Director, Center for Integrated Learning - Walla Walla Community College

Walla Walla Community College (WWCC) is seeking a Director for the Center for Integrated Learning in beautiful Walla Walla, WA. This role is a prime opportunity for an instructional leader to impact student success across four campuses, enhancing faculty support in curriculum design, outcomes assessment, and innovative learning technologies. Reporting to the Dean of Access and Opportunity, you'll lead a team of three and collaborate closely with faculty to shape impactful professional development programs. With relocation assistance and strong growth potential, this position is ideal for someone ready to make a meaningful difference.

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Another Source's client, Walla Walla Community College (WWCC), is recruiting a Director, Center for Integrated Learning to join their team in Walla Walla, WA - a role offering a unique blend of professional growth, leadership impact, and community-centered innovation. The position offers a meaningful next step for an educational leader ready to shape transformative teaching and learning practices while advancing their career within a supportive and scenic environment.

About Walla Walla Community College:

WWCC is one of the top Community and Technical Colleges in Washington State. Located amidst picturesque rolling hills, beautiful farms, and vineyards, Walla Walla offers a charming environment with the Blue Mountains and Columbia River nearby. Take a look and learn how you can make a difference with our Warriors!

The Center for Integrated Learning is here to support students in their educational journey no matter whether it is occurring in a classroom or online or somewhere in between. Learn more here: https://www.wwcc.edu/academics/learn-online/

WWCC's comprehensive benefits package is designed to meet you where you're at in life and fulfill your individual needs. Advanced health plans catering to various life stages, robust professional development programs to foster your growth, memberships to the local YMCA to balance your physical wellbeing, opportunity to join a credit union, tuition assistance for you or family members, competitive retirement plans to support your goals, and various opportunities to engage in our commitment to social. https://www.wwcc.edu/employees/human-resources/employee-benefits/ https://www.wwcc.edu/paying-for-college/warrior-pledge/

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $85,904 - $91,273

Relocation assistance is available!

About the Role:

The mission of the Center for Integrated Learning (CIL) is to develop and enhance relevant, equitable, and innovative teaching and learning by ensuring opportunities for faculty and staff professional development in curriculum planning, course design and instruction, student engagement, and learning assessment within the framework of continuous improvement. The Director provides leadership and supports the continuing development and implementation of academic assessment initiatives that systematically improve student learning outcomes achievement and academic program quality. This position is responsible for ensuring support for all students and their engagement in the learning process. The Director supervises an Instructional Designer, Faculty Canvas Support Specialist(s), and a Faculty Assessment Coordinator. The Director works collaboratively with faculty and staff to develop quality programs and courses across all modalities that align with outcomes and utilize appropriate andragogical approaches, innovative educational technologies, effective instructional design models, and functional practices in Universal Design.

What you will be doing:

Provides college-wide transformative leadership by developing and enhancing teaching and learning through identification, evaluation, adoption, and integration of effective course design, learning outcomes, and andragogical strategies.

• Supervises and manages Center faculty and staff, such as the Instructional Designer, Faculty Canvas Support Specialist(s), and Faculty Assessment Coordinator.

• Collaborates with the Executive Director of Technology Services in evaluating the performance of the Educational Technologist.

• Develops and implements, in collaboration with Instructional Leadership, a Faculty Canvas Support Specialist Program to assist with faculty professional development.

• Contributes to a continuous improvement culture that leverages course survey data, quality assurance feedback, faculty and instructor feedback, and other sources of input.

• Fulfills and reviews the Center's mission, vision, objectives, and equity work plan to ensure alignment with the College's strategic plan.

• Collaborates with Human Resources, Association for Higher Education, Faculty Senate, Technology Services, various instructional areas, and other stakeholders in establishing, directing, implementing, and sustaining instructionalprofessional development opportunities.

• Participates as a member of the Professional Development Committee.

• Develops and implements policies and procedures ensuring compliance with the Federal Education Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) and National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA) in collaboration with the Dean and Vice President of Instruction.

• Provides support and coordinates with Deans, Department Chairs, and faculty to improve cohesion of online degrees and certificate offerings, and to develop and support new online pathways.

• Prepares recommendations for and administers the Center's budget; oversees all expenditures for goods, services, and personnel.

• Assists, advises, and trains faculty and staff in the theory and practice of designing, developing, delivering, measuring and assessing learning in a variety of modalities, including, but not limited to face-to-face, online, hybrid, HyFlex (or its equivalent), and other synchronous and asynchronous technology-enhanced modalities.

• Develops learning and training opportunities for faculty through a range of technological competencies

• Provides individual consultation and coaching and conducts workshops using various technologies.

• Develops and manages, in collaboration with the Center's team, an electronic resource center that addresses theory and practice of effective distance pedagogy, instructional design, Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act and other UDL principles.

• Supports Technology Services in administering, updating, and supporting the Learning Management System (LMS).

• Analyzes institutional needs and resources related to instructional delivery through technology

• Identifies future professional development needs based on feedback from faculty and deans.

• Remains current on educational, instructional, and technological tools, software, and methods to enhance student success at the College.

• Builds relationships of trust and influence to actively increase use of new teaching technologies for faculty.

• Participates on college-wide bodies, such as Curriculum Council, Outcomes & Assessment Committee.

• Represents the College and attend meetings as part of the Washington State eLearning Council (eLC).

Competencies

• Demonstrated ability to work with faculty, staff, and students from diverse cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic, and academic backgrounds.

• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate with faculty, staff, students and other individuals outside the organization.

• Ability to teach via a Learning Management System (e.g., Canvas)

• Demonstrated ability to utilize 21st-century teaching modalities that involve technology, including HyFlex (or equivalent).

• Skilled in creating a trusting atmosphere by regularly communicating, acting accountably, transparently, and with integrity and confidentiality.

• Ability to be "change ready" and flexible in adjusting an approach or demeanor to match the shifting demands of different situations.

• Skilled in using feedback and reflection to gain insight into personal strengths and areas of improvement and adjusts as needed.

• Continuously and proactively identifies improvement needs and make changes to processes resulting in improved outcomes.

• Demonstrated ability to act on new opportunities and challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.

• Skilled in using innovative approaches and moving instructional methods and technologies forward independently and collectively.

What we would like you to bring to the team:

• Master's degree in Educational/Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or closely related field.

• Two years' experience in higher education leadership role (Department Chair, Director, etc.) or in an eLearning Department (Instructional Designer, Education Technologist, etc.).

• Demonstrated proficiency in college-level teaching or serving as an educator of educators; teaching experience as a teaching assistant or adjunct instructor may count toward the requirement.

• Knowledge and understanding of research and literature in the fields of faculty development, instructional technology, instructional design, learning theories, and learning outcomes assessment.

• Experience with Canvas, or comparable Learning Management System.

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