Provides strategic leadership for the growth and data-driven expansion of a portfolio of high-quality online and hybrid learning programs. Develops program, service and support plans including assessment of need, labor market demand, and transferability aligned with institutional vision/priorities.
- Develops and implements culturally responsive and inclusive online and hybrid learning program operations that center on historically underserved and marginalized communities; accountable for flexible service delivery modalities that support access and equitable student outcomes. Promotes accessible design and use of technology in all learning modalities.
- Provides institutional strategic level leadership and accountability for teaching and learning innovation, online programs, instruction and services environments, use of learning technologies, and Academic and Student Affairs technology applications systems.
- Creates and maintains collaborative and productive partnerships across Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, administrative services/systems, and shared governance bodies in order to strengthen teaching and learning experiences and administrative systems; contributes to College-wide strategic initiative execution (e.g., Strategic Plan, Guided Pathways, Strategic Course scheduling).
- Perform the full range of supervisory responsibilities for Teaching and Learning division personnel. Manage the staffing process for the division in cooperation with Human Resources, including recruitment, selection, and orientation of full- and part-time faculty and staff. Assure all division practices are in compliance with employee contracts, administrative rules, board policies, and state and federal statutes.
- Make personnel recommendations to the vice president concerning division employee hiring, termination, and other issues as appropriate. In collaboration with the Dean of Instruction, direct the completion of instructor approvals. Review and approve staff assignments and faculty work plans.
- Administer the division performance appraisal process and assign faculty and staff workloads. Perform required employee appraisals for employees under direct supervision, within institutional policies, procedures, and the agreed-upon timelines. Counsel and advise personnel on performance-related issues. Encourage appropriate professional development opportunities for all employees. Provide awareness of available activities and guidance to accessing available resources.
- Participate in the college strategic and master planning process. Lead the division in institutional effectiveness processes, including the assessment of student and program outcomes. Collaborate with division staff to define and accomplish division and department goals and objectives to ensure linkage to collegewide success indicators and strategic plan. Provide leadership and evaluation in accomplishment of division goals. Provide continuous improvement monitoring.
- Embrace and lead the division and the college in furthering the college’s mission, and core values. Ensure division goals, objectives, and efforts are in alignment with the college’s strategic goals of productivity, equity, and quality.
- Assure adequate and accurate information is provided at all levels. Ensure effective communication with other instructional and service areas. Represent the division on various college councils/committees and the college to community businesses, industries, professional organizations, schools, colleges/universities, and external agencies.
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