Description

Join our Team at Portland Community College
Portland Community College is the largest post-secondary institution in Oregon and 19th largest in the nation, serving approximately 80,000 full- and part-time students. PCC, which is roughly the size of Rhode Island, has four comprehensive campuses, five workforce training and education centers, and 200 community locations in the Portland metropolitan area. Wherever you're coming from and wherever you're going in life, Portland Community College has the classes and programs to get you there. Our unique role is to make high-quality education accessible to everyone, creating opportunities for our students and contributing to the economic development of our community.

Portland Community College embraces equity and inclusion as a priority. We are committed to building a community with a variety of backgrounds, skills, views, and life experiences. The more we value equity and inclusion, the more we will add value to the work we do and how we serve our students, engage with each other, and the Oregon Community that we serve. Creating a culture that honors equity and inclusion is our objective and the smart path forward.

Portland Community College will ensure that applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for the hiring process are provided for. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact the PCC Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected].

What You'll Do and Who We Are Looking For
Portland Community College is seeking a dynamic, visionary Dean of Career & Academic Planning to join our Enrollment Management & Student Success leadership team.

This position provides college-wide leadership for academic advising, career development, and integrated guided pathways student support, as well as direct oversight and supervision of the Pathways Advising and Career Services leaders. The successful candidate will be creative and action-oriented, understanding the unique challenges facing community colleges and the barriers that our students encounter. The Dean will leverage technology and research-based practices in our operations, while centering our most marginalized students in our programming, outreach, and communications to help us achieve our vision of equitable student success.

The location for this position will be at the Southeast Campus, with regular travel to all campuses.

Reporting to the Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management & Student Success, the Dean serves as a key leader for Strategic Enrollment Management at PCC and is responsible for leadership in student retention work at the college. This position works closely and collaboratively with leaders and teams across PCC’s campuses and locations to achieve student success goals.

Portland Community College serves nearly 60,000 full and part-time students across a large and diverse service area, with four campuses and multiple education centers. We are committed to a culture which values belonging, justice, diversity, equity and inclusion. A demonstrated commitment to culturally responsive and inclusive services designed to improve equitable educational outcomes for college students is required for this position. All leaders at Portland Community College are expected to embody our leadership competencies (see below).

See the classification description for additional information: https://www.pcc.edu/hr/dean-of-career-and-academic-planning/

Leadership Competencies
Advances Racial and Social Justice
Identifies systemic racism and social oppression and actively works toward their elimination; implements culturally responsive practices and processes to achieve equitable student outcomes.

Drives Vision and Purpose
Participates in the creation of and executes a vision for student-centered (flexible, multimodal, inclusive) delivery of instruction and services.

Drives Engagement
Initiate and drive authentic exploration and engagement cross-departmentally to arrive at collaborative solutions that lead to student success.

Accelerates Agility and Innovation
Analyzes systems, policies, and practices and commits to continuous program improvement through the strategic use of culturally responsive data.

Builds Partnerships
Partners to solve problems, adapts communication and approaches, supports healthy conflict, and develops strong relationships across myriad disciplines and functional areas to advance institutional goals.

Our Mission
To support student success by delivering access to quality education while advancing economic development and promoting sustainability in a collaborative culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Our Vision for Equitable Student Success
Recognizing the unique value, perspectives, strengths, and challenges of every person who comes to PCC for education, all students will achieve their academic goals through equitable support, quality instruction, clear guidance to persist, and an unwavering commitment to completion shared by the entire College community

Minimum Qualifications
To be considered, your application must demonstrate these minimum qualifications. (Experience is calculated based on the start and end dates you provide multiplied by the number of hours per week worked).

• Master’s degree in higher education administration, student affairs, counseling, career services, or a related field.
• Eight (8) years of progressively responsible professional experience in student services, advising, career services, or related fields.
• Four (4) years of management or supervisory experience in higher education.

These qualifications, skills and abilities are critical for success in this position.
Throughout the screening process, you will be evaluated based on the demonstration of these qualifications.

