Vice President for Extension and Engagement
- Employer
- Lincoln University of Pennsylvania
- Location
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Salary
- Commensurate with experience
- Date posted
- Jan 25, 2023
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- Position Type
- Administrative, Academic Affairs, Academic Administration
- Employment Level
- Executive
- Employment Type
- Full Time
Job Details
Vice President for Engagement and Extension
Lincoln University seeks an inaugural Vice President for Extension and Engagement to provide an enhanced vision and leadership to our School of Adult and Continuing Education (SACE) program. Serving as a member of the President’s Executive Cabinet, the applicant will work closely with the Provost & Dean of the Faculty. The ideal candidate will create innovative academic programming to add to our existing curricula. Based on instructive models that emphasize skill enhancement, career advancement, workforce development, and distance learning, this Continuing Education unit, will offer a variety of educational programming dedicated to meeting the needs of community members, contemporary learners, and diverse professionals.
Duties and responsibilities include:
- Directs the planning and operations of SACE and the Extension and Engagement programs
- Engaging in researching, planning, and implementing varied educational programs designed to provide flexible options and access to academic courses, certifications, badges, prior learning assessments (PLA), noncredit, professional development, and enrichment experiences.
- Facilitating the offering of courses/experiences in varied formats including face to face, hybrid and online.
- Provide consultation for the design, development, implementation and evaluation of virtual learning projects, programs, and initiatives
- Establishing, strengthening, and maintaining key relationships with local, state, and government entities.
- Develop and implement procedures, guidelines, and support services for Extension and Engagement programs.
- Collaborating with university offices including Enrollment, Registrar, Financial Aid, and Sponsored Programs.
- Initiate and monitor relevant vendor contracts.
- Engaging community members to better understand the community and conduct needs assessment that guide program offerings.
Qualifications:
- Earned Terminal degree in related area
- Proven track record of creating the strategic framework to implement innovative programs that meet the needs of contemporary and diverse learners
- Demonstrated interest in extension school and community engagement programing in higher education
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to articulate a vision with clarity, consistency, and transparency
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with building costs structures, and advancing inventive budgeting models that result in notable profits
- Understanding of the concepts and practices of Workforce Development in meeting the needs of industry as well as community members
- Experience with harnessing current and emerging technologies to promote educational programming within the University, nationally and internationally
- Extensive experience in leadership, program development, implementation, and evaluation
- Significant experience in Higher Education environments
- Extensive knowledge of state, federal, accrediting standards/requirements, regulations, and laws related to higher education
- Experience in program recruitment, enrollment, retention, community engagement and outreach programs
- Experience and success in grant writing and varied fund-raising initiatives
- Demonstrated experience in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Moderate lifting up to 20 pounds as frequently as needed to move objects; dexterity to write and manipulate computer keyboard and mouse; ability to hear and speak clearly; and body mobility to stoop, kneel, and bend and reach.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Work is primarily performed in a university campus environment and requires a flexible schedule including evening and weekend work. Travel for administrative work is expected. The employee is subject to inside environmental conditions: protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
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Learn. Liberate. Lead.
Since its founding more than 165 years ago, those three words have defined our mission at Lincoln University. We're dedicated to empowering our students with the knowledge, confidence, and connections to achieve success and rise to the top.
Lincoln University, the nation’s first degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU), educates and empowers students to lead their communities and change the world.
We're dedicated to empowering our students with the knowledge, confidence, and connections to achieve success. When you choose Lincoln University as your workplace, you're doing more than just getting a job. You're becoming part of a campus community that is tight like a family and filled with people who look out for each other. You're becoming part of the latest chapter in a long and proud history of learning at the nation's first degree-granting historically black college and university (HBCU).
As our Alma Mater school song calls it, our "dear old Orange and Blue" has been devoted to and defined by our core values of respect, responsibility, and ultimately, results. Those values and our commitment to the success of our students have long attracted an interracial and international body of enrollees from our community, region, and around the world.
Since our founding in 1854, our impact has been tremendous. In fact, during our first 100 years, Lincoln graduated approximately 20 percent of the black physicians and more than 10 percent of the black attorneys in the nation. Our alumni have led more than 35 colleges and universities and scores of prominent churches. They also include U.S. ambassadors; mission chiefs; federal, state, and municipal judges; mayors; and city managers. Others have made names for themselves in creative and entertainment fields, including writers, directors, comedians, and film executives.
Established as The Ashmun Institute in 1854, the institution was renamed Lincoln University in 1866.
Located on 429 acres in southern Chester County, our main campus marries tradition and modern facilities, with sweeping pathways that encourage walking and contemplation within a safe and scenic landscape. Lincoln is within about an hour of several major cities: we are 45 miles from Philadelphia; 55 miles from Baltimore; and in Delaware, 25 miles from Wilmington, and 15 miles from Newark. These cities not only provide a variety of entertainment and leisure options but many important job and internship opportunities for our students.
- Website
- http://www.lincoln.edu/
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