Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Learning

About the role

The Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Learning serves as the Chief Academic Officer of the college, responsible for designing, organizing, delivering, supervising, evaluating, and managing academic support services and programs.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and vision to strengthen and implement a variety of new and existing career, technical, occupational, and transfer programs leading to certificates and associate degrees.
• Supervises the publication of the college's schedules of classes, catalog, and instructional information content of the college website.
• Plans and directs effective instructional programming including room utilization, instructor load, and student enrollment and retention.
• Affords assistance in the development and implementation of the college's operational plan and budget based on program need, priorities, and enrollment targets.
• Develops, directs, coordinates, supervises, and evaluates the programs, personnel, operations, and activities of instructional programs, including program planning, analysis, and review.
• Works with the President to ensure compliance with Education Code, state and federal regulations, accreditation standards, district policies, and all contractual agreements between the Board of Trustees and recognized bargaining units.
• Affords assistance in the recruitment, selection, and development of classified and academic personnel and evaluates all personnel in accordance with applicable policies and procedures; plans and projects staffing requirements; monitors proper and efficient use of assigned staff; provides staffing recommendations in compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity principles and guidelines.
• Directs and implements sound fiscal planning in the development and management of the instructional budget; supervises the preparation and submission of the instructional budget and, upon approval, assumes overall responsibility for timely and accurate implementation.
• Develops, implements, directs, and evaluates activities related to articulation with secondary schools and matriculation activities within the college, including the recruitment, admission, assessment, advisement, and retention of students.
• Provides leadership in the implementation of campus committees; establishes and maintains liaisons with business and community representatives as participants in the planning, development, and modifications of curriculum and programs.
• Coordinates and prepares timely, accurate, and comprehensive instructional and other reports required by various federal, state, and district and college departments.
• Promotes and participates in the application of computer technology to college programs and activities, uses a variety of computer software to research, enter, modify, and retrieve data for preparation of reports, correspondence, and other written material.
• Keeps abreast of emerging services, methodologies, and technologies relevant to college programs.
• Serves on management councils and other college and district committees.
• Serves as the Acting President as directed in the absence of the President.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Possession of a master's degree;
• 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" for additional information.