Department Head, Skilled Trades & Professional Services

The Department Head provides strategic academic leadership and operational oversight for the curriculum and WCE program areas of Engineering & Construction, Landscape Gardening, Automotive, Aviation, and Advanced Manufacturing. The Department Head is accountable for department planning, program development, instructional quality, personnel leadership, scheduling, fiscal stewardship, compliance, student success, workforce responsiveness, and continuous improvement. The Department Head leads alignment across programs and pathways, strengthens employer and community partnerships, and advances institutional priorities while ensuring high-quality education and training responsive to student and regional workforce needs.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Provide strategic leadership and direction for assigned programs, including planning, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Align program offerings with student demand, workforce needs, College priorities, labor-market information, transfer or credential pathways, and stakeholder feedback.
• Analyze enrollment, retention, completion, credential or licensure outcomes, placement information, student learning outcomes, and other relevant performance indicators; implement improvement strategies as appropriate.
• Organize and chair department meetings to address priorities, operations, instructional quality, student success, collaboration, and program development.
• Participate in College-wide committees and initiatives and contribute to institutional planning, policies, procedures, and the One College model.
• Complete and support annual program review, intensive program review, assessment, and documented continuous-improvement processes for assigned programs.
• Advance Guided Pathways, articulation, crosswalks, transfer opportunities, credit for prior learning, work-based learning, and other strategies that support student access and completion, as applicable.
• Lead the development, revision, expansion, consolidation, or teach-out of programs and training in response to student, employer, community, and institutional needs.

• Recruit, hire, onboard, supervise, support, and evaluate assigned full-time and part-time faculty and staff in accordance with College procedures and applicable program requirements.
• Conduct annual evaluations, including goal setting, mid-year check-ins, and end-of-year performance feedback, and support meaningful professional-development goals.
• Mentor faculty and staff, support professional growth, and promote a positive work environment characterized by collegiality, accountability, shared responsibility, and the College Core Values.
• Monitor faculty and staff workloads, teaching assignments, contracts, staffing levels, and scheduling needs across assigned programs.
• Serve as hiring manager for assigned positions and ensure required employment, credential, licensure, and qualification documentation is complete and current.
• Address and mediate concerns involving faculty, staff, and students in a timely, fair, confidential, and professional manner, involving appropriate College offices when needed.

• Review and approve course schedules and teaching assignments in collaboration with program coordinators, directors, and faculty to support access, enrollment, and timely program completion.
• Monitor enrollment and adjust course offerings, delivery formats, locations, staffing, and resources as appropriate.
• Lead and support development, review, and revision of curricula, syllabi, instructional materials,…