Interim Vice President of Student Affairs

About the role

The Vice President of Student Affairs serves as the Chief Student Development Officer and oversees a comprehensive student development program designed to enhance student and staff success, achievement, and retention.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, direct and evaluate student programs and services in support of student college life.
• Develop, direct, coordinate, supervise, and evaluate the services, programs, personnel, operations, and activities of the division, including programs, analysis and review, to ensure compliance with Education Code, state and federal regulations, accreditation standards if applicable, district policies, and all contractual agreements between the Governing Board and recognized bargaining units.
• Assist in the recruitment, selection, and development of classified and academic personnel within the unit, and evaluate all personnel in accordance with applicable policies and procedures; plan and project division staffing requirements; monitor proper and efficient use of assigned staff; provide staffing recommendations in compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity principles and guidelines.
• Direct and implement sound fiscal planning in the development and management of the unit budget, supervise the preparation and submission of the unit budget and, upon approval, assume overall responsibility for timely and accurate implementation.
• Develop and implement externally funded initiatives; plan resource allocations for facilities, equipment and technologies that support student service programs.
• Develop and direct student counseling services. Prepare counseling faculty schedules; assigns academic and classified staff to projects; orients new counseling personnel as needed.
• Provide guidance to and receive advice from faculty and/or staff organizations on matters relating to the programs; promote the inclusion of students in the shared decision-making process.
• Review, monitor and participate in the shaping of regional, statewide and national issues concerning community colleges.
• Cookordinate the establishment and implementation of unit advisory committees; establish and maintain liaisons with community representatives as participants in the planning, development and modification of unit services and programs.
• Cookordinate and prepare timely, accurate and comprehensive reports as required by various federal, state, district and college departments.
• Provide for the administration of student discipline and student due process.
• Keep abreast of emerging services, methodologies, and technologies relevant to student development programming.
• Cookordinate and supervise the college's annual graduation ceremony, honors, and scholarships.
• Serve on management councils and other college and district committees.
• Serve as Acting President as directed in the absence of the President.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Possession of a master's degree; and One year of formal training, internship, or leadership experience reasonably related to the administrator's administrative assignment. All coursework must be from a recognized accredited college or university. If you have completed your education at an institution outside of the United States, please see the section below titled "Foreign Transcripts".