Vice President, Academic Services

Chabot-Las Positas Community College District; Dublin (CA); On-site; USD 198,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Chabot College, part of the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District, invites applications for the Vice President of Academic Services. The role leads the instructional program design, delivery, and fiscal management of comprehensive academic offerings, including general education, transfer, technical programs, and distance education.

The position reports to the College President and collaborates with other senior leaders.

Qualifications

• Master's degree required; earned doctorate preferred.
• Significant full-time teaching and administrative experience in post-secondary education; or an equivalent combination.
• Demonstrate sensitivity to diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Develop, direct, coordinate, supervise, and evaluate programs, personnel, operations, and practices to ensure compliance with policies and regulations.
• Directly supervise academic services administrators.
• Coordinate recruitment and orientation of faculty and staff to ensure equal opportunity in employment.
• Conduct performance evaluations of faculty, staff and administrators; coordinate tenure processes.
• Provide leadership for faculty development and instructional technology integration.
• Oversee curriculum development, assessment, and program reviews; ensure strong academic standards.

Education

Master's degree

Doctorate preferred

Job description

Vice President, Academic Services

Position Type: Management

Position Code: 2AIN04

FTE: 1.0

Pay Rate (or Annual Salary): $197,830 -$240,491/annual

Job Location: Chabot College, 25555 Hesperian Blvd.,Hayward, CA 94545

Department: Academic Services

Job Summary

Chabot College is committed to educational equity in its academicprograms and college services so that students may achieve theirpersonal, educational, and career goals. Our equity work todaybuilds upon a strong history: the Puente and Umoja programs werefirst created at Chabot College, and have since been replicatedacross the state. These programs have paved the way for a series ofadditional educational and student support programs intentionallyfocused on equity that thrive at Chabot College today. ChabotCollege is located in Hayward, California, the third most diversecity in the United States. We serve a highly diverse studentpopulation and are proud to be designated as a Hispanic ServingInstitution. Information about the demographics of our campuscommunity can be found here.

Serving our diverse community requires a culturally-responsiveapproach that recognizes the myriad strengths and assets that ourstudents bring to the campus community. We do so by promoting aclassroom and co-curricular learning environment that is inclusive,collaborative, engaging, and challenging, and where respect,dignity, and integrity are core values. We see students asproducers of knowledge, not just consumers of knowledge. We work toreframe inequities as a problem of practice, and view theelimination of inequities as an individual and institutionalresponsibility.

Joining Our College Community

We seek equity-minded applicants who demonstrate they understandthe benefits diversity brings to an educational community. We lookfor applicants who:

• 1. Value and intentionally promote diversity and consciousness ofdifference
• 2. Demonstrate cultural humility and an ongoing desire to improve cultural competence
• 3. Are dedicated to addressing issues ofsocial justice
• 4. Accept their shared role and responsibility inaddressing opportunity and achievement gaps experienced bystudents
• 5. Have experience and success in closing student equitygaps and engaging in equitable practices, or are knowledgeable andenthusiastic about implementing practices that achieve thesegoals
• 6. Actively seek to identify, disrupt, and removeinstitutional and/or systemic barriers that adversely impacthistorically marginalized communities
• 7. Empower theunderrepresented and underserved
• 8. Foster students' potential tobecome global citizens and socially responsible leaders
• 9. Believethat all people have the right to an education and work environmentfree from fear, harassment, or discrimination

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking a VicePresident, Academic Services for Chabot College in Hayward,California.

MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY

The Vice-President of Academic Services is a management positiondesignated by the Board of Trustees for the Chabot-Las PositasCommunity College District. The incumbent is responsible for the satisfactory completion and/or coordination of the listed duties and responsibilities either directly or through administrativereview. The incumbent is charged by the Board of Trustees with the satisfactory implementation of Board policy and District procedureas applicable to the position. In addition, the incumbent isexpected to participate in the formulation of District policies bymaking appropriate recommendations for improvements or additions inpolicy or procedure through his or her reporting authority and/orby serving on District-wide councils.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The Vice-President of Academic Services is the Chief InstructionalOfficer and is responsible for the overall design, organization,delivery, supervision, evaluation, and fiscal management of a comprehensive instructional program, including general education,transfer programs, technical and occupational programs, communityand continuing education, non-credit education, contract educationand athletics. The Vice-President of Academic Services may beassigned additional responsibilities in such areas as Library,Instructional Media Center, Television Studio, Tutorial Services,HUB, Instructional Technology, and Distance Education Center. Thisposition reports directly to the College President and workscollaboratively with the Vice-President of Student Services andVice-President of Business Services.

APPOINTMENT

The Vice-President of Academic Services shall be appointed by theGoverning Board upon the recommendation of the College Presidentand the District Chancellor.

