- Hours of Work: Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM.
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Screening will begin ASAP and continue until the position is filled.
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Start date to be determined, but as soon as practicable after the hiring/interview process. Tentative start date: August 2026.
Salary and Benefits: This is a full-time, benefited Executive, E14 level position. Starting wage range: $114,651.00 - $149,046.00/annually, depending upon experience.
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Educational Benefits for the employees and dependents
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Tuition Reimbursement
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15 – 18 Paid Holiday/Closure Days
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Three Paid Personal Days
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Healthcare/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
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Generous Retirement Benefits - 15.12% Employer Paid/4% Employee Paid
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Paid Vacation and Sick Leave
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Onsite Childcare Center
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Professional Development Opportunities
JOB SUMMARY
The Vice President of Performance & Planning is the Chief Performance Officer of Laramie County Community College (LCCC). The Vice President (VP) ensures the College has systems in place to continuously assess performance, processes for planning designed to improve performance, and services that support these activities. The VP collaboratively develops systems that assess student learning, academic programs, and college services. The VP serves as the Accreditation Liaison Officer (ALO) for coordinating institutional accreditation activities to the Higher Learning Commission while supporting programmatic accreditation activities as needed. The VP oversees and ensures the effective deployment of stakeholder-focused services including institutional academic assessment, institutional research, sponsored awards and compliance, and project management. The VP assists LCCC administration in the formulation and interpretation of issues, analysis of trends, and institutional outcomes while playing a critical role linking planning, resource allocation, and assessment of institutional effectiveness. The VP provides the campus community with relevant, timely, and accurate information in a user-friendly format supporting decision-making at LCCC.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: – this position is exempt, i.e., is not eligible for compensatory or overtime pay provisions of the FLSA. This listing of essential duties is not all-inclusive, but representative; other duties may be assigned).
To perform successfully in this position, an individual must be able to perform principal responsibilities satisfactorily as well as possess education/experience, employ the knowledge, skills, and abilities as listed in representative fashion; reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the principal responsibilities.
Systems for Assessing Performance: Establishes, monitors, and improves systems that assess performance at the institutional, academic program, college services, and student learning levels. The Vice President (VP) is responsible for these systems:
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Assessing Institutional Performance – determines institutional performance overall. The VP ensures that a robust and effective system is in place to monitor institutional performance on those metrics, measures, or key performance indicators that are directly tied to the College’s mission, vision, and values.
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Student Learning Assessment – determines institutional performance regarding student achievement of proficiency on course-level, program-level, and general education outcomes. The VP collaboratively establishes, maintains, and improves the system for how student learning is assessed.
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Assessing Academic Programs – determines how well the College’s academic degree and credential programs are functioning from both an effectiveness and efficiency perspective. The system must include both effective short-cycle assessment examining program viability and health as well as long-cycle monitoring with program review for a comprehensive analysis of academic programs’ performance in meeting student success outcomes.
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Assessing College Services – determines the institutional performance of various services and support areas of the College in achieving their intended purpose. Like assessing academic areas, this system must ensure the College’s service areas are functioning both effectively and efficiently with a continuous quality improvement (CQI) focus. This process includes both effective short- and long-cycle assessment components.
Providing Processes Associated with Planning, CQI, and Quality Assurance: Ensures robust, effective processes are in place that allow LCCC to assure the expectations of the College’s stakeholders, encourage evidence-informed actions that focus on continuous quality improvement, and generate planning at both the strategic and operational levels. This is accomplished through the deployment of the following processes:-
Institutional Quality Assurance through Accreditation – serves as the College’s Accreditation Liaison Officer (ALO) to the Higher Learning Commission overseeing and collaboratively coordinating a process for maintaining Institutional Accreditation.
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Strategic Planning – The College President is responsible for ensuring LCCC has a purposeful, aggressive, and comprehensive strategic plan. The VP of Performance & Planning assists the president in this process, and leads design, deployment, and improvement of the planning process to establish the strategic plan. The VP is also responsible for the processes that lead to the execution of actions that align with the strategic plan’s goals, strategies, and initiatives.
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Operational Planning – The VP collaborates with internal stakeholders on the design, deployment, and improvement of processes associated with operational planning and execution of those plans for the areas of institutional assessment (academic programs, student learning, and college services).
Providing Effective Stake-Holder Services: Ensures the provision of effective services critical to stakeholders involved in navigating the assessment systems and processes under the Performance & Planning functional area. These services include:-
Institutional Assessment – ensures that the College has access to support and structures that facilitates the execution of a systematic and effective process of student learning assessment to include the identification of the areas of greatest opportunity for growth. This includes the oversight of the Institutional Assessment Office and its director.
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Institutional Research – provides services to stakeholders that pertain to institutional research, data-informed decision making, and continual analysis of performance to help focus individuals and the institution on the areas of greatest opportunity for improvement at LCCC. This includes the oversight of the Institutional Research Office and its director.
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Project Management – ensures the College’s stakeholders have access to support and structures that help execute major initiatives aligned with appropriate plans and the identification of areas for greatest improvement stemming from assessment activities. This includes the oversight of the Project Management Office and its director.
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Sponsored Awards and Compliance – ensures that LCCC continually strives to identify, seek, and secure and or assist others in the same pursuit of opportunities that bring additional resources to the College that align with the institutional mission and CQI-initiated plans. Ensures responsible monitoring and compliance of these resources. This includes the oversight of the Sponsored Awards and Compliance Office and its director.
Functional Department Management: Successfully and effectively manages the people and resources within the Performance & Planning Division, including oversight of the management of the functional departments and work groups within this area. This functional tasking area may include:-
Provides strong, dynamic administrative leadership, fostering an environment that engenders a culture of evidence and continuous quality improvement.
