Dean Job Description
Dean
provides oversight of the processes related to the development and monitoring of College budgets, consistent with organizational mission, goals and applicable policies.
Dean Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective dean job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included dean job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Provide ongoing training of policies and procedures to faculty and staff in university offices and schools
Ability to create policies and procedures in accordance with K12 in regards to performance management, succession planning, staffing requirements with support of the HOS
Ensures the department’s compliance with policies and procedures, ethical practices, government agencies’ guidelines and accrediting organizations’ criteria
Provide outreach to university offices regarding office policy and procedures and university protocols
Assist in the review and development of university policies related to student conduct
Maintains confidential records, interprets university policies, serves as a back up to Student Advocates on other campuses, performs special assignments as directed, and serves as a backup for the management of the Dean of Student office
Independently composes correspondence on a variety of subjects requiring judgment, originality, and broad knowledge of University policy and procedures
Assist in the receipt of complaints and investigation of allegations of undergraduate student conduct
Serve as a hearing officer for administrative resolution of cases of student and group/organization misconduct
Determine responsibility for allegations of misconduct
Dean Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Dean
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CT, HIPAA, ADA, IX, MA, ANCC, AANP
Education for Dean
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the dean job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Doctoral Degree in Teaching, Faculty, The College, Graduate, Education, Government, Leadership, Management, Health, Technical
Skills for Dean
Desired skills for dean include:
Procedures
Learning theory
Evaluation and feedback techniques
Policies
Reinforcement
Excel
District’s Response to Intervention process and documentation processes
Goals and the role of every employee in achieving each of them
Interventions
OPS’s mission
Desired experience for dean includes:
Monitor completion of sanctions issues through the disciplinary process
Counsel students in academic, personal, and disciplinary matters
Meet regularly with key constituencies regarding shared concerns
Aid in the development and coordination of training for paraprofessional staff
Aid in office assessment efforts in accordance with OSC and Divisional standards
Communicate to internal and external constituencies
Dean Examples
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Dean Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a dean. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for dean
- Support university officials in collecting federally-required information
- Serve as dean on-call in 24-hour emergency on-call rotation
- Other related duties as assigned incidental to the nature of the position or appropriate to the missions of the Office of Student Conduct, the Dean of Students Office, the Division of Student Affairs, and the university
- Working with Dean and Engineering Advisory Council to strengthen ties to engineering community
- Addresses and responds to student matters, maintaining confidentiality and discretion
- Provides coordination between and among the Dean of Students offices
- Coordinates with Student Rights and Responsibilities to provide advocacy for students as appropriate, especially in the cases of sexual misconduct, where close communication and follow up is critical
- Identifies and develops rapport with a wide variety of community agencies as a measure of providing a pathway for student access to, and utilization of, resources
- Designs, coordinates, and executes the Dean of Students office retention efforts
- Works with leadership team, university partners, and community agencies to fulfill University and campus goals and objectives
Qualifications for dean
- Oversee and lead effective collaboration among the various Office units (Customer Account Management, Employer Business Development, Undergraduate Student Programming, Full-time and Part-time MBA and Specialty Masters Career Advising and Student Programming and Leadership Development, Technology, Career Center Hospitality and Operations, ), ensuring economies of scale and synergy whenever possible
- A doctorate in Education or a related field
- Senior administrative leadership experience
- A demonstrated record of sustained excellence in scholarly achievement including research funding, refereed publications, and national/international professional presentations
- Demonstrated experience in developing and supporting cross-disciplinary faculty initiatives
- Must be able to relate positively to a variety of interests, backgrounds, and points of view by using tact, diplomacy, and discretion
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a dean. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for dean
- Coordinates and implements the marketing, recruitment, selection, and administrative process of 3 to 5 scholarship awards
- May respond to after-hours and weekend student matters
- Serves as a facilitator in coordinating communication of information to and from the Dean’s office
- Leads the planning, development, management, and assessment of the School of Culinary Arts
- Integrates the institution’s mission and values through work with faculty, staff, and other academic leaders to assure a student centered focus
- Collaborate with key departments to enhance success including the enrollment, marketing and financial teams
- Leads improvement and retention initiatives
- Leads growth and business sustainability
- Advances the organizational culture that is based on student-centeredness, accountability and collaboration
- Participates in strategic planning and development of key internal and external College resources and relationships
Qualifications for dean
- Acts as member of the Dean’s Leadership Team
- Works to ensure our school and region goals are met
- Supervise and coordinate school activities
