Vice President of Academic Affairs

Everett Community College; Everett (WA); Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work location

Job summary

Everett Community College is seeking a collaborative, forward-looking Vice President of Academic Affairs to guide instruction, policy, curriculum, and faculty systems. Reporting to the President, this executive role shapes strategic direction and strengthens teaching and learning across programs.

The successful candidate will apply data on student outcomes to improve access, quality, and sustainability while upholding shared governance and building trust with internal and external partners.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in an academic discipline, higher education, educational leadership, or related field.
• Seven (7) years of progressively responsible academic leadership in higher education.
• Three (3) years of supervisory experience, including employee development and performance management.
• Postsecondary teaching experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as executive academic officer and set strategic direction for instruction and policies.
• Oversee curriculum development, program review, and learning outcomes assessment.
• Lead budget planning, resource allocation, and facilities planning for instructional needs.
• Foster shared governance and collaboration with faculty, staff, and leadership.
• Represent the College in partnerships to strengthen academic pathways and student success.

Skills

Strategic planning

Data-informed decisions

Executive leadership

Shared governance

Budget management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Master’s degree in an academic discipline

Doctorate or terminal degree preferred

Job description

Everett Community College is seeking a collaborative, forward-looking academic leader to serve as Vice President of Academic Affairs. Reporting to the President and serving on the executive leadership team, the Vice President is the College’s executive academic officer and will shape the strategic direction of instruction, academic policy, curriculum, faculty systems, and teaching and learning.

This leader will guide the College’s transfer, professional-technical, dual enrollment, and applied baccalaureate programs, using student, workforce, transfer, enrollment, and outcomes data to strengthen quality, relevance, access, and sustainability. The ideal candidate will bring sound judgment, strong operational leadership, and a deep commitment to shared governance while building trust across the College and with external partners. This is an opportunity to lead meaningful academic growth and change in service of student access, success, and completion.

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TITLE: Vice President of Academic Affairs

SALARY:$176,000-186,000.00 annually

FTE/WORKLOAD: 100% full-time

SCHEDULE: Weekdays, day shift, with frequent evenings and occasional weekends

UNION: Non-Represented

DEPARTMENT: Instruction

REPORTS TO: College President

POSITION NUMBER: 00011864

This position is eligible for hybrid work location, per Everett Community College’s Telework Policy

Strategic Academic Leadership

• Serve as the College’s executive academic officer, establishing a clear academic vision and strategic direction for instruction in alignment with the College’s mission, strategic plan, and student-success priorities.
• Oversee academic master planning and the development, expansion, enhancement, redesign, and, when appropriate, discontinuation of instructional programs based on student demand, transfer pathways, workforce needs, and program outcomes.
• Oversee the College’s portfolio of transfer, professional-technical, dual enrollment, and applied baccalaureate offerings, ensuring programs remain relevant, accessible, and financially sustainable.
• Advise, and partner with, the President, Board of Trustees, and Executive Leadership Team on academic strategy, instructional capacity, policy, emerging opportunities, and risks.
• Develop intra-College strategies that align instruction with enrollment management, student services, technology, facilities, and workforce and economic development.
• Represent the College in state, system-wide, and community partnerships that strengthen academic pathways, workforce responsiveness, and institutional priorities.

Academic Excellence

• Oversee curriculum development and approval, academic program review, learning outcomes assessment, and continuous improvement across instructional departments.
• Oversee the quality and integrity of the academic calendar, College catalog, course scheduling, and curriculum-management processes.
• Promote evidence-based innovation in teaching and learning, including effective in-person, hybrid, and online delivery, open educational resources, work-based learning, and emerging instructional models.
• Use enrollment, completion, transfer, employment, labor-market, and other relevant data to evaluate program performance, guide investment, and improve student outcomes.
• Ensure instructional compliance with accreditation, licensure, and federal and state requirements; oversee programmatic accreditation and support institutional accreditation.
• Develop and maintain academic policies, procedures, and standards that support consistent, effective, and responsive instructional operations.

Organizational Leadership

• Oversee instructional deans, academic administrators, and staff; establish clear expectations, accountability, collaboration, and succession planning.
• Oversee faculty recruitment, onboarding, evaluation, tenure, and professional development in accordance with College policy, shared-governance processes, and collective bargaining agreements.
• Partner with Human Resources and labor representatives on faculty labor-management matters, contract administration, collective bargaining, and organizational change.
• Oversee the instructional budget and long-range resource allocation, balancing current operations, program quality, innovation, and strategic growth.
• Oversee planning for instructional facilities, equipment, and technology that support program quality, safety, and expansion.
• Foster meaningful engagement with faculty, staff, and students in academic decision-making, policy development, and institutional change.

