Dean, Academic Affairs

Company Description

About Chamberlain University

Chamberlain University, an Adtalem Global Education institution, continues to raise the standard of nursing and healthcare education through a growing community of over 100,000 alumni who are making an impact in their communities around the world. Chamberlain has the largest school of nursing in the U.S. and is the leading grantor of Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degrees to underrepresented minority students in the country. The university is committed to addressing the national nursing shortage through the development of innovative programs to ensure nurses are practice ready as they step into the workforce. Chamberlain is comprised of the College of Nursing, with online and campus-based programs, and the College of Health Professions, offering a variety of bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and certificate programs. Chamberlain University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

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Job Description

Opportunity at a Glance
Empowering. Influential. Inspiring. Passionate….these are the leadership traits that our future Dean, Academic Affairs will hold. Bring forward these traits along with your strong academic nursing experience to play a lead role in our BSN program based in insert location.  You will engage, guide & lead the management, delivery and continuity of our academic nursing program. You will shape & mentor a collaborative team, which will include Faculty, an Academic Success team, Skills Lab & experiential learning models. Ensure curricula are current and consistently delivered to meet the college's objectives. Our customized unique Care-Student Success model helps us achieve our mission to provide the best student experience possible. Help lead the path to assure our students are provided support services required to maintain the highest levels of student achievement and retention without compromising the integrity of the educational process.     
Responsibilities

• Is accountable to and provides oversight for multiple campus location to ensure curricular and program outcomes are evaluated, monitor, and achieved.

• Ensure development of a cohesive, cross-functional campus / alliance academic team with specific objectives and appropriate action planning as necessary.

• Chair the implementation of the institution's philosophy, curriculum, program outcomes and course objectives through classroom, clinical teaching and service to the College and nursing community.

• Orchestrate leadership & encouragement to nursing faculty including determining and assigning appropriate faculty workloads.

• Advise in the recruitment, selection and onboarding of qualified nursing faculty.

• Ensure faculty leadership orients/onboards and provides regular evaluation/feedback on teaching & learning best practices.

• Collaborate with associate deans to assign & approve faculty schedule and accountability measures for workload management.

• Develops plans for projects and goals in collaboration with national academic committees.

• Collaborate with academic committees to ensure that appropriate goals and projects are implemented.

• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for strategy development in coordination with national academic support teams for student success including, student persistence, graduation rates, first time NCLEX-RN pass rates, curriculum delivery and student satisfaction and is accountable for the development of action plans to meet and maintain Chamberlain University’s standards.

• Ensure that campus academic teams (student learning and faculty) access and complete course assessment data in collaboration with national academic teams each session.

• Ensure that campus academic teams (student learning and faculty) are appropriately using course resources in onboarding and ongoing development of campus academic teams.

• Create a well defined plan for each campus/alliance for FCAC participation, monitoring, and reporting of updates.

• Collaborate in the development and demonstrate accountability to final outcomes of annual budgets for both  academic operations areas, including FT/VP faculty position and workload management, laboratory supplies/budgeting, cost of instruction, and other areas.