Unclassified Employment Opportunities

Vice Chancellor for Education, Training and Student Success

CLASSIFICATION: Exempt

IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR: Chancellor

Overview:
The Vice-Chancellor for Education, Training and Student Success (VCETS) role is new to Nunez Community College. It combines historically different positions to create an opportunity for a more unified approach to academic excellence and student success. Guided by the College’s strategic plan, this new leadership structure will encourage increased collaboration and communication across the College. In addition to the following qualifications and characteristics, the successful candidate will possess the ability to inspire and unite faculty and staff in a shared vision to best educate, serve, and support all students. This executive-level leader will be key in promoting a college-wide climate consistent with Nunez’s Values: Student-Centered, Teaching & Learning, Caring, Integrity and Innovation.  

Demonstrated Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
The ideal candidate must have the ability to promote an inclusive environment that reflects the broad diversity and backgrounds represented by our students, employees, and our local community, one in which every individual feels respected and valued. The VCETS must demonstrate cultural humility and the ability to work with a college community with diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, including those with disabilities and veterans.

Leadership Opportunity:
The VCETS will oversee major areas of the institution that are highly impacted by the Nunez Strategic Plan. Key components of this plan are focused on equity and professional development. The VCETS must demonstrate proven success in the development, support, and enhancement of Nunez diversity/ equity initiatives, specifically in curriculum development (e.g., culturally responsive pedagogies) and in recruiting and sustaining a diverse faculty and staff that contributes to and complements the holistic student experience.

Qualifications:

Required:

• An earned terminal degree from an accredited university.
• Demonstrated effective leadership in areas such as academic planning, program development, advising, student orientation, student mental health and behavioral support, disability services, first-year experience, veteran’s services, and student life/government, preferably at a community college.
• A distinguished record of teaching, preferably in higher education, scholarship, and collegiate service with a thorough knowledge of higher education principles and practices and future trends.
• Demonstrated experience serving a diverse, adult learner, first-generation student population, which includes evidence-based practices for the promotion of student success (including improved retention and graduation rates).
• Experience working with a diverse faculty, staff and student body and an ability to promote a campus climate that supports Nunez’s values and encourages equity and inclusion.
• Demonstrated experience in curriculum development, pedagogy, 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.

Preferred:

• A doctoral degree in an academic discipline is preferred.
• Success in supporting college strategic and divisional plans; ensure continuous and measurable improvement in student life cycle benchmarks including enrollment, retention, persistence, completion, and post-completion success; effective resource allocation in alignment with strategic initiatives and operational needs.
• Success in building collaborative relationships that promote a culture of student-centeredness and a record of developing programs and services that encourage transfer to four-year institutions.
• Prior experience establishing and/or improving a strong collaborative relationship between academic and student services.
• A data-informed problem solver with experience collaboratively moving initiatives forward and implementing change within a complex organization.
• Prior experience establishing credit for prior learning initiatives.
• Prior experience with workforce programming and delivering industry-based credentials.
• Proven experience with SACSCOC accreditation and reaffirmation.
• Demonstrated experience in a leadership role of student services and strategic enrollment management.

Responsibilities:

• Assists the Chancellor in planning, organizing, and directing the operation, staff, and budgeting needs of the college in support of the following goals: increasing the number of students who earn college credit credentials, increasing the rate of transfer to bachelor's degree programs following community college graduation, and drastically improving outcomes for students requiring remediation.
• 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.
• Establishes clear standards, goals, and outcomes for the Education, Training and Student Success Division 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.
• Engages 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.
• Demonstrated knowledge of institutional and programmatic accreditation processes, and documentation necessary for sound academic and instructional program planning implementation and change, as this relates to overarching institutional and individual maintenance, and the impact on and by other units at the College to instructional program success.
• Experience with nationally recognized regional accreditation, preferably SACSCOC, to include past service on peer review committees.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Chancellor.

Supervision:
The VCETS will directly supervise the Executive Dean of Continuing Education, the Education and Training Deans (3), Dean of Strategic Enrollment and Success, Director of Accreditation and IR/IE and will have oversight of all reports to direct reports.

Application Process:
To apply, send cover letter, resume, unofficial transcripts and contact information for three professional references to:
resumes@nunez.edu
(Include VCETS in the subject line)

The committee will begin the review of applications immediately. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, with materials submitted by Thursday, April 15, 2021 receiving priority consideration.

All applications are confidential, and references will not be contacted without the expressed authorization of the applicant.

It is the policy of Nunez Community College not to discriminate based on sex, creed, color, race, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or disability in its educational programs, activities, or employment policies as required by Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments and other Federal and State anti-discrimination laws.