Dean, Digital Learning

Austin Community College District

Job Location:

Highland, FL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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Austin Community College employees are required to maintain a domicile in the State of Texas while working for the college and throughout the duration of employment. AR 4.0300.01

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access through traditional and distance learning modes to higher education and workforce training including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
Is attracted by the colleges mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students low-income students and students from underserved communities.
Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes
Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Dean Digital Learning

Job Description Summary:

To establish and maintain a teaching learning and working environment where faculty staff and students are appropriately served within available resources on a college-wide basis and to promote instructional goals and objectives conducive to student success. To provide oversight and support of assigned programs in digital fluency and innovation online course design and development integration of digital tools and platforms online program quality assurance (e.g. Quality Matters) competency-based education (CBE) micro-credential development support and alignment to credit pathways and faculty development for digital pedagogy.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

Essential Job Functions: Provides leadership in developing implementing and maintaining digital learning services. Ensures all online and digital instructional resources are accessible equitable and responsive to a multicultural student body while maintaining strict compliance with THECB and SACSCOC standards in alignment with the colleges mission.
Student/Faculty Issues: Partners with academic leadership to investigate and resolve student grievances leveraging LMS data and digital analytics to ensure objective data-informed outcomes for grade appeals academic dishonesty cases and instructional complaints.
Management: Ensures consistent and appropriate application of administrative rules within the assigned department hiring of staff planning and budgeting equipment and software needs selection supervision and evaluation of staff and preparation of reports as required. Supervises and evaluates support staff. Initiates and manages special projects and assignments. Participates in shared governance through service on collegewide councils and committees.
Curriculum/Instruction: Provides leadership and advocacy in the planning implementing assessing and ongoing improvement of online courses and programs. Ensures that all faculty teaching online are appropriately certified. Convenes advisory committees works with Grants Development Office and maintains community partnerships in support of programmatic goals.
Business and Industry: Develops and maintains positive relationships with external business and appropriate community organizations.

Knowledge

Demonstrated expertise in project planning development and implementation.
Demonstrated ability to present information and summary reports internally and to the public.
Understanding of the community college philosophy and mission.
Demonstrated ability to handle the demands and requirements of senior-level management in higher education.
Demonstrated expertise in effective and ethical leadership including an understanding of Servant-Leadership.
Demonstrated expertise in concepts and principles related to digital learning pedagogy instructional design models (e.g. ADDIE SAM) and accessibility standards (e.g. WCAG).
Demonstrated expertise in alternative credentialing models including micro-credentials CBE and workforce-aligned pathways.
Strong grasp of educational technology trends and best practices that enhance teaching learning and student success.

Skills

Working in a collaborative manner with multicultural constituencies.
Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
Working effectively with a multi-cultural student body and staff.
Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
Providing leadership at all levels of the college.
Planning prioritizing and problem-solving.
Handling multiple projects and meeting deadlines.
Planning and managing budgets and manpower needs.

Technology Skills

Use a variety of spreadsheet word processing database and presentation software.

Required Work Experience

Five years related work experience including supervision/management.

Preferred Work Experience

Supervision/management in a higher education academic environment.

Required Education

Masters degree. As required for faculty. Must meet SACSCOC faculty qualifications for the subject(s) areas taught. See the current year Faculty Qualifications Table located at Experience cannot be substituted for required applicable educational level.

Physical Requirements

Work is performed in a standard office or similar environment.
Subject to standing walking sitting bending reaching pushing and pulling.
Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Safety

Provide resources for safe operation of units. Create and support workplace safety.

Salary

Salary commensurate with experience

Number of Openings:

Job Posting Close Date:

March 10 2026

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education employees are required to report violations under Title IX and under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act) select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act) you will be notified trained and provided resources for reporting.

Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information.

For direct access to the current Annual Security Report visit . You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance Officer ( ). For an overview see ACCs Clery Act website.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add change amend or delete portions of this job description at any time with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested directed or addition reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.

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