- Conducts space walkthrough
- Rides bus when needed to ensure that bus expectations are met
- Ensure availability before and after school to check in with teammates
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of dean. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for dean
- Remain abreast of current curriculum trends, instructional strategies, practices, developments, instructional materials and related governmental procedures and guidelines
- Support breakfast, lunch, arrival, dismissal, and other transition times during the day
- Support long-term regional academic planning teaching and learning strategy and implementation
- Member of the Dean’s Leadership Team
- Provides leadership, direction, motivation and supervision of direct reports
- Directs and evaluates the achievement of student performance objectives
- Responsible for the campuses’ Advisory Board meetings
- Provides oversight for the approximately $5 million division budget
- Provide leadership, vision, and direct administrative oversight for the Office of Courses and Curricula, First Year Inquiry Programs, the Quality Enhancement Program (TH!NK), Global Perspectives Certificate program, Health and Exercise Studies, and Air Force, Army, and Naval ROTC programs
- Coordinate the development of budgets and manage expenditures
Qualifications for dean
- Evidence of a Bachelor's degree in business, education or related
- Experience in producing printed and electronic marketing materials
- Leadership experience in higher education settings
- PhD, EdD (terminal degree) in Education, Education Management, P-12 Studies, Research Methods, Organizational Management (with a master’s in Ed), Curriculum and Instruction, Teacher Leadership, Education Technology Leadership
- Master’s degree is required in a related area from an institution accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the US Department of Education
- At least 5 years relevant experience, two of those years in a supervisory capacity
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a dean. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for dean
- Possess a strategic vision related to continuous improvement within the department
- Well-developed awareness of self and others in relational contexts
- Leads the planning, designing, developing, and evaluating of technology and platforms to support the goals of the College and RedFlint, and for effective teaching and learning methodologies in academic competency based programs
- Partner cross functionally with Academic, Operations, EPG, Marketing, Industry and Community College leaders to architect learning/educational solutions to company-level industry strategy
- Design and develop project scope documentations, statements of work, technical/academic specifications, and business requirements related to customer engagements
- Collaborates with others to design, develop, revise, and evaluate technology tools and platforms for staff, faculty, and student use in the College of IS&T and RedFlint
- Work with business and community college stakeholders to identify and deliver new learning and development requirements that are practical and SMART (Specific, Measurable, Aggressive, Realistic, Time-Bound)
- Work with OPS Dean & Academic quality team to evaluate the School/College degree and certificate programs on a continual basis
- Represents the organization as appropriate in its relationship with education and business communities by participating in targeted events, conferences, and workshops and day-to-day interactions
- Support the creation of industry solutions strategy, business case creation (including ROI), development and roll-out of new program industry solutions
Qualifications for dean
- Career services experience at a law school or university
- Experience in academic governance
- Extensive proven track record of successful academic achievements
- Solid leadership, organizational, and managerial skills
- Creativity, flexibility, and a willingness to test new ideas
- Excellent communication skills, written and oral, in day-to-day dealings with faculty, staff, and students
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a dean. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for dean
- Evaluate third-party offerings and services for inclusion in program offerings and conducts build vs
- Maintains leading edge professional and technical knowledge by attending educational and technology workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional technical societies
- Monitors the use of ground and online resources available on the College of Education Resource page and analyzes data for continuous improvement
- Participate in regular reviews of metrics to identify areas of development and produce recommendations for improvements
- Consistently conduct market assessments to track trends and innovations of comparable products to enable product lines to be premier program provider to business/community college stakeholders
- Provides appropriate product knowledge, education, and training to help staff and faculty of the College and RedFlint achieve competency and promote excellence in the use of technology
- Monitors student and community data related to the standards of effective integration of technology in instruction and provides guidance, information, resources, and support to curriculum staff to positively improve student and community outcomes in this area
- Perform post-launch product life-cycle management techniques using information from various sources to guide existing programs, including adjustments to the marketing mix of product, pricing, promotion, and place/distribution channels
- Understands and monitors the impact of industry standards and accreditation requirements related to the use of technology for teaching and learning of both credit and non-credit programs
- Assist with development and implementation of the master schedule and student schedules
Qualifications for dean
- An ability to communicate across cultures
- A PhD or in progress of pursuing a PhD in an appropriate discipline
- Senior level experience with students and faculty is essential
- Successful track record in working for a business school or university with a strong distributed network of campuses
- Additional languages are a distinct advantage
- Your students trust and respect you