ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Strategic Leadership

• Provides visionary leadership and strategic direction by working collaboratively with college colleagues, administrators, faculty, and staff to ensure the success of career technical pathways, inclusive of College Credit Plus, CTAG, and articulated credit options.
• Collaborates with faculty, staff, and administration to develop, maintain, and disseminate information about pathways efforts via multiple media forums, including web, print, email, advertisement, etc.
• Develops relationships with faculty and key influencers, including high school counselors, teachers, and school administrators.

Strategic Planning

• Develops and implements strategies to continue to provide access for more students to enroll in career technical pathways.
• Participates in college-wide conversations focused on the continual quality improvement of the student experience, as well as high-quality teaching experiences for high school and career center students.
• Establishes key relationships and communication strategies to share the story of the College and leverage partnerships for the development of current or new pathways opportunities for students.

Operational Leadership

• Provides daily oversight and mentors K-12 Program Consultants.
• Ensures appropriate staffing at all service points, assigns projects and delegates tasks, creates work schedules, provides direction, resolves work problems, communicates job expectations, trains employees, and develops professional growth and development opportunities.
• Carries out, explains, interprets, and enforces policy and recommends policy change for polices that may impede student success.
• Conducts annual employee evaluations, recommends pay increases, promotions, and other personnel actions.
• Approves leave requests and authorizes overtime as appropriate.
• Manages employee recruitment, selection, and onboarding process of the department in partnership with Human Resources.
• Administers disciplinary actions upon approval, and in collaboration with Human Resources.
• Establishes and maintains a standard of excellent service to students, faculty, and internal customers.
• Administers the department budget in collaboration with Business Services.
• Estimates expenses to implement department objectives; completes midyear budget review; reviews and approves requisitions; exercises budgetary controls and reallocates resources when necessary.

Building Partnerships & Collaboration

• Collaborates with campus stakeholders, including faculty, staff, academic leadership, and external partners, and contracts to capture the progress and work of career technical academic offerings.
• Prepares and shares reports that will be used for internal and external audiences.
• Collects, evaluates, and reports data on student success in partnership with the Institutional Effectiveness Office.
• Collaborates with internal and external partners to track and utilize data that informs the development and maintenance of CTE options.
• Administers ongoing systematic evaluation of services and programs that are needed.
• Keeps accurate records; completes and maintains required documentation. Advocates for policy changes as needed.

Culture of Respect

• Fosters and maintains a safe environment of respect and inclusion for faculty, staff, students, and members of the community.

About Columbus State Community College

Columbus State Community College has been meeting the diverse educational needs of the Central Ohio community for more than 50 years. The college is proud to be an important contributor to the growth and progress of the region and to serve as the front door to higher education in Central Ohio. From the first graduating class in 1965 through this year, 50,000 students have earned associate degrees in 50-plus technical fields and academic transfer programs. Columbus State also offers Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degree programs whose coursework fulfills the freshman and sophomore year requirements for bachelor’s degree programs offered by four-year colleges and universities throughout the state. Specific transfer agreements with more than 40 colleges and universities are in place at Columbus State, and new direct-to degree partnership programs are being developed all the time. Columbus State now has two campuses serving Central Ohio educational needs. The Columbus Campus is located on 85 acres in downtown Columbus. The 108-acre, full-service Delaware Campus welcomed its first students in 2010. Additionally, Columbus State offers classes at nine convenient regional learning centers throughout Central Ohio.

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