• Demonstrated experience leading a comprehensive student success program in academic advising or career services, preferably within a Guided Pathways framework;
• Proven experience in working with a diverse set of stakeholders to identify, develop, and implement comprehensive, integrated student success strategies and related implementation plans that improve student outcomes, particularly with historically underrepresented students.
• Ability to apply initiative, creativity, and systems thinking to develop and refine strategies with an eye to continuous improvement and seeking to incorporate new best practices as they emerge.
• Proven experience as a collaborative leader; ability to mentor, guide, train and motivate staff and partners to meet college and department goals and build on past successes. Trusts and empowers their team to assume delegated responsibilities, identifies strengths and weaknesses and commits to developing staff skills to contribute to the team’s overall goals.
• Ability to effectively lead and communicate in a multi-campus environment with a high amount of change and successful experience managing accountability in dotted line relationships and influencing without authority.
• Awareness and understanding of the opportunities and challenges facing community college students, their families, and the role that community colleges play in the higher education landscape.

Why You'll Love Working Here
The PCC district encompasses a 1,500-square-mile area in northwest Oregon and offers two-year degrees, one-year certificate programs, short-term training, alternative education, pre-college courses and life-long learning. As part of our College community, you’ll enjoy:

• A collaborative and inspiring campus community
• Opportunities for learning and professional development

Position Grade
Management O

Employment Type
Full time

Total Rewards Package / What We Offer

• Comprehensive benefit package designed to provide employees and their families, including domestic partners, with access to a broad range of benefit options. Includes Health, Dental, and Vision options, Group Life, Long-term Disability, Long-term Care, and Auto and Home Insurance programs
• Oregon PERS contribution - PCC currently fully funds the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS/OPSRP) pension and contributes an additional 6% into the employee's Individual Account Program under PERS/OPSRP
• Tax deferred annuity program and a deferred compensation program where employees may save additional pre-tax dollars for retirement
• PCC provides a tuition waiver for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and dependent children under 24 years of age, as well as partial tuition reimbursement for full-time employees at other accredited institutions
• Free access to the sport centers / campus gymnasiums, performing arts, and cultural events
• Conference and events rental space - Employees receive 50% off when on-campus for personal events
• Generous Paid Leave (Pro-rated by FTE for Part-Time Employees) reference Management and Confidential Employee Handbook
  o 14.67 hours of vacation leave per month
  o 1 day of sick leave per month
  o 12 paid holidays
  o PCC Winter Break (when College is Closed)
  o 24 hours of personal leave per year

More detailed information on the benefits plans, who is eligible, and how to enroll or make changes can be found at pcc.edu/hr/benefits. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.

How We Determine Initial Salary Placement
The first two steps of the range are: $125,391.00 and $139,498.00  per year. Higher salary placement may be available based on qualifications, experience and internal equity.

Oregon Veterans' Preference in Public Employment
Portland Community College complies with the Oregon Veterans' Preference in Public Employment law which provides qualifying veterans and disabled veterans with preference in employment. You will be given instructions during the application process to claim Veterans' Preference in the recruitment of this position, and to provide the documents required for verification of eligibility. Please do not send your documentation to the hiring manager directly. For verification of eligibility, please submit the following documentation:

• Veterans: DD214
• Disabled Veterans: DD214 and Letter from the Department of VA

Notice of the Availability of the Annual Security Report
Pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), you may view Portland Community College’s (PCC) most recent Annual Security Report (ASR) on the Department of Public Safety website. The ASR contains current security and safety-related policy disclosure statements, emergency preparedness and evacuation information, crime prevention and sexual assault prevention information and resources, and drug and alcohol prevention programming. The ASR also contains crime statistics for Clery Act crimes which occurred on PCC properties for the last three calendar years. Paper copies of the ASR are available upon request at all Department of Public Safety offices.

PCC Employment Offers are Contingent Upon the Successful Completion of a Criminal Background Check

Please note that Portland Community College is not currently able to provide visa (e.g. H1-B Visa) sponsorship for potential employees.

Contact PCC at [email protected] if you have questions