Job Title:
| Director of College Academic Support Services |
Job ID: | 629 |
Full or Part Time: | Full Time |
Center: | Coordinating Center |
Unit/Program/Office | Academic Affairs |
Location: | Saratoga Springs |
Description: | Empire State College invites applications for the position of Director of College Academic Support Services. We seek an enterprising academic administrator who is excited about joining a fast-paced, innovative institution and leading a new academic support program.
The Director of College Academic Support Services develops, maintains, and coordinates college-wide academic skills assessment and support programs, in collaboration with deans, faculty and local academic support services professionals. The director reports to the Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs for Academic Services and provides leadership for the college in continuously developing and improving its academic support for student learning.
This position plays a key role in the college’s Front Porch project, which offers comprehensive academic support for the college’s adult learners from the point of entry to the end of the second enrollment. Specifically, it leads and oversees college-wide academic skills assessment and support programs, coordinates local academic skills assessment and support services, trains faculty and academic staff in skills development programs and resources, anticipates future developments in support of student learning, and maintains currency/represents the college externally in the field of academic skill development and support programs through participation in key organizations and through individual scholarship and development.
This is a professional position within the United University Professions bargaining unit covered by the Policies of the Board of Trustees, Title D, Item 6, and by Appendix A. After a probationary period of three years, this position holds five-year term appointments.
With the approval of the Provost/VPAA, the Director of College Academic Support Services holds concurrent academic rank appropriate to her/his qualifications. |
Minimum Qualifications: | Earned doctorate; record of leadership in developmental studies or related area, broadly construed; strong background in learning technologies; excellent supervisory, communication, organizational and project management skills; training and team leadership experience; evidence of systems thinking. |
Preferred Qualifications: | Doctorate in developmental education; experience managing a learning center, working with adult learners and learners from diverse cultural backgrounds and working in distance/distributed organizations; training or experience in ESL. |
Special Information (e.g., travel required, evening hours, etc.): | Some travel and evening hours required. |
Rank/Salary: | Low to Mid $70,000's. |
Applications due by: | 05/11/2007 |
Anticipated start date: | 7/1/2007 |
Empire State College is an EOE employer. |