Position: Dean of Instruction
Opening date: September 20, 2021
Closing date: October 4, 2021
Department: Academic Affairs
Reports Directly To: Vice President of Academic Affairs
Status: Exempt; Full-time
Salary: $65,000 - $84,810
Summary Of Duties:
- Coordinate with the directors, department chairs and faculty to develop processes that promote academic innovation and improved service to all students, campus-based, online and dual credit.
- Analyze and evaluate instructional areas and foster a culture of continuous improvement to ensure curriculum and instructional integrity.
- Serve as chair of the Curriculum Committee.
- Support academic departments in a manner that promotes excellence in instructional methods, technology, and effective pedagogies that enhance student learning.
- Provide leadership in generating staff development opportunities for faculty and staff.
- Coordinate staff development opportunities with the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Director for faculty and staff in CTE programs.
- Work with department chairs and faculty to support a variety of methods of instruction (campus-based and online) that engage all students and impact student learning to meet course objectives.
- Mentor faculty in effective academic advising strategies, including the implementation of the Early Alert System.
- 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.
- Collaborate with department chairs to ensure course and program articulation agreements are initiated and maintained.
- Facilitate preparation of fall, spring and summer course schedules and faculty assignments for all areas.
- Provide leadership for academic program reviews, annual program review updates, and action plans.
- Maintain membership on the Institutional Effectiveness Committee.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Assigned department chairs, faculty, and staff
Working Conditions:
- General office conditions
- Normal working hours are from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 m.
- Monday through Friday
- One-hour lunch break
Physical Demands:
- Must be able to go up and down stairs.
- Regularly required to sit for long periods of time.
- Must be able to stand for long periods of time.
- Regularly required to speak in front of a large group while performing the duties of this job.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum of a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction, educational psychology, or secondary education from an accredited institution required. PhD or EdD preferred.
- Five (5) continuous years of full-time classroom teaching experience at the post-secondary level within the past 10 years required.
- Five (5) continuous years of academic advising experience at the post-secondary level 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
- Manage multiple priorities and projects
- Coordinate and facilitate meetings
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships
Required Documents:
- UTTC Application
- Cover Letter
- Resume
- Unofficial Copies of Transcripts