Job Description

Dean of Liberal Arts

Full-time Administrator (Level 20)

Salary Range: $115,000 - $125,000 (Annual salary is commensurate with experience)

Reports to: Vice President of Academic Affairs & Provost

FLSA Status: Exempt

Closing date for applications is is Sunday, November 3, 2024.

• This position has college-wide responsibilities and requires travel between all campuses and off-site locations. Location will mainly be at the Blue Bell campus.

**This position requires the new hire to submit the child abuse clearance, the PA State Police check, and FBI fingerprint results to Human Resources prior to their first day of employment.

***This position has been approved for a flexible work option arrangement. Flexible work options can be ended at any time by the College, Cabinet, and/or supervisors based on employee performance and/or as institutional needs change.

BASIC PURPOSE:

The Dean of Liberal Arts provides leadership for a division that includes Anthropology, Art, Communication Studies, Dance, English, ESL, the First-Year Experience, History, Languages, Liberal Studies, Mass Media, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Reading, Sociology, Sound Recording and Music Technology, and Theatre Arts. The Dean creates and maintains clear curricular paths to career and/or transfer and supports program growth and development. The dean provides visionary leadership, articulating the centrality of a broad-based liberal arts education while supporting students, faculty, and staff in meeting the College’s student success goals. The Dean is an important liaison for the College with business and industry partners, transfer partners, K-12 educators, government officials, grant agencies, and private funders. As a member of the VPAA’s leadership team, the dean acts to further the institution’s goals towards diversity, equity, and inclusion. This position has college-wide responsibilities that require travel between campuses and to offsite locations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work collaboratively across the college to engage in data-informed planning and strategic management to champion student success, foster productive external relationships and ensure that programs and services are sustainably resourced.
• Manage all facets of the daily operations and staff supervision for the Liberal Arts division; align financial and staffing resources to support Division needs, and communicate and plan for facilities, equipment and materials to meet the needs of instructional programs.
• Provide leadership to division faculty in the development and continuous improvement of curricular offerings. Guide and actively participate in program, General Education core, and course assessment.
• Provide leadership for the ongoing development of the Honors Program.
• In collaboration with Division administrators, recruit, hire, supervise, evaluate, and develop full-time and part-time faculty, staff and administrators.
• Resolve student, faculty and staff concerns. Facilitate communication between and among concerned parties to resolve conflicts expeditiously.
• Partner with the Dean of Academic Innovation to build and expand workforce training programs that link credit and non-credit learning experiences.
• Collaborate on articulation and transfer agreements and K-12 partnerships.
• Ensure that courses are scheduled when and in the modality that students need to balance their work, family, personal and academic demands.
• Work with faculty to develop experiential learning opportunities and other high-impact practices, such as authentic research, service learning, mentoring, and internships.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

• Master’s degree required in discipline represented by the academic units in the division; doctorate preferred.
• Minimum of three (3) years previous teaching experience at the collegiate level, preferably at a comprehensive community college.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of progressive administrative/leadership experience, preferably at a community college.
• Excellent management, administrative, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Data management and analysis abilities with demonstrated abilities to apply quantitative and qualitative reasoning to assessment, planning, management, and communications tasks
• Technical proficiency in Microsoft Word applications and other productivity, communication, and presentation tools.
• Knowledge of and experience with a range of instructional delivery modalities.
• Experience in curriculum or program development.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Knowledge of programmatic or regional accreditation processes preferred.
• Experience in grant and philanthropic acquisition, management, and reporting preferred.
  

ATTRIBUTES

To be successful, the Dean of Liberal Arts will demonstrate clear excellence in AACC Leadership Capacities:

Organizational Culture: Embrace the College’s mission, vision, and acknowledge the significance of our past while charting a path for our future.

Governance, Institutional Policy, and Legislation: Have respect for, and adhere to, the governance framework of the College and the policies that guide its operation. Promote effective and productive Board relations to further institutional transformation and sustainability. Advocate within and for the units supervised to advance the College’s goals in support of student success.

Student Success: Engage in continuous communication about the effectiveness of the College’s programs and services.

Institutional Leadership:

• Build positive interpersonal relationships and employ effective management skills to sustain a student-centered culture at the College.
• Set the example for trust and transparency across the College, and exhibit integrity and ethics in leadership and decision-making.
• Provide clear, constructive, and supportive feedback within the College’s performance management processes, and collaborate for continued improvement.
• Appreciate the value of the internal team and promote opportunities to form partnerships among groups in the College’s community.
• Demonstrate effective problem-solving by using data to determine the factors that contributed to the problem, using all resources available to develop alternate solutions, choosing and implementing a solution, and evaluating its effectiveness.
• Develop internal and external relationships that advocate for students, the College, and higher education in the community.
  

Institutional Infrastructure: Demonstrate fluency in management of the foundational aspects of the institution, including the establishment of a strategic plan, financial and facilities management, accreditation, and technology master planning.

Information and Analytics: Use data in ways that give a holistic representation of the institution’s performance and demonstrate open-mindedness and critical/analytical thinking should data reveal unexpected or previously unknown trends or issues.

Advocacy and Mobilizing/ Motivating Others: Serve as a champion of community college ideals, and, with the communications resources available to connect with the college community, mobilize stakeholders to take

action on behalf of the college. Always seek ways through various marketing and social media channels to engage with current and potential students, as well as supporters to keep them updated on new and great things taking place at the college.

Fundraising and Relationship Cultivation: Cultivate relationships across sectors that support the institution and advance the community college agenda and build relationships that support the college’s entrepreneurial efforts.

Communications: Demonstrate strong communication skills and fully embrace the role of community college spokesperson.

Collaboration: Develop and maintain cooperative, mutually beneficial, and ethical internal and external relationships that nurture diversity, promote the success of the college community, and sustain the community college mission.

Personal Traits and Abilities: Demonstrate and continue to develop abilities that promote the community college agenda: authenticity, emotional intelligence, courage, ethical standards, self-management and environmental scanning, time management and planning, familial impact and personal wellness, forward-looking philosophy, and adaptability/flexibility.

Montgomery County Community College is committed to assuring equal opportunity to all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, religious creed, sex (including pregnancy), ancestry, national origin, age (40 or older), affectional or sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, gender presentation, veteran’s status, marital status or disability in its educational programs, activities, or employment practices as required by Title IX of the Educational Amendment of 1972, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and other applicable statutes.

Inquiries concerning Title IX relating to equal opportunity on the basis of sex should be referred to: Title IX Coordinator, Mikiba W. Morehead, Ed.D., TNG, LLC, at titleixcoordinator@mc3.edu.

All other equal opportunity inquiries, including those based upon disability, should be referred to: The Director of Equity, Diversity & Belonging, at 504@mc3.edu or 215-619-7383

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