Vice President of Academic Affairs

Vice President Of Academic Affairs

Everett Community College is seeking a collaborative, forward-looking academic leader to serve as Vice President of Academic Affairs. Reporting to the President and serving on the executive leadership team, the Vice President is the College's executive academic officer and will shape the strategic direction of instruction, academic policy, curriculum, faculty systems, and teaching and learning.

This leader will guide the College's transfer, professional-technical, dual enrollment, and applied baccalaureate programs, using student, workforce, transfer, enrollment, and outcomes data to strengthen quality, relevance, access, and sustainability. The ideal candidate will bring sound judgment, strong operational leadership, and a deep commitment to shared governance while building trust across the College and with external partners. This is an opportunity to lead meaningful academic growth and change in service of student access, success, and completion.

Salary: $,000.00 annually

Workload: 100% full-time

Schedule:

Weekdays, day shift, with frequent evenings and occasional weekends

Union:
Non-Represented

Department:
Instruction

Reports To:

College President

Position Number:

This position is eligible for hybrid work location, per Everett Community College's Telework Policy.

Strategic Academic Leadership

• Serve as the College's executive academic officer, establishing a clear academic vision and strategic direction for instruction in alignment with the College's mission, strategic plan, and student-success priorities.
• Oversee academic master planning and the development, expansion, enhancement, redesign, and, when appropriate, discontinuation of instructional programs based on student demand, transfer pathways, workforce needs, and program outcomes.
• Oversee the College's portfolio of transfer, professional-technical, dual enrollment, and applied baccalaureate offerings, ensuring programs remain relevant, accessible, and financially sustainable.
• Advise, and partner with, the President, Board of Trustees, and Executive Leadership Team on academic strategy, instructional capacity, policy, emerging opportunities, and risks.
• Develop intra-College strategies that align instruction with enrollment management, student services, technology, facilities, and workforce and economic development.
• Represent the College in state, system-wide, and community partnerships that strengthen academic pathways, workforce responsiveness, and institutional priorities.

Academic Excellence

• Oversee curriculum development and approval, academic program review, learning outcomes assessment, and continuous improvement across instructional departments.
• Oversee the quality and integrity of the academic calendar, College catalog, course scheduling, and curriculum-management processes.
• Promote evidence-based innovation in teaching and learning, including effective in-person, hybrid, and online delivery, open educational resources, work-based learning, and emerging instructional models.
• Use enrollment, completion, transfer, employment, labor-market, and other relevant data to evaluate program performance, guide investment, and improve student outcomes.
• Ensure instructional compliance with accreditation, licensure, and federal and state requirements; oversee programmatic accreditation and support institutional accreditation.
• Develop and maintain academic policies, procedures, and standards that support consistent, effective, and responsive instructional operations.

Organizational Leadership

• Oversee instructional deans, academic administrators, and staff; establish clear expectations, accountability, collaboration, and succession planning.
• Oversee faculty recruitment, onboarding, evaluation, tenure, and professional development in accordance with College policy, shared-governance processes, and collective bargaining agreements.
• Partner with Human Resources and labor representatives on faculty labor-management matters, contract administration, collective bargaining, and organizational change.
• Oversee the instructional budget and long-range resource allocation, balancing current operations, program quality,…