Chair, School of Workforce Development

2 weeks ago

Kitchener, Canada Conestoga College Full time

**Requisition Details**:

- **Job Title**:Chair, School of Workforce Development - Business & IT Technology (2 Vacancies)**:

- **Requisition #**:23-247**:

- **Campus**: Doon
- **Department**: School of Workforce Development
- **Payband**: 14
- **Payband Range**: $118,773.00 - $158,363.00
- **Hours/Week**: 37.5
- **Posting Date**: Friday, July 28, 2023
- **Closing Date**: Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 11:59 PM EST
- **Vacancy Type**: Administration - Full-time

Administrative Full-time New Position

Conestoga College is a leader in polytechnic education. Our career-focused education, training, and applied research programs prepare students for success, support industry and workforce needs, and promote economic prosperity throughout our region and across Ontario.

As a preferred employer, Conestoga is committed to supporting the development and well-being of our employees through competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, and ongoing professional and personal learning opportunities that result in enhanced skills, shared successes, and an engaged college community. These positions fall within the payband 14; range $118,773 to $158,363. The anticipated starting salary for this role is $150,000.

The Chair will be part of an administrative team that oversees academic deliveries in full-time and part-time programs in areas related to business and IT technology and more. The incumbent will provide academic leadership for all credentials and ensure audit, accreditation, and quality assurance protocols and related documentation are in place. The incumbent will also be involved in the administrative process of recruiting, hiring and appraising faculty (both full and part-time), preparing SWF (Standard Workload Formulas) and working with program teams to staff and monitor teaching assignments. This role will be accountable for the research, planning, development, delivery, accreditation, budgeting, sales and marketing of daytime, evening and weekend activity, both on and off-site. School growth is a key area, domestically and internationally, and the incumbent will be expected to actively contribute to strategies. The incumbent will be responsible for growing the portfolio through new, innovative programming.

**Responsibilities**:
**Team Management**
- Understands and manages faculty and staff within the provisions of the Collective Agreements and relevant College policies
- Works with HR and Finance to create a staffing plan for each academic year based on planned enrolment and program delivery, recognizing there will be fluctuation in enrollment
- Recruits and hires full and part-time faculty, coordinators, and staff in accordance with the provision of the collective agreement
- Develops and ensures delivery of orientation and onboarding programs to ensure team members have the knowledge and tools to become effective contributors
- Effectively assigns staff workloads and allocates fiscal and physical resources as appropriate
- Ensures accurate and timely SWFing and scheduling processes are completed
- Initiates the problem-solving process for disputes involving faculty, staff, and students
- Completes performance management review process for faculty and staff, ensuring annual goals and development plans are established as required
- In consultation with HR, recommends disciplinary and termination action as required
- Ensures Occupational Health and Safety requirements are implemented and maintained

**Team Development**
- Creates an inclusive, welcoming, and healthy campus (in-person/online) ecosystem that fosters an innovative, supportive and collaborative teaching, learning and work environment for faculty, staff and students
- Coaches, guides and mentors faculty and staff, providing feedback regularly
- Promotes and monitors ongoing professional development opportunities for faculty and staff

**Strategic Planning and Implementation**
- Translates School/College vision and strategic goals into actions and solutions that will enhance the desired performance and outcomes within the portfolio
- Contributes to and actively participates in the strategic planning process for the School

**Program Management**
- Oversees program delivery and ensures effective management and quality assurance of the teaching and learning processes for assigned portfolio
- Ensures completion of the annual curriculum review
- Accountable for the facilitation and completion of program reviews (APR, MPR) to ensure accurate documentation and action plan completion and determines the relevance of program offerings to reflect changing technology, economic and market influences
- Ensures that learning outcomes conform to College, MCU, and professional accreditation standards
- Ownership of the academic policies, procedures and practices related to program management (i.e., student progression, academic integrity/offences, etc.) for program portfolio and engagement with students as required
- Oversees schedules related to full and p

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