Common Leadership Duties

• Support the mission, vision, and values of Everett Community College through courageous and ethical leadership, both college-wide and as a thought leader within the College’s leadership team.
• Ensure that strategies supporting student access, success, and completion are appropriately prioritized, supported, and aligned with the College’s mission, vision, and values.
• Work as member of the College’s leadership team in support of shared goals across the institution, regardless of administrative unit, making generous assumptions and conducting open-minded analyses of situations that can assist all parties in learning from failures and creating successes.
• Commit to a “Yes, And” culture by demonstrating the value of a cohesive, intentional, and positive environment that brings out the best in everyone (e.g., being present and listening, making each other look good, embracing change and failure, and choosing positivity).
• Personify leadership that fosters diversity, equity, and inclusion, and that is transparent, positive, visible, and ethical in its service to students, the College, and the community.
• Train, supervise, and evaluate employees in accordance with College policies and applicable collective bargaining agreements, engaging in courageous conversations and appropriately using candor and principles of trust, honesty, humility, and compassion, while providing support and resources geared toward success, regardless of employee type.

General Duties

• Support the goals and operations of the department, division, and College.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support departmental operations and campus needs.

Required Education and Experience (or equivalent combination of):

• Master’s degree in an academic discipline, higher education, educational leadership, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Seven (7) years of progressively responsible academic leadership in higher education, including academic planning, program development and evaluation, faculty leadership, budgets, and operations.
• Three (3) years of supervisory experience, including employee development and performance management, and experience with shared governance and collective bargaining.
• Postsecondary teaching experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of academic planning, curriculum development, program review, learning outcomes assessment, accreditation, and regulatory compliance.
• Knowledge of transfer, professional-technical, adult education, dual-enrollment, and applied-baccalaureate programs in a community-college setting.
• Understanding of shared governance, faculty roles, collective bargaining, and academic labor relations.
• Skilled in strategic planning, organizational change, partnership development, and data-informed resource decisions.
• Ability to translate institutional priorities into sustainable academic programs and coordinated implementation.
• Ability to advise executive leaders and the Board, communicate complex academic matters clearly, and build trust with internal and external partners.

Preferred

• Earned doctorate or other terminal degree in an academic discipline, higher education, educational leadership, or a related field.
• Executive academic leadership in a community or technical college, including transfer or workforce program growth and experience in Washington’s community and technical college system.

Leadership Competencies

• Participatory Management: Provides opportunity for assigned staff to participate in management decision-making when and where appropriate. Consistently seeks out appropriate information and input that ensure stakeholders perspective is considered.
• Approachability: Willing to take immediate time to actively listen to others. Considered "accessible" or can be depended upon to be available when needed. Responsive.
• Change Management: Initiates and/or manages the change process and energizes it on an ongoing basis, taking steps to remove barriers or accelerate its pace.
• Leadership: Leads by example, serves as appropriate role model to colleagues. Demonstrates confidence within area of expertise-promotes a cooperative work environment. Ability to appropriately apply leadership techniques to motivate, develop and guide employees.
• Visionary Leadership: Creates a clear, compelling vision. Communicates vision and gains commitment. Acts in accordance with vision. Displays passion and optimism. Mobilizes others to fulfill the vision.
• Data Literacy:Uses data as a key component to assess performance, in particular toward meeting College and unit goals in support of student success. Understands what data is available, internally and externally, and what story that data is telling in order to improve programs, services, and processes for serving students, other units, and the College’s service district.
• Oral & Written Communication: Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive and negative situations. Listens and gets clarification. Responds well to questions. Demonstrates group presentation skills. Participates in meetings. Structures and conveys information clearly and effectively through both formal and informal documents. Reviews and edits written work constructively. Ability to tailor to audience in mind.
• Student Centered: Ensures attention, interest, activities and efforts are centered upon the best interest of students. Creates and supports an environment that enables learners to achieve their personal, academic, and professional goals. Provides courteous and helpful responses to all customers, whether they be students, general public, or employees from another department.
• Support for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Supports initiatives of the college and departments to expand the human qualities that differentiate our workforce and workplace. Exemplifies tenants of tolerance, acceptance, and interest in different viewpoints, cultures, and backgrounds and demands similar conduct of assigned staff and department.
• Accountability: Accountable for own actions, decisions, errors, mistakes and/or failures to act when appropriate. Accepts responsibility when given, understands what duties employee is responsible for and can be counted upon to carry out those responsibilities.
• Teamwork: Demonstrates a willingness to work with, and help others in completing job assignments, the ability to accept constructive criticism, and to cooperate with fellow employees and supervisors.

Physical Requirements

Everett Community College follows the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and provides the following information as a guideline for applicants:

• Ability to operate office equipment, including computers and telecommunication devices.
• Ability to observe, analyze, and interpret data from various sources.
• Ability to prepare and present detailed reports, both in written and audible formats.
• Ability to exchange information with others.
• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods while performing routine tasks.
• Ability to lift and carry objects weighing up to 25 pounds.
• Ability to navigate the environments, conditions, and hazards typical of this role.

Terms of Employment

• Exempt from civil service staff member with a year-to-year contract.
• Position is subject to Everett Community College policies and procedures.
• Performance will be evaluated annually.