Vice President of Student Affairs & Chief Outcomes Officer

About the role

The Vice President Student Affairs & Chief Outcomes Officer (VPSA) will provide the vision, strategy, and leadership required to ensure that CCRI’s students achieve excellent outcomes. The VPSA will focus on success across all outcome areas, including remediation, first-year retention, and graduation, transfer, and employment rates.

Responsibilities

• The VPSA will be a committed, driven, talented individual and a key leader in helping CCRI to become the best community college in New England.
• The VPSA will be responsible for ensuring that every CCRI student has a clear path to success and the support they need to progress along that path.
• Serve as a leader in the development of student-centered academics and support services
• Partner with the President, Executive Vice President, and Vice Presidents to ensure that there are clear academic and workforce pathways for all entering students.
• Ensure that there are student-centered services that support each student’s ability to successfully move along his/her academic and workforce pathway.
• Oversee credit and non-credit enrollment management, academic and workforce assessment and placement, admissions and recruitment, records, financial aid, advising and counseling, disability services, student success, student discipline, athletics, student activities, career placement, and federally funded TRIO student support programs.
• Key leader and champion as CCRI launches new initiatives and pilots designed to deliver excellent outcomes.
• Scan the national landscape, understand which existing community college programs have the most promising and relevant evidence behind them, and customize those programs for CCRI.
• Work with the executive leadership team to develop pilot programs that are new and unique to CCRI.
• Whether transporting programs from other institutions or developing them from scratch, the VPSA will ensure that all initiatives are clear, measurable, and outcome oriented.
• Support the President and Vice Presidents (or similar) in expanding the breadth and depth of strategic partnerships with national and local partners.
• These partnerships will support CCRI in improving its existing programs and launching new programs.
• Expected to engage with partners at a strategic and tactical level, with a focus on how partnerships will be structured to maximize impact on students’ success.
• Foster a relentless, visible focus on outcomes and social mobility across the CCRI community
• Ensure that all members of the CCRI community - faculty, staff and students alike - understand and share a commitment to excellent outcomes and community vibrancy.
• Responsible for making CCRI’s outcomes clear, understandable and visible to all.

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