Laramie County Community College Looking for ACC Academic Affairs Dean Full Time

The mission of Laramie County Community College is to transform our students’ lives through the power of inspired
learning. Our over-arching goal is that our accomplishments as a community college will distinguish LCCC from others in the nation, in
turn benefiting our communities and bringing pride to the Great State of Wyoming. Our core values include Passion, Authenticity, and the
Desire to Make a Difference. 

A cover letter detailing how you meet the minimum and preferred
qualifications for this position is required. You can upload a cover letter when you create an applicant profile.

Job Summary: Core responsibilities of this position include:

Under the direction of the Vice President
of Academic Affairs, the Dean of the Albany County Campus (ACC) plans organizes, administers, implements, and evaluates the credit-bearing
courses and academic programs offered at the ACC; provides leadership, supervision and evaluation for faculty assigned to the ACC; and
coordinates the meetings and work of the ACC Leadership Team. In addition, the Dean serves as a member of the Academic Leadership Team (ALT)
for LCCC, and works in full partnership with other Deans and members of ALT, as well as other areas, to determine, deploy, and assess
academic programming and related activities offered at the ACC. The Dean serves as the primary representative with the Albany County School
District and the University of Wyoming for the purposes of identifying, developing, delivering, and assesses effective course and program
offerings in alignment with the needs of these partners and their students. This position supervises both full-time and part-time faculty,
and may at times supervise classified personnel and student workers. The Dean performs other tasks, which may be assigned by the Vice
President of Academic Affairs based on contemporary institutional need. This is a full-time benefited position.

LCCC in its strategic
plan has identified important Core Values and Aspirational Values, which are inherent in the cultural fabric of the College. The person
fulfilling this role is expected to bear these qualities and advocate for them. http://www.lccc.cc.wy.us/StrategicPlan2030/

Organizational Relationship:

The Dean of the Albany Count Campus reports directly to the Vice President of
Academic Affairs (VPAA) and works closely with the other members of the Academic Leadership Team (ALT). S/He is also responsible for
coordinating the Albany County Campus Leadership Team. 

The Dean will directly supervise:

• Full-time Faculty
• Part-time Faculty

The Dean may indirectly or directly supervise:

• Educational Services Staff
• Student
  Workers
• Program Directors
• Administrative Assistant

Benefits: Approximately 85% of health
insurance premiums paid by the College, the College will contribute 13.19% of the employee’s salary towards their retirement
fund, 21 vacation days, 12 sick days, 2 personal days and 15 paid holidays annually. Typically 5-7 paid holidays from Christmas to New
Year’s Day. For full listing of benefits, visit http://lccc.wy.edu/about/humanresources/benefits.

Essential Functions: (to perform
successfully in this position, an individual must be able to perform essential duties satisfactorily as well as possess
education/experience, employ the knowledge, skills, and abilities as listed in representative fashion; reasonable accommodations may be made
to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions – this position is Exempt, i.e., is not
eligible for compensatory or overtime pay provisions of the FLSA. This listing of essential duties is not all-inclusive, but
representative; other duties may be assigned).

ACC and Institutional Leadership – The Dean
participates fully in collaborative efforts that effectively promote, advance and sustain the mission and strategic goals of both the ACC
and the College. These responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Effectively leading change management, embracing
  difficult facts, proactively analyzing problems, determining solutions, and taking decisive action for improving ACC outcomes or achieving
  ACC goals;
• Conducting effective conflict resolution, mediation, and negotiation of ACC student, faculty, and at times, staff
  concerns, in accordance with the respective College procedures;
  • Fostering an environment of effective, written, oral, and
    interpersonal communication to include:
    • Communicating effectively with ACC faculty, staff, students and community members, and
      positively representing the College and ACC to employees, students, and other relevant stakeholders; and
    • Proactively communicating
      with the VPAA, members of ALT, and other LCCC departments and divisions to share information, coordinate activities, and enhance effective
      communication.
  • Effectively coordinate the ACC Leadership Team to include:
    • Scheduling, holding, and
      facilitating regular meetings of individuals assigned to the ACC Leadership Team (e.g., director of ACC student services, director of ACC
      outreach and workforce development, operations coordinator, etc.);
    • Facilitating constant and consistent communication among the ACC
      Leadership Team to ensure the effective coordination of ACC operations;
    • Collaborating on the development and management of the
      overall ACC annual budget;
    • Collaborating on the formulation of ACC strategic and operational plans including facilitating ACC
      discussions to develop strategic objectives in keeping with the College’s strategic plan;
    • Coordinating regular meetings with
      ACC campus personnel to facilitate planning and collegial decision making and to keep staff informed about issues and projects of the
      College overall; and
    • Establishing, maintaining, and facilitating an active ACC Advisory Board.
  • Actively
    participates in the work of the College to include:
    • Collaborating with administration, faculty, and staff in college-wide planning
      in accordance with the Strategic Plan and relevant operational plans;
    • Collaborating in the development and application of LCCC
      policies, procedures, and connecting ACC processes to these and institutional functions in an objective and consistent manner;
    • Leading and participating in committees, task forces, and activities to advance the mission and strategic goals of the ACC and
      College;
    • Providing leadership and individual support to College-wide initiatives;
    • Maintaining a visible presence within
      the College and Albany County/Laramie community; and
    • Advocating effectively for the needs of the ACC yet subordinating departmental
      and ACC interests to the broader College interests when appropriate.
    • Supporting the implementation, promotion, and compliance with
      the College’s affirmative action plan in all aspects of employment and education; and
    • Encourage cultural and ethnic diversity in
      ACC staffing, curriculum, programs and services.

Administration of ACC Academic
Affairs – Under the direction of the VPAA, the Dean is responsible for vision, direction and strategic management of the
ACC’s academic affairs operations. These responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Providing sustained leadership
  in a dynamic and rapidly-changing academic environment with competing priorities, working cooperatively and coordinating projects with other
  LCCC employees, especially the VPAA and members of ALT, as well as ACC faculty and staff to offer appropriate and effective academic
  offerings;
• Supporting, managing, and assessing the efficacy of the ACC’s academic offerings, partnerships and services;
• Developing and sustaining strong relationships with other members of the educational community from K-12 to Universities, deploying
  effort to help student matriculation and completion;
• Effectively and appropriately delegating responsibility, motivating,
  directing, developing, and formally evaluating the work of subordinates as well as leading effectively in a collegial and collaborative
  manner with diverse segments of the campus community to meet or improve goals or outcomes;
• Administers the campus’s budget to
  include:

• • • Collaborating with the VPAA,
      members of ALT, ACC faculty and staff to determine funding needs and priorities, both short- and long-term;
      • Collaboratively, and in
        accordance with the College’s budget development process, developing the ACC’s academic affairs annual budget;
      • Actively
        managing the ACC’s academic affairs budget to ensure appropriate, accurate, and strategic utilization of the fiscal resources;
        and
      • Maintaining the fiscal integrity of the ACC academic affairs departmental budgets.

• Develops and manages physical and other resources to include:

• • • Supporting the adoption, acquisition, and implementation of appropriate new technologies to best
      deliver effective and efficient academic offerings at the ACC;
      • Maintaining safe, comfortable, and appropriate learning spaces for
        faculty, staff, and students; and
      • Participating in seeking, developing, and managing external grants that promote strategic
        learning objectives of the ACC.
      • Provides leadership in the recruitment and retention of students into the campus’s programs;
        and
      • Prepares required recurring reports in relation to compliance and the ACC’s operations.

