Department Chair, CMHC - Online

Job Description:

The Department Chair reports directly to the Division Chair, Assistant Dean, Associate Dean, or College Dean dependent upon the staffing within the college for the program. 

Responsibilities include student management within the department, program and student review processes, efficient course scheduling across delivery models, outreach and recruitment of faculty, active engagement in community partnership development to support student enrollment. A Department Chair works closely with the College Dean and Associate Dean, university academic leadership team, and support staff.  

In addition to department meetings, the Department Chair participates in institutional committees, provides academic leadership, and performs duties as assigned by the university academic leadership. As administrative faculty member, the Department Chair is a member of the Faculty Council.

The department seeks an individual who has the ability and interest in contributing to a community committed to student-centeredness, professional development and scholarship, integrity and ethics, respect for diversity and pluralism, innovation, flexibility, and teamwork and collaboration. Candidates who will advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through their teaching, scholarship, and service are strongly encouraged to apply.

Key Areas of Responsibility

People Management

• Recruit, hire, and manage qualified and diverse faculty in alignment with budget allowances and university need.   
• Build and manage a faculty team that is inclusive and welcoming of diverse voices, new perspectives, and innovation.  
• Develop and apply a structured, data-driven system for mentoring, supervising and evaluating the teaching, advisement, and other duties performed by faculty members to ensure student achievement of program and institutional learning outcomes.
• Ensure department faculty remain active in scholarship and service as evidenced by membership in institutional committee work, professional organizations, publications, presentations, and colloquia.

Academic Quality & Innovation

• In coordination with the university academic leadership, conduct regularly scheduled curriculum reviews and revisions to ensure currency and alignment with competencies desired by employers.
• Lead student development efforts (monitoring satisfactory academic progress, supervising Department efforts to support student development through Academic Development Plans and Professional Performance Evaluations and representing the Department(s) at institutional Student Community Standards Committee with the goal of supporting student progress through the curriculum and timely degree completion.
• Teach up to 12 credits per academic year, depending upon level of appointment and scope of administrative responsibilities.
• Lead, in collaboration with academic affairs leaders, the department with any accreditation, department review, or assessment(s) required of the department including participation in research and writing for any necessary self-study or department-related reports to maintain ongoing accreditation …