Dean of Applied Programs and Workforce Innovation

Job description

Salary: $94,636.91 -$98,422.39 Annually

Edison State Community College invites qualified candidates to apply for the full-time position of Dean of Applied Programs and Workforce Innovation.

The Dean is responsible to the Provost for the operational oversight and strategic leadership for career and technical education (CTE) programs, applied technology disciplines, applied business disciplines, and workforce development initiatives.

The Dean is responsible for advancing academic excellence and fostering faculty and student success.

This role is pivotal in aligning academic offerings with regional labor market needs, expanding partnerships with business and industry, and fostering innovation in teaching, training, and experiential learning.

This position plays a critical role in ensuring access to high-quality education that supports both direct-to-work and university transfer goals.

To be considered, candidates should include cover letter, resume, and list of education/work experience, including job titles in chronological order when completing their online application.

Edison State Community College is an EOE/AA Employer.

Functional Responsibilities:

Students – Promote and facilitate student success from recruitment to retention to graduation:

• Facilitate a success-based learning environment.
  
  
• Hear complaints, resolve issues, and explain processes
• Assist students with scheduling classes as needed
• Process schedule changes
• Approve independent studies and other special registration arrangements
• Approve graduation checks and transcript evaluations
• Advise students when faculty are not available
• Respond as needed to inquiries forwarded from Student Affairs
• Develop and maintain high school, career center, and university articulations
• Collaborate with faculty to ensure textbook adoptions are completed and texts are available to students

Faculty – Foster excellence among the faculty; provide leadership, support, and feedback for full-time and adjunct faculty: 

• Recruit, hire, develop, and supervise full-time and adjunct faculty
• Cultivate positive faculty and staff morale in a climate of collegiality and mutual respect.
• Demonstrate reliability, consistency, and equity to all faculty and staff
• Facilitate communication between and from faculty and develop multiple formal and informal ways to keep them informed and to advance their concerns
• Encourage and support entrepreneurial initiatives among faculty to develop new programs, delivery models, services, partnerships, and revenue sources
• Collaborate with faculty to set their yearly goals and complete them
• Work with individual faculty to identify unique professional development needs and plans
• Staff classes as necessary
• Project future instructional needs
• Evaluate full-time and adjunct faculty
• Recommend awards and promotions
• Manage flex contracts and trade time

Curriculum – Collaborate with faculty to keep program curricula current and responsive to local and regional stakeholders’ needs:

• Identify future trends in various industries, plan accordingly, and implement best practices in transfer curricula in partnership with the Ohio Department of Higher Education, and local and regional 4-year institutions of higher education
• Propose and work with faculty to develop new courses, programs, and delivery models to increase enrollment, meet the needs of local employers, and meet the needs of local and regional 4-year institutions of higher education
• Maintain academic standards while being flexible enough to meet students’ needs
• Lead the development and maintenance of transfer agreements
• Use advisory committee input to improve curricula
• Facilitate the development and maintenance of Credit for Experiential Learning procedures
• Facilitate assessment and revision of curricula regularly
• Work with the Marketing Office to market each program in the division
• Develop, review, and update internal and external publications (e.g., catalog and class schedule)
• Coordinate the development and maintenance of TAG courses/credits
• Lead efforts to obtain and maintain programmatic accreditation where applicable

Strategic Enrollment Management – Develop new approaches, refine processes, and conduct SEM activities:

• Promote SEM with faculty and staff
• Help faculty develop and conduct individual SEM activities

Committees – Participate in meetings:

• Academic and Student Affairs Coordinating Council
• Assessment Committee
• Curriculum Committee
• Academic Senate
• Advisory Committees
• Provost’s Council
• Promotion and Recognition Committee
• Strategic Planning Committees
• Ad hoc committees

Assessment – Facilitate the process of continuous improvement through assessment of student learning:

• Respond to the annual assessment of programs/disciplines
• Conduct and respond to program reviews
• Assist with data collection and interpretation
• Gather data and complete reports for internal/external assessment

Ombudsperson – Resolve issues:

• Solve problems for students, faculty, staff, businesses, and community members
• Establish and facilitate processes among divisions/departments

Partnerships – Create partnerships and participate in them with businesses, other educational institutions, community agencies, etc.:

• Develop and maintain high school, career center, and university articulations
• Manage and maintain contractual agreements with outside agencies when needed and coordinate the creation and renewal of those agreements between the agencies, College administration, and the office of the Ohio Attorney General.
• In conjunction with the Alumni Office, develop and maintain relationships with alumni of the division’s programs.
• Provide leadership for and report on the division’s work-based learning activities.

