Summary:
This leadership position oversees academic innovation, instructional integrity, and faculty development to enhance student success through improved retention and graduation rates. The role manages faculty onboarding, mentorship, and performance evaluation while ensuring compliance with institutional policies and accreditation standards. Additionally, it includes serving on institutional committees, supporting student retention initiatives, and coordinating scheduling and textbook adoption processes.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Coordinate with the directors, department chairs and faculty to develop and support processes that promote academic innovation and improved service to all students, campus-based and online.
• Analyze and evaluate instructional areas and foster a culture of continuous improvement to ensure curriculum and instructional integrity.
• Work with department chairs and faculty to support culturally responsive instructional strategies and indigenized pedagogy with a focus on American Indian and Alaskan Native content.
• Onboarding of new faculty and staff, orientation of academic affairs policies, compliance forms, paperwork, mentorship, and support.
• Collaborate with department chairs and other supervisors to ensure faculty work schedules comply with policy.
• Approve faculty assignments for all areas as submitted by department chairs and other supervisors.
• Mentor faculty in effective academic advising strategies, including ensuring the implementation of the Thunder Alert System.
• Serve as ex-officio member of the Curriculum Committee and Assessment of Student Learning Committee and full membership on the Institutional Effectiveness Committee.
• Serve on the Retention Management Team to monitor the Early Alert System, provide feedback to faculty and advisors, and revise and provide guidance as an administrator in the retention module.
• Ensure assessment of student learning activities are completed by faculty in a timely manner and
according to the recommendations of the Assessment of Student Learning Committee.
• Facilitate the Academic Council meetings and duties of that council, including the professional development days schedule for faculty and staff.
• Employ appropriate techniques and strategies to resolve disputes and to enhance communication and cooperation among the personnel in the assigned departments.
• Evaluate the performance of assigned department chairs, faculty, adjuncts and other personnel in conformance with appropriate policies and procedures.
• Coordinate the semester class scheduling process with the Registrar’s Office and the textbook adoption process with the bookstore.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
• Assigned department chairs and faculty
• Office Administrator
Working Conditions:
• General office conditions
• Normal working hours are from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday
• One-hour lunch break
• Position requires occasional travel that includes weekends.
Physical Demands:
• Move about inside an office and classroom.
• Operate a computer and other office/classroom equipment.
• Occasionally move, transport, or position up to 20 pounds.
• May need to ascend/descend stairs.
Education & or Work Experience Requirements:
• Minimum of a master’s degree in a relevant field from an accredited institution required.
• Minimum of three (3) years of leadership or teaching experience in higher education required.
Knowledge & Skills:
• Distance learning methodologies and management.
• Teaching and learning strategies.
• Adult learning methodologies as well as evaluation of instructional quality and outcomes.
• Effectively communicate both orally and in writing.
• Handle sensitive and complex employee/employer issues consistently and professionally.
• Coordinate and facilitate meetings.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships
