Vice President, Student Services

The Las Positas Community

Las Positas College provides an inclusive, learning-centered, equity-focused environment that offers educational opportunities and support for completion of students’ transfer, degree, and career-technical goals while promoting lifelong learning. At Las Positas College we know that equity will be achieved by changing the impacts of structural racism, ableism, homophobia, and systematic poverty on student success and access to higher education, achieved through continuous evaluation and improvement of all services. We believe in a high-quality education focused on learning and an inclusive, culturally-relevant environment that meets the diverse needs of all our students and staff.

The Las Positas Community

Las Positas College provides an inclusive, learning-centered, equity-focused environment that offers educational opportunities and support for completion of students’ transfer, degree, and career-technical goals while promoting lifelong learning. At Las Positas College we know that equity will be achieved by changing the impacts of structural racism, ableism, homophobia, and systematic poverty on student success and access to higher education, achieved through continuous evaluation and improvement of all services. We believe in a high-quality education focused on learning and an inclusive, culturally-relevant environment that meets the diverse needs of all our students and staff.

Equity is parity in student educational outcomes; it places belonging for students of color and disproportionately impacted students at center focus. Our prized and emerging equity efforts include Puente, Umoja, ConnectUp, Brother 2 Brother, Sister 2 Sister, Black Student Union, Presidential Task Force on Systemic and Institutionalized Racism, the Presidential Speaker Series, Black Education Association, UndocuAlly Taskforce, curriculum reviews and a linguistic justice curriculum.

Located in Livermore, Las Positas College is becoming an institution that reflects the diversity in California. We are a learning-centered institution focused on excellence and student success, and are fully committed to supporting all Tri-Valley residents in their quest for education and advancement.

Joining Our College Community

Benefits

We seek equity-minded applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits diversity brings to an educational community. We look for applicants who:

• Value and intentionally promote diversity and consciousness of difference
• Demonstrate cultural humility and an ongoing desire to improve cultural competence
• Are dedicated to addressing issues of social justice
• Accept their shared role and responsibility in addressing opportunity and achievement gaps experienced by students
• Have experience and success in closing student equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices, or are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about implementing practices that achieve these goals
• Actively seek to identify, disrupt, and remove institutional and/or systemic barriers that adversely impact historically marginalized communities
• Empower the underrepresented and underserved
• Foster students’ potential to become global citizens and socially responsible leaders
• Believe that all people have the right to an education and work environment free from fear, harassment, or discrimination

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking a Vice President, Student Services for Las Positas College in Livermore, California.

MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY

The Vice President, Student Services is a management position designated by the Board of Trustees for the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District. The incumbent is responsible for the leadership, administration, coordination, supervision, evaluation, and continuous improvement of assigned College programs, services, personnel, and resources. The incumbent is charged by the Board of Trustees with the effective implementation of Board policies and District administrative procedures applicable to the position and participates in the development and continuous improvement of District and College policies, procedures, practices, and systems.

The Vice President serves as a member of the College executive leadership team and provides strategic counsel to the College President regarding matters affecting students, enrollment, student success, institutional effectiveness, organizational climate, and the overall student experience.

General Description

The Vice President, Student Services serves as the College's Chief Student Services Officer and provides executive leadership for a comprehensive, integrated, student-centered Student Services division. The Vice President is responsible for the overall leadership, design, organization, delivery, supervision, evaluation, continuous improvement, and fiscal management of assigned Student Services programs and functions, including, but not limited to, admissions, records, and enrollment services, counseling and advising, outreach, recruitment, onboarding, and student entry services, financial aid, disability programs and services, veterans services, Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS), CARE, CalWORKs, and other categorical and special programs, student equity and achievement programs, transfer and career services, student health and wellness, basic needs and holistic student supports, student life, leadership, government, clubs, and activities, cultural, identity-based, and community-building programs, international student services where assigned, student conduct, student concerns, grievances, and due process, scholarships and other assigned student support programs, and other Student Services programs and functions assigned by the College President.

The Vice President works collaboratively with the College President, Vice President of Academic Services, Vice President of Administrative Services, District leadership, faculty, classified professionals, students, and other stakeholders to create an integrated and effective student experience.

This position reports directly to the College President.

APPOINTMENT

The Vice President, Student Services shall be appointed by the Governing Board upon the recommendation of the College President and the District Chancellor

NOTE

This class specification is not necessarily all-inclusive in terms of the duties and responsibilities.