Summary 
Under general direction, this position provides strategic leadership for the college’s learning management system, the Jaguar Office of Learning Technologies (JOLT), STUDIO T, and the LIVE Teaching Studio.  Employees in this classification perform administrative and instructional work, develop and teach courses in the appropriate discipline, and are responsible for general oversight of staff.

Knowledge & Responsibilities:

Essential Duties include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Oversee and administer of all major functions of the College’s Learning management system (Blackboard).
• Review the unit’s programs and services to determine innovative methods of using new and existing technologies to improve student learning.
• Assess and facilitate the delivery of faculty development needs related to technology use in classrooms.
• Oversee inventory management of classroom and other designated instructional technology equipment.
• Ensure efficient operations of student & faculty support services.
• Supervise and evaluate staff members to ensure professional development and operational effectiveness.
• Evaluates emerging technology and assessment tools, and guide senior academic leaders on strategic and operational decisions involving instructional technology hardware, software, and programs.
• Develops collaborative relationships between Information Technology dept and college departments to create useable business solutions.
• Applying tested instructional design models, theories, practice, and methods.
• Determine professional development SLOs and align them to appropriate learning activities and assessments.
• Identifies, evaluates and applies appropriate tools and techniques to best deliver universally designed interactive content in a variety of formats including print, graphics, audio, video, multimedia on a variety of devices.
• Promote and support the integration of technology into credit and non-credit courses to improve student engagement.
• Serve on college committees as needed.
• Establish and evaluate educational technology policies, procedures, and processes.
• Manage relationships with vendors and third-party service providers including managing contracts.
• Comply with all SACS, SARA, and/or accreditation criteria as required.
• Assist Associate Vice President with the development of operational and capital technology budgets.
• Manage the department’s online teaching certification program.
• Assist in the planning, compiling, and submitting of proposals, reports, and other appropriate materials related to educational technologies and online education. 
• Perform other tasks and assume other responsibilities as the Associate Vice President may designate.                                  

 
Supervisory Responsibilities                                                
Supervise and a evaluate all personnel within the area of responsibility, supervise workload and timely execution of tasks, provide training and resolve conflicts. Ensure that reporting personnel have annual goals and measurements that are consistent with the priorities of the college, and that interim reviews are held so that their work is focused on those priorities, and they understand their level of accountability for results and the measurement process. 

Additional Information:

Language Skills                                            

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.  
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.  
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Mathematical Skills                                                  

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts and interest. 

Reasoning Ability                                                      

• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the direction, control and planning of the program

Technical & Computer Skills

• Demonstrated experience with Blackboard hosting solutions and knowledge of SIS integration.
• Demonstrated experience with a wide variety of classroom technology including Interactive monitors
• Basic experience with Advanced System Reporting (ASR) and query building using MySQL.
• Ellucian Colleague scripting experience a plus
• Visual design skills (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Proficiency with video editing tools (Camtasia, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro)
• Proficiency with e-learning authoring tools (Storyline, Captivate)
• Lesson and curriculum planning skills

 
A complete knowledge of Microsoft Products as used in overall management in an educational environment is required. Experience creating training using various authoring tools. Experience with online course delivery systems such as Blackboard.
 
Physical Demands 
The physical demands described here 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.
 
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to walk and sit and is occasionally required to stand; use hands and fingers; reach with hands and arms; and stoop or kneel.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.   Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.
 
Work Environment 
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
 
The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.