Director Honors College

LSC-Tomball
Director Honors College
Position Summary: The Director, Honors College acts as the principal and primary academic and budgetary officer for the respective campus Honors College office. Provide positive leadership regarding Honors curricular and co-curricular course offerings and programming, Honors Faculty, and honors students' success that further the academic, programmatic, and scholarly mission of the institution in its service to the community. Support the Honors College's mission of being national leaders in honors education and promote Lone Star College as an institution of first choice. Process academic and student services related policy and procedure, determination of honors academic standards and benchmarks, participation in budgetary allocations, and assessment necessary for the development, growth and continued improvement of curricular and co-curricular honors programming. Holds direct management authority and accountability to execute policies and operational initiatives for functional area.
Job Functions:

1. Provides guidance and resources to staff and faculty for professional development in an overall campus department location. Plan, develop and implement all honors curriculum, outcomes and offerings. Hold campus Honors Faculty meetings and professional development sessions for continued improvement
2. Implement best practice-based processes for honor registration and enrollment. Address honors-related complaints, issues and eligibility
3. Schedules work and activities
4. Organizes, plans and prioritizes work, including campus-level curricular and co-curricular activities, Honors events, long-range plans and campus evaluation and professional development
5. Has accountability for all duties of subordinates of Honors staff and oversees student data tracking, travel and budget
6. Works collaboratively with internal and external contacts. Maintains a visible role in the community and with local ISD's
7. Negotiates and deals with vendors and outside organizations
8. Analyzes and interprets detailed information to develop campus-strategic goals and provide semesterly and yearly program evaluation / curricular assessment
9. Develops and manages contracts and budgets and send to Associate Vice Chancellor for final approval
10. Responsible for overseeing Honors student advising, including personalized advising, training advisors/counselors on Honors curriculum and schedules, providing honors-related transfer and scholarship workshops
11. Responsible for leading honors related travel. Serve as trip leader for some student conferences and international travel. Support and oversee honors campus-affiliate field trips
12. Initiate and manage honors recruiting and outreach by leading recruitment drives, high school recruiting visits and events, advertising and distributing scholarships at the campus level and coordinating scholarship plans to enrollment management
13. Teach one honors section per semester as an adjunct
14. Support integration initiatives with International Programs and Civic Engagement
15. Responsible for other reasonable related duties as assigned

• Bachelor's degree and at least 7 years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience must include at least 3 years in a management-level position

• Master's degree