Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

Summary

Join Chamberlain University as an Associate Dean of Faculty and lead online BSN faculty and academic staff. You will direct curriculum development and delivery, ensuring superior student outcomes. Responsibilities include faculty recruitment, performance evaluation, curriculum implementation, and collaboration with national academic teams. You will create plans for student success, evaluate course resources, mentor faculty, and manage faculty workloads. The role also involves supporting clinical placements, preparing capital requests, and analyzing student success data. Teaching up to three courses per year is also expected.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in nursing
• 5 years of experience in nursing education at the Bachelor level or above
• Development/participation in simulation/clinical experience
• Previous leadership experience
• Above average competency in Microsoft Suite of products
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, and conflict resolution skills
• Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills
• Ability to interact with all levels: student, faculty and staff. Strong customer-service orientation
• Ability to lead, direct and advise clinical faculty and clinical coordinators
• Unencumbered professional IL nursing licensure

Responsibilities

• Participate in the recruitment, selection, and onboarding of qualified faculty and staff, monitor and evaluate their ongoing performance
• Administer the implementation and assessment of nursing program curricula on the campus with coordination/collaboration of the national academic teams
• Ensure learning experiences align with the BSN curriculum and collaborate with national team and operations to support implementation
• Collaborate with national academic committees to ensure that appropriate goals and projects are implemented
• Create plans for student success in all learning areas, including student retention, graduation rates, NCLEX pass rates as well as student satisfaction and works with collaboratively with the local and national partners to achieve superior student outcomes
• Ensure that course resources and course assessment data are evaluated each session and inform recommendations for campus student success plans
• Support faculty with timely and effective implementation of changes that address evolving needs of students and ensure delivery of course and/or program outcomes
• Ensure faculty are oriented & accountable to teaching and learning best practices through regular evaluation/feedback
• Serve as a faculty and staff mentor in areas of academic excellence, customer service, collaboration with local and national partners communication and professionalism
• Create and monitor a well-defined process for campus faculty participation expectations in national course advisory councils, ensuring that the faculty are providing feedback and making curriculum delivery decisions
• Solicit recommendations from faculty and staff for academic budget
• Support faculty and clinical coordination teams for clinical placement of nursing students to meet program objectives
• Ensure regular meetings of the faculty and comprehensive academic team to facilitate communication and faculty participation in planning, implementing and evaluating the curriculum
• Assigning faculty and academic team workloads
• Collaborate with campus leadership and national partners to prepare capital requests for learning areas as necessary
• Support national academic team in consistent execution of core CAS programs and developing local programing (when necessary) to support student success
• Collaborate with national library staff for management of local holdings
• Monitor and analyze student academic success data to identify recommendations to improve delivery of curriculum and engage student success interventions
• Will be responsible for teaching up to three courses per year
• Completes other duties as assigned
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctorate degree in nursing or credit towards doctorate degree
• Previous Clinical Coordination and Skills Lab Experience

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Adtalem’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays