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Academic Dean, Languages, Arts and Social Sciences
Academic Dean, Languages, Arts and Social Sciences
Northern Virginia Community College
The academic dean of Languages, Arts and Social Sciences (LASS) provides academic and administrative leadership for the LASS division at NOVA's Woodbridge Campus. The dean is responsible for leading and supporting faculty and staff, maintaining the quality and effectiveness of assigned academic disciplines and programs and advancing student learning, retention, completion and overall student success.
The academic dean provides strategic leadership for academic programming, faculty and staff supervision and development, enrollment and course scheduling, budget and resource management, and continuous improvement to advance student success and institutional excellence. Working collaboratively across campuses, academic pathways and college divisions, the dean helps ensure that academic offerings are innovative, responsive to student and workforce needs and aligned with the college's mission, strategic priorities and commitment to academic excellence.
The dean must be an exceptional communicator, strategic thinker and relationship builder who inspires faculty and staff, fosters a culture of collaboration and accountability, contributes as a member of the college's administrative leadership team and effectively represents the college with students, employees, community partners and external stakeholders.
The academic dean reports to the Woodbridge Campus provost and regularly coordinates with the vice president of Academic Affairs and chief academic officer (VPAA/CAO), other academic deans, and college leaders.
Duties and Tasks:
- Academic and Pathway Leadership
- Faculty and Staff Leadership
- Enrollment, Scheduling, and Faculty Workload
- Student Success and Academic Support
- Budget, Resources, and Operations
- Provides leadership and management for academic disciplines, programs, pathways and other areas of academic responsibility.
- Provides effective personnel management and leadership for faculty and staff within an academic division.
- Provides responsible budget, resource and facilities management.
- Uses institutional data to inform academic, enrollment, scheduling and resource decisions.
- Collaborates across college units and campuses to advance student learning, retention, progression, completion and overall student success.
- Builds and maintains effective relationships with faculty, staff, students, community partners and other stakeholders.
- Master's degree awarded by a regionally accredited institution in a discipline represented within the Languages, Arts and Social Sciences division.
- Full-time faculty teaching experience at a postsecondary institution.
- Administrative experience at a postsecondary institution.