Curriculum Oversight – The Dean works closely with the VPAA, members of the ALT, program
directors and ACC faculty to determine and implement the curricular programming that meets student, community, educational partners, and
business/industry needs in Albany County. These responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Through purposeful
  collaboration, leading the design, implementation, and evaluation of new and existing programs delivered in totality or in part at the
  ACC;
• Ensure ACC curricula is developed, approved, evaluated and managed in accordance with overall College policies and procedures,
  and in close collaboration with LCCC Deans.
• Actively leads and supports the offering of all academic programs at the ACC, including
  annual and comprehensive program analysis and review;
• Application of strategic enrollment management to include:
  • Determining on-ground courses to be offered at the ACC to best meet student needs;
  • Regularly assesses course offerings to
    ensure necessary course offerings are in place at the ACC;
  • Ensuring courses offered at the ACC are viable with appropriate
    enrollments; and
  • Ensuring faculty assigned to ACC courses are effective in achieving student outcomes.
• Collaborating with community members and/or advisory boards to assess program needs and efficacy;
• Contributes to the design of
  formative and summative assessments at the program and discipline level
• Assists the VPAA, members of ALT, program directors and ACC
  faculty and staff in the production of reports as needed to demonstrate progress made toward the achievement of student learning.

Faculty Recruitment, Development, and Supervision – Under the direction of the VPAA, the Dean is responsible for
ensuring the ACC’s academic offerings are facilitated by effective, prepared, and highly qualified full-time and adjunct instructors.
These responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Hire, supervise, and evaluate, in close collaboration with the VPAA and
  members of ALT, all full-time faculty assigned primarily to the ACC, including the development and management of faculty workloads.
• Recruiting, retaining, supervising, evaluating, and developing the ACC faculty according to proper management practices and College
  evaluation procedures to include:
• Analyzing data and providing justification for new positions or replacement positions;
• Contributing to the design of, and serve as hiring manager when appropriate, interview committees for the ACC’s full- and
  part-time faculty;
• Actively participating with faculty and staff in the development and review of the vacancy announcement and
  position descriptions for ACC faculty searches;
• Developing ACC faculty by helping them to maximize their contribution to the
  College and to grow professionally;
• Taking corrective action with ACC faculty when performance needs improvement; and
• Fostering effective teamwork and collaboration within the ACC and between the ACC and main campus departments, programs, and
  faculty.
• Assigning, in close collaboration with the VPAA and members of ALT, ACC full-time faculty workload of courses and/or
  additional duties to ensure they meet required course load;
• Design and management of an effective adjunct faculty program ensuring
  a robust, diverse, and high-quality pool of adjunct faculty are available to the ACC. This includes:
• Recruiting and onboarding of
  adjunct faculty to teach the diversity of ACC academic offerings;
• Assignment of ACC courses to adjunct faculty in alignment with
  the course offerings;
• Providing opportunities to effectively engage, develop, and support ACC adjunct faculty; and
• Evaluating adjunct faculty on a regular basis in alignment with College procedures.
• Ensuring ACC faculty are actively engaged
  in their respective department activities as coordinated by the LCCC deans and department chairs.

Community
Partnerships – the Dean is the primary responsible person for establishing, strengthening, and maintaining strategic
partnerships with educational partners and the business community to ensure the ACC’s offerings align with community need and
opportunities for enrollment growth. Specific duties include:

• Effective partnerships and relationships with the University of
  Wyoming:
  • Developing and maintaining strategic relationships with UW deans, department heads, and others that provide information
    and support necessary to align ACC course offerings with UW student needs that bolster enrollment and viable course offerings; and
  • Managing the ACC delivery of developmental mathematics coursework and curriculum on the UW campus.
• Effective
  partnerships and relationships with Albany County School District #1:
  • Collaborating with Laramie High School and other ACSD1
    institutions to develop robust offerings for student enrollment in Concurrent & Dual Enrollment courses;
  • Overseeing Laramie
    High School-based LCCC programs, including the Automotive Technology dual fusion certificate program and the Culinary Arts concurrent
    enrollment program;
  • Ensuring effective partnership with ACC and LCCC Student Services to create streamlined enrollment, graduation,
    and other processes for high school students enrolled in ACC academic offerings;
  • Coordinating the establishment, monitoring, and
    updates of memoranda of understanding between ACSD1 and the Cheyenne campus; and
  • Coordinating the faculty credentialing process
    with the Cheyenne campus.

• • Effective partnerships and relationships with external constituencies of
    the ACC, including business/industry, community-based organizations and government:
    • Representing the ACC and LCCC on important
      community groups, boards, and committees;
    • Working collaboratively with College and other ACC areas to align ACC offerings (credit
      and non-credit) with current or emerging community needs; and
    • Ensuring an effective advisory function for the ACC’s
      programmatic offerings.

