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Dean of Planning, Research, and Institutional Effectiveness

Joshua Tree, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$119K/yr - $173K/yr

2+ years exp

Copper Mountain Community College is seeking a Dean of Planning, Research, and Institutional Effectiveness to provide leadership and direction for a comprehensive institutional effectiveness program. The role involves overseeing strategic planning processes, promoting data-informed decision making, and ensuring integration of plans across college initiatives.

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Responsibilities

Responsible for ensuring integration of plans across all key college initiatives

Provides executive leadership in assessment and accreditation for evidence-based student success strategies

Oversees the development and implementation of the operational plans of the college's cross-functional committees, including resource needs

Assists in the identification of grant and other external resources to advance the institutional research needs of the college, including the provision of data to support grant applications

Provides leadership in the development of policies, procedures, and systems in support of reporting areas

Models and implements effective management strategies with staff in such areas as continued professional development, mentoring, and consensus-building

Works with Business Office and Executive Dean of Academic Affairs to project enrollments to inform annual budget development

Provides leadership in the identification and recommendation of new and emerging technologies as well as relevant applications of present MIS system in support of college needs

Fosters the utilization of data analysis as the basis for strategic decision-making

Fosters a climate that promotes and supports innovation and improved services to students and the community through the use of technology

Serves as an internal resource to members of the college on matters related to institutional planning and research, and grants

Serves in an active and visible leadership role with the California Community College research, planning, and institutional effectiveness community

Collaborates with faculty, staff, and administrators in the implementation and assessment of the Program Review process and provides comprehensive program review data sets; supports institutional, administrative, and student learning outcomes processes

Supports student learning outcomes and administrative unit outcome assessment in collaboration with faculty and staff

Collects, analyzes, explains, and publishes information and data related to institutional effectiveness and planning; serves as the institution's chief research officer; organizes and evaluates research agenda to prepare, analyze, and evaluate short and long range institutional and program goals; prepares written documents, statistical reports, and oral presentations; and makes recommendations

Assists with the development of the District's strategic initiatives, goals, objectives, and other plans; evaluates data to measure, monitor, and provides input regarding progress of initiatives, goals, objectives and plans

Develops and implements a research and assessment agenda, and planning calendar, and cycle for the District by maintaining linkages between data and planning

Effectively communicates objectives, plans, and research data to the campus community

Monitors and keeps administrators current concerning demographics and community information; responds to inquiries, and provides information concerning related data, research studies, projects, reports, systems, practices, assessment measures, and programs to inform decisions

Supports the District's ongoing goals to meet accreditation standards and maintain accreditation

Plans, organizes, and conducts trainings, meetings, and seminars related to Institutional Effectiveness and outcomes

Leads, supports, and monitors institutional compliance with performance standards, and reporting as required by the Chancellor's Office, State, Federal and other agencies

Establishes and maintains cooperative working relationships with colleges, universities, and state, local and federal agencies

Prepares and administers appropriate departmental budget and authorizes expenditures

Serves as a liaison with community agencies, schools, special programs and interest groups affecting institutional effectiveness

Co-Chairs the Institutional Effectiveness Committee, and serves on various college committees (e.g. Student Success Planning Committee)

Work collaboratively with various administrators to support the development, implementation, and evaluation of Student Success Initiatives

In conjunction with Business Office, provides direction and oversight in the development of the Facilities Master Plan

Direct the evaluation of grants, research and recommend improvements

May supervise personnel; participates in the selection, evaluation, training and termination of employees

Performs other duties as assigned

Qualification

Strategic planningData analysisGrant managementInstitutional assessmentResearch designStatistical softwareBudget managementLeadershipCollaborationCommunicationMentoring

Required

Masters Degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in social science, mathematics, statistics, business, economics, education, public administration, or related field

Two years of full-time experience involving research, review, analysis, strategic planning, statistics, institutional assessment, grant management, and/or data-driven program development

Demonstrated evidence of sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students

Preferred

Three years of full-time experience

Demonstrated experience with enterprise databases, data warehouses, and reporting software (Colleague, DataTel, R, SPSS, SAS, Canvas, Blackboard, or equivalent software) and statistical software

Experience at the community college level

Experience teaching at the community college level

Supervisory or project management experience

Demonstrated competence in planning and evaluation, budget management