Tasks

  1. Supervise all development projects aimed at improving performance and ensure the application of comprehensive quality methods and tools.
  2. Work on disseminating a culture of quality assurance at the college level in all agencies, departments, and units.
  3. Coordinate all training workshops on enhancing quality practices provided to all college employees.
  4. Supervise the application of academic accreditation standards for college programs.
  5. Verify that self-study requirements are met for programs applying for academic accreditation and coordinate between the Deanship of Quality and Academic Accreditation and the academic programs to ensure their permanent cooperation and fulfillment of the deanship’s requirements. 
  6. Supervise all university requirements of documents and evidence for institutional accreditation.
  7. Supervise the preparation of the college’s strategic plan and follow up on the implementation of the projects and initiatives it contains in cooperation with agencies and academic departments.
  8. Verify that academic programs use the updated course and program description models/reports announced by the Education and Training Evaluation Commission.
  9. Study the difficulties and obstacles facing development and quality programs and propose solutions.
  10. Supervise the preparation and implementation of the annual community service plan to ensure the college’s effective contribution towards community partnership.
  11. Document community service activities for all college employees in the Social Responsibility Bank and the National Volunteer Portal to ensure the development of the college’s balance in this regard.
  12. Implement and follow up on the activities of creativity and excellence awards in academic, research and career performance in the college.
  13. Work with the college’s academic, research, and administrative bodies to update the college’s organizational structure in accordance with approved official developments and prepare the necessary procedures guides.
  14. Participate in monitoring and measuring initiatives and performance indicators to raise spending efficiency, the university’s strategic plan, and the requirements of the National Center for Measuring the Performance of Public Agencies “Adaa ".
  15. Participate in monitoring the college’s performance indicators annually, develop improvement plans, and supervise the closure of quality circles.
  16. Supervise the preparation of the college’s annual report and submit it to the relevant authorities after its approval by the college dean.
  17. Create and update a database of college graduates, employment rates and destinations.
  18.  Communicate with college graduates, monitor the challenges they face, and ensure they continue to support the college and participate in its activities and events.
  19. Develop interim plans to periodically review approved quality standards that ensure continuous improvement in the performance of academic departments and administrative units.
  20. Supervise memorandums of understanding and cooperation between the college and community institutions related to the college’s specialization, ensure a mutually beneficial relationship according to the university’s rules and regulations, and evaluate them in periodic reports.
  21. Continuously market college graduates and their skills, hold events and exhibitions to publicize them, invite employers and stakeholders, and coordinate with the Alumni and Career Development Center in this regard.
  22. Measure employers’ satisfaction with college graduates and link the results to improving educational outcomes in academic programs.
  23. Work to enhance community responsibility and partnership by increasing the number of community partnerships and scientific studies.
  24. Implement a mechanism for obtaining the expectations, requirements, and level of satisfaction of the college’s clients (internal and external) and follow up on its implementation in the academic departments and other administrative units of the college.
  25.  Manage public relations through the college’s public relations unit by sharing announcements and public achievements via social media and email.
  26. Prepare and follow up on timetables for the college calendar by communicating and coordinating with agencies, departments, and units to learn about their upcoming events.
  27. Supervise agency units.
  28. General coordination with other relevant college units, departments, and agencies.
  29. Follow up on updating the college’s website regarding affiliated agencies and administrative units.

Vice Deanship for Development and Community Partnership Units

Alumni and Career Development Unit

This unit specializes in communicating with college graduates; monitoring the challenges they face; marketing their skills by holding events and exhibitions; sending invitations to employers and stakeholders; constantly updating the graduates database; surveying their opinions about the curricula, required skills, and the labor market; urging them to communicate with the college; and continuously coordinating with the Alumni and Career Development Center at the university.

Unit Tasks
  • Create and update a database of college graduates, employment rates and destinations.  1-
  • Communicate with college graduates, monitor the challenges they face, and ensure they continue to support the college and participate in its activities and events.
  • Continuously market college graduates and their skills, hold events and exhibitions to publicize them, invite employers and stakeholders, and coordinate with the Alumni and Career Development Center in this regard.
  • Measure employers’ satisfaction with college graduates and link the results to improving educational outcomes in academic programs.

Quality, Academic Accreditation, and Risk Management Unit

This unit is responsible for coordinating between the Deanship of Quality and Academic Accreditation and the academic programs to ensure permanent cooperation and fulfillment of the requirements for institutional and program accreditation documents and evidence. It also focuses on developing interim plans to periodically review approved quality standards that ensure continuous improvement of academic departments and administrative units, spreading a culture of quality, evaluating performance, collecting data on an ongoing basis about quality activities in the college, and documenting efforts and results in all quality activities and academic accreditation. In addition, it prepares reports on the performance levels, expectations, and level of satisfaction of the college’s clients (internal and external) and follows up on their implementation in the academic departments and administrative units of the college.

         This unit is also concerned with the process of managing potential risks that could prevent the college or programs from achieving their goals. This is done by identifying, evaluating, and recording potential risks. 

