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About MCC
Metropolitan Community College is the oldest public institution of higher learning in Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 1915 as the Kansas City Polytechnic Institute. The Junior College of Kansas City, as it was known starting in 1919, was one of the first schools in the country to award an associate degree. Today, MCC offers 125 associate degree and certificate programs.
Metropolitan Community College comprises five campuses on the Missouri side of the Greater Kansas City area 47 major buildings and about 550 acres in all: MCC-Blue River, located in Independence, Missouri; MCC-Longview located in Lee's Summit, Missouri, MCC-Maple Woods located in the Northland of Kansas City, Missouri; MCC-Online and MCC-Penn Valley, located in Midtown Kansas City, Missouri.
MCC is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. In addition, several programs have specific accreditations as well.
MCC does not provide employer-paid sponsorships.
Job Summary
Incumbent directs the student service activities and provides leadership in the development and management of personnel, budget, programs and departments. Incumbents plan, initiate, facilitate, lead and evaluate a wide range of student engagement/development, enrollment and retention, counseling, testing, and support services and programs that contribute to student academic success.
Essential Functions
- Supervise student services staff to include prioritizing and assigning work, conducting performance evaluations, ensuring staff are trained, ensuring that employees follow policies and procedures, maintaining a healthy and safe working environment, and making hiring, termination, and disciplinary recommendations
- Provide oversight and directs the implementation of student services programs and operations: work may involve planning, coordinating, administering and evaluating programs, projects, processes, strategies, procedures, systems, and/or standards related to student development, enrollment, and support services and programs
- Ensure compliance with Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, codes, and/or standards
- Coordinates activities between multiple service areas
- Work to integrate and coordinate service areas, including financial aid, to create a seamless recruitment and registration process
- Provide guidance to promote student engagement, student life activities, and student government
- Prepare and administer budgets; prepares cost estimates for budget recommendations, submits justifications for budget items and monitors and controls expenditures
- Participate in and/or leads grant writing initiatives
- Prepare, review, interpret and analyze a variety of complex and multi-faceted information, data, contracts, forms, schedules, calendars, surveys, and reports; makes recommendations based on findings
- Direct, lead, and develop community outreach initiatives
- Facilitate, lead and support collaborative partnerships between the college and external service area entities to increase student enrollment and provide educational training and education opportunities
- Serve as a liaison to employees, students, and external organizations; represent the college and/or District at a variety of meetings, public events, training sessions, on committees, on policy-making bodies, and/or other related events
- Collaborate with District and college personnel to ensure efficient operation of division programs; participate in course and/or program development to ensure compliance with applicable licensing and oversight entities
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Physical Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master's degree in a related field to assigned area
- Three (3) years progressive leadership experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Doctorate degree
- Higher education experience
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of leadership principles
- Knowledge of college administration principles and practices
- Knowledge of curriculum development principles
- Knowledge of licensing and accreditation rules and regulations
- Knowledge of state regulating agencies
- Knowledge of legislative processes
- Knowledge of advanced principles and practices in assigned area of responsibility
- Knowledge of public relations principles
- Knowledge of budgeting principles
- Knowledge of grant development, administration, and management principles
- Knowledge of community agencies and resources
- Knowledge of strategic planning principles
- Knowledge of financial management principles
- Knowledge of program development and administration principles and practices at a District-wide level
- Knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws, rules, regulations, codes, and/or statutes
- Knowledge of policy and procedure development practices
- Skilled in monitoring and evaluating subordinates
- Skilled in delegating and prioritizing work
- Skilled in preparing reports
- Skilled in directing major work operations
- Skilled in developing and implementing college policies and procedures
- Skilled in directing community outreach efforts
- Skilled in reading, comprehending, and reviewing financial information
- Skilled in making program decisions based on financial considerations
- Skilled in interpreting and applying applicable laws, rules, and regulations
- Skilled in analyzing problems, identifying alternative solutions, projecting consequences of proposed actions, and making recommendations in support of goals
- Skilled in conducting negotiations
- Skilled in handling multiple tasks simultaneously
- Skilled in providing customer service
- Skilled in preparing and managing grants
- Skilled in managing budgets
- Skilled in monitoring and evaluating programs
- Skilled in collaborating with external agencies
- Skilled in utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisors, the general public, and others sufficient to exchange or convey information
Physical Requirements
Positions in this class typically require reaching, standing, walking, keyboarding, grasping, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions. Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Walking and standing are required only occasionally.
Supplemental Information
EEO Statement:
Metropolitan Community College is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, birth, ancestry, national origin, or disability. EOE/M/F/Vets/Disabled
Accommodations:
MCC is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, MCC will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations in all aspects of employment, including the application process. To request an accommodation and/or a copy of the Americans with Disabilities Act applicant procedures, please contact the Office of Human Resources.
Organization
Long before Kansas City looked the way it does today, a group of people believed the region needed a place where anyone could get an education that led somewhere. That belief became Kansas City Polytechnic Institute in 1915, and a few years later, the Junior College of Kansas City, one of the first schools in the country to award an associate degree. Over a century later, that same idea still drives the institution known today as Metropolitan Community College.
MCC is the oldest public institution of higher learning in Kansas City, Missouri, and that history isn't just a footnote. It's the foundation for a mission that hasn't changed: open doors, build skills, and help people move forward, whether that means a first degree, a career change, or a new trade learned close to home. Today, MCC offers 125 associate degree and certificate programs across five campuses on the Missouri side of the Kansas City area: Blue River, Longview, Maple Woods, Penn Valley, and MCC-Online, spanning 47 buildings and roughly 550 acres.
But campuses and buildings only tell part of the story. What makes MCC matter is the people inside them, faculty who show up for students navigating school alongside jobs and families, staff who help someone find their footing, and colleagues who understand that this work changes the trajectory of a life. MCC is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, and several of its programs carry additional specialized accreditation, a reflection of a place that takes its responsibility to students seriously without losing sight of why the work exists in the first place.
For more than a hundred years, MCC has been part of how Kansas City grows and moves forward. The next chapter is being written now, by the people who choose to build their careers here. There's a place in that story for you.
Company info
Website: www.mcckc.edu
Telephone: 8166041234
Location: 3200 Broadway Blvd
Kansas City
MO
64111
US
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