Time Off: CSN provides a variety of time off options to help
employees manage their work-life balance.
Holidays: All CSN employees receive 12 paid holidays per
year.
Benefits: CSN offers attractive and customizable health
insurance plans for employee and dependents.
Retirement Plan: Participants contribute 19.25% with 100%
employer match.
On-site Early Childhood Education Center
services available
Learning & professional development opportunities.
Active CSN Affinity Groups
that focus on campus-wide diversity initiatives to create a
welcoming campus climate.
For more information about the benefits offered at CSN, please
click the link
https://www.csn.edu/benefits
Dean, School of Business, Hospitality and Public
Services
This position will be
Open Until Filled. *For full
consideration, all application related materials should be
submitted by April 22, 2026.
The College of Southern Nevada (CSN) is seeking a visionary and
dynamic leader to serve as the Dean of the CSN School of Business,
Hospitality and Public Services. The Dean serves as the senior
academic leader for the School, overseeing four academic
departments: Accounting & Finance, Business Administration,
Criminal Justice and Hospitality Management.
The Dean leads nearly 200 full-time and part-time faculty and staff
across CSN's multi-campus environment and ensures academic
excellence, workforce alignment, fiscal stewardship, student
success outcomes, and compliance with CSN, NSHE, accreditation, and
collective bargaining requirements. The Dean supports approximately
9,000 students who have declared majors and/or take classes in
programs offered by this School each year. The School serves a
diverse student population pursuing transfer degrees, applied
workforce credentials, stackable certificates, industry
certifications, and professional advancement.
The Dean provides strategic direction for the School, fostering an
environment of innovation and excellence in teaching, research, and
service. Responsibilities include budget management, faculty and
staff oversight, community representation, and ensuring program
relevance and quality. The Dean will also lead the development of
the School's Academic Master Plan and work closely with faculty to
promote continuous improvement and student success.
The Dean also provides executive leadership oversight for Russell's
Restaurant, CSN's community-facing, student-operated restaurant
that serves as a capstone experiential learning environment for
culinary and hospitality students. This venue functions as both a
teaching laboratory and a public engagement platform, requiring
strong operational oversight, fiscal accountability, community
relations leadership, and alignment with instructional
objectives.
In addition, the Dean provides institutional leadership support and
academic coordination for the Southern Nevada Regional Police
Academy, which CSN supports as part of its public safety program.
This includes collaboration with law enforcement agencies,
oversight of CSN alignment, and ensuring high standards of
training, compliance, and community partnership.
Key Responsibilities:
• Provide visionary leadership in curriculum development, program
review, and strategic planning for accounting, business,
hospitality and culinary, as well as criminal justice
disciplines.
• Provide executive oversight of Russell's Restaurant as a
community-facing instructional enterprise, ensuring operational
excellence, fiscal responsibility, student learning integration,
and positive public engagement.
• Support and coordinate institutional leadership responsibilities
related to the Southern Nevada Regional Police Academy in
partnership with regional law enforcement agencies.
• Ensure alignment of programs with workforce needs, regional
economic priorities, and transfer articulation agreements.
• Ensure annual assessment of student learning outcomes and
curricular review occurs at the course, program and institutional
learning outcome levels.
• Strengthen partnerships with industry leaders, hospitality
enterprises, chambers of commerce, economic development agencies,
public sector organizations, and public safety agencies.
• Manage budgetary planning and fiscal operations, including state
funds, self-support revenue (where applicable), grants, and
philanthropic contributions.
• Support grant development, workforce training contracts, and
industry-sponsored initiatives.
• Oversee School personnel recommendations to include but not
limited to faculty hiring, evaluation, tenure review, professional
development, grievance review, discipline, and collective
bargaining compliance.
• Ensure high-quality delivery of in-person, hybrid, online,
accelerated, and alternative instructional modalities.
• Lead development and execution of the School's Academic Master
Plan in alignment with CSN's Strategic Plans.
This position requires a leader who understands the unique
intersection of business innovation, hospitality and tourism
economies, culinary excellence, public service professions, law
enforcement training, workforce development, and transfer pathways
within one of the nation's most dynamic metropolitan regions. The
Dean reports to the CSN Executive Vice President of Academic
Affairs (Chief Academic Officer) and serves as a member of the CSN
Senior Academic Leadership Team.
Required Qualifications
- Master's Degree from a regionally accredited institution in any
program field that is offered within the School of Business,
Hospitality, and Public Services and/or consistent with the duties
and responsibilities of the position, such as Higher Education
Leadership, Educational Leadership, Business Administration, Public
Administration or Policy.
- Six (6) years of full-time experience at a higher education
institution to include at least two years of full-time teaching
experience at the post-secondary education level in a discipline
currently offered at CSN within the School of Business, Hospitality
and Public Services.
