This position is part of the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI), Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), Department of the Interior (DOI). As a Dean of Liberal Arts you will be responsible for providing supervisory and leadership duties to the Liberal Arts Department.
As a Supervisory Instructor/Dean of Liberal Arts, GS-1701-12, your typical work assignments may include the following under supervision: Provide leadership and management for faculty and staff within the Academic Department. Serve as an educator administrator who carries out the full range of duties and responsibilities typically related to a college academic program.
Develop goals and objectives that integrate with the College's mission framework, institutional outcomes, and objectives. Provide leadership in the development and oversight of faculty committees charged with teaching, developing educational materials and special initiative projects within the academic department. Advise and assist faculty in the planning, creation, evaluation and assessment, validation and update of instructional and pedagogical materials and media.
Participate in evaluating the requirements for emerging technologies, system functionality, and delivery platforms to enhance delivery of instructional programs. NOTE: Position is also being advertised under merit promotion announcement number BIE-13099178-27-AJ MP. For "Status Applicants" who wish to be considered under both merit promotion and competitive procedures must submit a separate application for each announcement.
EDUCATION: Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS at the time you apply and MUST include identifying information to include School Name, Student Name, credit hours, major, and grade-point average or class ranking, degree and date awarded. All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S.
Department of Education (DOE). Applicants are responsible for providing documentation that the educational requirements have been met. To qualify based on education you must submit a legible copy of your transcripts. Official transcripts are required upon selection if you qualified based on education. Education must have been obtained from an accredited or pre-accredited institution recognized by the U.S. DOE (click here) in order for it to be credited towards qualifications.
Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the U.S. (click here).
marsha.tanner@bie.edu · 505-431-3574
This position is with Bureau of Indian Education, Department of the Interior.
The posted pay range is $90479 – $117625/yr.
Applications close on 2026-11-13.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
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