Associate Dean of Academic Affairs - Department of Academic Affairs

Minimum Qualifications:

Ph.D. or Doctorate in a related field and a minimum of 10 years of progressive responsibility in higher education.

Preferred Qualifications:

Chair of a Health Professions department and/or experience as a School of Health Professions Assistant or Associate Dean.

Job Description:

The Associate Dean for Academic Affairs provides leadership and administrative oversight for activities, operations, and procedures related to the management of Academic Affairs.

The Associate Dean for Academic Affairs functions as an advocate in the Dean’s Office to serve the faculty, staff and students within the UTMB School of Health Professions. 

Scope: UTMB School of Health Professions

Job Duties:

• Provide leadership and direction to program faculty on matters of curriculum development and instruction.
• Ensure that, where applicable, accreditation standards are met and that best educational practices in the field are known and applied by faculty.
• Develop and apply effective mechanisms for course and curriculum improvement. 
• Encourage, recognize, and reward educational innovation, creativity, and excellence.
• Collaborate with the Office of Institutional Effectiveness in curriculum evaluation, coordination, and reporting activities.
• Facilitate periodic surveys of students and graduates to support curricular change.
• Facilitate regular and useful course evaluation and feedback activities.
• Collaborate with the Associate Dean for Faculty Development to identify faculty development needs, including mentoring, and work with appropriate school and institutional resources to address these identified needs.
• Coordinate faculty orientation activities with the Associate Dean for Faculty Development.
• Develop academic and faculty policies to assure consistency within the school. 
• Review and have oversight for new program proposals and the approval process; provide guidance to SHP department chairs, program directors, and faculty as they contemplate new academic programs, including certificate programs.
• Collaborate with SHP departmental chairs and program directors to review curricular feedback, faculty evaluation, and student performance, and facilitate recommendations for best educational practices.
• Support and assist implementation of university-wide IPE activities. 
• Maintain current faculty records to track appointments, promotion, and tenure decisions and timelines.
• Serve as a resource to the SHP appointment, promotion, and tenure process and its related committees.
• Organize Academic Program Reviews for programs that do not have accreditation requirements.  
• Participate in SACS Reaffirmation activities.
• Provide for regular AA staff evaluation and development.    
• Plan and manage AA department budgets and resources responsibly and efficiently.
• Act as liaison with IT and classroom services/academic computing for new programs, distance education, and other learning activities.
• Be familiar with system, institution, and school-wide policies and demonstrate and expect compliance with them.
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