Chamberlain

With more than 135 years of history in healthcare education and as the largest nursing school in the country, Chamberlain University is committed to delivering a high-value education that prepares students to thrive as healthcare professionals. We call this commitment Chamberlain Care®—our dedication to providing students with the tools and resources to succeed while immersed in a community of care. By living Chamberlain Care®, we graduate healthcare professionals who transform the health of people worldwide.

Chamberlain is comprised of the College of Nursing and the College of Health Professions. The College of Nursing offers a three-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program and flexible post-licensure programs, such as the RN to BSN option, Master of Science in Nursing degree program, Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program and graduate certificates. The College of Health Professions also offers the Master in Public Health, Master of Social Work and Master of Physician Assistant Studies degree programs.

Chamberlain is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (www.hlcommission.org), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Learn more about Chamberlain at www.chamberlain.edu, and follow Chamberlain on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
 

Opportunity at a Glance
The Assistant Dean directs and provides leadership to faculty to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery of program courses and curricula in an environment and manner that achieves superior student outcomes. This includes, but is not limited to, helping to coordinate and implement retention and persistent initiatives, faculty coaching and evaluation, ensuring academic and operational compliance, and regular data collection, analysis, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring that program courses are staffed with qualified, trained, high-quality instructors.

• Participates in the recruitment of faculty, initiates department requisition request, and ensures that the Talent Acquisition team is aware of faculty recruitment needs.

• Interviews and selects qualified faculty for the program.

• Responsible for orienting new faculty and for developing, updating, and implementing faculty orientation materials and processes as needed.

• Supervises and evaluates assigned faculty, providing regular and timely feedback and coaching as needed.

• Prepares, assesses, and communicates faculty and course performance and faculty qualification metrics to faculty, course leaders, and program leadership.

• Participates in preparing course and faculty schedules, including immersion schedules as needed, working with the faculty operations and course scheduling teams.

• Monitors and reports on faculty workload.

• Monitors, aggregates and reports weekly at-risk/persistence data.

• Prepares and provides ongoing faculty development and training to ensure consistent, high-quality faculty performance and implementation of university and program initiatives.

• Guides faculty regarding student concerns and escalations, academic integrity issues, student absences and performance concerns, assessment, and practicum and preceptor issues.

• Monitors and enforces faculty completion of expected duties.

• Tracks faculty qualifications regarding education, certifications, and licensure, and ensures compliance before allowing faculty to teach.

• Collaborates with Student Services regarding student concerns.

• Serves as a role model and mentors faculty and students in areas of academic excellence, customer service, collaboration, communication and professionalism.

• Solicits recommendations from faculty for academic budget.

• Ensures regular meetings of the faculty to facilitate communication and faculty participation in planning, implementing, and evaluating the curriculum.

• Assist with administrative duties associated with accreditation requirements.

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Complies with all policies and standards

• Graduate degree in the program field required in graduate programs Required and
• Master's Degree in the program field required in undergraduate programs. Required
• 2+ years years’ experience in education, training, or staff development at the baccalaureate level or above Required and
• 1+ year year online teaching experience Required
• Proficiency with online instructional technology applications and Microsoft Office required.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Previous leadership experience required.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, time management, and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to interact with all levels: students, faculty, leadership, and staff.
• Strong customer service orientation and customer service skills.
• Ability to lead, direct, and advise faculty.
• Ability to use a variety of technology applications.
• In programs that require graduates to obtain licensure to practice, the license Required and
• In programs that require graduates to obtain additional certification to practice, the certification Required

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $70,696.34 and $127,957.05. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.

Covista offers a robust suite of benefits including:

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
  
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Equal Opportunity – Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation