Vice President of Academic Affairs

NASHUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
VICE PRESIDENT OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
AVAILABLE 7/1/2025
APPLY BY 2/21/2025 FOR FULL CONSIDERATION

General Summary: Reporting to the President, serves as the College’s Chief Academic Officer, responsible for leading, directing, and managing the academic instruction, programs, services, and operations in an integrated instructional, academically supportive, and student success-oriented setting. Provides direction in the pursuit and implementation of the System’s and College’s mission and goals with particular emphasis in the areas of academic leadership, academic integrity, program quality, academic and strategic planning, business, industry, and community relations, and economic relevance.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as a member of the College’s Leadership Team, responsible for strategic planning, fiscal management, resource development, policy setting, and overall administration of the College. Assists the President in the development of the academic operational and capital budgets and advises the President on academic matters, strategic efforts, higher education issues, trends, and best practices involving academic operations. Represents the college in system-wide academic matters.
• Supervises all matters relating to academic instruction, programs, services, and operations, including budget management, academic policy development, academic program review, curriculum development, teaching effectiveness, advising, scheduling, and faculty and staff recruitment, appointment, training, and evaluation.
• Provides leadership in developing and offering market-driven academic programs and in strategic course scheduling and delivering programs and mechanisms with an emphasis on quality, access, student learning, and success. Conducts reviews/studies to determine the demand for new courses/programs and services, and reviews existing classes/programs and services for relevance and currency.
• Oversees the development and implementation of academic strategic planning and assessment. Integrates academic planning, program evaluation, and outcomes assessment into the strategic plan.

• Oversees the coordination and maintenance of program and institutional accreditation and establishes effective relationships with accrediting associations. Serves as the Accreditation Liaison Officer (ALO) to the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE).
• Develops, promotes, and evaluates articulation/transfer agreements with other educational institutions and develops policies and procedures for the transfer of academic credit.

• Ensures compliance with academic standards for degree, certificate, and non-credit programs.
• Approves academic schedules. Supervises and evaluates academic department chairs, program coordinators, and designated staff. Develops and implements policies and procedures for the orientation of full-time faculty and adjunct faculty. Administers all personnel matters in compliance with the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement, CCSNH and College policies and procedures, and state and federal regulations.
• Responsible for the overall effectiveness of all credit and non-credit granting instructional programs; for the development of course curricula in coordination with instructional staff; and for coordinating all academic policies and procedures to promote student and faculty success. Monitors the relationship of college credit and non-credit offerings.
• Focuses on student success, through retention and completion by developing and evaluating programming to support student success and excellence in teaching and pedagogy. Assists in the development of a retention and student success model based on research and data analysis and in partnership with other College departments and personnel.
• Monitors spending and approves expenditures according to annual spending plans, performs budget revisions, and prepares budget reports as needed or requested. When appropriate, applies for and manages federal grants and budgets relating to instruction, academic assessment, student retention, and program outcomes. Manage