Dean, Digital Learning

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural 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:

• 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 populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.
• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes
• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Dean, Digital Learning

To establish and maintain a teaching, learning, and working environment where faculty, staff, and students are appropriately served within available resources on a college-wide basis and to promote instructional goals and objectives conducive to student success. To provide oversight and support of assigned programs in digital fluency and innovation, online course design and development, integration of digital tools and platforms, online program quality assurance (e.g., Quality Matters), competency-based education (CBE), micro-credential development support and alignment to credit pathways, and faculty development for digital pedagogy.

We provide description of duties and tasks.

• Essential Job Functions:
  
  Provides leadership in developing, implementing, and maintaining digital learning services. Ensures all online and digital instructional resources are accessible, equitable, and responsive to a multicultural student body while maintaining strict compliance with THECB and SACSCOC standards in alignment with the college’s mission.
• Student/Faculty Issues:
  Partners with academic leadership to investigate and resolve student grievances, leveraging LMS data and digital analytics to ensure objective, data-informed outcomes for grade appeals, academic dishonesty cases, and instructional complaints.
• Management:
  Ensures consistent and appropriate application of administrative rules within the assigned department, hiring of staff, planning and budgeting, equipment and software needs, selection, supervision and evaluation of staff, and preparation of reports as required. Supervises and evaluates support staff. Initiates and manages special projects and assignments. Participates in shared governance through service on college wide councils and committees.
• Curriculum/Instruction:
  Provides leadership and advocacy in the planning, implementing, assessing, and ongoing improvement of online courses and programs. Ensures that all faculty teaching online are appropriately certified. Convenes advisory committees, works with Grants Development Office, and maintains community partnerships in support of programmatic goals.
• Business and Industry: Develops and maintains positive relationships with external business and appropriate community organizations.

• Demonstrated expertise in project planning, development, and implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to present…