Associate Dean

**Associate Dean, Exercise & Nutritional Sciences - FT Admin - FHSW**
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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**:
**Status**: Full-time Admin
**Hours**:37.5 hours per week
**Faculty/Department**: Faculty of Health Sciences & Wellness
**Campus/Location**:North Campus; In-person
**Starting Salary**:$139,301; starting salaries are determined based on qualifications and years of related experience.

**About the Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellness at Humber**:
The Faculty of Health Sciences & Wellness 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 and transformation as students learn to work across a range of careers in the healthcare and wellness fields. Teaching and learning is student-centred with an emphasis on technological innovation, diversity and integrated community and clinical industry collaborations.

**About the Associate Dean, Exercise & Nutritional Sciences Role**:
Reporting to the Senior Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences & Wellness, the Associate Dean works collaboratively with the Senior Dean and other members of the administrative team in developing and implementing the Faculty's strategic initiatives, aligning with the polytechnic's academic plan.

The Associate Dean provides academic and administrative leadership, supervision, and direction to faculty, managers, support staff, and students within the programs in their portfolio.

The incumbent ensures that program objectives are met through effective oversight of teaching and learning. They facilitate the ongoing development, review, and renewal of programs to align with evolving market demands, industry employment needs, innovation, and partnerships in their areas of responsibility. The Associate Dean also supports the development of applied research initiatives across the portfolio.

The Associate Dean contributes to the development and implementation of Faculty-based academic and student success initiatives, including student recruitment and retention, strategic enrollment management, problem solving, appeals processes, job placement initiatives, and leadership development.

In collaboration with the Senior Dean, the Associate Dean liaises with internal and external stakeholders, representing the Faculty in meetings and initiatives relevant to their portfolio.

While the Faculty is currently based at North Campus, as new programs are introduced and the Faculty continues to expand, this role may also oversee programming at other campuses.

**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**

**Required Skills**:

- Demonstrated administrative or leadership experience at the community college level, including developing and managing budgets, administration of policies and procedures, and management of human resources.
- Strong consensus-building skills; ability to promote excellent working relationships with both academic and non-academic staff; and demonstrated ability in conflict resolution.
- Resource management skills (human as well as physical and financial).
- Excellent listening, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to negotiate, advise, mentor, and engage effectively with diverse groups.
- Proven experience handling sensitive information with discretion and professionalism.
- Superior time management and organizational skills, including the ability to work under pressure with mínimal supervision.
- Computer literacy skills: experience with software to support research and administrative activities, student management and learning management systems, educational and collaborative technologies.
- Ability to foster high performanc