Dean, Arts and Humanities

Job Summary

Reporting to the Vice President, Academic Affairs (VPAA), the Dean is responsible for leading faculty and sustaining a student-centered academic culture that promotes collaboration, innovation, excellence, and integrity in teaching. This leadership position serves as the first level of academic administration for credit and non-credit programming for the campus, including program development and assessment. This position is also responsible for managing the division budget, teaching and learning assessment, and works in concert with VPAA to recommend faculty appointments, professional development, academic student support (i.e. library, learning centers), and evaluation in adherence to college policy and procedures.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Performance Requirements

• Assists and advises the Vice President, Academic Affairs regarding students, personnel, or resource management concerns in a timely manner
• Establishes and follows through on a course of action for self or others to assure accomplishment of assigned objectives at the level expected for the position
• Ensures fiscal responsibility in the development and management of the schedule of classes and resource management in assigned budgets; monitors spending and approves expenditures according to established policies and procedures
• Collaborates with secondary school partners to coordinate course offerings and other partnership initiatives
• Collaborates with university partners in support of initiatives such as articulation agreements
• Directs and manages course schedules and teaching assignments following the College's policies and procedures
• Supports faculty excellence in instruction to ensure student success
• Collaborates with instructional leaders throughout the College on initiatives and operations
• Tracks and analyzes student performance, enrollments, and learning outcomes to make informed decisions regarding the status of academic programs and resource management (e.g., personnel and classroom resources)
• Follows the College's policies and procedures to coordinate program compliance and assessment efforts
• Leads in addressing Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) requirements for accreditation
• Authorizes or denies student petitions, including course substitutions, prerequisite overrides, and grade changes

General Supervision and Management

• Supervises, orients, mentors, assigns, and monitors duties and responsibilities of all faculty, instructional leaders, and staff
• Recruits and recommends qualified faculty and staff
• Ensures evaluation and support of faculty, instructional leaders and staff to promote student success; develops and manages performance improvement plans in collaboration with supervisors and Human Resources
• Recommends faculty for promotion in rank, tenure, re-employment, and faculty development leave

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree
• Three (3) years' full-time teaching experience in a credit curriculum at the post-secondary level
• Three (3) years' working experience in leadership of curriculum and instruction
• Three (3) years' experience supervising (e.g., managing, evaluating the performance of others)

Preferred Qualifications

• Earned doctorate
• At least eighteen (18) graduate credit hours the arts, humanities, languages, communication, performance, media, arts management, or closely related interdisciplinary field
• At least two (2) years' working experience in academic leadership that includes supervision, evaluation, and professional development of full-time faculty
• At least one (1) year's working experience implementing High-Impact Practices (HIPs) (e.g., learning communities, undergraduate research, service learning, arts showcases) that improve student engagement, retention, and completion
• At least one (1) year of leadership experience in the arts and cultural sector, including the building strategic partnerships and leading complex initiatives such as audience development, fundraising, event production, or community-based arts programming