Director, Digital Learning Operations and Quality

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Director, Digital Learning Operations and Quality

Job Description Summary:

To direct the development and operation of distance education, distance education quality assurance, course design and student and faculty support services.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

• Under the direct supervision of the Dean, Digital Learning, directs the distance education quality assurance processes and procedures across program and project teams.

• Develops, directs, and implements a systematic design and development process deliver online courses and modules in an agile way, in consultation with instructional departments.

• Directs distance education instructional design projects; evaluates requests and develops project priorities, and resource allocation plans.

• Provides project management for the distance education department, including setting and monitoring targets for new course development, and quality review of new course development.

• Leads the creation and development of distance education faculty training and support related to online learning experience pedagogy.

• Coordinates distance education faculty development programming with the Teaching and Learning Excellence Division.

• Manages and provides leadership and guidance to staff; develops priorities and assigns tasks and projects; ensures that all issues are addressed and resolved.

• Creates online resources available to both students and instructor.

• Maintains distance education state authorization compliance, including membership in State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement.

• Works with instructional departments in scheduling distance education courses; develops annual and semester schedules, and allocation of sections.

• Directs the efforts to identify new distance education course materials, evaluates the appropriateness for ACC use, disseminates materials to faculty, and manages the approval process.

• Supervises Distance Learning staff.

Knowledge

• Current principles and practices of distance learning technology and applications in an educational environment.

• Current principles and practices of distance education instructional development and design services in an educational environment.

• Management and implementation of organization-wide technology projects.

• Supervisory principles, practices, and methods.

• Project planning and management principles.

• Knowledge of SACSCOC accreditation principles and the distance education policy statement.

• Knowledge of onl