"Associate Dean, Health Care Technologies"

Associate Dean, Health Care Technologies

Company: Salt Lake Community College

Job Location:

Category: Health Sciences Deans

Type: Full-Time

Salary: $114,291.08 Annually

Location: Jordan Campus, UT

Job Type: Exempt Full Time

Job Number: 202500634

Division: Academic Affairs

Department: School of Health Sciences

Closing Date: 3/23/2026 11:59 PM Mountain

FLSA Exempt

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.

All employees are expected to maintain a permanent residence within the State of Utah as a condition of employment. New employees must provide a valid Utah residential address within 30 days of their start date.

Job Summary

Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) values and endorses strong and effective academic leadership. Associate Deans (ADs) are the foundation for strong and effective academic leadership. SLCC's Associate Deans are primarily responsible for shaping a division's success, growth, and future. They have a direct influence over the professional growth and development of individual faculty and students and their programs of study. Associate Deans serve as leaders for faculty in their teaching and service roles. Associate Deans are full-time administrators. The work and effort of effective AD transcends routine management tasks. The AD must clarify, communicate, and implement the department's vision, mission, guiding principles, goals, and expectations. Acting as the primary spokesperson for assigned faculty and students, this position works with College administration, peer institutions, the community, and prospective students in the critical areas of curriculum development, recruitment, and retention. They must proactively facilitate professional teamwork among faculty members to achieve the desired vision and mission as the best skills, knowledge, and attitudes of faculty are implemented in a collective effort to achieve that end. This is an at will position.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities & Knowledge Skills & Abilities

Leadership:

• Provide leadership, support and supervision for department or division faculty and staff.
• Coordinate department or division faculty and staff in endeavors to achieve the College's mission and strategic plan.
• Help the department or division faculty to establish an appropriate vision and appropriate goals that have a clear tie to the College's mission, and coordinate efforts to achieve those goals.
• Manage the departments or division in compliance with college procedures, guidelines and direction.

Academic Programs:

• Assist the Dean in developing new and modifying existing programs to promote student learning outcomes and program effectiveness. This may involve activities such as the following: collecting and utilizing survey data and student interest data; developing program grant proposals; developing program budgets and cost data; determining program impact; preparing and coordinating articulation agreements; implementing Concurrent Enrollment processes; coordinating transfer information; coordinating utilization of facilities; developing and implementing programs and policies.
• Initiate, plan, and oversee implementation of all academic offerings in the division or department, with appropriate involvement of assigned faculty and staff, the Dean, and College planning bodies.
• Wherever appropriate, utilize and report the advice of Program Advisory Committees (PACs) and provide staff support for PACs.
• Along with Deans, take a leading role in academic program quality and assessment of student learning outcomes.
• Serve on the school Curriculum Committee and Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee.
• Assist with comprehensive department and College wide evaluations for agencies such as the Board of Regents, the State Board of Career and Technical Education, program specific accrediting bodies, etc. and provide leadership for disciplinary and/or processional accreditation.
• Ensure inter-department/inter-division coordination and cooperation, communicating effectively with the dean, the department members, and other members of the College community.
• Meet with division members on a regular basis to ensure motivation, coordination, communication, and dissemination of information.
• Ensure that the class schedule meets students' needs, while at the same time being fiscally responsible and efficient.
• Participate in College-wide scheduling processes in a timely manner, meeting all established deadlines.
• Coordinate with regional directors in scheduling classes at the College's various sites.
• When classes must be canceled, coordinate with affected students, the Scheduling Office, and facilities administrators.
• Support the exploration, scheduling, improvement, and use of learning modalities and delivery methods, including flexibly scheduled learning, distance learning, and classroom technologies.
• Ensure that the College catalog is accurate, well written, and current, and assist in the preparation of all relevant College documents, including the class schedule, brochures, etc.
• Maintain an inventory of current course syllabi and monitor the development of new and revised syllabi.
• Manage and verify operational processes and procedures such as teaching assignments, faculty loads, class and room schedules, class changes, etc.