Nonessential Functions: An employee in this position may
perform some of these responsibilities on an infrequent basis.

• Represents the college at appropriate campus activities,
  local and state meetings, events, professional development and planning sessions as they relate to the assigned area of responsibility that
  may require occasional overnight travel
• Participates in state, regional and national professional associations and/or user groups
  related to the functions in the assigned School
• Participates in various community outreach and/or community involvement activities
  on an intermittent basis, which may require overnight travel
• Positively facilitates external relationships with various entities
  including the media, government officials, local and regional business people, professional trade groups, peer community colleges, regional
  and/or partner universities, K12 districts, members of professional and trade organizations, and others which may require overnight
  travel

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

The ideal Dean of the ACC Academic Affairs will possess a
cadre of personal attributes that allow him/her to relate well to the diversity of faculty, staff and students, and to the unique needs of
the ACC and the College as a whole. The Dean must be committed to shared governance, team work, and creative leadership, and possess the
characteristics of sound judgment, flexibility, creativity, resourcefulness, and excellent communication skills. Other desired personal
attributes of this person include:

• Ability to collaborate, work, and lead effectively within diverse work environments across
  the institution on multiple project teams with changing levels of responsibility;
• Effectively analyze complex problems, determine
  solutions, and take decisive action leading to successful results and outcomes;
• Ability to maintain appropriate composure and
  necessary confidentiality with regard to both past and current employee, student, and donor data; documents; issues; etc., and respect
  privacy needs of employees, students, donors;
• Ability to represent the College to employees, students and the general public,
  demonstrating the personal characteristics that align with LCCC Core and Aspirational Values;
• Knowledge of governmental, political
  and legislative processes, and Wyoming State and Federal statues as applicable;
• Ability to effectively communicate with faculty,
  staff, students, campus leadership and the general public; including preparing effective presentations, reports, and correspondence;
• Ability to execute a high level of professionalism and ethical standards in all areas of responsibility;
• Competence in Federal
  rules and regulations, especially as they relate to the Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act, Americans with Disabilities Act,
  Rehabilitation Act, Civil Rights Act and Higher Education Act;
• Professional competence in basic College equipment operation –
  including (but not limited to): Networked computers, phones, printers, scanners, projectors, cameras and voice recorders; sound
  amplification and lighting systems; fleet vehicles;
• Possesses a strong leadership and supervision skill set, including ability to
  hire, train, evaluate, manage conflict, obtain resolutions, provide timely constructive feedback, and support development of LCCC
  employees;
• Ability to plan, organize, develop and evaluate the programs, activities, and curricula for the respective area of
  responsibility;
• Knowledge and use of continuous quality improvement principles, strategic planning, and evaluation of operational
  functions;
• Anticipates changing conditions and plans ahead to overcome challenges or capitalize on opportunities; ability of
  utilizing evidence/data to support plans and results;
• Advanced working knowledge and ability with personal computing applications
  – specifically Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint), Adobe products (e.g., Reader, Professional), as
  well as database management systems;
• Ability to read and interpret instructions in oral, written, or diagrammatical form (e.g., a
  flow chart of a process). Ability to read, interpret and consider possible applications of business literature and legal documents;
• Skills and abilities to perform as an organized, self-starter, and able to handle expeditiously, accurately, and confidentially the
  rapid receipt of communications from all sources—written, email, voice mail, one-on-one with attention to detail; able to act on own
  initiative while exercising reasonable judgment;
• Demonstrated knowledge of legal, regulatory, contractual, and procedural
  requirements (including preparation of recurring reports) related to compliance and the School’s operations;
• Capable of
  exercising discretion and good judgment at all times, able to maintain a positive attitude, exhibit patience, and persistence, especially
  when dealing with various internal and external constituents; and
• Ability to support time-based requests; able to function
  effectively in a multi-tasking, fast-paced environment with deadlines, frequent interruptions, and some interpersonal pressure.