Superintendent/President

Palomar College

San Marcos (CA)

On-site

USD 3,627,000 - 4,018,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Employee health insurance

Doctorate stipend $1,862.53

Cell phone stipend $100/month

Transportation allowance $500/month

Job summary

Palomar College is conducting a search for a new Superintendent/President to provide visionary, value-driven leadership for the district. The successful candidate will uphold Palomar’s mission while guiding strategic planning, budgeting, and campus development across multiple locations.

The role requires a doctorate (preferred), extensive experience in higher education leadership, and a commitment to equity, inclusion, and shared governance. Travel across district sites is expected.

Qualifications

Progressive leadership experience with five or more years in senior roles.
Master’s degree from an accredited college or university is required.
Coursework/degrees from outside the United States require evaluation for U.S. equivalency.

Responsibilities

Lead Palomar College as Superintendent/President, guiding strategy and governance.
Address opportunities and challenges to advance student success and fiscal stability.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Labor relations

Education

Master’s degree

Doctorate degree (preferred)

Job description

Department Superintendent/President's Office (Dept)

Primary Location

Palomar has multiple campus locations (San Marcos, Escondido, Rancho Bernardo and Fallbrook); the work location is subject to change.
Requires travel to other District locations.

Full or Part Time

Full or Part Time Full-Time

Category

Category Administrative

Hours per week

Exempt Position

Number of Months

Number of Months 12 month

Work Schedule

Exempt Position

Grade

N/A

Starting salary range: $325,000 – $360,000 annually
Salary is negotiable dependent upon education and experience within posted salary range.
Length of contract and other terms of employment are competitive and negotiable dependent upon education and experience.
In addition, administrators who possess earned doctorates from accredited institutions are awarded an annual stipend of $1,862.53.
Other fringe benefits can be negotiated with the Governing Board upon offer of hire. Currently the District also provides this position with a $100 monthly cell phone stipend and a $500 monthly transportation allowance, for a gross amount of $600 per month. These stipends are not considered creditable compensation under CalPERS or CalSTRS.

Salary/Wage Frequency Monthly

In addition to a competitive compensation structure, Palomar College also offers an extremely generous benefits package.

Insurance fully paid for employees and their eligible dependents: four medical plans, dental HMO , and the vision plan (additional plans are available that require employee buy up/monthly contribution)
Vacation, sick leave and 25 paid holidays
$80,000 employee term life/accident insurance policy (additional buy up options available)
Employee long-term care insurance
Employee Assistance Plan ( EAP ) – Confidential free counseling, financial, legal, personal and professional development resources for all members of your household
Additional buy up options available for other voluntary insurance benefits

The estimated maximum value of this employer-paid benefits package is approximately $31,245.84 annually.

Primary Function

The next Superintendent/President of Palomar College will be an experienced, visible, responsive leader who seeks to understand and respect the history and culture of Palomar College, while building trust and leading the College in addressing the Opportunities and Challenges listed below.

Minimum Qualifications

To be eligible for this position, you must meet and provide evidence of the following minimum qualifications:

Experience: Progressive leadership experience with five or more years of senior-level experience.
Note: For work experience, a “year” is defined as equivalent to 40 hours per week for 12 months. For supervisory experience, the experience must be at a professional level (i.e. evaluation and/or discipline of staff).

AND

Education: Master’s degree from an accredited college or university.

Only coursework completed at, and degrees awarded by, accredited institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education will be considered as satisfying the minimum qualifications. Coursework and degrees that are completed outside of the United States are required to have transcripts evaluated (evaluation to U.S. equivalency and a course by course analysis) by an appropriate U.S. credentials evaluation service. For a list of credentials evaluation agencies accepted by Palomar College, visit the National Association of Credentials Evaluation Services ( NACES ) website at http://www.naces.org , or the Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc. ( AICE ) website at http://aice-eval.org/ .

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility and Antiracism (DEIAA) Statement

All positions require cultural competency which includes the sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, faculty, and staff.

Preferred Qualifications

Doctorate degree from an accredited college or university
Community college leadership experience in teaching, instructional services, student services, finance and administrative services, and/or human resource services.

Licenses and/or Certificates

Possession of a valid California Driver’s License by time of appointment.

Supervision Received and Exercised

Supervision Given: Executive, administrative, supervisory, classified, hourly, and volunteer employees

Duties and Responsibilities

Opportunities and Challenges:

Increasing student enrollment, persistence, and completion through:

Navigating enrollment and demographic shifts
Effectively using the college centers, expanding their programs and services
Expanding programs that meet area needs for workers in skilled trades, healthcare, public safety, logistics, and green energy
Creating a seamless registration experience and resolving technical issues affecting student enrollment (passwords, IDs, email)
Developing and implementing a plan to grow the in-person campus environment
Addressing classified vacancies, workload expansion and minimal hiring that impact student access, retention and completion
Focus on innovative program development, partnerships, community outreach, and campus and centers utilization

Recognizing the value of effective decision-making and fully engaging in shared governance while unifying the college across all constituents through:

Building trust and cohesion across employee groups, students, and the governing board
Addressing leadership transitions and supporting the professional development of new executive leadership
Enhancing shared governance and leadership efforts to unify the college across all constituents
Supporting and assisting the governing board focus on student needs and success and making policy decisions that align with the System mission and vision
Ensuring an inclusive environment where the needs of all employees are acknowledged and supported

Ensuring sound operational and fiscal management, planning, and long-term fiscal stability through:

Aligning resource allocation, workforce stability and student success initiatives
Engaging in strategic discipline with fewer initiatives but done well instead of constant new projects without staffing or resources
Modernizing, simplifying, and building confidence in systems college-wide
Building community support for a new bond for facilities to advance completion of facilities and infrastructure improvements
Planning for facilities evolving technologies and infrastructure demands
Developing an organizational structure and size that reflects the changing enrollment and fiscal realities of the district

Advancing efforts to ensure the success of all students through:

Recognizing that equity and inclusion are central to the college’s mission and a defining lens for institutional decision-making
Assisting students in receiving adequate basic needs support for food, shelter, technology and transportation

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

Personal and Professional Qualities and Skills:

The next Superintendent/President of Palomar College will exhibit the following qualities and skills necessary to lead the college in addressing the identified Opportunities and Challenges:

Experience

Knowledgeable and experienced in higher education
Demonstrated leadership experience with deep understanding of California community colleges
Strong and positive labor relations and collective bargaining experience

Leadership

Ethical, honest, trustworthy, and transparent
Strategic and visionary thinker
Straight forward communicator, who does not prioritize optics over reality
Visible, approachable, welcoming and accessible across the district and community
Ability to unify diverse perspectives and build consensus and trust within a complex political and organizational environment
Decisive and courageous leader who can guide the college through change with clarity and purpose
Highly connected to students, visible at college events, and actively advocating for students
Holds self, and others, accountable, admits mistakes and learns from them

Decision-making

Courageous, student-centered, innovative, data-informed, and solution-oriented in addressing what is best for the District legally and ethically and not just popularly
Capability to set a clear and compelling direction for the college, and the ability to know when to pivot when change is needed for the success of the District
Follows shared governance processes and engages groups early in decision-making

Relations

Relationship builder skilled at developing and sustaining relationships/partnerships with the governing board, students, constituent groups, and community leaders and organizations
Exceptional communicator and collaborator who is a skilled listener, maintains open dialogue, fosters shared governance, builds consensus, and communicates proactively and transparently

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