Dean of Strategic Partnerships & Workforce Development

Dean of Strategic Partnerships & Workforce Development

Campus: Skyline College

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary Schedule: 20

Grade: AD

Category: Academic Administrator

Bargaining Unit: Non-Represented

Months Per Year: 12

Hours Per Week: 37.5

Mandated Reporter: Yes

Campus Security Authority: No

Under the general direction of the Vice President of Instruction, the Dean of Strategic Partnerships & Workforce Development will be responsible for the leadership, coordination, and compliance of the college's Career Education programs, including, but not limited to the Strong Workforce Program (SWP), Carl D. Perkins funding, Work Experience Program, Dual Enrollment Program, Grants, Career & Job Placement Services, Adult Education, and other educational areas as assigned.

Additionally, the Dean of Strategic Partnerships & Workforce Development will assist the college with local and regional CTE program planning and development, budget coordination, employer outreach, regional advisory committees, and coordinating college CTE grant activities; manage college articulation and dual enrollment efforts in feeder high schools and districts; ensure compliance with relevant state and federal grant requirements, including fiscal coordination and reporting; represent the college in local and regional workforce education and training initiatives; and facilitate the expansion of CTE programs and potential partnerships with appropriate industries, high schools, post-secondary institutions and community organizations as they relate to career programs.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Duties and Responsibilities are representative and not intended to cover all duties the incumbent performs. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the scope of work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to this classification.

1. Supervise and assume responsibility for faculty, including, but not limited to the areas of Work Experience, Career & Job Placement Services, Career Development, and Dual Enrollment
2. Provide leadership in Career and Technical Education to ensure teaching excellence and innovations in student learning and student success
3. Guide and support faculty in their efforts to develop and assess student learning outcomes at the course, program, and Division levels
4. In collaboration with student services and instruction, assist with planning and program development as related to career and workforce programs
5. Direct communications, personnel, resources, curriculum, schedules, and information to meet the instructional and student services needs of dual enrollment and enhance the educational effectiveness of assigned programs and services
6. Serve as the college representative in coordination of grant work plan objectives and activities for projects, such as Strong Workforce program (SWP), across the three San Mateo colleges and coordinate local and regional SWP planning
7. Inform CTE program expansion and development at the college using relevant labor market information
8. Support articulation and dual enrollment efforts with secondary and adult schools in the area of CTE
9. Serve as college liaison to local industry, adult schools, secondary, and post-secondary institutions in developing and implementing CTE projects and grant activities
10. Coordinate with San Mateo County Community College District colleges in CTE program vitality assessment to ensure programs are aligned with workforce needs
11. Plan and administer the Division budget
12. Coordinate preparation of catalog, schedule, and brochure materials for the Division
13. Write grant proposals, manage Division grants, and prepare required reports
14. Provide articulation/liaison with other college divisions and services, advisory committees, student groups, and appropriate off-campus institutions and groups
15. Serve on designated college and District committees
16. Serve as a member on the Instructional Leadership Team
17. Administer collective bargaining agreements for Division faculty and classified staff
18. Direct the tenure review and/or evaluation processes for all Division faculty and staff
19. Serve as key emergency prevention, preparedness, and response personnel as assigned
20. Serve as the Bay Area Community College Consortium (BACCC) Representative
21. Perform other duties as assigned by the Vice President of Instruction

Employment Standards (acquired through education, training, and/or experience)

Knowledge of:

1. Awareness of, and commitment to shared governance
2. Familiarity with, and willingness to expand the use of computer-based technology appropriate to the subject area(s) of the assignment

Skills and Abilities:

1. Community college teaching experience and demonstrated appreciation for the disciplines taught in the Division
2. Evidence of involvement, initiative, and leadership in instructional activities
3. Develop, organize, and coordinate a wide variety of instructional programs to achieve college and Division goals
4. Facilitate faculty endeavors in the development and assessment of student learning outcomes
5. Elicit and bring focus to recommendations from Division faculty and staff
6. Represent effectively the Division and its goals at college and District levels
7. Organizational skills to facilitate the development and administration of curriculum, budget, staff development, and performance evaluation
8. Manage the Division Office and other services to assist faculty and students
9. Commitment to balancing appropriately the needs of remedial, vocational, and transfer students
10. Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with District and college administrators, faculty, staff, students, and the public
11. Creatively facilitate problem-solving between departments and programs in the Division
12. Organizational skills that enable the performance of duties in a timely fashion with attention to details
13. Evidence of grant-writing and/or fundraising skills
14. Develop partnerships with local businesses and community groups
15. Commitment to the District's goal of integrating writing skills across the curriculum
16. Managerial skills, including experience in delegating responsibility for tasks and following up on completion of tasks
17. Respectful, tactful and sensitive interaction with people who are diverse in their academic, socioeconomic, ethnic, neurodivergent, and LGBTQIA+ backgrounds

Job Requirements:

• Master's degree or higher from an accredited institution OR the equivalent
• One year of formal training, internship, or leadership experience reasonably related to the administrative assignment
• Demonstrated cultural competence, sensitivity to, and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, ethnic, neurodivergent, and LGBTQIA+ backgrounds of community college students, faculty, and staff