Employer
Brunswick Community College
Job Location
Bolivia, NC
Salary Grade
Benefits
Yes
Job Category
Executive/Administrative/Managerial
Application Period
Opens:
Closes: 12/01/2025
Target Start Date
Expected Work Hours
Employment Type
Full Time
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution.
- Current Dental Assisting National Board (DANB) certification as a Dental Assistant II with experience in fourhanded dentistry.
- Must have proof of instruction in educational theory and methodology principles from a recognized provider or accredited institution.
- Five calendar years or the equivalent of full-time clinical experience as a Dental Assistant II.
- Support the success of assigned programs. Skilled in the use of office and classroom/lab technologies.
- Ability to work effectively and collegially with colleagues.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior leadership experience at a community college preferred.
Position Description
General Function
Under limited supervision, provides leadership and direction of the Dental Assisting program at Brunswick Community College. This position reports to the Dean of Health Sciences. The Director of Dental Assisting is responsible for providing vision, direction and oversight of all activities within the department. The position provides classroom, lab and clinical instruction.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide collaborative leadership, guidance and direction for the assigned program.
- Foster a collegial relationship among colleagues and partners.
- Provide leadership for planning, developing, implementing and evaluating programs of study while ensuring accreditation and compliance mandates are met.
- Support the student access, success and completion agenda.
- Actively represent assigned programs in the College’s planning, decision-making, and budget development and management processes.
- Develop a comprehensive departmental strategic plan aligned with the college planning timeline to include program reviews.
- Evaluate program, course and student learning outcomes.
- Direct and instruct in the Dental Assisting program.
- Ability and willingness to teach assigned course load which may include lecture, lab and clinical.
- Recruit, hire, orient, and provide success plans for direct reports, faculty and staff.
- Liaison with community partners, schools and peer institutions to meet their needs and strengthen assigned programs.
- Provide leadership to the Dental Assisting Advisory Committee.
- Manage the instructional processes through collaborative planning.
- Coordinate and allocate resources through the budgeting process and ensure monthly balanced budgets.
- Participate in various committee assignments.
- Identify grant opportunities that advance instruction, director/faculty professional development, new technologies, innovations, and student learning initiatives.
- Perform other tasks as assigned.