Executive Director of the Learning Commons and Student Success

Typical Duties: • Serves Students. Collaborates with the Director of Student Success Center and librarians to create collaborative learning environments and develop strategic initiatives on the learning resources and technology to serve the unique population of non-traditional, dual-enrolled, first-generation, multicultural, distant, online, and crossinstitutional students. • Maintains library and student success trends by transforming the facilities into a 21st-century Learning Commons. Uses AI-driven analysis and the implementation of adaptive technologies to integrate digital literacy, success coaching, and workforce-aligned environments to enhance student outcomes. Streamlines workflows and ensures seamless resource access for faculty and students. Fosters a culture of professional development that aligns staff expertise with emerging technological and pedagogical shifts. • Oversees budget allocations for the Library and Student Success Center. Plans for future growth, innovation, and resources based on needs analysis and use projections. • Manages current relationships with the AWC campus and satellite population, community members, intergovernmental parties, and partnership institutions. Encourages the evolution of the existing partnership between AWC, NAU-Yuma, other four-year institutional partners, and organizations. Represents the college in relevant professional associations and consortia as appropriate. • Communicates with administrative contacts and participates in campus committees to align strategic initiatives with the College’s mission. Utilizes data analytics to track resource usage, student outcomes, and drive datainformed student success by integrating library and student support services. Aligns Learning Commons initiatives with institutional KPI’s. • Works with the Director of Student Success Center to promote integrated library and student support resources to faculty to enable seamless “point-of-need” student support and into the Learning Management System (LMS). Focuses on the College’s mission to support students’ academic transfer to university partners and to further develop students’ workforce and career readiness. Collaborates with NAU-Yuma to ensure library research instruction and information literacy offerings align with inter-institutional goals. • Supports the management of the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) to reduce student costs and ensure equitable access to course materials. Continues work on creating initiatives involving OER, open access, and library resources to improve accessibility of course materials to students and faculty. Works with campus and state OER networks to advance textbook affordability measures. • Support and participate in strategic planning initiatives and performs other duties as assigned.