Dean of Health & Human Services

* ## Provides high-level leadership for all academic departments and initiatives within Health & Human Services, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and shared governance.* ## Leads the planning, development, and implementation of comprehensive strategies and programs designed to optimize enrollments and achieve greater student success.* ## Guides academic program planning, including return on investment strategies, assessment, and continuous improvement to ensure relevance, rigor, and responsiveness to student and community needs.
* ## Supervises assessment and curriculum initiatives in accordance with College Policy & Procedure and Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE).* ## Develops goals and strategies for accomplishing assigned responsibilities; actively participates in college strategy and planning processes, as well as establishes personal professional development goals.* ## Collaborates with appropriate departments and external partners to anticipate future program demands and align offerings with labor-market trends.
* ## Champions innovation in teaching, learning, and program delivery to expand access and improve outcomes. Establishes performance indicators, tracks progress toward divisional goals, and regularly reports outcomes to senior leadership.* ## Leads faculty recruitment, development, and succession planning for sustainability and advancing College initiatives.* ## Secures and manages external partnerships, grants, and community collaborations that strengthen academic programs and student pathways.
* ## Coordinates and maintains College transfer and articulation agreements with baccalaureate institutions. Establishes policy for compiling and maintaining course equivalency tables with baccalaureate institutions.* ## Serves as curriculum facilitator between academic departments and baccalaureate institutions’ corresponding departments.* ## Participates in the academic program review process through the Dean’s review portion of that process.* ## Maintains a broad and in-depth knowledge of best practices, trends, and challenges in student recruitment and retention.

Builds and strengthens working partnerships on- and off-campus to assist with recruitment and retention.* ## Employs data-informed decision-making and uses predictive analytics to drive positive student success outcomes.* ## Assesses the overall effectiveness in meeting student enrollment and retention goals and deploys new data-informed and results-oriented enrollment initiatives and finds ways to improve results from current enrollment strategies.* ##
· Hires Assistant Dean, Department Chairs, and managers, appoints search committee members, assigns division faculty fellow responsibilities, and supports the hiring process for tenure-track faculty. Provides recommendations to College Tenure and Promotion Committee on all faculty promotion and tenure applicants. Supervises mentoring programs for assigned departments. Encourages and promotes faculty and staff development. Supports and helps coordinate workshops for new and continuing faculty on tenure and promotion policies and procedures, and workshops for faculty on structure.
* ## Works with chairpersons to ensure faculty credentialing requirements are met, filed appropriately, and submitted to the Human Resources Department for HLC compliance and academic quality purposes.* ## Delegates responsibilities to Department Chairpersons, provides direction in making decisions to ensure work complies with academic standards and policy. Approves faculty workload.* ## Approves faculty and staff reassignment of duties. Maintains responsibility for managing the division’s human resources and makes personnel action decisions in consultation with the Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and the Department of Human Resources.
* ## Develops and administers academic policy and procedures. Ensures conformity with College policies pertaining to student conduct, academic and the appeals processes.* ## Drives the creation, implementation, and periodic review of a multi- year academic plan that aligns divisional programs with the College’s mission, student…