Policies & Procedures Manual

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D.19 DIRECTOR OF AE/HSE

General Statement of the Function : The Director of AE/HSE provides program leadership and direction; plans, develops, implements, and evaluates all aspects of program and personnel. The Director of AE/HSE supervises instructors, academic and administrative assistants in Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott, and Winston Counties. The Director of AE/HSE reports directly to the Vice President for Instruction.

Duties and Responsibilities :

1. Oversees the day-to-day operation of program; 2. Establishes and maintains effective teaching and learning practices program –wide; 3. Initiates and facilitates change for continuous program improvement; 4. Understands, interprets, and assures compliance with applicable federal and state laws and regulations; 5. Initiates program planning, develops goals, and plans for meeting objectives; 6. Promotes safe work environment; 7. Establishes procedures for collecting, documenting, and reporting data, and ensures accountability; 8. Communicates regularly with staff and involves them in planning through a variety of formal and informal means; 9. Oversees recordkeeping, fiscal management, and programming; 10. Analyzes program data regularly in order to develop partnerships, create strategic plans, and make data-informed decisions; 11. Monitors and manages student learning and performance through data. Specifically, ensures assessment of learners’ prior knowledge, learning needs, and college -and career-readiness goals; setting of learning goals and course of study; monitoring of learning through summative and formative assessment; and adaptation of instruction based on formative and summative student assessment data; 12. Ensures high-quality, evidence-based instruction by overseeing the following: design of learner centered instruction and classroom environments; design of standards - based instructional units and lesson plans; use of instructional techniques that are effective with adult learners; design of instruction to build learners’ technology and digital media literacy skills; and design of instruction to build learners’ higher-order thinking, communication, and problem -solving skills; 13. Assures effective communication intended to motivate and engage learners through conveying high expectations, motivating learners to persist to meet their goals, and engaging students in 17. Coordinates activities of instructional staff to ensure effective and efficient program operation; 18. Supervises staff in developing professional development plans targeting student success and ensures staff will complete professional development requirements; 19. Promotes professional development opportunities and adheres to the professional development guideline requirements; 20. Manages fiscal resources and reports financial information; 21. Actively seeks resources through foundations, grants, etc., to leverage additional resources for the program; active listening, dialogue, and questioning to facilitate and support learning; 14. Pursues professionalism and continually builds knowledge and skills; 15. Assures effective and efficient program staffing; 16. Supervises, observes, and evaluates staff;