Champlain College Online-Associate Dean of Graduate Studies

Champlain College Online-Associate Dean of Graduate Studies

About Champlain College:
Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, private, not-for-profit college in Burlington, Vermont overlooking Lake Champlain and the Adirondack mountains, with additional campuses in Montreal, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland. Its career-driven approach to higher education prepares students for professional life from their very first semester.

Champlain's Centers of Experience provide students from across all majors with experiential learning environments that guide them in how to take their classroom knowledge and put it to the test in practical applications allowing them to gain real-world experience firsthand. Each Center connects Champlain to the local community and the world, turning theory into practice. The Centers entrust students with responsibility, engage them in ambitious goals and empower them to lead with creativity, confidence, insight, and integrity. At the helms of the Centers are cutting-edge industry professionals who share the goal of providing the most relevant, career-focused education, enriched with hands-on learning opportunities. The College offers 30 undergraduate degrees as well as online undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs.

Our accolades include:

• Fiske Guide to Colleges 2021 selects Champlain as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada and Great Britain
• Champlain is featured in The Princeton Review's 2021 "The Best 386 Colleges," including among its "Best Northeastern colleges"
• For the sixth year in a row, Champlain is named a "Most Innovative School" in the North by U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" and is recognized as a "Best Value School"
• Champlain College is recognized as a 2021 College of Distinction

Job Description:

Who We Are:

Champlain College empowers learners. We continuously invent and offer highly distinctive academic programs and practical experiences that lead to outstanding careers and personal success. Founded in 1878 in Burlington, Vermont, as a brick and mortar institution, for over 30 years we have also been leaders in online education with Champlain College Online. We invest in getting to know our students, building on their strengths, and helping them to achieve better lives for themselves and their families. We pride ourselves in having career-focused academic programs, accelerated classes, engaging online classrooms led by devoted scholar-practitioner faculty, and resources to support learners while they are in school and beyond.

Who we are seeking:

We seek an experienced and collaborative leader to oversee graduate academic programs within the Champlain College Online. These programs includes oversight of our Master's programs as well as our new doctorate of professional studies program and future graduate programs that are being developed. You will be a member of the Champlain College Online leadership team and responsible for administrative oversight, ongoing curricular oversight, program evaluation and evolution, hiring and support of program faculty, as well as content and process excellence for graduate programs. You will also work with our marketing team to help position and promote graduate programs to potential students. Additionally, you will oversee the admissions process for graduate programs, including serving as a  mentor and resource for graduate students throughout their degree program.

Reporting to the VP of Online Education, as the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, you will support the dynamic and growing needs of Champlain College Online. Growth and excellence in academic programs is key to achieving the strategic vision for the College, so we look for you to bring innovative ideas to this role. You will have a deep appreciation of the complexities of providing quality education in today's ever changing higher education landscape, will have demonstrated the ability to be effective both within and leading teams, will think both strategically and tactically, and be committed to the college's goals of fostering inclusive and strength-based education.

Requirements:
What are the qualifications we believe will set you up for success:

• A Doctorate degree in the social sciences;
• 10+ years of experience in an administrative role in higher education;
• Demonstrated experience in major instructional and research supervisory work experience with graduate students;
• Demonstrated experience as a member of doctoral committees;
• Demonstrated strong verbal and interpersonal communication skills;
• Strong attention to detail and superior critical thinking skills;
• High degree of comfort working in systems and applications; and
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Additional Information:
This position is a remote position with potential for travel as needed to the campus in Burlington as well as in supporting promotional events for programs.

The successful completion of a criminal background check is required as a condition of employment.

Application materials must include a resume/CV and a letter of interest (Cover Letter) specifically addressing the desired qualifications.

Champlain College does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, religion, age, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, veteran or military service status, HIV -positive status, qualified disability, or on the basis of any other status protected by law, and does not discriminate in the administration of its education and admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, employment practices or co-curricular and other College-administered programs. Champlain College will make reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified students, applicants for admission or employment, or employees. Please contact the People Center at 802.651.5800 with questions concerning the hiring process or future employment at Champlain College, or if auxiliary aids or services are needed to apply for employment at Champlain College.

Champlain College is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community. Recognizing that diversity is both a reflection of our world and a source of rich education, Champlain strives to be diverse and inclusive in ways that reflect the world in which we live and work. All members of the Champlain community are valued as individuals.

The College seeks candidates who, through their work and life experiences, service to the community, teaching or research can contribute to the diversity, inclusivity and academic excellence of Champlain College. Please include information about how you would contribute to these efforts and help to further this goal in your letter of interest/cover letter.

Application Instructions:
Application materials must include a resume/CV and a letter of interest (Cover Letter) specifically addressing the desired qualifications. The College seeks candidates who, through their work and life experiences, service to the community, teaching or research can contribute to the diversity, inclusivity and academic excellence of Champlain College. Please include information about how you would contribute to these efforts and help to further this goal in your letter of interest/cover letter.

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