Associate Dean, Health Care Technologies

Overview

Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) values and endorses strong and effective academic leadership. Associate Deans (ADs) are the foundation for strong and effective academic leadership. SLCC’s Associate Deans are primarily responsible for shaping a division’s success, growth, and future. They have a direct influence over the professional growth and development of individual faculty and students and their programs of study. Associate Deans serve as leaders for faculty in their teaching and service roles.

Associate Deans are full-time administrators. The work and effort of effective AD transcends routine management tasks. The AD must clarify, communicate, and implement the department’s vision, mission, guiding principles, goals, and expectations. Acting as the primary spokesperson for assigned faculty and students, this position works with College administration, peer institutions, the community, and prospective students in the critical areas of curriculum development, recruitment, and retention.

They must proactively facilitate professional teamwork among faculty members to achieve the desired vision and mission as the best skills, knowledge, and attitudes of faculty are implemented in a collective effort to achieve that end. This is an at will position.

• Leadership: Provide leadership, support and supervision for department or division faculty and staff.
• Coordinate department or division faculty and staff in endeavors to achieve the College’s mission and strategic plan.
• Help the department or division faculty to establish an appropriate vision and appropriate goals that have a clear tie to the College’s mission, and coordinate efforts to achieve those goals.
• Manage the departments or division in compliance with college procedures, guidelines and direction.
• Academic Programs: Assist the Dean in developing new and modifying existing programs to promote student learning outcomes and program effectiveness. This may involve activities such as the following: collecting and utilizing survey data and student interest data; developing program grant proposals; developing program budgets and cost data; determining program impact; preparing and coordinating articulation agreements; implementing Concurrent Enrollment processes; coordinating transfer information;
  
  coordinating utilization of facilities; developing and implementing programs and policies.
• Initiate, plan, and oversee implementation of all academic offerings in the division or department, with appropriate involvement of assigned faculty and staff, the Dean, and College planning bodies.
• Wherever appropriate, utilize and report the advice of Program Advisory Committees (PACs) and provide staff support for PACs.
• Along with Deans, take a leading role in academic program quality and assessment of student learning outcomes.
• Serve on the school Curriculum Committee and Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee.
• Assist with comprehensive department and College wide evaluations for agencies such as the Board of Regents, the State Board of Career and Technical Education, program specific accrediting bodies, etc. and provide leadership for disciplinary and/or processional accreditation.
• Ensure inter-department/inter-division coordination and cooperation, communicating effectively with the dean, the department members, and other members of the College community.
• Meet with division members on a regular basis to ensure motivation, coordination, communication, and dissemination of information.
• Ensure that the class schedule meets students’ needs, while at the same time being fiscally responsible and efficient.
• Participate in College-wide scheduling processes in a timely manner, meeting all established deadlines.
• Coordinate with regional directors in scheduling classes at the College’s various sites.
• When classes must be canceled, coordinate with affected students, the Scheduling Office, and facilities administrators.
• Support the exploration, scheduling, improvement, and use of learning modalities and delivery methods, including flexibly scheduled learning, distance learning, and classroom technologies.
• Ensure that the College catalog is accurate,…