College: Louisiana Delta Community College
Department: Academic Affairs
Type of Appointment: Unclassified - Administrative/Staff
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assists the Chancellor in planning, organizing, and directing the operation, staff, and budgeting needs of the college.
- Promotes a learning-centered educational environment, placing educational excellence and student success at the forefront in institutional planning and policy development.
- Establishes and implements an evaluation system for all programs and services within the area of responsibility.
- Provides vision, leadership, and implementation toward a seamless enrollment process for new, current, traditional, non-traditional, workforce and special interest students.
- Oversees efforts in identifying and implementing creative recruitment strategies designed to meet student enrollment goals.
- Manages Education, Training, and Student Success expenditures consistent with strategic goals and institutional outcomes and works closely with deans and department heads to monitor expenditures and ensure adherence to budget.
- Provides leadership to the development of class schedules, course catalog and other key academic reports and documents that meet the goals and priorities of the college.
- Maintains accreditation requirements for the college and for certain academic programs; create reports needed for external agencies.
- Provides input and guidance to decision makers including Chancellor, Executive Team colleagues, System Office, LCTCS Board of Supervisors, and Board of Regents.
- Establish clear standards, goals, and outcomes for the Education, Training and Student Success Divisions with corresponding assessment and improvement plans.
- Provides expert leadership to the college community in developing innovative student programs and initiating state and national best practices.
- Engage partners in area schools and communities to promote student development programs that close the gap on student participation and success.
- Leads long-term strategic divisional planning in access, learning, and success that aligns with the college’s strategic plan.
- Responsible for educational policy and academic programs. This includes program review and improvement, accreditation and self-evaluation, assessment of student learning and advancement of student success, academic personnel decisions, budget development, enrollment management, fiscal accountability, program and curriculum development, and the encouragement and improvement of teaching and learning.
- Manages direct reports.
- Other responsibilities and duties as assigned by the Chancellor.
Required Education:
- Master’s degree required.
- An earned doctorate degree from an accredited university or at least five years in a leadership role preferred.
- Demonstrated effective leadership in areas such as academic planning, program development, advising, and student orientation, preferably at a community college.
- A distinguished record of teaching, preferably in higher education, with a thorough knowledge of higher education principles and practices.
- Demonstrated experience serving a diverse student population, which includes evidence-based practices for the promotion of student success (including improved retention, graduation rates and IBC/skill attainment).
- Experience working with a diverse faculty, staff and student body and an ability to promote a campus culture of service, inclusiveness, integrity, and success.
- Demonstrated experience in curriculum development, andragogy, student learning outcomes assessment, distance learning, universal design, honors, integrated learning, use of technology in instruction and institutional research data.
- Experience collaborating with workforce development programs and an understanding of the intersection of workforce and academic programs and initiatives such as the non-credit to credit pipeline.
Benefits: As a member of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, Louisiana Delta Community College has an attractive benefits package with a wide variety of benefit options. Benefits offered include retirement, multiple medical insurance options, supplemental insurances (dental, term life, disability, accident, vision, etc.), Tax Saver Flexible Benefits Plan (saves tax dollars on some child care and medical expenses), holidays (14 per year, typically includes longer break at Christmas), generous annual (vacation) and sick leave benefits and Employee Assistance Program. Specific benefits depend on job category, percent effort and length of employment.
Passing pre-employment criminal background screen is required as a condition of employment. Louisiana Delta Community College is an equal opportunity/equal access employer. Louisiana Delta Community College is a State As a Model Employer (SAME) agency that supports improved employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
