Associate Dean of Workforce Training
Department: Workforce Training
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
The Associate Dean supports the School of Workforce Training (WFT) through innovative, collaborative, and student-focused leadership to help shape the future of student success, academic excellence, and community impact at GRCC. The Associate Dean of the School of WFT is responsible for the management and day-to-day operations including programs in Job Training, Workforce Training, Customized Training, Construction Electrical Apprenticeship, and Grants. The Associate Dean of the School of WFT will foster a working environment that demonstrates a spirit of collaboration, innovation, access, and inclusion. The successful candidate will be a strategic leader with strong organizational skills and a deep understanding of and experience with education in WFT. The Associate Dean will work in cooperation with Program Managers to develop class schedules, determine instructional workloads, and support the implementation of the curriculum development process. This role also provides leadership and oversight of faculty professional development, evaluations, and tenure and promotion activities. To successfully achieve these results, the Associate Dean will need to cultivate effective and mutually beneficial relationships with faculty and administrators.
Requisition ID: 950
Employee Group: https://www.grcc.edu/faculty-staff/human-resources/employee-groups-resources/employee-groups/meet-confer
Schedule: 40 hours/52 weeks
Compensation: OM5; $102,530 Annually
Benefits: https://www.grcc.edu/faculty-staff/human-resources/benefits-insurance/medical-plans/new-hire-benefit-enrollment
Reports to: Dean, School of Workforce Training
Posting Opens: 08/07/2025
Posting Closes: 08/22/2025
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
School Scheduling and Section Management
• In collaboration with Program Managers, schedule classes and manage section offerings
• Assign baseloads for full-time faculty and coordinate overload selections for full-time faculty
• Administer adjunct availability and course assignment process
• Manage room scheduling and facility needs for departments
• Ensure accuracy of Faculty Information Forms and contractual correctness of faculty loads
Office Oversight, Process Development, and Administration and Resource Management
• Participate in the supervision and evaluation of appropriate School office staff.
• Supervise adjunct faculty evaluations.
• Propose, create, implement, and review operational procedures and processes that impact the work of the School, in accordance with those in Academic and Student Affairs (ASA).
• Conduct mid-year and annual performance reviews for direct reports; review and approve evaluations for academic support staff for departments in the School.
• Approve payroll and leaves for staff direct reports.
Program/Curriculum Review and Support
• In collaboration with program managers, implement approved new/revised courses and programs.
• Support the Dean in disseminating and utilizing data relevant to School departments/programs concerning student success, retention, completion, transfer (including non-credit pathways), or other trends.
• Assist the Dean in identifying fundraising and grant development opportunities related to academic departments/programs, including Perkins (if applicable).
• Collaborate with and support the Dean on curricular processes and decision-making.
• Collaborate with and support ASA leaders (Provost direct reports, Associate Provost's Office, Associate Dean colleagues, Registrar's Office, Institutional Research, and Teaching, Learning, and Distance Education (TLDE) staff/faculty) on college-wide curricular processes and decision-making.
• Collaborate with College Associate Deans, Program Managers, Department Heads, Program Directors, and/or Associate Provost's Office for non-credit to credit curriculum alignment.
Faculty Administration and Support
• Approve faculty leaves of absence.
• Administer contract provisions for faculty.
• Monitor the relationship between the School and the bookstore, particularly as it relates to the availability of educational resources used to support classroom instruction.
• Serves as point of contact to address day-to-day faculty operations issues within the School.
Faculty Hiring
• Establish and maintain processes for hiring new faculty and staff, and regularly review hiring processes to ensure maximum effectiveness, collaborating with the Dean and Human Resources, as appropriate.
• In collaboration with the Dean, make recommendations for new hires to the Provost.
• Establish and maintain processes for hiring trainers, contractors, and non-credit faculty, and regularly review hiring processes to assure maximum effectiveness, collaborating with the Dean and Human Resources, as appropriate.
• In collaboration with program manager, hire adjunct faculty.
• In collaboration with the Program Managers, form and lead hiring committees for full-time faculty and staff.
• Implement agreed-upon hiring standards.
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