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Utilizes a rational systematic process to facilitate fiscally responsible budgeting within the division, including direct oversight for planning, assessing trend data, facilitating relevant research, preparing and presenting proposals, and advocating for support of financial resources when necessary.
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Guides overall staff development directly and or by working with senior managers to plan and implement professional development and growth for staff.
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Provides effective managerial oversight of direct reports, to include providing timely and relevant performance feedback, annual evaluations, and ongoing mentorship to promote effective and consistent leadership throughout the Performance & Planning Division.
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Directly, or via delegation, provides oversight to the hiring and performance management of staff within the various areas under the VP’s purview.
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Leads overall intra-departmental efforts to plan and implement an approach to recruiting, developing, and retaining staff who demonstrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes that foster an inclusive campus climate.
Other tasks may be assigned based on contemporary institutional needs.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
Knowledge
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Strong understanding of strategic planning processes, institutional research, and assessment methodologies.
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Knowledge of data analytics, reporting systems, and performance management tools.
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Understanding of higher education institutional and program accreditation processes, preferably with the Higher Learning Commission’s open pathway.
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Knowledge of change management strategies and models that enhance institutional performance and adaptability.
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Knowledge of Ellucian’s (formerly Datatel) Colleague, SQL and basic programming skills is helpful.
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Comprehensive knowledge of research methodologies and analytical approaches; Background in research methodology, preferably with proven design and application in a higher education setting; community college research abilities desired.
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Knowledge of continuous quality improvement methods and models.
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Knowledge of strategic and operational planning models and approaches, program and service review, project management, and integrating resource allocation, planning and assessment.
Skills
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Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills; the ability to maintain collegial relationships and work as a team-player able to work successfully and productively in a team environment and/or independently; Ability to organize, summarize, and report information in a meaningful fashion, including the ability to concisely display information in tables or graphs.
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Expertise in using institutional research software, data analytics platforms, and performance dashboards (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, etc.).
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Proficient in statistical analysis, with the ability to analyze detailed information and provide a concise summarization of results.
Abilities
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Demonstrated ability to provide sustained leadership in a dynamic and rapidly changing higher education environment focused on continuous quality improvement.
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Ability to communicate clearly with a variety of people, in one-to-one and small group settings – either face-to-face, by telephone, or by other electronic means – ability to communicate and write in a clear and informative manner, effectively listen, and be able to handle escalating situations with concern and confidence.
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Ability to balance academic, business, and human considerations; strong ability to perform well and be unfailingly diplomatic in a high pressure and complex environment.
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Demonstrated ability to lead data-driven decision-making and assess organizational performance metrics.
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Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage stakeholder engagement across departments.
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Ability to motivate staff and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
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Ability to engage with internal and external stakeholders, including faculty, administrators, students, and external partners, to align planning initiatives with institutional goals.
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Ability to acquire, compile, and analyze information; Proficient at managing and retrieving information from large relational databases; Experienced in the collection, management, analysis, and summarization of data; Proficient in statistical analysis, with the ability to analyze detailed information and provide a concise summarization of results.
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Ability to rationally and objectively engage in problem-solving, and decision-making tasking, which may involve difficult outcomes.
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Ability to read and interpret instructions in oral, written, or diagrammatical form (e.g., a flow chart of a process). Ability to read, interpret and consider possible applications of business literature and legal documents.
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Ability to support time-based requests; able to function effectively in a multi-tasking, fast-paced environment with deadlines, frequent interruptions, and some interpersonal pressure.
PHYSICAL/MENTAL DEMANDS:
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There may be occurrences of interacting with employees and/or students, past employees and/or students, members of the general public, and others who express opinions, may exhibit strong emotions, which will require the employee to interact professionally, diplomatically, and appropriately in such situations
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While performing the essential duties of this position, an employee would frequently be required to move around the assigned work areas as well as within hallways, meeting rooms, and other parts of the campus facilities
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There may be multiple/daily instances of prolonged sitting, standing, and personal computer use, which would include keyboard and/or mouse usage as well as viewing a computer monitor
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An employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
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Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus
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The overall work environment requires the mental ability to shift focal point quickly due to interruptions; an employee must be able to mentally track multiple projects and tasking as well
NOTE: This position description is a general description; it is not intended as an employment contract, nor is it intended to describe all duties someone in this position may perform. All employees of the College are expected to perform other tasks as assigned by their respective supervisor/manager regardless of job title or routine job duties.
If you are selected for the position, your appointment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. LCCC reserves the right to end this employment agreement should the results of your background investigation not be successful.
LCCC DOES NOT SPONSOR H1B VISAS.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Laramie County Community College is an EEO/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of, race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or covered veteran status.
The college has a designated person to monitor compliance and to answer any questions regarding the college's nondiscrimination policies. Please contact: Title IX, Title VI, and ADA Coordinator, Suite 205, Clay Pathfinder Building, 1400 E College Drive, Cheyenne, WY 82007, 307.778.1144,[email protected]. Contact information for the regional Office for Civil Rights is: Office for Civil Rights, Denver Office, U.S. Department of Education, Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Building, 1244 Speer Boulevard, Suite 310, Denver, CO 80204-3582, 303.844.5695,[email protected]. Updated 6/2025.
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The mission of Laramie County Community College is to transform our students' lives through the power of inspired learning. Our over-arching goal is that our accomplishments as a community college will distinguish LCCC from others in the nation, in turn benefiting our communities and bringing pride to the Great State of Wyoming. Our core values include Passion, Authenticity, and the Desire to Make a Difference.
