Associate Dean, Business

Overview

Join our team! What We Offer At Palm Beach State College, you will discover a place where ideas come to life and the heartbeat of a county begins. By joining us, you will be exposed to professionals from across the U.S. and abroad who are the strivers, reinventors, explorers, and influencers dedicated to developing talent that fills the most needed workforce roles.

As the Panthers, we embrace a community of belonging, caring, and connection for our students and employees. We seek creative individuals to help PBSC fulfill its mission of inspiring hope, advancing skills, and transforming lives.

Responsibilities include:

• Responsible for class scheduling, classroom evaluation, responding to student academic concerns, and direct supervision of designated disciplines.
• Coordinates activities consistent with the campus and college’s mission, strategic goals and objectives.
• Promotes and fosters an innovative teaching and learning environment conducive to academic excellence.
• Supports and encourages the infusion of academic initiatives, including instructional technology, into the teaching and learning process.
• Manages budget and collaborates and supervises faculty and staff.
• Designated area of responsibility:
  Business. What a day of an Associate Dean, Business looks like:
  • Develops, maintains, interprets, and executes administrative procedures and practices.
  • Provides direction in the design, development and administration of campus programs and operations to achieve established College mission, goals and objectives.
  • Analyzes class and program needs of the College and determines and recommends retention or deletion of courses.
  • Develops and coordinates program and course schedules, faculty assignments, and test dates, maintains calendar as necessary to track these schedules and makes adjustments as required.
  • Assists faculty in the development of course and program curriculum, program and course reviews and articulation activities.
  • Guides, leads, reviews, verifies, observes, and manages the work of people reporting directly and indirectly.
  • Develops and trains staff, performs needs analysis, arranges, coordinates, delivers, evaluates, and monitors staff development.
  • Develops long‑range and short‑term goals, objectives, priorities, and recommendations.
  • Acknowledges, researches, and responds to complaints regarding College programs and employees; may include liaison and mediation activities among complainant, the College faculty and staff.
  • Attends community meetings of professional associations, business groups, and civic clubs; may promote College programs.
  • Chairs college‑wide committee and coordinates committee events.
  • Conducts tasks related to the preparation of the annual and other periodic budgets for the department.
  • Performs other job‑related duties as assigned.

Education and Experience: Master’s degree with 18 graduate semester hours in one of the designated disciplines;
Four years of related experience, including experience supervising faculty, teaching experience, curriculum development experience, and two years of department chair or similar experience.

Knowledge of:

• Microsoft Office Professional or similar applications.
• Best practices in higher education pedagogy.

Skilled in:

• Thinking strategically, effectively analyzing data, and implementing data‑informed decisions.
• Managing and resolving conflict in a positive manner.
• Fact finding, analysis, and problem solving.
• Motivating subordinates to exert the effort necessary to attain organizational and departmental goals.
• Attention to detail while maintaining effective time and task management.

Ability to:

• Establish ownership of areas of responsibility with an aptitude to anticipate and proactively execute tasks while identifying areas of enhancement, efficiencies, and solutions.
• Interact in a positive manner with diverse populations and varying education levels of students, faculty, staff, and the public.
• Effectively communicate verbally and in writing on a regular basis with internal and external customers, build relationships, manage customer expectations and take responsibility for a high level of service.
• Accurately manage a budget.

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