Essential Job Functions:

Leadership and Curriculum Development:

• Serves as an active member of the instructional leadership team within Academic Programs, collaborating with fellow deans; makes substantive contributions to strategic planning across Academic Programs and facilitates related work within assigned areas ensuring consistent and appropriate messaging.

• Provides student-centered leadership in developing, implementing, and maintaining curriculum and programs that respond to community and industry needs, prepare all students for success; reflect high standards and best practices in program delivery; and meets the external requirements of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), and applicable specialized accrediting organizations.

Student and Faculty Issues:

• Provides leadership in addressing and resolving student complaints, grade appeals, academic dishonesty appeals, faculty complaints and grievances, employee complaints against supervisor, or other student, staff, or faculty issues, where appropriate

Management:

• Supports the selection of department chairs who will engage in future-focused and innovative leadership of their departments.

• Supervises and evaluates department chairs and assistant deans.

• Ensures consistent and appropriate application of administrative rules within assigned academic areas, including overseeing robust faculty evaluation processes, recruiting student-centered faculty and staff, developing strategic and tactical course schedules, strategic planning and budgeting, safety, facilities, equipment and software needs, and preparation of reports as required.

• Hires, supervises, and evaluates support staff.

• Initiates and manages special projects and assignments.

• Participates in shared governance through service on collegewide councils and committees.

Curriculum/Instruction:

• Provides student-centered and data-informed leadership and advocacy in the planning, implementing, assessing and ongoing improvement of all curriculum, instructional modalities, utilization of parts-of-term, courses, and programs within assigned academic areas.

• Ensures that all faculty within assigned academic areas are appropriately qualified and meet ongoing professional development standards.

• Ensures that programs comply with college standards, regulatory requirements and/or accreditation standards where appropriate, and reflect best practices in teaching and learning by cultivating a research-based model of teaching practice.

• Convenes advisory committees, works with Grants Development Office, and maintains community, university, and school district partnerships in support of programmatic goals.

Dual Credit:

• Provides strategic leadership, oversight, and data-informed support for dual credit programs, faculty and students, including Early College High Schools and dual enrollment programs across the ACC District.

• Partners with area independent school districts and ACC's Office of College & High School Relations in support of excellence in dual credit instruction.

Area of Study:

• Provides leadership and advocacy for the assigned area of study including strategic planning, communication, robust student and faculty engagement, joint efforts of instruction and student affairs to support student success, and community-building with external partners where appropriate.

Knowledge

• Demonstrated expertise in project planning, development, and implementation.

• Demonstrated knowledge of current research and state and/or national initiatives designed to enhance student access, persistence, and success.

• Demonstrated ability to present information and summary reports internally and to the public.

• Understanding of the community college philosophy and mission.

• Demonstrated ability to handle the demands and requirements of senior-level management in higher education.

• Demonstrated expertise in effective, student-centered, success-oriented, and ethical leadership, including an understanding of Servant-Leadership.

Skills

• Ability to balance the needs of a division/department with college-wide, future-focused initiatives and decisions.

• Working in a collaborative manner with multi-cultural constituencies.

• Maintaining confidentiality in work-related information and materials.

• Working effectively with a multicultural student body, faculty, and staff.

• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.

• Providing leadership at all levels of the college.

• Planning, prioritizing, and problem-solving.

• Handling multiple projects and meeting deadlines.

• Planning and managing budgets and manpower needs.

Technology Skills

• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.

Required Work Experience

• Five years related work experience including supervision/management.

Required Education

• Master's degree. As required for faculty.

• Must meet SACSCOC faculty qualifications for the subject(s) areas taught. Experience cannot be substituted for required, applicable educational level.

Preferred Education

• Doctorate.

Physical Requirements

• Work is performed in a standard office or similar environment.

• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.

• Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Safety

• Provide resources for safe operation of units. Create and support workplace safety.