Associate Dean for Strategic Partnerships and Workforce Advancement - 528786

Department/Organization
223101 - Dean's Office-Nursing

Rank
Associate/Full Professor

Position Summary
The Associate Dean for Strategic Partnerships and Workforce Advancement is a senior executive leader who advances the College’s mission through the development and formalization of high impact partnerships that expand the nursing workforce, strengthen institutional capacity, and support long term strategic growth. This position operates under the direction of the Dean, who retains ultimate responsibility and oversight for the College’s partnership strategy, workforce expansion priorities, and global engagement agenda. The Associate Dean serves as the Dean’s senior designee for negotiating and stewarding institutional partnerships into scalable, executable agreements. This Associate Dean leads the College’s partnership strategy across health systems, academic institutions, K–12 school systems, and community stakeholders to support measurable growth in nursing workforce supply, clinical training capacity, and academic progression pathways. This role holds executive responsibility for negotiating and overseeing executive level memoranda of understanding and other formal partnership agreements. Global partnerships and study abroad initiatives are managed by the Coordinator of Global Partnerships and Study Abroad who reports to this Associate Dean. The Associate Dean reports directly to the Dean and serves on the Executive Council, collaborating closely with the Senior Associate Dean for Academics, the Associate Dean for Research, and the Vice Dean to ensure partnerships support faculty capacity, academic excellence, and workforce expansion without duplicating operational oversight.

Detailed Position Information
Strategic Partnership Development
• Develop and implement a comprehensive partnership strategy for workforce expansion, enrollment growth, and institutional advancement.
• Negotiate and oversee executive level memoranda of understanding and formal partnership agreements with health systems, clinics, school systems, and strategic partners.
• Serve as the College’s senior representative in system level partnership discussions as delegated by the Dean.
• Ensure agreements are structured for scalability, sustainability, risk mitigation, and measurable workforce outcomes.
• Develop and implement standardized processes for partnership evaluation, renewal, and strategic alignment.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for strategic partnership concerns requiring executive resolution in coordination with the Dean.
• Provide regular strategic reporting to the Dean and Executive Council regarding partnership performance and workforce impact.

Nursing Workforce Advancement
• Lead initiatives that expand the nursing workforce supply across pre licensure, graduate, and advanced practice levels.
• Develop structured pathway models including K–12 exposure programs, bridge programs, and academic progression partnerships that increase access to nursing education.
• Establish system level agreements that expand clinical training capacity in response to workforce demand projections.
• Support transition to practice and residency collaborations that strengthen workforce readiness and retention.
• Collaborate with the Senior Associate Dean for Academics to ensure partnership agreements align with enrollment planning and accreditation requirements.
• Partner with the Vice Dean to ensure workforce expansion strategies align with faculty recruitment, development, and workload planning.
• Establish data informed metrics and reporting structures to assess workforce expansion, partnership return on investment, and capacity growth.
• Collaborate with the Dean, Vice Dean, and University Government Affairs to support nursing workforce advancement through policy engagement, regulatory awareness, and alignment with state and federal initiatives.

Clinical and Health System Agreements
• Provide executive oversight of the College’s portfolio of health system and clinic partnership agreements at the system or enterprise level.
• Establish formal system level agreements that enable clinical placement expansion and workforce collaboration.
• This role does not manage clinical placement scheduling, site assignments, academic supervision, day to day clinical operations, or individual clinical contracts.
• Ensure partnership agreements align with strategic enrollment growth, long term workforce sustainability, and institutional priorities.
• Provide executive level oversight of the Symptom Management Clinic partnership structure, ensuring agreements support advanced practice education, faculty engagement, and sustainable operational models.
• In partnership with academic and institutional