Vice President of Academic Affairs

Location:

Sheridan, Wyoming

Hiring Range: $162,025 - $194,430

Sheridan College is seeking an innovative, collaborative, and student-centered leader to serve as our next Vice President of Academic Affairs (VPAA). As the College's Chief Academic Officer, the VPAA provides strategic leadership for academic programs and instructional support services while championing excellence in teaching, learning, and student success.

Serving as a key member of the President's executive leadership team (President's Cabinet), the VPAA shapes the College's academic vision and leads initiatives that strengthen the quality of instruction, expand opportunities, foster and grow the Northern Wyoming Career Pathway Partnership, and advance student outcomes across all academic programs.

This position may be assigned the role of Accreditation Liaison Officer.

This is an exciting opportunity for a transformational leader who is passionate about educational excellence, faculty engagement, workforce responsiveness, transfer success, and creating accessible pathways that empower all learners to achieve their goals.

• Demonstrates a strong commitment to student success and academic excellence.
• Builds trust through transparent communication and collaborative leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large teams and is skilled in handling challenges that arise among team members and/or external partners.
• Builds meaningful partnerships that enhance educational and workforce opportunities.
• Leads with integrity, innovation, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Has significant demonstrated experience in implementing best practices related to program review, continuous quality improvement, and integrated planning.

Reports To:

President

• Master's Degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
• Five years of progressively responsible leadership/administrative/supervisory experience managing instructional programs in higher education.
• Minimum two years of full-time teaching experience.
• Demonstrated experience with development, monitoring, and administration of budgets.
• Demonstrated experience developing, managing, and evaluating employees.
• Demonstrated experience with facilitation of teaching and learning; working collaboratively with faculty and others with evidence of championing teaching excellence.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and using data and qualitative evidence to inform decision-making, evaluate program effectiveness, and achieve institutional priorities.
• Demonstrated experience fostering collaboration with and between multiple units to align academic scheduling or program development or student success strategies with student services.
• Demonstrated experience serving students from a variety of backgrounds, including, but not limited to, students from underserved and/or underrepresented backgrounds, adult learners, Veterans, and first-generation students.
• Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position
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• Doctoral degree from a regionally accredited college or university.
• Progressively responsible leadership/administrative/supervisory experience in community colleges having served as a senior-level director/dean that includes the development, monitoring, and administration of a budget and management of multiple direct-reports.
• Demonstrated experience working closely with their immediate supervisor and colleagues.
• Demonstrated experience acquiring additional resources through grants and other funding sources.
• Demonstrated experience using learning assessment as a tool for continuous improvement at course, program, and institutional levels, with demonstrated success engaging faculty in assessment practices.
• Demonstrated success collaborating with faculty, Student Affairs, and Workforce partners to understand student and community needs through data and stakeholder voices, resulting in responsive scheduling, program design, and pathways that prepare students for careers and transfer.
• Proven ability to collaborate across all levels, interacting directly with diverse faculty to understand perspectives and identify exceptional practices, while working with senior leadership to communicate the urgency and potential for advancing equitable student success.
• Demonstrated experience…