Representative Duties:

The Vice President of Academic Servicesshall:

1. Develop, direct, coordinate, supervise, and evaluate theprograms, personnel, operations, activities and personnel practicesof all areas of responsibility to ensure their compliance withDistrict policies, Education Code, and State and Federalregulations;
2. Directly supervise academic services administrators;
3. Coordinate the recruitment, selection, and orientation offaculty and classified staff ensuring equal opportunity inemployment; and participate in the recruitment and selection ofadministrative staff;
4. Conduct performance evaluations of faculty, classified staff,and academic administrators; and coordinate evaluation policies andprocedures for tenure granting, for tenured faculty evaluation, andfor part-time faculty evaluation;
5. Monitor faculty teaching assignments to ensure conformance toCollege and District Policy and to ensure equitableworkloads;
6. Provide leadership of a comprehensive faculty developmentprogram, including the infusion of instructional technology intothe teaching-learning processes.
7. Review and recommend conferences, field trips, leaves ofabsence, instructional improvement grant proposals, and otherspecial faculty requests;
8. Direct and organize the process for curriculum development,implementation, and evaluation of the general education, basicskills, transfer, technical and occupational, distance educationand community and continuing education programs;
9. Direct, in conjunction with the College Curriculum Committee,the approval of College curricula and programs; the interpretationof curricular policy; and the definition of academicstandards;
10. Establish and implement a process for systematic instructionalprogram review and utilize the results and recommendations tostrengthen academic programs;
11. Coordinate the development of the semester and summer classschedules, College catalog, and instructional publications;
12. Foster and maintain high standards of instruction andstrengthening teaching by:
    • a. Providing faculty opportunities for professional growth anddevelopment;
    • b. Monitoring and assessing student progress, performance, andsatisfaction to evaluate academic quality;
    • c. Fostering experimentation by introducing new teachingtechnologies and learning strategies;
13. Assist institutional research efforts related to areas ofresponsibility;
14. Prepare, administer, and monitor the annual budget for allareas of responsibility; and maintain required documentation forcategorical expenditures;
15. Direct the process for establishing recommendations for capitaloutlay, including media, computers, and library books;
16. Participate in College long-range planning for programs,services, and facilities and coordinate financial planning withinstitutional planning activities;
17. Supervise off-campus, evening and Saturday educational classesand programs as needed;
18. Maintain liaison with area high schools, colleges anduniversities, business, industry, public agencies, communityinterest groups, and the State Chancellor's Office;
19. Coordinate contract education with the District office;
20. Serve as accreditation liaison officer for the College andcoordinate the College self-study process and all reports requiredby the Accrediting Commission;
21. Assume responsibility for the completion of all necessary Stateand Federal reports in the areas of responsibility;
22. Work collaboratively with the College Articulation Officer todevelop, maintain, and disseminate articulation agreements withtransfer colleges and universities;
23. Work cooperatively with the Faculty, Classified, and StudentSenates;
24. Serve as chair of the academic administrative staff and asmember of assigned committees:
    • a. College Cabinets
    • b. Chancellor's Cabinet
    • c. College Council
    • d. Curriculum Committee
    • e. Institutional Planning and Budget Council
    • f. District Sabbatical Leave Committee
    • g. College and District Budget Study Groups
    • h. Academic and Student Services Council;
25. Maintain a close working relationship with the counterpart VicePresident of Academic Services at the other college(s);
26. Represent the College as the Chief Instructional Officer atstate-wide organizations;
27. Serve as an administrative associate to the President and, whenassigned, assume direct responsibility for the College during theabsence of the President;
28. Work cooperatively with the College Grant Developer in thepreparation of grant proposals for external funding;
29. Assume other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned bythe College President.

NOTE: This class specification is not necessarilyall-inclusive in terms of the duties and responsibilities.

Minimum Education and Experience

Education: Master's degree required; earneddoctorate preferred.

Experience: Significant full-time teaching andadministrative experience in post-secondary education, preferablyin a community college; or an equivalent combination of educationand experience which indicates possession of the knowledge andskills required.

Demonstrate sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverseacademic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds ofcommunity college students, including those with physical and/orlearning disabilities.

Minimum Qualifications

Desirable Qualifications

Job Work Schedule

Physical Demands and Working Environment

Performance of the duties of this job may include the followingphysical activities: standing, walking, stooping, reaching andmanipulating (lifting, carrying, moving) light to medium weights of10-30 pounds, sitting for prolonged periods of time; visual acuityfor reading numerical figures; good hand-eye coordination; arm,hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp; and visualacuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment, and read applicationinformation. Performance of the duties of this job frequentlyinvolves sitting, reaching with hands and arms, talking, andhearing. This position also involves travel to variouslocations.

Posting Number

AS846P

Open Date

08/20/2026

Close Date

10/01/2026

Open Until Filled

No

Special Instructions to Applicants

The Board of Trustees has updated Board Policy 7330 to incorporateinformation on COVID vaccination requirements, which are currentlysuspended. Accordingly, employee(s) must comply with the BoardPolicy found at: http://districtazure.clpccd.org/policies/files/docs/BP7330.pdf.

Notification to Applicants

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District reserves theright to close or not fill any advertised position

Instructions for Personal Qualifications Statement

The purpose of the personal qualifications statement is for youto provide information on how your education and experience relateto the requirements and duties of the position. There is no form tocomplete. Applicants are requested to provide their personalqualifications statement by uploading a document, the same way asyou do for your cover letter.

It is the policy of this District to provide equalopportunity in all areas of employment practices and to assure that there shall be nodiscrimination against any person on the basis of sex, ancestry, age, marital status,race, religious creed, mental disability, medical condition (including HIV andAIDS), color, national origin, physical disability, family or sexual preferencestatus and other similar factors in compliance with Title IX, Sections 503 and 504of the Rehabilitation Act, other federal and state non-discriminationregulations, and its own statements of philosophy of objectives. The District encouragesthe filing of applications by both sexes, ethnic minorities, and thedisabled.