Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs; Liberal Arts and Sciences

Compensation $0.00 Annual

Job Description

Summary:

The Final date to receive applications for this position is 11:59pm EST on April 5, 2026.

Established in 1965, Santa Fe College (SF) serves over 15,000 students each semester with a comprehensive set of programs from adult basic education through baccalaureate degrees. Winner of the Aspen Prize in 2015, SF continues its tradition of excellence and was recently named an Opportunity College by the Carnegie Foundation. In addition to preparing students for the local workforce, SF partners closely with the University of Florida to provide a variety of transfer opportunities for students from across Florida and throughout the world.

Reporting to the Provost and serving as part of the Academic Affairs leadership team, the Associate Vice President (AVP) for Liberal Arts and Sciences provides strategic leadership and supervision for general and transfer education at SF and manages departments and programs in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, including English;
Fine Arts and Entertainment Technology;
Humanities, Communications, and Languages;
Mathematics;
Natural Sciences; and Social and Behavioral Sciences. In addition to directly supervising the department chairs, the AVP will have specific leadership responsibility for supporting departments in the areas of curriculum development, student learning assessment, planning unit review, and the resolution of student and personnel issues. As a member of the academic leadership team, the AVP will also lead projects and initiatives and collaborate with other departments and offices throughout the College as assigned.

The ideal candidate will have interdisciplinary interests in liberal arts and sciences, relevant experience in higher education, a knowledge of best practices in teaching and learning, and an established track record of managing resources and leading significant initiatives.

The starting salary is set by the President and is commensurate upon an individual’s qualifications.

• Provides strategic leadership for transfer and workforce preparation programs in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, aligning efforts with the College’s strategic plan and accreditation standards.
• Drives continuous improvement using enrollment, retention, labor market, and transfer performance data
• Champions a culture of teaching excellence and student success.
• Studies current and emerging best practices in undergraduate education.

• Oversees development, review, and approval of curricula, including new programs, concentrations, certificates, and transfer pathways in a variety of delivery modalities (in-person, online, hybrid, accelerated, etc.).
• Ensures curriculum pathways are mapped clearly for both university transfer and immediate employment, including embedded certificates and stackable credentials.
• Ensures systematic learning outcomes assessment and program review, including external advisory input for workforce programs and transfer partner input for academic majors; oversees assessment of the general education program; closes the loop by implementing action plans and reporting results.
• Leads the implementation of high impact practices that promote student learning in communication, critical thinking, scientific reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and inquiry and analysis.
• Partners with eLearning to expand high quality online and hybrid offerings, supports innovation in digital pedagogy, and maintains compliance with distance education standards.
• Supports initiatives related to OER, low-cost textbook strategies, digital learning design, syllabus publication through Simple Syllabus, and AI enhanced teaching and learning.

• Directly supervises department chairs, providing coaching, leadership development, and clear expectations for operational and academic excellence.
• Works with chairs on faculty hiring, mentoring, evaluation, and promotion processes, with attention to balancing full-time and adjunct faculty contributions by discipline.
• Supports faculty development in active learning, high…