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Director of Adult Education

Position Number: 7248541
Location: Newport, AR
Position Type: Adult and Continuing Education Programs

Director of Adult Education

Location: Jonesboro
Job Code: 405
# of Openings: 1

Director of Adult Education

Arkansas State University-Newport

The Director of Adult Education reports to the Provost/VC for Academic Affairs and has responsibility for the development, coordination, oversight, and assessment of Adult Education programs, courses, and faculty for campuses at Newport, Marked Tree, and Jonesboro and all other ASUN Adult Education instructional locations.

The Director of Adult Education must demonstrate strong leadership, management, and development skills to support the programs and faculty in teaching, collaborative partnerships, and service. This role supports the College's mission to provide and ensure quality educational programs for ASUN's various constituencies.

This position is an administrative appointment and will be housed on the Jonesboro campus but will work on all ASUN Adult Education campus locations as well as other outreach partner organizations as needed. This position will provide direct supervision of the faculty and staff at all Adult Education instructional locations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Serves as the Director of Adult Education for Arkansas State University-Newport.

Promotes, develops, and assesses quality programs that align with state and federal requirements.

Cultivates and maintains strong academic and community partnerships to ensure local support and demand for the Adult Education program.

Represents the Adult Education Department and serves as a conduit for information to and from other Academic Divisions, faculty, and staff.

Exercises effective administrative and management skills through collegial communication with other ASUN departments.

Actively participates in partnerships geared toward resource acquisition, support, and funding to sustain program infrastructure, growth, and sustainability.

Models effective decision-making skills through the use of the principles of shared leadership through open communication.

Leads implementation of plans for assessment and improvement of student learning in the Adult Education department, assists in accreditation efforts and oversees regular program reviews as well as monthly and annual reports as defined by state standards.

Prepares and recommends for approval the budget for the Adult Education department.

Recommends qualified faculty for appointment, promotion, and retention.

Oversees educational facilities and coordinates appropriate safety guidelines, training, and equipment in conjunction with the Division of Finance and Administration.

Facilitates the student grievance process for issues within the Adult Education department.

Coordinates special events related to the Adult Education department.

Serves on college-wide committees, special project teams, state and local committees, and community service and civic committees as needed, and acts as a professional and positive representative of the College.

Develops and maintains data, records, and reports needed for programmatic approval and accreditation.

Coordination of course schedules for all Adult Education programs.

Safeguards the financial health of the division by proactively monitoring, analyzing, and reviewing operating budgets, enrollment-driven revenue forecasts, and expenditures.

Exercises prudent stewardship over divisional assets, instructional resources, and capital equipment, actively mitigating financial risk and limiting institutional liability.

Identifies and pursues alternative revenue streams, including grants and external funding, to supplement and maximize divisional resources.

Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

REQUIRED: A minimum Master's Degree in education, administration, or a related field

PREFERRED: Adult Education licensure

QUALIFICATIONS
All adult education directors/coordinators must have a minimum of a master's degree in education, administration, or related field. If not already licensed in adult education, administrators must become licensed in adult education by the Arkansas Department of Education, Professional Licensure, within three (3) years of the date of initial employment as an adult education administrator, showing academic progress toward completion annually.

In addition, all newly hired directors/coordinators must have five years of supervisory experience and five years of experience as a teacher or administrator in education or a related field. Any exception to the experience requirements must be approved by the Adult Education Division Senior Management Team.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUNDS, PROPERTY and EQUIPMENT
Shares responsibility for the maintenance and upkeep of the lab equipment and facilities.

TOOLS
None

TECHNOLOGY & SOFTWARE
Knowledgeable in related programs and software.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Provides leadership to all full-time and part-time faculty and staff in the Adult Education Department.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Excellent communication skills are required. Ability to write reports, correspondence, and policy/procedure manuals so others will understand; Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from faculty, administration or the general public.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ration, and percent and to prepare and interpret bar graphs.

CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of known variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED
Under general direction, working from policies and general directives. Rarely refers specific cases to supervisor unless clarification or interpretation of the organization's policy is required or to inform of actions taken.

PLANNING
Considerable responsibility with regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work, in addition, the work operations of a group of employees.

DECISION MAKING
Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of significant importance and also frequent opportunity for decision-making of significant importance, either of which would significantly affect the operations of the College.

IMPACT OF DECISIONS
Requires making decisions that impacts co-workers, clients and stakeholders of the college communities. An attention to detail is essential, while making decisions that affect organizational processes, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization.

ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING
Moderately structured. Fairly broad activities using moderately structured procedures with only generally guided supervision. Interpolation of learned things in somewhat varied situations.

USE OF MACHINES, EQUIPMENT AND/OR COMPUTERS
Regular use office equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software)

ACCURACY
High level of accuracy is required in performance of instruction.

CONTACT WITH OTHERS
Involves both furnishing and obtaining information and, also, attempting to influence the decisions of those persons contacted. Regular contact with other College employees at all levels within the organization.

REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Master's degree required.

PREFERRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Adult Education Licensure

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.

While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to talk or hear; frequently required to stand; frequently required to walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms; and occasionally required to climb or balance.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
There are no harmful environmental conditions that are present for this position. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

NOTIFICATION
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visa at this time.

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