Cumberland and Parkland College President and CEO

**Description**:
**About Cumberland and Parkland Colleges**:
Cumberland College and Parkland College are officially merging on July 1, 2023, and they have currently embarked on a naming and branding campaign for the new college. General information about the Colleges can be found in Appendix A and at the Colleges’ websites. Below you will find key drivers for the Board of Governors and the organization and more details about the position.

**Our Purpose and Vision**:

- To provide education and training to address regional labour market needs, prepare learners for employment and further education, and support the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development of our employers and communities.
- Our Colleges are stronger together. We will work to shape the future of rural, northern, and remote communities by providing top notch learning opportunities that will lead to local and global employment and growth.

**Our Mission and Values**:

- To enrich the lives and futures of our learners and communities in a blended learning and working environment.
- We are catalytic, relevant, responsive, accountable, innovative, sustainable, and inclusive.

**Strategic Priorities**:
The provincial regional colleges' mandate is to provide services and programs that fall within four broad areas: adult basic education; vocational/technical training; university courses; and non-credit programs. Opportunities for Post-secondary Education identified in the Saskatchewan Growth Plan 2020-2030[1] includes supporting learners, the economy, employers, workers, and communities.

To support the provincial strategic priorities, the Colleges’ Strategic Plan[2] has identified 4 pillars of focus:

- CATALYST - This pillar represents the desire of the Colleges to stimulate growth in its regions in several areas, such as programming, economic development, social development, environmental responsibility, innovation, and entrepreneurship. As a catalyst, the colleges will collaborate with governments, community organizations, and employers to identify opportunities and develop and implement plans to effect change.
- MARKETING AND BRANDING - The Colleges have solid reputations in their communities. Determining the Colleges’ brand, the approach to marketing the brand, and leveraging the brand to enhance recruitment are integral components of the strategy.
- STUDENT SUCCESS - The Colleges have well-deserved reputations for caring for students and supporting them as they move through their programs, with a focus on helping them graduate. Extending the approach to student success to include preparing students and graduates for the workforce by providing relevant programming and building into them skills desired by employers, such as communication, innovation, and entrepreneurial and work skills, are major thrusts of the strategy.
- EMPLOYER-FOCUSED - Building on the Colleges’ reputations for producing graduates that meet the needs of employers in current programming areas, the strategy will focus on developing stronger partnerships with employers. Opportunities include:

- Developing robust and relevant programming for other sectors of the economy, such as Immigration and Career Training, hospitality and tourism, and agriculture.
- Collaboration with employers on applied research projects focused on their ideas and addressed through the College’s students and staff.
- Creating a model that enables partners to work with the Colleges in a multiplicity of ways.

**The Position**:
The President is the chief administrative officer of the Colleges and reports directly to the Board of Governors of Cumberland and Parkland College. The President and CEO’s role is to provide vision and effective leadership and enable the Colleges to fulfill its mandate while ensuring the organizational structure of the Colleges are aligned to meet that mandate in accordance with the _Regional Colleges’ Act and Regulations_ and the policies and directives of the Cumberland and Parkland College Board. The President and CEO fosters ethical and responsible decision‐making, and best‐in‐class management practices, and is the Colleges’ primary liaison with the communities and stakeholders served by the Colleges. For effective and accountable leadership, the President and CEO will reside in the geographical area of the new college.

**Knowledge and Skills**:
**Attributes and Skills**:

- Strong focus on student centered education.
- High degree of ethics, professionalism, and judgment.
- Superior communication and leadership skills: ability to listen, influence, to convey a vision and generate results.
- Optimize outcomes by creating focus, ensuring accountability, and making effective and efficient use of resources.
- Strategic business sense with ability to analyze complex information and make effective decisions.
- Ability to create shared purpose and build collaborative work environments.
- Genuine and authentic leader who builds strong relation