Welding Program Director Job El Paso area,Texas USA,Education / Teaching

POSITION OVERVIEW

Directly responsible and accountable for ensuring the fulfillment of educational goals and objectives and ensuring program compliance with regulating/accrediting standards. These responsibilities require leadership in both academic and workforce areas and include meeting student retention goals; directing and participating in educational planning; program organization; staffing, training of faculty & staff, evaluating program faculty and student performance; motivating and advising students; and developing and maintaining the program budget.

ESSENTIAL

FUNCTIONS

Program Curriculum:
Keep the curriculum up to date with industry needs, and see that performance standards, competencies, lesson plans, tests, and textbooks are kept current. Recommends necessary revisions to existing training courses and possible changes to the curriculum.

Faculty Management:
Effectively motivates and provides tools to each faculty member to ensure effectiveness in teaching skills. Conduct classroom/lab observations to monitor theory classes and help instructors improve their presentations and methods of teaching. Develop operational procedures, establish workloads, assign tasks, and review results with all department personnel. Ensure that faculty are being cross‑trained. Interview, train, supervise, evaluate, and monitor department personnel.

Listen to staff to resolve conflicts promptly.

Student retention:
Identify all "at risk" students (attendance, academics, and conduct related), and take a proactive role in assisting "at‑risk" students with tutoring, encouragement, and working with the Instructor, Academic Dean, Student Services Coordinator, Registrar, and Student Retention Specialist to keep them in school.

Provide for the safety of students and co‑workers. Conduct monthly department rounds and submit safety checklists.

Equipment/Materials:
Ensure enough, types of equipment, material, and training aids for the department, and the quality and good care of equipment/materials. Ensure that each faculty member implements technology in the classroom regularly.

Ensure timely issuance of uniforms, books/e‑books, personal protective equipment (PPE), and laptops/tablets where needed.

Student surveys/complaints:
Ensure surveys are conducted after each course, and any outstanding issues are followed up in and timely resolved. Results are distributed to faculty and appropriate administration parties.

Instructor portal:
Enforce, ensure, and hold instructors accountable for the documentation of student information, such as attendance, grades, and notes, in an accurate, consistent, and timely manner.

Student

Competencies:

Ensure that all instructors have and use the competencies as appropriate for their courses, recording the results in folders designated for that purpose and passing the folders on to subsequent instructors. Conduct random audits of competency folders to ensure that the instructors comply.

Continuous education:
Keep technically up to date in the subject field by attending training seminars and by personal study. Based upon knowledge gained through these seminars, train instructors in these items. Keep them up to date with in‑house training and enroll them in training seminars. Ensure that respective Faculty staff meets the required Continuous Education Units (CEUs) by the end of October of each year.

Schedule and organize PAC meetings, and ensure minutes are taken and presented.

Organize industry tours for students.

Assist in conducting community surveys to gather occupational information, such as standards of training for the industry.

Internship sites/Graduate’s employment:
Ensure that all students are timely placed at a site for the completion of their internship and assist career services in ensuring that a minimum of 75% of graduates acquire employment in their field of study. Will be responsible for signing internship agreements.

Recruiting events:
Work closely with the Admissions department to identify and select appropriate recruiting events to promote the program and support the College’s visibility and general recruitment efforts.

Conduct observations of technical faculty in the classrooms;…