Associate Dean of Faculty

Compensation Range:

Annual Salary: $100,260.00 - $135,350.00

Position Summary

The Associate Dean of Faculty (ADoF) provides comprehensive administrative leadership for all full-time and part-time faculty within the School of Health Professions. This role oversees faculty onboarding, training, coaching, and performance management, ensuring alignment with the school’s strategic goals. The ADoF drives the development and implementation of faculty professional development standards, monitors faculty workload to maintain balanced responsibilities, and approves part-time faculty timesheets. Serving as a key resource for faculty, the ADoF collaborates closely with Human Resources Business Partners to ensure adherence to faculty and HR policies. Additionally, the position promotes a culture of continuous growth through internal professional development opportunities, fostering an environment of excellence in teaching and scholarship.

Essential Functions:

Administration:

• Provides support to the Dean and assists with the development and implementation of the School goals and strategic plan, which cascade up to the University’s strategic plan.
• In collaboration with  the Department Chairs, Academic Program Directors, and appropriate staff, conduct faculty onboarding for all newly hired faculty, including but not limited to: meeting over videoconferencing platform to welcome new faculty, discuss training needs and a training plan, explain the process of assigning students, providing resources to assist new faculty and following up several weeks after the start of teaching to schedule a time to discuss progress, answer questions, and offer developmental support.
• Proactively anticipate and address, as well as reactively answer faculty questions about teaching, University procedure, and student engagement via e-mail, phone, or videoconferencing.
• Supports the development and tracking of the School budget related to faculty, including overload and overtime.
• Communicates frequently with the Dean regarding the School operation and progress and suggests areas in need of continuous improvement with possible intervention strategies.
• Promotes an academic culture of scholarship, teaching, research, service, and practice.
• Assist the Dean in contract management and approval when applicable.
• Completes needed special projects and other duties as assigned by the Dean.
• Supports and encourages scholarship and professional development for full- and part-time faculty
• Create and/or conduct webinars and/or summits for SOHP faculty professional development.
• Develop inclusive approaches to new faculty assimilation that results in accelerated acclimation andcontribution.
• Counsel faculty to ensure instruction is adaptive, competency-based and student focused.
• Direct the development, monitoring and coaching of faculty teaching and program engagement with biannual full-time faculty check-ins, and keeping all faculty accountable to performance goals while clearly evaluating areas of success and growth during check-ins.
• Meets monthly with Department Chairs to support department goals and address faculty support issues
• Coach faculty who have identified areas of needed improvement in their teaching performance and/or faculty who request coaching. This includes regular feedback regarding specific areas of performance with clearly communicated, measurable expectations, to include documentation and follow up as needed.
• Assist with investigations of any student, faculty, staff, or administrative concerns regarding faculty performance or conduct issues in conjunction with Human Resources and/or the Title IX Office as appropriate.
• Actively engage in the implementation and completion of faculty annual plans (FAPs) and annual academic reviews (AARs) for all full-time faculty.
• Create and distribute communications (obtaining approvals as necessary) to all faculty regarding policies, procedures, job aids, and required trainings in support of faculty training and development.
• Assist with coverage of workload during faculty paid time off(such as academic leave, sick leave for part-time faculty, etc.) as directed by the Dean.
• Serve as an administrative liaison to other Schools, Colleges and University committees as needed.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Leadership:

• Participates in the recruitment a