Require Associate Dean, Community Education (Academic Affairs Division) in Brockton, MA

Job title: Associate Dean, Community Education (Academic Affairs Division)
Company: Massasoit Community College
Job description: The Associate Dean of Community Education provides leadership, direction, and oversight of the Community Education staff, adjunct faculty, and programs. The primary focus is on assessing community educational needs and developing and implementing a balanced curriculum of classes through collaboration with internal and external partners.

• Assess the educational needs of the diverse community in Massasoit's service area and customize educational programming to meet community needs.
• Develop new courses and training programs in collaboration with employers, community partners, and Massasoit faculty and staff.
• Implement effective strategies to cultivate and grow relationships with past, current, and potential Community Education students and partners in order to increase retention, persistence, and completion.
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with employers and leaders of various business, industry, and community-based organizations through attendance at statewide meetings, business expos, and other relevant events.
• Coordinate with other sister institutions' Community Education colleagues and attend networking events to identify and recruit Community Education instructors.
• Hire, orient, assign, supervise, and evaluate Community Education instructors.
• Oversee the scheduling and assignment of Community Education instructors for day, evening, weekend, online, hybrid, and video conference classes.
• Support and collaborate with Community Education instructors on the inclusion of high impact practices in their teaching strategies.
• Align curricula and programs with third-party state, federal, and industry-recognized accreditation bodies.
• Oversee Community Education student registrations and collaborate with the Registrar's Office.
• Maintain an organized system of tracking Community Education registrations, enrollments and revenue.
• Manage day-to-day activities of Community Education instructors and students, including attempting to solve first level student and instructor issues.
• Evaluate, analyze, and report meaningful student outcome data and other successes of the Community Education programs from the student, employer, and College perspectives.
• Share and discuss Community Education student course evaluation results with instructors.
• Use the evaluation data effectively to inform future course offerings and program development.
• Collaborate with the Grants Department staff in writing, submitting, and obtaining grants to support Community Education programming and/or student tuition.
• Oversee and administer awarded grants.
• Write clear year-end grant reports as required.
• Recruit, orient, supervise, and evaluate full-time and part-time professional Community Education staff.
• Lead strategic planning efforts for future Community Education programming.
• Assist the College with college-wide strategic planning, committee participation, program development issues, funding or grant issues, etc. as needed.
• Create Community Education promotional materials and marketing strategies in collaboration with College staff.
• Serve as Cost Center Manager for the department's budgets and associated grants.
• Plan, secure, and maintain the equipment and materials needed to deliver specific Community Education activities.
• Attend department and Division meetings on a regular basis providing Community Education programming updates as requested.
• Maintain accurate Constant Contact email lists.
• Participate and lead the department in response to statewide Community Education initiatives as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 3-5 years of community college academic administrative experience or equivalent.
• Grant writing and grant administration experience.
• Attention to detail
• Ability to develop, administer, and manage budgets
• Ability to analyze data
• Experience with programs in the Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Creative Suite
• Must be willing to work evenings and weekends

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree
• Ability to thrive in a deadline-driven environment while managing multiple priority assignments
• Make sound recommendations and offer viable solutions about complex management and administrative issues
• Understanding of the community college history, mission, and its diverse students
• Demonstrated awareness of current trends in community education, workforce education, and local labor market trends
• Demonstrated understanding of curriculum development and instructional technology related to education, behavioral, and social science research trends
• Demonstrated understanding of the community college mission and role with a focus on promoting diversity, equity and inclusion
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and the ability to match community education and workforce development needs to college resources
• Strong team and relationship building skills
• Outstanding creativity and strong customer service skills
• Strong personnel supervision skills
• Strong public speaking and group facilitation skills
• Excellent written communications skills

Additional Information:

Non-Unit Professional, full time, state funded with benefits. This position is grant-funded through FY 2024 and is subject to state appropriation.

Hours: 37.5 hours a week, Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. (flexible hours negotiable) with a hybrid schedule option

Salary: $83,789-$108,926 annually based upon education and experience

Deadline to : Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Expected salary: $83789 - 108926 per year
Location: Brockton, MA

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