Job posting

MCTC is a two-year college located in downtown Minneapolis, serving the diverse, multicultural communities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. We provide a comprehensive offering of developmental, liberal arts, pre-professional, professional, and technical programs.

• Serve as leader, administrator and evaluator of the Federal TRiO programs including Student Support Services; Educational Opportunity Centers; Veterans Upward Bound; Talent Search and Upward Bound.
• Supervise and evaluate TRiO personnel, and other personnel as assigned.
• Responsible for development and/or administration of budgets in areas of supervision.
• Serve as liaison between the TRiO Programs and the college, surrounding community and community agencies, businesses and other groups, K-12, advisory committees, state and national groups.
• Supervises the grant management of the programs including grant writing, budget management and report writing to the college, the state of Minnesota and the US Department of Education.

• Master’s Degree
• Leadership experience

• One year of teaching  or counseling at the higher education level.
• Three years of leadership experience specifically in higher education.
• Demonstrated ability to blend the mission of TRiO and the mission of the College.
• Knowledge of U.S Department of Education policies and procedures.
• Knowledge and experience in advocating for the special populations represented in TRiO
• Promotion of professional development of staff at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and to establish and maintain a high degree of personal and departmental integrity and openness with students, faculty and staff.
• Demonstrated skill in leadership, management, and supervision of personnel.
• Demonstrated skill in working effectively with personnel conflicts and concerns.
• Experience in developing, organizing and administering budgets.
• Demonstrated ability as an effective communicator who will listen, is open to new ideas/suggestions and responds in a timely way to faculty, students and staff with response to questions or concerns.
• Demonstrated ability to seeking multiple ways in problem solving, an ability to deliver the "no" message and have a sense of humor.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively organize time and complete diverse tasks.
• Evidence of a strong and clear commitment to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability and ethnic backgrounds of community college students. 

Other Special Requirements

• Adaptable to change both internally and externally
• Demonstrated ability to administer in a fair, thorough and thoughtful way.
• Will support program values of diversity.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to travel overnight for professional meetings and attend or manage evening and weekend events.

Materials submitted electronically on or before October 16, 2009 will receive priority review.

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