What are the responsibilities and job description for the Department Chair, Technology position at Lamar Institute of Technology?
Job Summary:
The Department Chair for Technology’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, directly overseeing full-time faculty, adjunct faculty (including those employed by dual credit partners), departmental staff, and student assistants; and managing the day-to-day departmental operations for the Technology Department. This individual is essential to supporting the College’s mission and contributes to long-term institutional planning while focusing on student success outcomes (e.g., retention, graduation rates, transfer, and/or job placement) while ensuring institutional and program goals are achieved. This is an exempt position.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support the College President, Shared Vision, TSUS goals, and THECB plans
- Understand and use data to expand day, evening, weekend, and online course offerings, including dual credit offerings
- Provide and improve two-way communication between faculty and administration
- Responsible for new program development and coordination.
- Develop program recruitment strategies for each program as well as individual faculty
- Analyze recruitment strategy results and provide a monthly report to leadership
- Manage departmental budgets, limit institutional risks, and assist in security awareness
- Create an environment of inclusion for adjuncts, provide mentorship for all staff/faculty (including dual credit instructors), encourage innovation, and uphold accountability
- Oversee day-to-day administrative activities and operational functions: payroll and HR related paperwork, leave submissions, time sheets, purchasing, textbook orders, etc.
- Responsible for recruiting adjunct faculty
- Responsible for personnel management tasks, including but not limited to: monitoring work assignments, performing classroom observations and evaluations, delivering contracts, proposing new position requests, making termination recommendations (when needed), maintaining an adjunct candidate pool, and regulating faculty office hours
- Resolve conflicts including, but not limited to, student-to-student, student-to-faculty, faculty-to-student, and faculty-to-faculty
- Participate in conferences/seminars and evening college functions, galas, advisory committees, and civic events, including travel, as needed
- Other related duties and responsibilities, as assigned
Physical Requirements:
This position requires the ability to: remain in a stationary position for most of the time; occasionally move about inside an office to access documents, office equipment, etc.; constantly operate a computer or other office equipment, such as a printer or copy machine. The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- MS/MA/MBA degree
- At least 3-5 years teaching experience in higher education
- Appropriate state or agency licensure or certificate
Preferred Qualifications
- A doctoral degree from a regionally accredited university
- Working experience at a two-year college
- Five years of experience in a leadership role
- Advanced skills in Banner, Argos, Microsoft Office applications
Lamar Institute of Technology is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including and as it pertains to pregnancy and wages), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, protected veteran status, and/or retaliation.
Notice of Availability of the Annual Security Report
LIT’s Annual Security Report is provided in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (20 USC § 1092(f), 34 CFR 668.46). This report contains information regarding campus safety and security including topics such as: campus law enforcement authority; crime reporting policies; campus alerts (Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications); programs to prevent dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking; the procedures the Institute will follow when one of these crimes is reported; and other matters of importance related to security on campus. The report also contains information about crime statistics for the three most recent calendar years concerning reported crimes that occurred on campus; in non-campus buildings or property owned or controlled by the Institute or a recognized student organization; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus. If you would like to receive a paper copy of the Annual Security Report, you can stop by Lamar Institute of Technology, Eagles Nest, Room 128, at 855 East Lavaca, Beaumont, TX, 77705, or you can request that a copy be mailed to you by calling 409-839-2032 or emailing titleix@lit.edu.
Security Sensitive Statement
This position is security-sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of the Texas Education Code §51.215, which authorizes the employer to obtain criminal history record information.
Salary : $76,567
