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Academic Program Director, Applied Behavior Analysis, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Remote, United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Dec 2025

💰 $139,100/yr($92,700/yr – $139,100/yr)

About the role

The Academic Program Director (PD) is a key leadership position within the university; he/she/they promote and support a quality academic experience for learners by ensuring an engaging courseroom environment that facilitates achievement of program outcomes. The Program Director has oversight of curricula quality and rigor, and works to ensure curricula are professionally relevant, current, efficient, effective, and cohesive. This management position contributes to a range of activities related to excellence in curriculum design/delivery and assessment effectiveness, learner success, satisfaction and engagement. work closely with deans, assistant/associate deans, and faculty directors, as well as relevant university departments, to manage systems and processes related to curriculum creation and delivery. He/she/they coordinate with the relevant faculty directors to remain aware of issues related to discipline content. The Program Director acts as a liaison to other departments including Portfolio Strategy, Doctoral Affairs, Course Development, Center for Faculty Excellence, Faculty Hiring, HR, Accreditation and Institutional Effectiveness, Learner Affairs, and others as required.

Spearhead and oversee the development and revision of academic offerings.
Utilize analytics and evidence-based practices to develop and execute actions that drive continuous quality improvement application in learner success, teaching, engagement, academic quality, and curricula development.
Preside over efforts to ensure appropriate academic programmatic accreditation and/or licensure is obtained and maintained.
Ensure assigned academic offerings align with professional trends and standards, while seeking professional validation wherever possible (in the way of credentials, licensure, alignment with existing or emerging standards/programmatic requirements, etc.)
Oversight of curriculum development according to external standards and in alignment with university design principles; supervision of SME course development and leadership.
Lead specialized accreditation process, self-study, etc.; ensure alignment to HLC best practices in university faculty oversight of curriculum.
Build and nurture internal and external partnerships and relationships that drive success of the school and academic offerings.
Orchestrate and optimize course offering/scheduling.
Supervise Core faculty; conduct Core faculty performance reviews.
Host faculty meetings focused on program and curricula.
Collaborate with Faculty Director on the hiring of new faculty.
Address learner programmatic issues (academic, professional disposition, behaviors).
Teach or mentor once a quarter.
All other duties as assigned.

-Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum development, andragogy, and assessment.
- Knowledge of online teaching, competency-based education, and direct assessment.
- Discipline knowledge.
- Ability to objectively analyze program/course quality data and implement recommendations relevant to improving learner outcomes.
- Ability to maintain program compliance with all regulatory rules, and national program accreditation standards.
- Familiarity with program development and evaluation.
- Ability to advise and assess learning effectiveness and quality of the education experience.
- Ability to provide significant impact