Unit Tasks

  • Supervise all development projects aimed at improving performance and ensure the application of comprehensive quality methods and tools.
  • Work on disseminating a culture of quality assurance at the college level in all agencies and departments, and units.
  • Coordinate all training workshops on enhancing quality practices provided to all college employees.
  • Supervise the application of academic accreditation standards for college programs.
  • Verify that self-study requirements are met for programs applying for academic accreditation, and coordinate between the Deanship of Quality and Academic Accreditation and the academic programs to ensure their permanent cooperation and fulfillment of the deanship's requirements.
  • Supervise all university requirements of documents and evidence for institutional accreditation.
  • Verify that academic programs use the updated course and program description models/reports announced by the Education and Training Evaluation Commission.
  • Study the difficulties and obstacles facing development and quality programs and propose solutions.
  • Participate in monitoring the college's performance indicators annually, develop improvement plans, and supervise the closure of quality circles.
  • Develop interim plans to periodically review approved quality standards that ensure continuous improvement in the performance of academic departments and administrative units.
  • Implement a mechanism for obtaining the expectations, requirements, and level of satisfaction of the college's clients (internal and external) and follow up on its implementation in the academic departments and other administrative units of the college.

Community Partnership Unit

This unit aims to prepare and implement the annual plan for community service and act as a link between the college and the university Development and Community Partnership Agency with regard to activating community service at the university, implementing its policies and procedures, and encouraging its employees to contribute to this through the platforms available in the university’s electronic portal: the Social Responsibility Bank and the National Volunteer Portal.

          It also focuses on enhancing responsibility and community partnership and supervising memorandums of understanding and cooperation between the college and community institutions by increasing the number of community partnerships, scientific studies, and advisory services and evaluating them in periodic reports.

Unit Tasks

  • Supervise the preparation and implementation of the annual community service plan to ensure the college’s effective contribution to community partnership.
  • Document community service activities for all college employees in the Social Responsibility Bank and the National Volunteer Portal to ensure the development of the college’s balance in this regard.
  • Supervise memorandums of understanding and cooperation between the college and community institutions related to the college’s specialization, ensure a mutually beneficial relationship according to the university’s rules and regulations, and evaluate them in periodic reports.
  • Work to enhance community responsibility and partnership by increasing the number of community partnerships and scientific studies 

Strategic Planning Unit

       This unit is tasked with preparing the strategic plan. It relies on basic references and data from the college’s agencies, departments, and units to support the work of building the plan, through monitoring and measuring the college’s performance initiatives and indicators, the university’s strategic plan, and the requirements of the National Center for Measuring the Performance of Public Agencies (Adaa), as well as communicating with the authorities related to the strategic plan inside and outside the university, with the approval of the authority holder.

Unit Tasks
  • Supervise the preparation of the college’s strategic plan and follow up on the implementation of the projects and initiatives it contains in cooperation with agencies and academic departments.
  • Work with the college’s academic, research, and administrative bodies to update the college’s organizational structure in accordance with approved official developments and prepare the necessary procedures guides.
  • Participate in monitoring and measuring initiatives and performance indicators to raise spending efficiency, the university’s strategic plan, and the requirements of the National Center for Measuring the Performance of Public Agencies “Adaa ".
  • Implement and follow up on activities of creativity and excellence awards in academic, research and career performance in the college.

Public Relations, Media, and Art Direction Unit

This unit aims to strengthen the relationship between the college and its employees, highlight its activities and achievements to its external audience, and to be a link between the college and its internal audience on the one hand and the various public and private sectors on the other. It works to consolidate a positive impression and create mental images in line with the goals and scientific standing of the college. It also seeks to continuously update the college’s website and its affiliated agencies and administrative units.

Unit Tasks
  • Manage public relations through the college’s public relations unit by sharing announcements and public achievements via social media and email.
  • Prepare and follow up on timetables for the college calendar by communicating and coordinating with agencies, departments, and units to learn about their upcoming events.
  • Follow up on updating the college’s website regarding affiliated agencies and administrative units.

  Data Management Unit

This unit employs an integrated approach to managing the data from university entities using various tools. It classifies, makes an inventory of, archives, and documents all open and closed data for reference, facilitating work, and benefiting all agencies, in addition to issuing quarterly and annual reports and statistics.

Unit Tasks
  • Develop software to leverage the college’s data to support decision-making and research projects at the college.
  • Create a mechanism for coordinating and collecting data from internal bodies in the college, such as academic departments, community service, student activities, scientific research, scholarship students, academic quality and accreditation, faculty, students, employees.
  • Follow up on the data displayed in the university’s decision support system and update it after communicating with academic departments and entities affiliated with the college.
  • Collect, coordinate, and classify the data to prepare the college’s annual report and submit it to the relevant authority.
  • Coordinate with the University’s Data Management Office, affiliated with the Development and Community Partnership Agency, to identify the most important updates and requirements in the field of data management.
  • Collect, audit, classify, and display statistical data related to the college’s various activities, and conduct statistical analysis of it.
  • Convert data into easy-to-understand information that can be used to serve the college’s work. 
  • Provide departments and entities benefiting from the college’s work and activities with the necessary statistical data upon request or according to the specified time frames.
  • Benefit from available sources of information related to the college’s work and activities at the internal and external levels.
  • Keep up with the information and document needs of beneficiaries and work to meet those needs.

Contact Us

Vice Dean for Development and Community Partnership

Dr. Manal Muslim Al-Juhani
Phone: 37015
Emailcedd.vddcs@iau.sa.sa

Published on: 27 May 2019
Last update on: 16 May 2024
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