Job Description - Associate Dean, Social and Community - FSCS - FT Admin Temp (Contract) (37418)

Associate Dean, Social and Community - FSCS - FT Admin Temp (Contract) - ( 37418 )

Find Your Spot at Humber

At Humber, we are a vibrant, diverse community of professionals dedicated to providing an exceptional learning experience for our students. Through our strategic vision and exciting new brand Builders of Brilliance , we are co-constructing a recent model of polytechnic education for Ontario, Canada, and the world. We are committed to ensuring Humber offers the right programs, with the most effective teaching and learning approaches, to prepare exceptional leaders for our industries and communities.

To achieve our vision, we take finding and developing the right talent very seriously. We offer a collegial, collaborative, inclusive environment in which each individual is supported to grow and bring their best each day.

If you are excited by the prospect of contributing to our vision for learning, if you would like to be part of building a new model of polytechnic education, of ‘building brilliance’, in one of Canada’s preeminent higher education institutions, then here is your opportunity to join our dynamic team.

Job Details:

Position Title: Associate Dean, Social and Community

Status: FT Administration Temp (18-month Contract)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Faculty/Department: Faculty of Social & Community Services

Campus/Location: Lakeshore Campus

Minimum Starting Salary: $144,930; starting salaries are determined based on qualifications and years of related experience.

About the Faculty of Social and Community Services at Humber:

The Faculty of Social and Community Services (FSCS)



is committed to sharing knowledge and experience with students to help them become skilled, adaptable, compassionate and career ready graduates. Our faculty experts reinforce excellence, and a commitment to social justice, as students learn to work across a range of careers in the social, community and justice sectors.

About the Associate Dean Role:

Under the direction of the Senior Dean FSCS, the Associate Dean provides academic and administrative leadership, including leadership with equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging initiatives that support students, faculty and staff within the Social and Community program cluster.

This position supports the day-to-day operational management, and functioning, of academic programs and requires leadership of full-time, partial load and part time faculty, support staff and a large body of students with a diverse range of needs and abilities. The candidate will balance competing priorities working towards the achievement of institutional goals, while including diverse perspectives within a multi-disciplinary Faculty.

Key responsibilities include:

Contributing to Faculty level strategic planning.

- Strategic oversight of recruitment and retention initiatives.
- Providing leadership to a team of effective and dedicated program coordinators, faculty and support staff.




- The recruitment and selection of exceptional faculty and staff.
- Participating in a variety of internal and external committees that contribute to the success of the institution.
- Working with multiple stakeholders and partner groups to develop new initiatives including articulation agreements and experiential learning opportunities.
- Cross-institutional collaboration.
- Establishing and maintaining budgets.
- The capacity to facilitate applied research and foster social innovation through support of the Centre for Social Innovation.
- Human resource management across collective agreements and aligned with institutional policy.

The Associate Dean will also initiate, facilitate and actively participate in the development and implementation of new academic programs and the ongoing review of existing programs in response to changing economic and market pressures within industry and ministry standards and guidelines.

About You:

You are passionate about working at Ontario's largest Polytechnic; you thrive on improving productivity and quality that contribute to team success If this sounds like you, keep reading:

Education

The successful candidate will possess a relevant graduate degree, preference will be given to those with a background in community and social services.

Experience/Skills

The candidate should have demonstrated a minimum of 5 years of success in progressive leadership roles within the post-secondary environment, including a mix of post-secondary teaching and or other administrative experience.

The incumbent must possess strong emotional intelligence and conflict resolution skills with the ability to connect and communicate with people

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