Executive Dean, Student Care and Advocacy Support

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse 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:

• Reflects the diversity of our community

• 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 under-represented populations

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

ACC is committed to the ongoing systemic changes needed to ensure the increased recruitment, inclusion, retention, and completion of historically underserved and underrepresented populations. Through continual strategic community engagement and professional development of administrators, faculty, staff, and students, the college demonstrates its dedication to fostering a culture and climate for equitable outcomes.

ACC is proud to serve a diverse student body as an open-access and low-cost institution. Dedicated faculty members are excellent professors who help students achieve their educational goals and are sensitive to our students' diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. In 2017 our faculty adopted a Statement of ACC Faculty Values. This Statement affirms that ACC's faculty members value collaboration, service, agency, scholarship, inclusion, and teaching, all of which attest to our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our mission.

Job Posting Title:

Executive Dean, Student Care and Advocacy Support

Job Description Summary:

Provides leadership for strategic planning and for the effective implementation and administration of the Austin Community College’s (ACC) student care and advocacy programs and services.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Coordinates and leads strategic planning for student care and advocacy programs and services districtwide.
• Supervises, monitors, coordinates, and assesses all student care and advocacy programs and services. Responsible for hiring and termination for positions supervised.
• Recruits, hires, supervises, trains, coaches, directs, coordinates and monitors performance of staff for positions supervised.  Administers progressive discipline and recommends termination, if needed, while adhering to organizational human resource policies and procedures and relevant employment laws. 
• Establishes and supports program and staff performance goals.
• Assesses the need for and procures training, if needed, to maximize individual and programmatic outcomes.
• Provides leadership in program development, implementation and accountability in accordance with departmental goals and objectives. 
• Manages program budgets and is responsible for monitoring and effective use of funds within college and program guidelines.  Participates in the annual budgeting development.
• Ensures accurate, complete and on-going data collection, analysis and reporting to ensure continuous program and customer service improvement.
• Identifies equity barriers and collaborates with ACC departments and programs on projects district wide to resolve equity barriers for students.
• Provides districtwide leadership and remains current on research and practices regarding programming and serves for low income and under-resourced populations, including, but not limited to, people of color, individuals formerly in foster care, parenting students and other populations who encounter persistent systemic barriers to attaining their educational goals.
• Participates in college wide strategic planning and development.
• Develops, implements and provides strategic support for