Personnel:

• Ensure that College personnel policy and procedure is appropriately applied to personnel matters within the department or division.
• Coordinate and approve compensation within guidelines in the Faculty Handbook, Academic Freedom, Professional Responsibility, and other policies and procedures established by the College.
• Utilize College policy and procedure to resolve faculty and staff grievances, concerns, and problems.
• Coordinate and evaluate the professional activities of all members of their division or department, to include providing guidance to faculty regarding professional growth, evaluation, and tenure.
• Participate in the tenure process as described in policy.
• Assist the Office of Human Resources and Faculty Development Office in coordinating and facilitating necessary faculty records.
• Consult with faculty members and the Dean regarding faculty recruitment, appointments, promotion, sabbatical leave, faculty retention, and other personnel matters, adhering to all appropriate policies and procedures.
• Hire, orient, and train, supervise and (if needed) discipline adjunct instructors and coordinate with assigned faculty and other College offices in their administration.
• Help adjunct instructors to develop pedagogic skills and collegiality within the department.
• In collaboration with the Dean and Provost, verify and manage the assignment of the full-time faculty teaching assignments in compliance with established procedures and directives.
• Provide for the management and supervision of assigned support staff and facilitate support for faculty teaching and service activities.
• Appoint appropriate task forces and work groups within the department or division.
• Schedule and coordinate work-study students, lab coordinators, readers, graders, and aides where applicable.
• Assist human resources and faculty development in coordinating and facilitating necessary faculty records, such as tenure, evaluations, etc.
• Coordinate faculty and staff development with pertinent College personnel.
• Coordinate job and cooperative-education placement.
• Serve as liaison for the division, especially for students. This requires that the AD's office be covered, such that students and staff will find the AD's office attended and open for business during regular business hours.
• Coordinate with Student Services and division members to provide appropriate advisement and consultation for students in department and division programs.
• Coordinate with Student Services and faculty members to recruit students to division programs.
• Participate in admission processes and help adjudicate student grievances as described in the Code of Student Conduct and serve as a liaison for students and adjunct faculty members.
• Promote successful student transfer and/or job placement and/or cooperative education placement.
• Coordinate with Student Services in the administration of financial aid and scholarships.

Budget:

• Monitor division inventory, supplies, and capital equipment.
• Monitor, prepare and maintain division budgets.
• Coordinate the informed budget process among division members and initiate budget requests with their justifications.
• Maintain fiscal control of department budgets, ensuring that department funds are used in accordance with all College policy and state statute.
• Be familiar with Federal and State funding regulations.
• Participate in fund raising efforts within the school.

Teaching:

As leaders of faculty, it is important that ADs have deep familiarity with the faculty roles and duties within the department. Therefore, all ADs are encouraged to teach at least one class per year, depending on the needs of the division. ADs may fulfill this teaching duty during any time of day, during any term, and in any delivery format that best meets the department's needs. Deans are responsible to ensure that the ADs teaching schedule does not detract from their primary administrative duties. Compensation for teaching will be at the overload rate and will not exceed 0.5 FTE for the teaching discipline, or a total exceeding 1.5 FTE for the fiscal year. Other duties as assigned.

• Ability to lead, direct, and manage departmental personnel, making appropriate decisions.
• Innovative, collaborative and flexible management style.
• Ability to work in a team setting.
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to address faculty, staff, and student issues in a positive manner at the division level and in collaboration with other college departments, divisions, and administrators.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with external partners, ensuring clear and accurate communication regarding division programs and related professions.
• Skills in managing comprehensive budgets.
• Knowledge with securing grants and post award management.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Integrity and high ethical standards, and an ability to engender trust.
• Excellent computer skills.
• Ability to manage the division in compliance with College policies, procedures, guidelines, and direction.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of people with a variety of abilities and backgrounds, to maintain good working relationships across the College.
• Ability to work with all groups from a variety of academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, and with community college students, faculty, and staff, including those with disabilities.

Minimum qualifications

• Master's degree, from an accredited college or university, in a related field required.
• Three (3) years full-time, college level teaching experience.
• Two (2) years clinical experience working in a health-related discipline required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional Education and Experience: Have served as a full-time faculty member who have taught for at least three years (may include administrators returning to teaching, retired faculty members who want to return, etc.).
• Evidence of significant and productive participation in department-level processes such as scheduling, program review, department test preparation and administration, curriculum development, student issues and other department tasks.