Director of Education-MMC

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary

The Director of Education is responsible for the overall operations of the Academic Department at the campus level, assuring compliance with institutional, accreditation, state, and federal policy and regulations as well as Ancora’s standards, policies, and procedures. The Director of Education serves as a member of the Campus Leadership Team and supervises the Academic team, including the Academic Administrative Assistant/Registrar, Library/Learning Resource Center Point of Contact, Program Directors, faculty members, and other academic support staff.

Key Responsibilities

1. Provides Services to Students

• Coordinates and participates in facilitating the New Student Orientation Program each term. Provides an Orientation Program for re-entering students who have been out of school for more than one term.

• Establishes rapport with students in order to offer counsel, and answer questions and/or concerns on a regular basis.

• Provides oversight to Program Directors who provide academic advisement/counseling as needed to students.

• Ensures that all probationary (SAP Not Met) students receive sufficient academic counseling and that an academic plan is developed to facilitate their academic progress. Provides referrals to outside resources when advising needs go beyond the scope of the school.

• Requires Program Directors to Identify students in need of tutoring and refers to instructors and/or peers for tutoring where required.

• Responds to student requests for accommodations per established process in the Campus Catalog.

• Leads the Retention Program by planning, implementing, and directing effective student retention activities. 

• Serves as the chair of the Academic Review Committee. Facilitates hearings and writes letters and reports of findings as outlined in the catalog and handbooks.

• Understands and resolves student disciplinary problems. Escalates according to process and policy.

• Coordinates, monitors, and supports student organization programs and school-sponsored student activities through faculty sponsors.

• Interviews non-returning students to determine and document cause.

• Interviews re-entering students to determine readiness and dedication to pursuit of academic goals.

• Oversees maintenance and improvements needed for student classrooms, library/resource center, and student lounge areas through coordination of efforts among administration, students, and custodial staff.

1. Creates and Maintains a Master Schedule of Classes

• Develops a Master Schedule of Classes. Maintains a minimum overall student-teacher ratio of 20:1 wherever possible to promote a positive learning environment and optimal utilization of faculty and facilities.

• Meets with each Instructor individually to discuss teaching assignments, course material, course syllabi, and weekly lesson plans prior to class starting.

• Maintains a Master Teaching Schedule for all Instructors.

• Ensures student and class schedules are created and distributed in a timely manner. Ensures all continuing students receive class schedules for the next term prior to the final week of the current term. Provides all new students with their class schedules during the new student orientation. Provides Program Directors with continuing student schedules for the upcoming term.

• Ensures classes take place as scheduled in all delivery modalities.

1. Provides Oversight and Leadership to Program Directors

• Hires Program Directors who meet credential requirements, demonstrate subject matter expertise and illustrate the capacity to be excellent educators.

• Holds Program Directors accountable for managing the “business” of their programs including working with Admissions to meet potential new students, meeting with new students during the drop/add period, and tracking student retention and satisfaction.

• Requires and monitors Program Director participation in the curriculum development/revision process and their management of the transition from one program version to another.

• Collaborates with Program Directors to analyze program-level graduation rates, placement rates and employer satisfaction.

• Oversees Program Directors as they hire, train, supervise, develop and evaluate qualified faculty in accordance with institution, state, accrediting, and other regulatory and policy guidelines.

• Assures that Program Directors require and monitor instructor use of established curriculum, instructional methods, materials, and equipment as defined by standardized curriculum.

• Requires Program Directors to maintain an inventory of all equipment and learning materials required by the curriculum. Pre-approves outside invited classroom speakers. Maintains a record of all guest speakers and topics.

• Pre-approves student field trips. Maintains a record of all field trip destinations.

1. Provides Oversight and Leadership to the Provision of Library Resources and Services

• Supervise the Library/Resource Center and its personnel.

• Oversees Library/LRC staff collection of utilization data and incorporation into IAIPs as necessary.

1. Embraces and Facilitates Implementation of Hybrid/Flex Instructional Delivery

• Serves as Distance Learning Coordinator to support ground students who elect to take online courses through the consortium agreement (as applicable).

• Monitors the number of course sections offered on ground versus online.

• Analyzes student performance in online course sections versus ground course sections.

• Monitors student satisfaction in online course sections versus ground course sections.

• Drives student parti