Employment Opportunities

Suffolk County Community College (SUNY Suffolk) is the largest community college in the State University of New York (SUNY) system, enrolling more than 30,000 credit and non-credit students, with three campuses in Selden, Brentwood, and Riverhead, as well as a Culinary Arts and Hospitality Center in Riverhead. Established in 1959, the College offers a wide array of transfer-oriented associate degrees in the liberal arts and sciences; business; communications and the arts; computing and cybersecurity; health sciences; and many other areas. Career-facing degrees and certificates are offered in allied health professions, automotive technology, culinary and baking, manufacturing, and many other areas. The college provides high school concurrent enrollment opportunities to thousands of students each year through both the Suffolk County Beacon program and through on-campus early college classes.

SUNY Suffolk seeks candidates to consider for appointment as Executive Dean and Chief Operating Officer for the Ammerman Campus. This position reports directly to the President of the College and serves as a member of the President’s Cabinet.

On the Ammerman Campus, the Executive Dean and Chief Operating Officer (COO) serves as the highest-ranking academic, student affairs, and administrative officer. As a member of the President’s Cabinet, the Executive Dean holds responsibility for ensuring that campus programs and services are aligned with the College Mission and Strategic Plan; collaborates strategically with collegewide stakeholders on matters which assist administration of campus operations; and provides leadership and overall management of all campus facilities and employees. As a member of the Cabinet, the Executive Dean/COO will collaborate to develop and implement institutional strategy that responds to the needs of students and the community. The Executive Dean/COO is also charged with planning, proposing, and maintaining the campus budget and annual operational plans, and promoting open access, academic excellence, and student success through collaboration across the College. The Executive Dean/COO fosters a campus climate consistent with the College’s core values, shares responsibility for promoting the College in the community, and is committed to achieving the College’s strategic plan and annual priorities.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Develops and implements campus operational plans aligned with the College’s strategic plan, reports quarterly on progress and reports annually on campus outcomes.
• Implements and administers instructional and administrative goals and objectives as well as policies and procedures necessary to provide assigned services and functions to campus instructional departments and programs.
• Provides leadership in the recruitment, hiring, retention, evaluation, promotion, and support of full-time and part-time faculty, administrators, and staff for the campus.
• Works collaboratively with all college leaders to ensure consistent implementation of college policies and procedures.
• Works collaboratively with faculty, administrators and staff to create a supportive culture that embraces change readiness, high performance, teamwork, and increased individual and organizational productivity.
• Supports and promotes faculty and academic staff development.
• Recommends strategies to meet the needs of a diverse community and student body.
• Supports the collaborative coordination across the College to align course offerings and scheduling to promote greater enrollment, student success, and increased effectiveness and efficiencies.
• Monitors and communicates challenges regarding services provided by Human Resources, Information Technology, Central Facilities Management, Business and Finance, and Public Safety which are intended to provide a safe and positive learning environment.
• Directs the development and administration of the campus budget to support staffing, equipment, materials and supplies.
• Works collaboratively with campus academic and student affairs leaders to address student needs.
• Works in a coordinated effort with Academic Affairs and Workforce leadership team to promote the College in the business community and support their programs.
• Works in a coordinated effort with college leaders to support and promote diversity, equity and inclusion across all programs, plans and initiatives.

Primary Tasks:

• Identifies and assesses the needs of the campus as a unit within a shared one-college vision while ensuring consistent application of college-wide policies and procedures;
• Supervises and coordinates the work of campus administrators to ensure effective support of student success both in and out of the classrooms;
• Directs, coordinates and encourages the engagement and interaction of students, faculty, and employees regarding campus-wide issues;
• Annually develops campus operational plans consistent with College’s strategic plan, and monitors campus’s progress on operational goals and reports outcomes;
• Collaborates with the offices of Human Resources and Equal Opportunity on the recruitment, interviewing process and reference checks for all potential professional employees, and makes recommendations to the President on the appointment, evaluation and retention of all campus faculty and staff members;
• Implements and supports all campus-based HR procedures according to college policy, including recruitment and hiring of personnel, evaluation of continuing and term appointments, review and evaluation of FA promotion applicants for recommendation to the committee;
• Collaborates with the VPAA to develop, support and evaluate the curricula, courses and programs of instruction offered on the campus, and recommends revisions or discontinuance, as appropriate;
• Collaborates with MSPC to ensure the development and implementation of a student-centered campus master class schedule;
• Collaborates with the VPSA to ensure best practices relative to student support and services, including enrollment initiatives and practices, co-curricular engagement activities, and campus programming and extracurricular support mechanisms;
• Collaborates with the VPITS to encourage the utilization of technology in the development and delivery of academic programs and student services;
• Supports, facilitates and participates in campus program reviews and outcomes assessment activities in conformance with college policies, procedures and schedules and addresses recommendations in annual budget process;
• Works with Central Staff and Cabinet members to develop strategies to maintain and increase student enrollment, retention, and graduation success;
• Analyzes enrollment, retention, academic success, and completion data to initiate, support and encourage creative enrollment management activities with campus departments;
• Develops, presents, and monitors the fiscal year campus budget ensuring support of campus operational plans and College’s strategic Plan;
• Maintains effective internal and external communications, relationships and alliances including positive interactions with students, alumni, faculty, staff, the educational community and regional business leaders;
• Carefully monitors and approves all professional staff requests to attend conferences and other travel and recommends approvals for reimbursement;
• Serves on or leads college-wide and campus committees and task forces;
• Maintains oversight of the maintenance of campus buildings, grounds, facilities, and campus-based capital projects;
• Performs other related duties as assigned by the College President.

Leadership Attributes:

• Capacity to support the President in efforts to develop financial support from public and private sources, including fundraising for capital projects;
• Ability to develop a shared vision for the future of the campus that represents the values and ideals widely held by the President and internal and external stakeholders;
• Capacity to inspire and facilitate trust and collaboration within the campus community;
• Aptitude for outreach and advocacy and building strong relationships with community partners on behalf of the campus and the College;
• Capacity to cultivate teamwork and managerial leadership among administrative staff.

• A Master’s degree.
• At least five (5) years of progressively responsible administrative experience in higher education.  
• Broad experience in education should include curriculum development, student services, program assessment, and accreditation.
• Educational leadership experience should include management within a complex collective-bargaining environment; budget development and maintenance; and strategic planning experience.
• Commitment to diversity within the academic community.

 Preferred

• An earned doctorate or other terminal degree from a regionally accredited institution.
• Progressively responsible administrative experience in a Community College. 
• Full-time post-secondary teaching experience.

What we offer:

SUNY Suffolk offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision, vacation days, deferred compensation and a defined benefit plan. This is an exempt position; compensation will be based on the College’s exempt salary and benefit plan.

The priority application deadline is November 14, 2025. This position will remain open until filled.