Dean of Instruction - Career Technical Education

Under the direction of the assigned manager, provide vision and leadership for TrAC programs, assigned fiscal resources and facilities, classified professional staff, and regular, contract, and adjunct faculty. Support Delta College's educational mission and strategic goals by providing leadership, oversight, and accountability for ensuring quality instruction, student equity, program completion, and postgraduation outcomes for students in assigned areas and Transfer and Career (TrAC) pathways.

Demonstrate commitment to data-driven decision-making, the Guided Pathways framework, and fostering student success and equity vide coordination and oversight for TrACs and Success Teams, including their work in student cohort management, student access and equity, and student progress monitoring from program entry to completion. Coordinate TrAC pathways and collaborate with the Director of Strategic Enrollment Management and other deans to ensure student access to courses, the maintenance of enrollment efficiencies, and the timely completion of programs.

As part of the complex work of portfolio management of programs, develop and promote collaborative partnerships with programs, functional units, and educational and student services across the campus and throughout the community. The incumbent will develop and maintain a campus climate based on trust, open communication, and mutual respect.

• In collaboration with District managers, faculty, and staff, provides overall leadership, including articulating a vision and direction, for all areas of assigned Transfer and Career Pathways (TrACs). Communicate the vision and direction throughout the College and the wider community. Using the College Educational Master Plan, the Facilities Master Plan, the Student Equity and Achievement Plan, and the College Strategic Goals and Plan, develops a 5- year plan for assigned TrACs that ensures quality instruction and support, student equity, program completion, and postgraduation outcomes for students.
  
  On an annual basis, establish, implement, maintain, monitor, and evaluate TrAC program goals and objectives using appropriate data, and review findings with program staff in order to plan for effective TrAC program improvement and the mitigation of disproportionate impact.
• Foster a positive, collaborative working environment among managers, faculty, and staff. Assist in recruiting, screening, interviewing, and conducting reference checks of classified, faculty, and management applicants within the assigned TrAC Conduct orientation activities for new hires. Provide proper day-to-day administrative supervision and management of all personnel within the TrAC and conduct periodic evaluations of all staff as mandated by college policy.
  
  Provide leadership and serve as a technical resource for professional development activities within the TrAC. Arrange for staff substitutes, as necessary, to maintain the appropriate day-to-day operation of programs. Serve as a first-line supervisor in all matters and processes covered in the employee relations contracts
• Support academic program faculty and staff in planning efforts, strategic goal setting, and implementing practices aimed at improving student equity, completion, transfer rates, and postgraduation employment. Manage a full portfolio of assigned TrAC programs and foster the work of Guided Pathways and Success Teams to ensure success throughout the entire student journey, including onboarding into TrACs, monitoring cohorts, providing intrusive and scaled support, and ensuring postgraduation success.
  
  Work with assigned counselors, classified professionals, and faculty across and within programs to regularly review data, curriculum, strategies, and holistic work needed to engender equity and success in courses and programs. Using data, assist in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of curriculum and programs within the TrAC. Through the work of program portfolio management of programs, develop and promote collaborative partnerships with programs, functional units, and educational and student services.
  
  Assist in comprehensive marketing and promotion of TrAC curriculum, services, and programs, as well as the recruitment of students. Serve as a technical resource in interpreting college curricular and co-curricular policy governing student field trips, development and maintenance of student/instructor handbooks, interdisciplinary relations, program certification and…