Vice Provost

**Salary is set by the President and is commensurate upon an individual’s qualifications.

The Academic Affairs division at Santa Fe College is dedicated to fostering an academically engaging environment aligned with the college’s mission and learning-centered principles. These principles emphasize placing all learning, programs, and initiatives within the college’s vision, mission, and values; engaging students as active, responsible participants in their education; promoting access for a diversity of students through traditional and alternative programs; promoting learning through collaborative and cooperative activities and support services; supporting the needs of faculty and staff in their efforts to serve students; embracing a culture of innovation and evidence to promote student access, retention, and success; and offering curriculum that meets the demonstrated needs of students, the community, and the workplace.

Reporting to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Vice Provost serves as a leader and partner in the planning, implementation, and support functions of the Academic Affairs division. In addition to providing direct leadership and supervision to the Library, the Learning Commons, the Center for Academic Technologies, the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, and four of SF’s instructional centers in Archer (Davis Center), Downtown Gainesville (Blount Center), Keystone Heights (Watson Center), and Starke (Andrews Center), the Vice Provost coordinates the development and implementation of instructional programs, academic initiatives, programmatic accreditation, faculty credentialing, curriculum review and approval, and class scheduling. The Vice Provost works closely with Associate Vice Presidents, Chairs, and Directors in Academic Affairs and with faculty and staff throughout the College to develop and sustain robust initiatives and faculty development programs that support student success and completion.

Responsibilities and Duties Include:

• Serves as the primary Academic Affairs representative in collegewide strategic planning activities and supports the achievement of strategic planning objectives through research, development, and implementation of action plans and strategies.

• Leads, manages, and assists in the project development activities of the academic master plan and the College’s strategic plan.

• Collaborates with the Provost and Academic Affairs leadership in developing, approving, implementing, executing, and evaluating new academic programs and initiatives that align with the academic master plan.

• Assists the Provost in ensuring that purposeful academic programming results in students’ career readiness.

• Incorporates innovative advancements within existing academic programs and initiatives, including secondary programs, workforce development, and educational partnerships.

• Leads the evolution of the College’s instructional centers by identifying and developing signature program offerings at each location that aligns with the academic master plan, meets local needs, and garners academic opportunities.

• Collaborates with Institutional Research, Institutional Effectiveness and Strategic Planning, and Information Technology Services on Academic Affairs assessment and reporting functions, including data analysis, interpretation, and contextualization.

• Provides data analysis to the Provost, the Executive Leadership Team, and other appropriate personnel to support and evaluate college and program accreditation needs.

• Collaborates with the College’s Accreditation Liaison to coordinate all aspects of accreditation-related functions for Academic Affairs.

• Champions the use of best practices and emerging technologies by staying abreast of current trends and innovations in teaching and learning and disseminating best practices in academic programming, including the use of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

• Guides the leaders of the Center for Academic Technologies and Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence in the discovery and implementation of best practices and emerging practices/technologies within their areas of stewardship.

• Oversees the development of grant proposals that support student success efforts and advances academic momentum internally and externally.

• Advances student access and success through the implementation of curricular innovations including emerging and best practices related to instruction and supports faculty development activities centered on student success.

• Collaborates collegewide to promote student success initiatives, ensures student success software platforms are used broadly and fully, and forges partnerships to ensure the alignment of meaningful educational experiences and students’ achievement of their goals.

• Maintains a focus on retention and completion and provides comprehensive evaluative measures to ensure college programs and centers are providing high-quality support to all student populations including first-generation, non-traditional, and Pell students, as well as those from diverse or underrepresented populations or on academic notice.

• Establishes and maintains productive educational partnerships that advances the college’s academic offerings and identifies prospects to maximize unique opportunities and capitalize on related funding sources.

• Cultivates positive relationships with local, state, and national colleagues and forges strategic alliances with employment, industry, educational, and political partners.

• Serves as the Academic Affairs Legislative Liaison and works closely with Governmental Affairs and General Counsel to stays abreast of legislative actions for interpretation, application, implementation, and communication. 

• Provides oversight for faculty credentialing including the maintenance, revision, and updating of the digital version.

• Promotes a climate that fosters respect among students, faculty, staff, administration and shared governance ensuring the inclusivity of faculty and college partners on academic initiatives.

• Oversees the Center for Academic Technologies, the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, the Library, the Learning Commons, and four of SF’s instructional centers.

• Supervises direct reports, including the hiring, onboarding, training, goal setting, and performance evaluation; manages performance and gives guidance and/or correction as needed and in consultation with Human Resources

• Serves as the Acting Provost in the absence of the Provost.

• Complies with all published College Rules, procedures, guidelines, and laws/regulations governing public employees, including but not limited to those related to document retention and destruction, FERPA, and confidentiality.

• Strictly honors the privacy, security, and confidentiality of student records and other sensitive information according to appropriate state, federal, and college regulations, policies, and procedures.

• Provides service excellence through courteous, informed, accessible, and professional engagement.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Reports to: Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

QUALIFICATIONS

Required: A master’s degree or Ph.D./Ed.D. in a relevant field from an accredited institution with a minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in an educational setting, as well as demonstrated experience with academic planning, assessment, and accreditation. Prior supervisory/leadership experience at the intermediate or senior level is also required.

Additional Requirements: A criminal background check will be conducted.

Preferred: A Ph.D., Ed.D., or relevant terminal academic degree from an accredited university; demonstrated experience with programmatic budget oversight, management, planning, forecasting, and allocation; and ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in higher education at both the full-time faculty and administrator level.

General Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to work successfully in a multi-cultural environment.

• Adaptability to Change – able to be flexible and supportive, able to positively and proactively assimilate change in rapid growth environment.

• Analytical Aptitude & Problem Solving - able to analyze information, problems, situations, practices and/or procedures, collect and interpret data, reason logically, establish facts, identify and define existing and potential issues, recognize the interrelationships among elements, draw valid conclusions, develop recommendations, as well as alternative courses of action, select appropriate course, follow up, and evaluate.

• Communication – able to effectively communicate in a professional, diplomatic, empathetic, and tactful manner using preferred method and level as applicable to the job.

• Critical Thinking & Judgement - able to make well-reasoned, sensible, and timely decisions based on careful, objective review and informed analysis of available information, considerations, and other factors.

• Customer Service – ability to respond promptly and courteously to all questions from students and faculty, demonstrating patience and persistence when helping students with little or no computer skills.

• Ethics – able to demonstrate integrity, professionalism, civility, and a high degree of ethics in all job-related actions.

• Organization & Time Management – able to plan, schedule, and organize tasks related to the job to achieve goals within or ahead of established time frames.

• Problem Solving – proven skills in identifying issues, determining their cause, developing creative solutions, and following through with implementing resolutions.

• Relationship Management – able to personally provide high level of interactive service to others, building relationships and addressing identified needs.

• Results Orientation – proven ability to set and exceed established targets.

• Systems & Software - proficient level of knowledge of Microsoft Office and/or relevant position software programs.

• Detail Oriented - Proven accuracy and attention to detail.

• Multi-task - Ability to expeditiously organize, coordinate, manage, prioritize, and perform multiple tasks simultaneously to swiftly assess a situation, determine a logical course of action, and apply the appropriate response.

Application Process:  All applicants must submit a completed online SF application, a letter of intent, an up-to-date resume/curriculum vitae, and unofficial academic transcripts (if applicable) to be considered for this position. Unofficial transcripts are only accepted for review purposes, official transcripts are required prior to any offer of employment being made.