Dean for Instructional Excellence

The staff and faculty of Northampton Community College share a single goal: to help students transform their lives through education. It's a goal that reaps rewards thousands of times over the course of a career. Employees at Northampton receive competitive compensation and an array of benefits while working on campuses located in a region with a very high quality of life.

We invite you to consider applying for one of our currently available positions. For more information on the College, please visit www.northampton.edu. For more information on life in the Lehigh Valley, please visit https://www.northampton.edu/human-resources/life-in-the-area.htm.

NCC is strongly committed to increasing the diversity of the college community and the curriculum. Candidates who can contribute to that goal are encouraged to identify their strengths or experiences in this area.

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Primary Functions: Serves as the College's primary expert on Online Learning trends, best-practice pedagogy, and provides operational leadership for faculty development and quality assurance for instructional excellence across all course modalities, with special emphasis on online modalities. Participate as an effective member of the Academic and Student Affairs team.

Responsibilities: Work with the Academic and Student Affairs team to:

• (1) Plan and facilitate course quality improvement across all course modalities: (a) expertise in online learning and related educational technologies; (b) provide supervision and oversight to instructional designers; (c) design and implement evidence-based professional development for pedagogical excellence with focus on online modalities; (d) develop and administer course improvement priorities including quality assurance processes, Blueprint shells, Accessibility Upgrades; (e) collaborate with academic deans to develop strategies for growing and supporting online and hybrid programs of study; (f) advocate for appropriate availability and delivery of virtual student support services.
• (2) Direct and oversee Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT): (a) collaborate with academic deans and faculty to plan and offer professional development workshops and resources including annual Summer Institute event; (b) promote the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL); (c) align faculty excellence initiatives with student success goals; (d) collaborate with academic affairs leadership and faculty on AI literacy and ethical use, and OER implementation; (e) collaborate with academic affairs on new faculty induction and mentoring program; (f) collaborate with academic leadership and faculty on assessing ongoing faculty development needs and creating programming to fulfill identified needs; (g) manage part-time faculty fellows.
• (3) Provide administrative leadership and supervision to Online Learning and the CTLT: (a) oversee adherence to compliance requirements and necessary memberships for online learning (MSCHE, NC-SARA, etc); (b) develop and administer budgets for faculty development, payment to faculty for course improvement; (c) collaborate with Instructional Services and Technology on issues regarding LMS and other educational technologies; (d) collaborate with Learning Commons on issues related to faculty professional development.
• (4) Collegial collaboration across the College: (a) serve as a member of President's Cabinet and the Academic and Student Affairs Leadership Teams; (b) contribute to the College's planning, assessment, and institutional effectiveness goals; (c) serve on selected College committees.
• (5) Implement special responsibilities: as assigned by the supervisor.

Organizational Relationships: (1) Responsible to the Vice Provost, Academic Affairs for performance of assigned responsibilities. (2) Coordinates with academic deans to ensure alignment of priorities. (3) Develops collaborative relationships with faculty members. (4) Manages staff as appropriate. (5)Relates role to College goals and mission attainment.

Performance Standards: Performance in this position is considered satisfactory when: (1) mutually agreed upon objectives have been attained within a specified time frame, (2) responsibilities of the position have been carried out at a level consistent with performance objectives, (3) effective cooperative relationships exist with the other members of the administrative team.

Qualifications: (1) Education: Masters or doctorate in an appropriate discipline a degree from an institution of higher education recognized by an institutional accreditor approved by the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). (2) Skills, Knowledge, Abilities: (a) record of teaching excellence in high education; (b) proficiency in using LMS to deliver high impact teaching strategies and knowledge of instructional design principles; (c) track-record of developing and implementing professional development offerings; (d) strong commitment to quality academic experiences for students; (e) ability to assess and evaluate programs and offerings with an eye to improvement and effectiveness; (f) skill at prioritizing and managing multiple tasks and projects; (g) ability to cultivate and maintain positive working relationships with people of diverse backgrounds and communities (h) proven success managing successful teams.

(3) Experience: (a) 3 years faculty experience, preferably at a community college; (b) 3 years of people management experience in higher education or a related field as an administrator with a documented record of success (c) demonstrated competence to serve in an administrative capacity.

Note: This application requires submission of a cover letter that outlines how your experience and skills meet the requirements of the position. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Benefits Snapshot

The College offers a generous benefits package to Full-time employees. Just a few highlights of the benefits package include comprehensive medical plan options for you and your family (plus dental and vision), a College retirement contribution of 8% of your salary upon hire, NCC tuition waiver and an abundance of time off - up to 25 days' vacation/floating, 10 sick days, Four (4) day workweeks during Summer, Holidays (including a week+ break between Christmas and New Year's) - among other things! Please visit https://www.northampton.edu/about/working-at-ncc/employee-benefits/index.html for more details on the full array of benefits.