School of Nursing Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs & Open Rank Clinical Faculty

About the Opportunity

About Northeastern

Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Arlington, Charlotte, North Carolina; Miami; London; Oakland; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

The Northeastern comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—leads to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

The Bouvé College of Health Sciences has over 250 faculty members, with approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 2,400 graduate students. It is the leading national model for education and research in the health, psychosocial and biomedical sciences and supports the University’s mission of educating students for a life of fulfillment and accomplishment and creating and translating knowledge to meet global and societal needs.

The School of Nursing in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University has developed a research-intensive/teaching/learning environment for students and faculty. Creating an environment where students thrive begins with the faculty.  Faculty of the School of Nursing is a diverse and committed group of professionals who are highly qualified, nationally known, and characterized by a range of experiences in nursing practice, research, and education that reflect an extensive degree of excellence. The ultimate goal is to advance the School of Nursing’s position to one of the nation’s top research schools of nursing. 

The wide range of programs offered by the School of Nursing from baccalaureate through DNP and PhD degrees highlights the responsiveness of the School to the healthcare needs of individuals and communities in the state, nation, and globally.  The School of Nursing is committed to co-creating an environment conducive to incubating innovative ideas and strategies aimed at creating a more dignified patient-family-centered healthcare system. 

About the opportunity

The School of Nursing invites applications for an Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs with a faculty appointment as an assistant, associate or full clinical professor. This position is a full-time, benefits-eligible, 52-week position with a starting date of January 2024 or until the position is filled.

Responsibilities

The Assistant Dean, Graduate Programs for the School of Nursing has responsibility for the School’s graduate academic programs and students’ academic progression, experience, and success.  The Assistant Dean is responsible for oversight of the graduate curriculum including learning outcomes assessment and evaluation, curriculum content and revisions, accreditation, provides recommendations on full-time faculty workload, hiring part-time didactic faculty, and teaching effectiveness as well as performance and evaluation of the faculty responsible for graduate education.  This is done in collaboration with the School Dean, the Assistant Deans for Undergraduate Programs and Clinical Affairs, the Director of Quality and Compliance, PhD and DNP Program Directors, and the Bouvé Dean’s Office Leadership including the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Associate Dean for Administration and Finance and their teams, as appropriate.  The Assistant Dean maintains effective relations and visibility with acute care, long-term care, and community health agencies used for clinical affiliations in the graduate program.  The Assistant Dean will also have responsibility for oversight of preceptor evaluation and for all graduate programs. The Assistant Dean will lead accreditation and regulatory efforts on behalf of the graduate programs including but not limited to annual program assessment and evaluations.   The Assistant Dean is integral to carrying out the strategic plan of the School and College in relationship to teaching-academic program offerings, interdisciplinary course activities, mentorship of faculty, faculty scholarship, and service.

Qualifications 

Qualifications require a degree in nursing and earned doctorate in nursing, education, public health, or related field by the start date of the appointment, eligibility for an unrestricted