Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Programs

Austin Community College

Highland Campus, TX

ID: 7125718 (Ref.No. R-3750)
Posted: February 19, 2023
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled

Job Description

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
 
As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

  • Reflects the diversity of our community

  • Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

  • Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

  • Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for under-represented populations

  • Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

  • Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

ACC is committed to the ongoing systemic changes needed to ensure the increased recruitment, inclusion, retention, and completion of historically underserved and underrepresented populations. Through continual strategic community engagement and professional development of administrators, faculty, staff, and students, the college demonstrates its dedication to fostering a culture and climate for equitable outcomes.

ACC is proud to serve a diverse student body as an open-access and low-cost institution. Dedicated faculty members are excellent professors who help students achieve their educational goals and are sensitive to our students' diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. In 2017 our faculty adopted a Statement of ACC Faculty Values. This Statement affirms that ACC's faculty members value collaboration, service, agency, scholarship, inclusion, and teaching, all of which attest to our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our mission.

Job Posting Title:

Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Programs

Job Description Summary:

Assists the Vice Chancellor in providing institutional leadership to develop and maintain high quality, equity-minded, innovative programs, primarily, but not exclusively, in areas designed for university transfer. Responsible for leadership and supervision of academic, developmental, and adult education programs. Provides leadership in responding to academic transfer issues and for developing and maintaining relationships with transfer institutions. Works in concert with the Associate Vice Chancellor of Workforce Education in collegewide planning, coordination, and integration of curriculum.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

  • Provides leadership and oversight of college credit academic transfer courses and programs, supervising, and providing leadership to the deans of academic transfer program areas.

  • Provides leadership and oversight of adult education courses and programs, supervising, and providing leadership to the Executive Director of Adult Education.

  • Provides leadership in improving student persistence, retention, and successful completion of college access courses and programs, transition of students into college credit courses and programs, and increasing equity of student success in all college level courses and programs.

  • Provides leadership in improving equitable student retention and completion of 42 semester credit hour (SCH) core curriculum and academic transfer programs.

  • Provides leadership in improving equitable student transfer outcomes in high demand, high wage transfer pathways.

  • Provides leadership in strategic and tactical schedule development to support student progression through programs and availability of courses and sections in multiple modalities and at times students need them.

  • Monitors local, state, and national initiatives to improve student success in access programs; provides leadership in the inculcation of best practices by facilitating faculty and support staff analysis, and use of data to improve instruction and support services in access programs.

  • Provides leadership in equity-minded curriculum planning, program development and implementation, and program review.

  • Provides leadership in planning, budget development, and the creation and assessment of institutional effectiveness measures in all assigned areas.

  • Helps identify and secure appropriate institutional resources to support professional development of academic transfer, developmental education, and adult education faculty and staff.

  • Works collaboratively with the Associate Vice Chancellor of Workforce Education, the Associate Vice Chancellor of Distance and Alternative Learning, and the Associate Vice Chancellor of Instructional Support Services to ensure student-focused and equity-minded decision-making across programs.

  • Works collaboratively with the leadership of College & High School Relations to support dual credit programs, Early College High Schools, and P-TECHs by ensuring effective staffing, student-focused pedagogy, and equity-minded teaching and learning.

  • Provides leadership of college-wide initiatives and priorities in support of the college strategic plan, academic master plan, and other planning documents.

  • Supervises assigned staff with the responsibilities of hiring, training, and evaluating these individuals.

  • Ensures consistency in the delivery of programs and services in all assigned areas across the district.

  • Analyzes program data and makes recommendations regarding course and program additions/deletions and consolidation, in consultation with instructional deans.

  • Serves on college shared governance structures and performs other related duties as assigned.

  • Provides leadership for the following areas of study in implementation of the principles of the Texas Pathways Model: 1) Science,Engineering, & Math and 4) Liberal Arts.

  • Works with college offices to research and apply for federal, state, and local grants as appropriate.

Knowledge

Must possess required knowledge and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

  • Effective management and leadership models and techniques, including Servant-Leadership Principles.

  • Project planning, development, and implementation.

  • The community college philosophy and mission.

  • The demands and requirements of senior-level management in higher education.

  • Presenting information and summary reports internally and to the public.

  • Principles and processes relating to student needs assessment, establishing and evaluating quality standards and metrics for student learning outcomes, and the development and implementation of an academic plan.

  • Planning, implementation, and monitoring of budgets in an educational environment.

  • The rules, regulations and principles of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), as well as other state and federal laws and regulations regarding curriculum development, academic, career and technical programs, developmental education, student learning outcomes and assessment of student learning outcomes.

Skills

Must possess required skills and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

  • Working in a collaborative manner with diverse constituencies.

  • Working effectively with a diverse and multicultural student body and staff.

  • Ability to embrace a culture of appreciative inquiry, evidence-informed decision-making, and innovation.

  • Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.

  • Excellent communication, written and verbal, and interpersonal skills.

  • Providing leadership at all levels of the college.

  • Planning, prioritizing, and problem-solving.

  • Handling multiple projects and meeting deadlines.

  • Planning and managing budgets and manpower needs.

Technology Skills

  • Demonstrated proficiency using standard office software applications.

Required Work Experience

  • Five years related work experience including management in a higher education academic environment.

Required Education

  • Master's degree. Experience cannot be substituted for required, applicable educational level.

Preferred Education

  • Doctorate.

Physical Requirements

  • Work is performed in a standard office or similar environment.

  • Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.

  • Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Salary commensurate with experience.

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

March 24, 2023

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.