Job Details

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking a Dean of Arts, Media and Communication for Chabot College in Hayward, California.

The Chabot College Community

Chabot College is committed to educational equity in its academic programs and college services so that students may achieve their personal, educational, and career goals. Our equity work today builds upon a strong history: the Puente and Umoja (formerly Daraja) learning communities, now models which have been replicated across the state, were created at Chabot College. These programs have paved the way for a series of additional educational and student support programs intentionally focused on equity that thrive at Chabot College today. Chabot College is located in Hayward, California, the third most diverse city in the United States. We serve a highly diverse student population and are proud to be designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution. Information about the demographics of our campus community can be found here (http://www.chabotcollege.edu/ir/).

Serving our diverse community requires a culturally-responsive approach that recognizes the myriad strengths and assets that our students bring to the campus community. We do so by promoting a classroom and co-curricular learning environment that is inclusive, collaborative, engaging, and challenging, and where respect, dignity, and integrity are core values. We see students as producers of knowledge, not just consumers of knowledge. We work to reframe inequities as a problem of practice, and view the elimination of inequities as an individual and institutional responsibility.

Joining Our College Community

We seek equity-minded applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits diversity brings to an educational community. We look for applicants who:

1. Accept their shared role and responsibility in addressing opportunity and achievement gaps experienced by students
2. Value and intentionally promote diversity and consciousness of difference
3. Empower the underrepresented and underserved
4. Demonstrate cultural competence and cultural humility
5. Have experience and success in closing student equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices, or are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about implementing practices that achieve these goals
6. Believe that all people have the right to an education and work environment free from fear, harassment, or discrimination
7. Are dedicated to addressing issues of social justice
8. Actively seek to disrupt institutional and/or systemic barriers that adversely impact historically marginalized communities
9. Foster students potential to become global citizens and socially responsible leaders.

MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY

The Dean is a management position designated by the Board of Trustees of the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District. The incumbent is responsible for the satisfactory completion and/or coordination of the listed duties and responsibilities either directly or through administrative review. The incumbent is charged by the Board of Trustees with the satisfactory implementation of Board policy, District and College procedure as applicable to the position. In addition, the incumbent is expected to participate in the formulation of District and College policies by making appropriate recommendations for improvements or additions in policy or procedure through his or her reporting authority and/or by serving on College- and District-wide committees.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Under general direction of the Vice-President of Academic Services and through the process of shared governance, the Dean will administer the College program in the assigned instructional division. The incumbent will develop, direct, manage, and evaluate the curriculum and instruction, including the faculty and other personnel, and the facilities comprising that division. The division Architecture, Art, Art History, Digital Media, Film, Humanities, Interior Design, Mass Communication (including Radio, television, and Journalism), Music, Philosophy, Photography, Theater Arts, Religious Studies, and related programs, as well as oversight of the colleges Performing Arts Center, Art Gallery, and Little Theater.

APPOINTMENT

The Dean shall be elected by the Governing Board upon the nomination of the College President and District Chancellor.

The Dean shall:

1. Foster and maintain high standards of instruction, including providing division leadership in establishing goals and objectives for student learning, assessing achievement of goals and objectives, and the uses of innovative delivery of instruction, including instructional technology, distance education, and Web-based/online instruction;

2. Demonstrate a high value for student learning in setting priorities and implementing institutional goals.

3. Plan, develop, coordinate, and evaluate division instructional offerings to meet student, program, community, and enrollment needs;

4. Plan and develop the division budgets and monitor division expenditures and operations;

5. Supervise the planning, organizing and development of the curriculum of the division, in consultation with faculty and advisory committees as appropriate;

6. Supervise and evaluate the performance of assigned faculty and staff within the division;

7. Provide leadership in the recruitment, selection, and assignment of faculty and staff within the division in accordance with District policies;

8. Foster community outreach and provide liaison with area schools, two- and four-year colleges, business and industry, and the public sector to promote, develop and articulate college instructional offerings;

9. Become an active community member by participating in community organizations mutually agreed to;

10. Assist in establishing a process for enrollment management and in gathering and interpreting data for scheduling, staffing, planning, including student success, access and equity;

11. Provide leadership and opportunities for appropriate staff development programs and activities for faculty and staff;

12. Formulate long-range and short-range goals for the division, including updating the colleges master plan, strategic plan, and other planning documents and processes;

13. Conduct ongoing program review;

14. Establish and maintain collaborative and collegial working relationships with administrative counterparts and constituent leadership;

15. Provide supervision to the day, late afternoon, summer/evening and off-campus programs as assigned;

16. Represent Academic Services for the Vice President as appropriate and as necessary;

17. Perform all other related and implied management duties and such others as may be assigned by the President or Vice President.

18. Demonstrate evidence of a sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.

NOTE: This class specification is not necessarily all-inclusive in terms of the duties and responsibilities.

The minimum qualifications for service as an educational administrator shall be both of the following:

1. Possession of a masters degree; and

2. One year of formal training, internship, or leadership experience reasonably related to the administrators administrative assignment.

Demonstrate sensitivity to, and understanding of, the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical and/or learning disabilities.

You will be required to upload your transcripts. You must upload all applicable transcripts, credentials and/or certificates required to meet minimum qualifications for the position for which you are applying. Any degrees earned outside the United States must have an official US evaluation (course by course) of the transcripts and must be submitted with the application. The US evaluation must be done by a member of the NACES (https://www.naces.org/members). In the case that the file you are uploading is too large or you do not have your transcripts readily available, please upload a document in place of stating you will be sending the documents to the Office of Human Resources, 7600 Dublin Boulevard, 3rd Floor, Dublin, CA 94568, or by fax (925) 485-5254, by 5:00 p.m. (PST) on the closing date.

Demonstrate evidence of a sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.

The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Environment: Work is performed primarily in a standard office setting. The incumbent may be required to work some evenings, weekends, and travel, including serving as administrator on-site for athletic competitions.

Physical: Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight; to operate office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination including use of a computer keyboard; and to verbally communicate to exchange information

The Board of Trustees has updated Board Policy 7330 to incorporate information on COVID vaccination requirements, which are currently suspended. Accordingly, employee(s) must comply with the Board Policy found at:
http://districtazure.clpccd.org/policies/files/docs/BP7330.pdf.