Title: Campus President - Wildwood Campus
Employee Classification: Administrative -Full time
Department: Campus President
Salary Range: Commensurate with Experience
Who we are:
We are not-for-profit: St. Louis Community college (STLCC) is a non-profit institution dedicated to empowering students, expanding minds, and changing lives. Employees are committed to strengthening the St. Louis community with inclusive and transformative education.
We are a respected employer: For 60 years, STLCC has served the St. Louis community, expanding to 4 main campuses, 2 education centers, 2 workforce training centers, and 5 centers of excellence. More than one-half of the households in St. Louis have at least one member who has taken classes at STLCC.
We make an impact in the community: Through credit courses, continuing education, and workforce development programs, STLCC annually serves nearly 69,000 students. More than 80% of career and technical graduates employed in their fields or continue their education at four-year institutions within six months of graduation. STLCC sends more transfer students to Missouri’s four-year colleges/universities than anyone else.
What you get:
Benefits package [for full-time employees]: STLCC offers one of the best benefit packages in the St. Louis area. As a STLCC employee you will have access to a 100% match on your contribution to retirement, two health insurance plans options - including an HSA option, low-cost life insurance with a 3x salary benefit, and other low-cost benefits including dental, vision, AD&D, Short-term & Long-term disability insurance.
Opportunity to grow: Over half of our employees have served the college for more than 12 years, exploring different career paths and advancing to higher level positions.
Education & training opportunities: STLCC offers tuition waivers for employees [full-time and part-time] + their dependents. Full-time employees can take advantage of tuition reimbursement for other institutions after just 6 months of service, and an annual professional development allotment.
Work/life balance: Full-time STLCC employees have access to a generous time off package, including holidays, vacation, personal days, medical leave, and other leave options. Our holiday schedule even includes a paid winter holiday at the end of the calendar year.
Commitment to wellness: STLCC HR boasts a dedicated health and wellness specialist who is enthusiastic about creating a culture of wellness throughout the College. With access to college wellness vendors, employees are educated, motivated, and rewarded for healthy behaviors. STLCC employees and anyone living in their household also have access to an employee assistance program (EAP) that can help them with virtually any life need.
The basics of this position:
The Campus President provides academic leadership for their assigned school(s) and provides administrative leadership for their primary campus and other assigned departments. The Campus President is the campus-based chief academic officer for their school(s) (referred to as the CCAO) and is responsible for implementing the College’s academic plans and promoting academic excellence through collaboration, cooperation, and teamwork throughout the district. The Campus President leads the campus administrative team by cross-functionally collaborating to advance the daily operations of the campus, as well as fostering a campus climate that is consistent with the College’s core values. The Campus President is a member of the College’s Leadership Team and Academic Affairs Leadership Team, leads their campus and school leadership teams, and is responsible for working with other members of the College Leadership Team to promote the College externally.
What you'll do:
- Implements the College’s strategic plan through long term and annual operational plans and participates in future strategic planning and efforts.
- Implements and administers instructional and administrative goals, policies, and procedures necessary to support college departments and programs.
- Works collaboratively with other College leaders to ensure consistent implementation of College policies and procedures.
- Works collaboratively with faculty, administrators, and staff to create a supportive culture that embraces change readiness, high performance, teamwork, and increased individual and organizational productivity.
- Works collaboratively with faculty, administrators, and staff to provide supportive and rigorous teaching and learning environments.
- Supports and promotes faculty and academic staff development.
- Supports faculty in developing assessment mechanisms that will document increases in learning, retention, and completion.
- Recommends strategies to meet the needs of a broad community and student body.
- Works collaboratively across the College to align offerings and scheduling in order to promote greater student success and increased effectiveness and efficiencies.
- Directs the development and administration of the budget for assigned functions; directs the forecast of additional funds needed for staffing, equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Works collaboratively with the chief campus student affairs leader to address campus needs and to reach district goals.
- Provides leadership in the recruitment, hiring, retention, evaluation, and support of full-time and part-time faculty, administrators, and staff for assigned schools and departments.
- Works collaboratively with campus marketing and communication personnel.
- Works in a coordinated effort with the Chancellor and other members of the College Leadership Team to create strategies and promote the College within the community.
- Represents their assigned school(s), assigned departments, and campus on community boards and/or in community organizations. Works in a coordinated effort with the Workforce Solutions Group leadership to create strategies and promote the College in the business community.
- Provides leadership for assigned districtwide responsibilities and performs other duties as assigned.
- Coordinates with K-12 Programs leadership to support the advancement of this work with our area schools and partners.
- Performs normal supervisory functions: trains; instructs; assigns work to direct reports; manages and makes recommendations regarding their operating budgets and all associated budgets; recommends transfers, reclassifications, terminations; arranges for additional work or need for overtime; explains and enforces College policies, procedures, safety rules, union agreements, and regulations; evaluates performance and works with employees to set and meet goals.
Education, experience, and other requirements:
- Master’s degree required.
- Seven (7) years of full-time experience in higher education, preferably a community college, including five (5) years of progressively responsible academic affairs administrative experience.
- Significant post-secondary teaching experience required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Earned doctorate or other terminal degree from a regionally accredited institution preferred.
- Experience with bargaining units preferred.
- Community College experience, particularly in a multi-campus system, preferred.