- Three (3) years of experience in an academic leadership and/or
supervisory role in higher education.
Preferred Qualifications
- Doctorate Degree from a regionally accredited
institution.
- Experience working in a multi-site community college.
- Experience with the development, evaluation and expansion of
programs and degrees that meet workforce and industry needs and/or
lead to seamless transfer.
- Experience with the development, evaluation and expansion of
distance education and/or alternative modes of instructional
delivery.
- Experience with grant writing and management of grant
funds.
- Experience promoting diversity, multiculturalism, equity,
inclusion, belonging and internationalism in a community college
environment in support of the college's mission, goals and
strategies.
- Experience in student learning outcomes assessment and
data-informed program review and assessment, including budget
management.
- Experience successfully collaborating with stakeholders in
creating a positive work and learning environment in support of the
college's mission, goals and strategies.
- Experience with accreditation processes and requirements in the
post-secondary environment.
- Experience working in a collective bargaining
environment.
The ideal candidate should possess the following
knowledge, skills, and abilities:
- Proficiency in use of a personal computer and current software
applications including but not limited to Microsoft Office Suite
(Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
- Expertise in curriculum development and revision, particularly
in stackable credentials.
- Proficiency in assessing student learning outcomes and
utilizing data for decision-making.
- Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication
skills.
- Ability to engage effectively with diverse internal and
external stakeholders.
- High emotional intelligence, ethical decision-making, and sound
judgment.
- Proven ability to establish and maintain partnerships with
local business and industry leaders.
Salary Information
Administrative Faculty E - The Starting Salary is $156,195.00
*
This position is contingent upon ongoing and available
funding.
Exempt
Yes
Full-Time Equivalent
100.0%
Required Attachment(s)
To be considered for this position, please upload the following
documents to your application:
- Resume/CV
- Cover Letter
- Contact information for three professional references (Name,
email and phone number)
- Unofficial Academic Transcripts (Applicants who have earned
their degrees outside of the United States must have their
educational transcripts evaluated by an approved evaluator if their
college or university is not listed in the most recent edition of
the Higher Education Directory, published by Higher Education
Publications, Inc. If you have any questions regarding this, please
reach out to the Human Resources, Talent Acquisition &
Classification team).
Applicants should fully describe their qualifications and
experience with specific reference to each of the minimum and
preferred qualifications. The search committee will use this
information during the initial review of application
materials.
National Search
Out of Area/State Candidates may be offered travel reimbursement
with original itemized receipts and in accordance with GSA rates at
time of travel.
NSHE - INTERNAL APPLICANTS PLEASE NOTE
CSN employees or employees within the Nevada System of Higher
Education (NSHE) MUST use the "Find Jobs" process within Workday to
find and apply for jobs at CSN and other NSHE Institutions. Once
you log into Workday, type "Find Jobs" in the search box which will
navigate to the internal job posting site. Locate this specific job
posting by typing the requisition number in the search box. If you
complete an application outside of the internal application process
and apply as an external candidate, your application will no longer
be considered at the time of minimum qualification review. In order
to prevent the disqualification of your application, you will need
to reapply as an internal candidate before 11:59 pm the day prior
to the position close date.
For more details on this position, please visit our website:
My Career at
CSN.
CSN is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action
institution. For more information, visit
http://www.csn.edu/nondiscrimination.
Posting Close Date
Note to Applicant
Applicants should fully describe their qualifications and
experience with specific reference to each of the minimum and
preferred qualifications. The search committee will use this
information during the initial review of application
materials.
All document(s) must be received by 11:59 p.m. the day prior to the
closing date posted on the job announcement.
This position may require that a criminal background check be
conducted on the candidate(s) selected for hire.
As part of the hiring process, applicants for positions in the
Nevada System of Higher Education may be required to demonstrate
the ability to perform job-related tasks.
Schedules are subject to change based on organizational
needs.
CSN is responsive to serving the educational needs of a diverse and
ever-changing community. CSN employs only U.S. citizens and aliens
authorized to work in the U.S. CSN does not sponsor aliens applying
for faculty, professional staff, or management positions (H-1B
Visas) in the absence of exceptional circumstances as defined by
the USCIS.
To apply, visit https://nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CSN-External/job/CSN---North-Las-Vegas-Campus/Dean--School-of-Business--Hospitality-and-Public-Services_R0150946
About Us
The College of Southern Nevada (CSN) creates opportunities and
changes lives through access to quality teaching, services, and
experiences that enrich our diverse community. CSN has three main
campuses in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson and multiple
sites and centers.
The Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) is committed to
providing a place of work and learning free of discrimination on
the basis of a person's age, disability, whether actual or
perceived by others (including service-connected disabilities),
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