Dean, School of Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Ethnic Studies, and Social Justice

Dean, School of Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Ethnic Studies, and Social Justice

San Francisco Community College District

Position Number: AD00117P

Job Close Date: 09/16/2026

Campus:
San Francisco, CA

Compensation:
The annual salary range upon entry for the position is $ to $. The salary placement for this position is budgeted not to exceed step 1 of the salary schedule, regardless of qualification or experience. Remote Work:
This is an IN-PERSON ON-CAMPUS position.

Position

Description:

City College of San Francisco (CCSF) is seeking a Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Ethnic Studies, and Social Justice to provide administrative leadership and supervision of transfer and general education programs and courses.

The Dean serves as the institutional leader and immediate administrator of the School of Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Ethnic Studies, and Social Justice. This area includes the following departments and programs:
African American Studies;
Asian American Studies;
Asian Studies;
Behavioral Sciences (Anthropology, Psychology, & Sociology);
Interdisciplinary Studies;
Labor & Community Studies;
Latin American & Latino/a Studies;
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender (LGBT) Studies;
Philippine Studies; and Social Sciences (American Studies, Economics, History, Philosophy, & Political Science); and Women's and Gender Studies. The Dean is responsible for establishing academic integrity and ensuring quality instruction by demonstrating the vision, leadership, curriculum expertise, class scheduling experience, personnel management and financial accountability of this area to serve student needs and interests. The Dean collaborates with appropriate divisions of the College to ensure diversity and student equity and to foster a supportive, positive, and productive environment for the area's diverse employees and students.

The Dean serves as the liaison between senior administration and the departments/programs to affect decision-making, resolve problems, and anticipate and respond to future needs. The Dean recommends and manages budgets ensuring achievement of the District's budgetary goals. The Dean coordinates with other Deans in the Academic Affairs division to ensure the delivery of quality educational services and assumes overall responsibility for the supervision of assigned department chairs, faculty coordinators, and classified staff, as appropriate.

Reports to:

Vice Chancellor of Academic and Institutional Affairs

Job Duties:

Academic Responsibilities/Curriculum & Instruction

1. Serve as the educational leader of the School of Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Ethnic Studies, and Social Justice by providing leadership on innovative student learning, student support, and program development.

2. Provide operational oversight and promote accountability and leadership in the development and review of program offerings, scheduling of classes, and teaching assignments based on student and programmatic needs.

3. Maintain an understanding of current ideas, research, technology, and practices pertaining to areas of responsibility through study and participation in professional organizations.

4. Provide leadership to assist department chairs and faculty with the development of credit and noncredit offerings of distance, hybrid, and in-person courses including facilitating grant applications for areas of responsibility.

5. Monitor enrollment patterns, faculty workloads and hours across disciplines, cost/benefit information, employment and other critical data to identify class schedule opportunities, issues, program development and needed changes.

6. Cooperate with the department chairs in facilitating and overseeing the resolution, where possible, of student complaints.

7. Plan and conduct regular meetings with School personnel; promote a team effort; communicate relevant College deadlines, policies, procedures, applicable regulations of outside agencies, and other matters of interest or compliance to department chairs, faculty, classified staff and students.

8. Work with department chairs in finding resources to develop opportunities, programs and needed changes that enhance student success.

Planning & Development

9. Work directly with all School faculty including department chairs and faculty coordinators to prioritize program review requests for resource allocations.

10. Provide leadership to department chairs and faculty in their assessment of student learning outcomes as they relate to courses and programs.

11. Engage with department chairs, faculty and classified staff to assess new technologies and software to improve pedagogy and learning outcomes, increase opportunities for student access, and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the work environment.

12. Prepare annual School goals, participate in planning activities, and facilitate completion of goals to ensure all accreditation, State and federal criteria concerning academics are followed.

13. Work with deans, department…