Associate Dean

**Associate Dean, Social and Community - FSCS - FT Admin**
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**Find Your Spot at Humber**

At Humber, we are a vibrant, diverse community of professionals dedicated to providing an exceptional learning experience for our students. Through our strategic vision and exciting new brand Builders of Brilliance, we are co-constructing a new model of polytechnic education for Ontario, Canada, and the world. We are committed to ensuring Humber offers the right programs, with the most effective teaching and learning approaches, to prepare exceptional leaders for our industries and communities.

To achieve our vision, we take finding and developing the right talent very seriously. We offer a collegial, collaborative, inclusive environment in which each individual is supported to grow and bring their best each day.

If you are excited by the prospect of contributing to our vision for learning, if you would like to be part of building a new model of polytechnic education, of ‘building brilliance’, in one of Canada’s preeminent higher education institutions, then here is your opportunity to join our dynamic team.

**Job Details**:
**Position Title**: Associate Dean, Social and Community
**Status**: FT Administration
**Hours**:37.5**hours per week
**Faculty/Department**: Faculty of Social & Community Services
**Campus/Location**:Lakeshore Campus
**Starting Salary**:$139,301; starting salaries are determined based on qualifications and years of related experience.

**About the Faculty of Social and Community Services at Humber**:
The Faculty of Social and Community Services (FSCS) is committed to sharing knowledge and experience with students to help them become skilled, adaptable, compassionate and career ready graduates. Our faculty experts reinforce excellence, and a commitment to social justice, as students learn to work across a range of careers in the social, community and justice sectors.

**About the Associate Dean Role**

Under the direction of the Senior Dean FSCS, the Associate Dean provides academic and administrative leadership, including leadership with equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging initiatives that support students, faculty and staff within the Social and Community program cluster.

Key responsibilities include:

- contributing to Faculty level strategic planning;
- strategic oversight of recruitment and retention initiatives;
- providing leadership to a team of effective and dedicated program coordinators, faculty and support staff;
- the recruitment and selection of exceptional faculty and staff;
- participating in a variety of internal and external committees that contribute to the success of the institution;
- working with multiple stakeholders and partner groups to develop new initiatives including articulation agreements and experiential learning opportunities;
- cross-institutional collaboration;
- establishing and maintaining budgets;
- the capacity to facilitate applied research and foster social innovation through support of the Centre for Social Innovation;
- human resource management across collective agreements and aligned with institutional policy

The Associate Dean will also initiate, facilitate and actively participate in the development and implementation of new academic programs and the ongoing review of existing programs in response to changing economic and market pressures within industry and ministry standards and guidelines.

**About You**:
You are passionate about working at Ontario's largest Polytechnic; you thrive on improving productivity and quality that contribute to team success If this sounds like you, keep reading:
**Education**

**Experience/Skills**

The incumbent must possess strong emotional intelligence and conflict resolution skills with the ability to connect and communicate with people while demonstrating patience and understanding.

The applicant should possess experience in the following: leadership and motivation of faculty, staff and students in a post-secondary educational environment; hiring and directly supporting the development of exceptional post-secondary faculty; serving the needs of students from diverse backgrounds in a range of programming; marketing and promoting programs; monitoring program budgets; developing and launching new programs; leading or otherwise being a champion of student success, including partnership agreements and new ventures; practicing a collaborative leadership style; research capacity, particularly where this has involved students and community partners.

**What's in it for you?**
- An opportunity to be a part of building Humber's future.
- Be part of a diverse, hard-working, and supportive team.
- Tools and technology that will allow you to succeed at your job.
- Amazing perks

We thank you for your interest in working with Humber Polytechnic. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

**Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion**

Humber Polytechnic is committed to a workforce that reflects the