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 and selection of faculty.
• Screen applications, interview candidates, and recommend individuals for hiring.
• Train, coach and intentionally develop part-time faculty in best teaching practices.
• Independently conducts frequent performance feedback quarterly and annually, to include annualperformance evaluations.
• Make recommendations for salary increases and merit increases (if applicable), promotions and reclassifications.
• In conjunction with HR, determines corrective action as needed for all faculty.
• Administratively supervises faculty, ensuring they are successfully following appropriate program and university operations, protocol, policies, and procedures.
• Consults with HR as needed on employee relations issues.
• Supports professional development strategy for the college. Ensures all training requirements have been completed.
• Participates in the annual performance evaluations of full-time and part-time instructional faculty and implements improvement plans as needed, as well as corrective action or progressive discipline as directed by the Dean in conjunction with HR.  
• Approves part-time faculty timesheets weekly.
• Approves academic leave for full-time faculty and ensures adequate program coverage in partnership with the department chairs.

Requirements:

Education & Experience:

• Doctoral degree from a regionally accredited institution aligned with School offerings required.
• Higher education teaching and leadership experience, required.
• 5+ years of experience supervising professional faculty and staff including planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating on a daily basis.
• 8+ years of experience teaching in higher education. Online modality preferred.
• 10+ years of management experience preferred. 
• Human resource management experience preferred.

Competencies/Technical/Functional Skills:

• Strong demonstrated ability to drive teaching through engagement for adult learners in an online environment, using multiple modalities, leveraging technology and providing feedback to students that ismeaningful, timely, balance and individualized.
• Strong demonstrated leadership and management skills, with emphasis on employee development and retention.
• Strong demonstrated ability to organize and direct work efforts and manage several competing priorities.
• Knowledge of adult learning theory and effective instructional principles.
• Ability to initiate new ideas, improvements, and effective operational procedures.
• Skill in diplomacy and collaboration.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Outstanding ability to apply quality principles of leadership, basic human resources strategy, and strategic program planning, development, and evaluation.
• Ability to participate as an active team member of the team and organization and work toward a common goal. Contributes fully to the team effort and plays an integral part in the smooth running of teams without necessarily taking the lead.
• Accepts personal accountability, proactively seeks resolution for personal limitations head-on; and supports honesty and respect towards others, the company and oneself.
• Actively seeks to influence, build effective relationships and gain alignment with peers, functional partners and/or external partners to accomplish business objectives.
• Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting-edge programs/processes.
• Ability to generate and/orrecognize imaginative or creative solutions that generate successful outcomes.
• Working knowledge, principles and practices of office management/systems within a higher education environment, preferred. Demonstrates an understanding of underlying organizational issues.
• Ability to drive towards achieving measurable and challenging goals to support organizational success. Demonstrates the ability to focus on achieving results consistent with the organization’s objectives. As a leader, develops goals based on the organization’s vision, mission, strategic goals and objectives.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of individual of constituencies in a diverse community including, but not limited to: e-mail, learning platforms, chat rooms, videoconferencing and other technology-based on communication media.
• Work independently and foster a cooperative spirit within a large and/or small team of diverse cultures, while working in a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines and frequently changing priorities.
• Proficient with Microsoft Word and other applications in the Microsoft Office Suite. Familiar with and proficient in effectively using a Student Information Systems (SIS) software platform.

Location: Remote, USA

Travel: Occasional travel may be required for Commencement, meetings, conferences.

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Candidate receiving offers will be offered a salary/pay rate commensurate with experience that vary based on a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies.  Absent exceptional circumstances, candidates will be offered a salary within this range for this position. The minimum salary will be offered based on the minimum exemption threshold based on state of residency. Base pay is one component of National University’s total rewards package, as we are dedicated to supporting the needs of the “whole you” with our holistic approach to employee benefits by offering comprehensive well-being benefits for you and your family.  For full details about our benefit plan offerings, please visit benefits.nu.edu. For Part-time benefits, please click here.

National University is committed to maintaining a high-quality workforce representative of the populations we serve. National University employs more than 4,500 faculty and staff and serves over 45,000 students. We are united in our mission to meet the global education demands of the 21st Century and are dedicated to creating a supportive academic and work environment that allows students, faculty and staff to develop their interests and talents while experiencing a sense of community. With programs available both online and at our many campus locations, National University is a leader in creating innovative solutions to education and meeting the needs of our student population, including adult learners and working professionals.

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