Academic Chair, Open Studies - Calgary, Canada - SAIT

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Calgary, Canada

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Description

Academic Services is focused on supporting SAIT's schools and departments in their pursuit of SAIT's strategic priorities.

Academic Services brings together several academic development, delivery, and quality assurance units with a common goal:
student success. Academic Services provides unique, flexible support programing designed to help learners succeed in their chosen SAIT career program.


The Opportunity
Academic Services is focused on creating and supporting services and processes that enable and enrich SAIT's student experience. Academic Services brings together academic development, delivery, and quality assurance of learning systems. Through a diverse range of flexible programming, Academic Services helps students succeed at SAIT.


The Role:

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Support SAIT's Mission - 10%:

  • Integrate a vision, strategy and implementation plan for Open Studies in alignment with SAIT's 5-year strategic plan
  • Intentional Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) focused decision making
  • Demonstrate excellent employee leadership, while focusing on skill development and opportunities for advancement
  • Collaborate across Academic Services to ensure programming and delivery meet the required needs of learners
  • Support program initiatives according to SAIT's Academic, Education and Strategic plans
  • Support SAIT's Academic Quality Review process
- **Employee management and development - 20%**:
  • Assign teaching loads in alignment with instructor competencies and the collective agreement.
  • Collaborate with Employee Services on ensuring efficient hiring and payment of contract faculty
  • Recruit, onboard, train, and support new faculty and staff for all delivery modalities
  • Provide ongoing guidance and support for new and existing adjunct faculty
  • Promote employee engagement and collaboration, and provide opportunities for professional development.
  • Review and uphold policies and procedures including the student code of conduct with Instructors as well as SAIT's Collective Agreements
- **Student Success - 25%**:
  • Work collaboratively with advising teams to ensure a quality student experience
  • Champion a student first culture by being available and visible to students, faculty and staff on an ongoing basis
  • Create strategies in support of positive student engagement, recruitment, and retention
  • Optimize student experience through review and management of student feedback questionnaires and respond to student concerns and issues in a timely manner
  • Conduct academic integrity hearings and educate students on best practices
- **Program Administration
- 25%**:
  • Determine courses and number of sections offered based on trends and other forms of data
  • Oversee the work of the Program Administrator with regards to development of a yearly tracking sheet and entering courses into the scheduling system
  • Collaborate with Academic Services Academic Chairs and career program Academic Chairs to ensure sustainable growth of Open Studies course offerings
  • Provide regular updates to our financial support partners on progress towards enrolment targets

- **Marketing - 20%**:
  • Attend Career Fair, SAIT Open houses to market and educate about Open Studies
  • Work with Marketing and Communications to ensure accurate information is conveyed to the public
  • Along with Advisor, Open Studies, sets up and participates in Orientation and Information sessions etc
  • Strategize with Marketing and Communications to create promotional opportunities for Open Studies
  • Employ innovative and entrepreneurial skills to facilitate sustainable growth of the Open Studies program

Qualifications & Experience:


  • Master's Degree in a relevant field or equivalent education
  • Two years of leadership experience in postsecondary, adult education, service industry, or combination of the three areas (three years is preferred)
  • Solid written, spoken, and interpersonal communications skills plus the ability to work well both independently and in teams

- **Preferred**:
  • Teaching experience is considered an asset
  • A combination of qualifications and experience may be considered
  • Must be available to work some evenings and weekends, on occasion

Knowledge & Skills:


  • Must possess a serviceoriented mindset with exceptional attention to quality and client satisfaction
  • Intermediate experience using Microsoft Office Suite
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Excellent organizational and time management
- ability to process, synthesize and analyze data to make informed decisions

  • Must have a critical thinking and problemsolving mindset
  • Demonstrated experience in managing budget and making sustainable business decisions
  • Demonstrated leadership in diversity, equity, and inclusion practices
  • Strong leadership skills, highly empathetic to the feelings of others and ability to provide feedback
  • Open and collaborative mindset
  • Ability to lead others through change
  • Organizational and
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