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The Associate Vice-President, Education and Innovation is an inspiring, visionary leader with significant college-wide influence. They lead efforts in support of the college’s commitment to providing programs and services that respond to students’ academic, personal, and social needs.

Guided by the college’s strategic priority of “doing good work together” the Associate Vice-President models collaboration, consultation and cooperation, focussing on systems, structures and processes that enable faculty and staff to deliver quality, student-centred programs and services.

The Associate Vice-President is an advisor to the Provost, and represents the Provost as required. The Provost and Associate Vice-President collaborate to ensure the priorities of the Education Plan and other institutional plans are achieved, and to facilitate the continuous improvement of programs and services. The Associate Vice-President collaborates closely with other senior college leaders and plays a central role in fostering service excellence across the institution.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

The Associate Vice-President reports to the Provost and Vice-President Education and Innovation. The Associate Vice-President supervises an Executive Assistant.

The Associate Vice-President has direct working relationships with the Deans, Directors and Executive Director reporting to the Provost. The Associate Vice-President also has key working relationships with:

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Strategic Leadership:

The Associate Vice-President plays a key role in ensuring that the college’s mission to build a better future for the community with relevant, innovative and applied education is at the center of the work of the schools and the educational services units.

Responsibilities include:

Service Excellence:
In collaboration with Deans and Directors ensures that the delivery of supports and services meet and respond to students’ academic, social and personal needs and goals, achieve service standards that reflect the college’s values and strategic priorities, and align with policy.

Responsibilities include:

Innovation and Research:
The Associate Vice-President is a catalyst for innovation, and stewards thoughtful change management practices across the college.

Responsibilities include:

Operational Excellence:
The Associate Vice-President coordinates a range of operational functions and activities to ensure effective and efficient service and program delivery.

Responsibilities include:

Communication and community building:
The Associate Vice President plays a key role creating and maintaining open channels of communication and information sharing.

Responsibilities include:

OTHER FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

QUALIFICATIONS

The incumbent will possess established professional credibility, demonstrated by:

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

The incumbent will exhibit the following:

As a member of the college community with responsibilities to enable the achievement of college-wide strategic objectives, the Vice President, Administration, will demonstrate the three core and three leadership capabilities identified in the College’s Capability Framework:

Focus on Students and Their Success (Core)
We all have a role to play in promoting and supporting students – directly or indirectly – contributing to their success, education and transition as they build their path to the future.

Cultural Alignment (Core)
Inclusion and respect align with Camosun’s traditions of lifelong learning and positive, supportive experiences for all. We examine our individual and institutional cultures and, through indigenization, consider other ways of knowing (thinking), being (approaches), doing (acting), and relating.

Fostering and Nurturing Relationships (Core)
Fostering and nurturing relationships is at the core of everything we do. Successful workplace relationships take time to develop and include building trust, engagement and collaboration.

Address College Needs (Leadership)
In order to address college needs leaders recognize and respond to the complex, diverse and interdependent components. Leaders inspire others to work individually and collaboratively to achieve departmental/divisional, college and sectoral goals.

Enable Self & Others (Leadership)
To better serve students and the college to achieve success, leaders enable self and others to take responsibility and to participate in learning and development opportunities.

Create Time and Space (Leadership)
To be at our best and achieve organizational goals, we need both time and space. Time and space as a unitary concept promotes opportunities to listen, plan, think, create, innovate and develop relationships.

Camosun College is located in Victoria B.C., the traditional territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Kosapsum) and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. Camosun is a Ləkʷəŋən word meaning where different waters meet and are transformed.

Camosun, considered B.C.’s most comprehensive college, offers more than 160 certificate, diploma, and bachelor’s degree programs. Programs are supported by a robust range of services. The college has a reputation for teaching excellence and an outstanding student experience.

ÍY,ĆANEUEL OL: Doing Good Work Together is a Camosun College strategic priority. The College’s work environment is inclusive and supportive, allowing individuals to make a difference.

Join the Camosun community in this newly-established leadership role. Guided by the College’s strategic priority of “Doing good work together”, in this role you will model collaboration, consultation, and cooperation, focussing on systems, structures, and processes that enable faculty and staff to deliver quality, student-centred programs and services.

The Associate Vice-President is a trusted advisor to the Provost. Together, you and the Provost will ensure that the priorities of the Education Plan are achieved and the continuous improvement of programs and services is facilitated. You will collaborate with other senior leaders and will have a central role in fostering service excellence across the institution.

Can you see the big picture, connect the dots, make connections, and get things done? Camosun is looking for an educational leader and innovator with broad experience in post-secondary education to become the new Associate Vice-President.

As a confident and enthusiastic leader, you believe in the importance of communication and working cooperatively across all areas of an institution. You believe that establishing and nurturing productive relationships is the key to results.

As a community builder, you share your knowledge and expertise, mentor others, and consult widely. You have good instincts, are proactive, and exercise good judgement, showing respect and understanding for organizational culture.

Your work is grounded in an in-depth knowledge of the Canadian post-secondary environment. Your passion for learning is revealed in your curiosity, your critical approach to the issues facing colleges today, and the trends that are on the horizon.

As the key advisor to the Provost, you are forthright and respect this trusted relationship. You have a deep understanding of what it means to be in service to students, your colleagues, and the institution. You embrace the opportunities and challenges and are able to recognize your limits by making sure you create the space and time to think, reflect, and plan.

The new Associate Vice-President knows that effective operations are strategic, and will take a lead role in establishing structures and processes that will sustain the college into the future.

Above all, you are able to share the joy of being an educational leader at a college that is committed to life-changing learning. You will make a difference.

Questions? Contact Interim AVP Sybil Harrison harrisons@camosun.ca