Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs

Virginia Peninsula Community College welcomes applications for the position of Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs. Founded in 1967, we serve the cities of Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, and Williamsburg as well as the counties of James City and York. In Academic Year 2023-2024, the College served 9,012 students in credit instruction, making it the sixth largest college within the Virginia Community College System. Additionally, VPCC serves over 1,500 students annually in short-term workforce development programs designed to prepare them for immediate employment in high-demand fields. Students at VPCC are taught and mentored by 75 full-time faculty members, 232 part-time adjunct faculty members, 124 full-time staff members, and 38 part-time staff members. We are proud of our award-winning faculty, our nationally accredited and professionally recognized academic and training programs, our strong dual enrollment and early college programs, our powerful partnerships, and our outstanding student success outcomes. This college epitomizes its mission to change lives and transform communities.

The Associate Vice President will have unique opportunities to lead at an institution that celebrates strong relationships with our PreK-12 public and private schools, four-year colleges and universities, local and multi-national business partners, workforce councils, chambers of commerce, social service and community-based organizations, and many local military partners. The associate vice president assists the vice president in articulating and emphasizing the College's mission, goals, values, and priorities throughout the college community, and collaborates within the Academic Affairs department and the broader college community to achieve institutional objectives. These objectives include fostering a climate of inclusivity, academic excellence, student development, and student success.

The college is nestled in the backyard of the NASA Langley Research Center, Jefferson Lab, multiple military bases, the largest nuclear ship and submarine building company in the United States, the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, Colonial Williamsburg, and several major medical and healthcare institutions. Our community is home to the Commonwealth’s largest infrastructure project, the first U.S. offshore wind energy development in federal waters, a diverse array of homeland defense and security organizations, excellent public-school systems, renowned colleges and universities, theme parks, museums, research centers, entrepreneurial incubation labs, fine dining, arts, entertainment, and leisure.

This is a twelve-month administrative-faculty position, reporting to the Vice President of Academic Affairs. This leadership position directly supervises and coordinates essential academic functions. The Associate Vice President provides leadership and oversight for the College’s academic and support services, including faculty professional development, strategic class schedule development and analysis, dual enrollment partnerships, distance learning, learning resource centers, assessment, and academic policy and procedures. The Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs collaborates with academic deans, directors, faculty, and enrollment services personnel to ensure that the college provides high-quality teaching and learning experiences, making data-informed decisions and implementing best practices. The Associate Vice President executes initiatives in alignment with the College’s Strategic Plan, advancing the College’s mission and further realizing our vision for broader and more equitable service to our students and community.

The Associate Vice President will manifest the principles of shared governance and collaborate with faculty to advance the College's relevance and brand. The Associate Vice President must have experience with strategic planning, budgeting, instructional resource allocation, assessment, and accreditation. Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills, as well as a commitment to and appreciation of diversity, are required, along with civic and community involvement.

The Associate Vice President must gain proficiency with the college’s academic programs, Virginia Community College System (VCCS) programs, policies and procedures, and those of the State Council for Higher Education for Virginia, and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

· Support, lead, and serve on college governance committees.

· Liaise with the faculty senate and faculty leadership to ensure collaborative decision-making on academic affairs matters.

Areas of Responsibility:
· Coordinate curriculum development, general education, and program evaluation in collaboration with faculty, deans, and the Institutional Research and Effectiveness department.

· Plan, implement, and analyze a student-centered class schedule in collaboration with academic divisions and the Department of Enrollment Management and Student Success.

· Periodically review and update academic policy and procedure documents such as the faculty handbook, curriculum development guidance, and the faculty credentialing manual

· Provide guidance and oversight of the production of the college catalog and academic calendar in collaboration with the College Registrar

· Manage and develop program transfer and articulation agreements and academic initiatives in collaboration with faculty and deans

· Design, analyze, and administer a student-centered class schedule at all college locations in collaboration with academic divisions and the Division of Enrollment Management and Student Success.

· Oversee the college dual enrollment program to include dual enrollment course curriculum approvals, faculty credentialing, professional development and evaluation, and partnership development.

· Manage and develop grants and external/one-time funding sources, including Perkins funds

· Coordinate the Center for Teaching and Learning, including faculty professional development in alignment with academic affairs strategic planning and college succession planning.

· Oversee and implement procedures for compliance reporting and record keeping for the Virginia Community College System, State Council for Higher Education for Virginia, and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges

· Collaborate with the Instructional Technology department and college faculty to incorporate strategies and best practices in instructional technology for in-person, online, and hybrid courses

· Act as department liaison to the department of Enrollment Management and Student Success, ensuring instructional, curricular, and student conduct matters are appropriately communicated

· Oversee the college learning resource centers, including the library and tutoring services, ensuring best practices and current technologies in student learning support.

· Expected to be regularly, physically present at both campus locations and off-site locations.

· Performs other duties as assigned by the Vice President.