Position Title: Dean, Advanced Manufacturing and Transportation Technology

Job Summary:

Provide leadership in career and technical education for the college. Responsible for the division in meeting the college’s economic vitality goals. Lead the division’s work on curriculum, program review, articulation, and the development and measurement of student learning outcomes. Hire, develop, and supervise division faculty and staff. Manage the division’s instructional budgets. Represent the division on appropriate college, community and statewide councils, committees, and task forces. Manage the Advanced Transportation Technology Center.

Required Qualifications:

Education and Training: Requires a Master’s degree, preferably related to a Career and Technical Education program or discipline taught at LBCC, or comparable credentials in a discipline related to CTE programs taught at LBCC.

Experience: Requires recent teaching or related instructional experience, preferably in a Career and Technical Education program taught at a community college. Requires management experience, including project and budget management and supervision of personnel. Work experience in a technical field is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Position requires a broad understanding of community college management and administration, ranging from academic to financial affairs. Must understand team management principles and have the ability to build collaborative relationships, and to encourage, train, motivate and coach faculty and staff. Must have comprehensive knowledge of budget management. Must understand teaching, assessment of learning, and instructional development and improvement processes. Must have current knowledge of national and state school-improvement initiatives and discussions. Must be able to promote partnerships with business, industry, labor, faculty, and the public. Requires the ability to work with a large number of programs and advisory committees. Knowledge of institutional design and academic procedures and general college operations and administration is preferred. Requires highly developed human relations skills, sound judgment and professional communication skills (oral and written). Must be able to communicate complex information. Requires the ability to work with all levels of management, staff and the public. Must be organized, able to prioritize work, and follow-through to completion of complex tasks. Must be able to project staff and program needs. Must have awareness of safety protocols and industry standards and procedures. Must have a good understanding of efficient use of space and equipment to maximize use.

Preferred Qualifications:

Specialized training in OSHA, safety, and hazardous materials is preferred. Training in curriculum development and program assessment is preferred.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

Work is performed in an office environment with frequent interruptions and irregularities in the work schedule; frequently enters lab areas where there may be exposure to potential safety hazards and temperature variations. Incumbents must be able to use a computer efficiently. 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:

1. Provide leadership in career and technical education for the college.
2. Lead the division’s work in instruction, connecting student mastery of learning outcomes within each class and program to the college’s strategic goals of increasing graduation rates, workforce entry, and transfer to four-year institutions. Align the division’s assessment plan and program review process with college priorities.
3. Lead the division’s work in planning. In collaboration with department chairs and division staff, provide leadership in the definition and accomplishment of division goals and objectives. Help faculty connect division work to articulation efforts with area high schools and colleges. Engage in efforts to keep the division contemporary, effective, future focused, and student centered.
4. Work with division faculty to revise annually student-learning outcomes for all state-approved programs. Assist faculty in identifying meaningful assessments of these outcomes and in using assessment data to revise course content and delivery to improve instruction. Work with faculty to use student performance data, workplace needs and practices, and employment projection data to review and update outcomes as appropriate.
5. Assume primary responsibility for the direct supervision of division personnel. Ensure all division practices comply with employee contracts, administrative rules, board policies and state and federal statutes. Recruit, select, orient and evaluate all full and part-time faculty and staff in cooperation with Human Resources. Assign full and part-time faculty to courses and related responsibilities. Review and approve instructional work plans and staff assignments.
6. Perform appraisals for employees under direct supervision, within institutional policies and procedures and agreed upon timelines. Counsel personnel on performance related issues. Make personnel recommendations to the Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs concerning division employee hiring and termination.
7. Encourage faculty and staff to participate in professional development opportunities, particularly those that will assist them in helping the college to make progress toward reaching its strategic goals and core themes, and achieving its mission.
8. Ensure that faculty understands the college’s mission and their role in serving students. Facilitate the shift from a focus on teaching to a focus on student persistence, mastery, and success after graduation. Plan professional development activities that help faculty develop the capacity to use data to inform their teaching.
9. Oversee the CTE program review and technical skills assessment process. Work with faculty to revise the program review process to ensure that data collected can inform program improvements.
10. Facilitate a shift in faculty thinking from a focus on what happens in the classroom each day to what it means to be an instructional unit. Provide instruction for faculty on college processes that contribute to understanding and tracking student success, such as understanding FTE reports, advising, responsive class schedules, and the relevance of academic policies.
11. Administer all aspects of the curricular offerings. Approve schedule of course offerings, and revise program offerings in coordination with advisory committees. Ensure high standards and appropriate accreditation processes are in place, functioning, and maintained. Recommend additions to, deletions from, and changes in division curricula. Approve catalog copy and graduation checklists each year.
12. Facilitate, coordinate and approve, with input from the faculty, all division contract training, administrative support, and testing programs/contracts. Assure contracts follow college policy. Evaluate the delivery of all programs and contracts. Maintain relationships with community business and industry leaders.
13. Prepare the division budget and oversee expenditures within the division. Participate in the college’s annual budget building process. In collaboration with department chairs and instructional managers, set priorities for and direct the development of the division budget, including department and/or program budgets. Monitor the division budget in accordance with college, state, and federal guidelines and in accordance with established business office procedures.
14. Administer the use and operation of facilities and equipment in compliance with college and state fire and safety standards.
15. In collaboration with department chairs, provide leadership in the identification and cultivation of external resource development to benefit individual programs, the division and the college. Participate in the grant process as appropriate. Work with business to obtain equipment and other donations. Follow Foundation and college procedures for accepting equipment donations.
16. Facilitate positive communication within the division, the college, and the service area. Represent the division on various college committees. Represent the college to external constituencies in the community, to professional organizations, and to other colleges and universities.
17. Assume the lead role for providing a skilled workforce to local employers. Join community boards, councils, and task forces designed to build an educated workforce that meets regional employment needs.
18. Ensure that programs are up to date and forward thinking in their planning. Support faculty in the effective use of advisory committees, including selection and training of members as key resources in order to continue responsiveness to current and future workforce training needs.
19. Serve as the college’s point of contact with state CTE organizations and committees.
20. Manage the division’s role in informing the public about the college, including developing the schedule of classes, college catalog, and other college publications. Assist division faculty with recruiting, advising, and retaining students through program completion. Ensure division faculty participates in the college’s student advising plan.
21. Facilitate communication between faculty and students. Assist with advising, particularly during breaks between academic terms and summers. Process student complaints and follow Students’ Rights and Responsibilities guidelines. Approve program grants.
22. Participate in professional development activities. Review relevant research. Participate in college improvement initiatives, such as the Guided Pathways, accreditation review teams and other committees reviewing data on student performance.
23. Responsible for ensuring compliance with safety regulations, employee safety training, OSHA compliance, and emergency planning related to area of control.
24. Perform other duties as assigned.