Dean of Liberal Arts

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides strategic, collaborative, and innovative leadership in developing and overseeing divisional plans related to academic programs, curriculum, scheduling, and learning environments to ensure institutional effectiveness, address student needs, and meet accreditation and regulatory standards.
• Ensures that division plans align with and support the college's mission, vision, strategic initiatives, and goals.
• Provides leadership, supervision, and guidance to faculty and staff within the division.
• Provides leadership and oversight of programs and curriculum, instructional delivery across all modalities, and academic assessment activities.
• Establishes and maintains collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Develops, manages, and plans the division’s operating budget.
• Establishes and maintains collaborative working relationships with business and industry partners, agencies, community organizations and, education institutions.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Humanities or Fine Arts related field
• 3 years of progressive administrative experience at the collegiate level in a leadership role.
• Preferred: PhD in Humanities or Fine Arts related field
• Preferred: 5 years of progressive administrative experience at the collegiate level in a leadership role.

Qualifications

• Leadership and team-building skills
• Strong listening, interpersonal, and communication (oral and written) skills
• Program and curriculum development
• Presentation/facilitation skills
• Proven record of excellence in teaching
• Commitment to student-centered learning
• Supervision of multidisciplinary personnel
• Budget development skills
• Microsoft Office skills

Skills

• Community College experience
• Louisiana state service (i.e. employment in a state agency in Louisiana)

Benefits

As a member of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, BRCC 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.