Dean of the College of Aerospace, Computing, Engineering, and Design

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Department VPAA Office Position Summary The Dean is the chief academic and administrative officer for the College of Aerospace, Computing, Engineering and Design with responsibility for the academic and outreach leadership of the College and management of its resources, including faculty and staff, physical facilities and budget. The Dean has responsibility for managing an administrative team to work cohesively to support the College as a whole and serves as the lead in representing the College on campus and to the outside world, including alumni, donors, and other external stakeholders. The Dean takes the lead in strategic planning and in solidifying and implementing the vision, mission, and goals for the College. In this role, the Dean will set the standard of intellectual engagement and accomplishment for the College, provide strategic vision and operational leadership to all aspects of the academic and scholarly programs, promote synergies within the College and university and encourage opportunities for distinctive programmatic innovation. In addition, the Dean will be responsible for: Advancing the faculty's scholarly activities and encourage and advocate for interdisciplinary opportunities; Representing the College to the senior administration, particularly in securing resource support for the College's activities; Participating in campus-wide policy development and decision-making as a member of MSU Denver's senior leadership team; Persuasively articulating the vision, mission, goals, and programs of the College to the University community, external stakeholders, and the general public; Providing leadership to ensure excellence through diversity in undergraduate and graduate programs and faculty recruitment; Providing leadership to the faculty in developing, maintaining, and improving high-quality programs of instruction, research, creative activity, outreach, and public service; Providing leadership and support for the College's professional staff; Providing leadership in the area of fundraising and external relations as well as spearheading broader advancement efforts in communications and engagement with external stakeholders. Opportunities and Challenges The Dean will set the strategic direction for the college and guarantee their alignment with MSU Denver's unique access mission. The Dean will serve as the key ambassador between faculty, professional staff and administration, building effective and sustainable relationships with an eye toward the whole student experience to promote academic excellence, enrollment, retention, persistence, and success. Specifically, the Dean will work to address the following challenges and opportunities: The successful applicant will be able to work in a highly collaborative and diplomatic manner with the CACED program chairs and faculty to develop long-term plans for higher education specific to the missions, objectives and professional associations of and represented by the academic and research interests of CACED. The successful applicant will be able to understand and differentiate the strategies and tactics necessary for each academic program in CACED to seek grants, funding, and collaboration among public and private sector entities and within frameworks of short and long-run planning and implementation. The successful applicant will be able to embrace an entrepreneurial approach to implementing and leveraging strategy for fostering basic and applied research in a coordinated an unbiased approach across all academic programs within CACED. This directive includes securing infrastructure, developing faculty incentive programs, and other human resource concerns needed to support a burgeoning research and development program within CACED. The successful applicant will be able to provide leadership in the development of coordinated marketing efforts supporting the academic programs within CACED. Marketing priorities for CACED include at least strong regional branding, recruitment of students, and the recruitment of a highly talented and collaborative faculty and staff. An underpinning of marketing philosophy will be to publicize and leverage the superior benefits of CACED as a synergistic collective of highly interdependent academic programming and professions supporting the missions of CACED and MSU Denver. The successful applicant will be able to provide leadership in the development of strategies critical to improving student retention and graduation rates for all programs within CACED. The successful applicant will deliver a spirit of unbiased leadership focused on the importance of CACED faculty and staff as top priorities for providing inspiration, cultivation, and professional development and job satisfaction. The successful applicant will recognize and hold all academic units within CACED as equal, connected, and essential to contributing to the success of CACED and MSU Denver. Qualities and Characteristics The Dean will possess the