Chancellor jobs in Hawaii

Description

Title: Vice Chancellor (CC), READVERTISEMENT
Position Number: 0089079
Hiring Unit: Academic Affairs
Location: Windward Community College
Date Posted: March 27, 2024
Closing Date: April 19, 2024
Salary Information: Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Monthly Type: 11 Month
Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Temporary/Permanent: Permanent

Other Conditions: To begin November 2024.

The Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (VCAA) is a key member of the Chancellor's executive leadership team and is the Academic Affairs area's chief operation officer. The VCAA is charged with providing leadership and coordination on behalf of the campus in planning, developing, organizing, directing, and evaluating Instructional Programs and Academic Support Services, policies, procedures, and guidelines. Seasoned judgment is exercised in determining the means, methods, and resources necessary to achieve goals and objectives. Work typically includes serving as the instructional liaison with various state and federal agencies and boards and the Legislature; review of faculty promotion and tenure recommendations and of salary adjustments; and development and administration of budgets. The VCAA will be called upon to serve as Acting Chancellor in the absence of the Chancellor.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinates and develops within the framework of the Strategic Plan of the College, new instructional program proposals; evaluates and assesses ongoing instructional programs and student learning outcomes; periodically reviews the Strategic Plan; prepares and executes Career and Technical Education for the College, and its budget; prepares College annual reports and a variety of state reports; coordinates initiatives relating to the College's strategic planning; coordinates reporting and responses for Academic Affairs to accreditation requirements.
• Provides leadership and support for curriculum development and innovations in learning and teaching, and faculty development.
• Coordinates the preparation of the College catalog and class schedules.
• Coordinates enrollment management and student success initiatives in collaboration with Student Affairs.
• Coordinates and oversees off-site educational efforts, including early college traditional and Hawaiian language based high school, prison education programs, and community-based coursework and programming.
• Coordinates curricular offerings both on and off campus to general and targeted populations, to support access and educational needs of early college, distance education, and non-traditional learners.
• Directs activities aimed at inter-institutional initiatives (e.g., international programs, University partnerships, articulation agreements, etc.).
• Working with appropriate faculty, staff, and administrators, prepares annual goals for the Instructional area, including benchmarks for measuring those goals.
• Supervise the Deans of Divisions I and II; collaborates with Deans to establish targets for program/curriculum development.
• Facilitates curriculum and program review and development; expedites development of new programs and/or courses; promotes non-credit to credit articulation and pathways.
• Works with community agencies and entities to develop and implement appropriate, relevant programming.
• Supervises faculty and staff providing academic support services to the programs of the divisions; this includes recommendations for contract renewal.
• Provides orientation to new lecturers, faculty, and staff; assists faculty in preparing professional development plans.
• Works professionally with members of the administrative staff; prepares interpretive summaries of data and seeks the advice and interaction of administration, faculty groups, and other staff as appropriate.
• Coordinates, develops, and maintains procedures for personnel actions (hiring, contract renewals, tenure, leaves, promotion, and termination) which are consistent with statutory requirements, University policy, union contracts, and the Strategic Plan.
• Coordinates the preparation of the budget and expenditure plans for Instructional and Academic Support Services.
• Coordinates extramural grant proposal development, including personnel, curriculum, and implementation.
• Assists in the development of capital improvement plans for instructional programs and academic support.
• Conducts regular meetings of the Vice Chancellor's Advisory Council.
• Meets regularly with the Chancellor's administrative staff.
• Meets on a regular basis with other community college Vice Chancellors and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and with the Vice President's staff, and communicates with them as required.
• Receives and resolves complaints, advising from various laws and regulations which govern student, faculty, and staff behavior, and which fall under the areas supervised.
• Engages in appropriate professional development activities.
• Performs other duties assigned.

• Master’s degree or equivalent. (Doctorate in lieu of Master’s).
• Experience in an institution of higher learning involving teaching, counseling, or academic support responsibilities, which is at the C5 level or have demonstrated a record of comparable professional experience prior to appointment.

• Doctorate.
• Experience as an administrator or in carrying out administrative responsibilities with emphases on personnel supervision and budget development and execution.
• Full-time teaching experience in an institution of higher education, preferably a community college.
• Experience working with an ethnically and culturally diverse population, particularly Native Hawaiian and indigenous populations.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain positive and collaborative working relationships with internal and external constituencies.
• Demonstrated direct knowledge of Hawaiian language, culture, practices, protocols, and values.
• Knowledge of community college philosophy and its programs (liberal arts, career-technical education, etc.)
• Knowledge of community service mission of a community college and its interrelationship to instructional programs and support services.
• Knowledge of relationship between instructional programs and the missions and functions of academic support and student development.
• Knowledge and/or experience in the delivery of alternative models of instruction, including on-line and distance learning, Early College High School, and prison education programs.
• Experience in administering off-site and early college models of instruction.
• Knowledge of alternative models of academic administration, learning theory, or similar post-secondary education training.
• Experience with strategic planning, institutional accreditation, and course and program evaluation and assessment.
• Experience with implementation of best practices in large scale curricular changes and/or student success initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to organize advisory groups for career and technical disciplines.
• Skills in staff development, program/curriculum development, resource development, and/or computer usage in management of an educational institution.
• Ability and experience in supervision of faculty and/or other professionals (APT).
• Evidence of ability to organize activities and communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Experience in grant proposal development, writing, and implementation.
• Experience in developing programs in coordination with community agencies and local and/or State stakeholders.

• Resume;
• Cover letter indicating how you meet the minimum and desirable qualifications of the position; and
• Graduate and/or undergraduate transcript(s) showing degree and coursework to date appropriate to the position. (Copies of transcripts are acceptable; however, original official transcripts will be required at the time of hire. Academic record/grade summaries will NOT be accepted. Diplomas and copies will NOT be accepted). Documents issued from an institution outside the United States of America require a course-by-course analysis with an equivalency statement from an agency having membership with the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services, Inc., verifying the degree equivalency to that of an accredited institution within the USA. Expense of the evaluation shall be borne by the applicant.

EEO/AA, Clery Act, ADA

The University of Hawai'i is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution and is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of race, sex, gender identity and expression, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, genetic information, marital status, breastfeeding, income assignment for child support, arrest and court record (except as permissible under State law), sexual orientation, domestic or sexual violence victim status, national guard absence, or status as a covered veteran.