Budget/Grants/Resource Development – Lead the process by which the division acquires and uses financial resources:  

• Participate in grant writing
• Seek alternative funding for college initiatives.
  
         
• Seek grants and donations in conjunction with faculty and other professional staff.
  
  
• Develop ways to acquire instructional equipment from industry
• Identify learning goals and instructional resource needs
• Develop budgets to support learning
• Prioritize budget requests
• Manage the division’s budgets, process purchase orders, etc.
• Seek and manage community partnerships in grants

Instructional Design and Technology – Provide vision and leadership for the division in course development, instructional design, and learning assessment for face-to-face, online, hybrid, and virtual delivery models:

• In coordination with the Information Technology Office and the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation, cultivate widespread and high-quality faculty adoption of existing and new technologies to increase student learning
• Encourage online, interactive, and blended teaching processes and courses that enhance the College’s academic quality and reputation
• Plan and implement professional development and other opportunities that promote reflective, effective, and innovative pedagogy
• Assist with incorporating instructional best design practices into the curriculum.
  
  
• Work closely with the Information Technology Office to help disseminate software and technology updates to the faculty
• Maintain current awareness and knowledge of emerging technologies and instructional design trends

Requirements

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Personal Qualifications:

Must be a team player, ascribing to the philosophy of servant leadership, the College's values, the academic core values, and continuous quality improvement.

In addition, must possess excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

Must have exceptional leadership and management skills and adapt to changing environmental conditions with entrepreneurial leadership.

Required Experience:

• Experience teaching at the collegiate level, preferably at a community college.
  
  
• Minimum of 3-5 years in supervision, leadership, or administration, preferably in higher education.

Required Educational Background:

Master’s Degree or higher in Higher Education Administration, Curriculum and Instruction, a field related to the Division’s programs/disciplines, or a related degree from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education or the Council of Higher Education Accreditation.

Supervises the following staff:

Program Faculty, Assistant Dean of Workforce Development and Work-based Learning, Tech Prep Coordinator, Child Development Center Director, and Academic Project Specialists.

Benefits

The following benefits are available to full-time Administrative employees.

 Employees working less than thirty hours a week are ineligible.

 

Health & Life Insurance

• Edison State Community College provides excellent medical and dental plans with cost-shared premiums.
  
  
• The college offers a reimbursement program to share a portion of the employee's out-of-pocket expenses.
• Each employee receives an accidental death and dismemberment insurance policy.

Retirement Benefits

• Edison State Community College participates in the Ohio Public Employee Retirement System (OPERS).
• Based upon the Ohio Revised Code, 10% of an Edison State employee's gross salary is deposited into their individual OPERS account.
  
   The college contributes an additional 14% which is not figured into the employee's base salary.
  
    
• An option for an alternate retirement plan is also available.
  
  Employee and employer contributions would be the same as above.

Benefits that are not cost-shared by the college (available for payroll deduction):

• Vision
• Supplementary Life Insurance
• 403(b) Tax Deferred Annuities

Vacation

• Administrative employees receive 4 weeks of vacation each year which begins accruing on the employee's first pay period.
  
  After five years of employment with Edison State the administrative employee will receive 4.5 weeks each year and this once again increases to 5 weeks after ten years of employment with the college.

Sick Leave

• Edison State employees receive 3 weeks of sick leave each year which begins accruing on the employees first pay period.

Vacation Pay

• At the start of their employment employees are eligible to receive pay for the 11 holidays for which the campus is closed.

Tuition Waiver

• Edison State employees receive 100% of their instructional fees waived for any Edison State courses they take.
  
   
• Dependents (spouse or children) of full time Edison State employees receive the same 100% waiver for Edison State course instructional fees and dependents of part time employees receive a partial waiver.

Tuition Reimbursement

• Edison State offers partial tuition reimbursement for continued education.

Health Club Contribution

• Edison State will pay a portion of an employee's yearly premiums for a health club membership.
  
  Memberships to some local YMCA organizations can be payroll deducted.

The college also provides an on-site fitness center to employees, students and the community at no charge.

Required Skill Profession

Other General