Chief Academic Officer & VP Global Academic Learning Enterprise

* Own and execute UMGC’s academic product strategy and portfolio, including undergraduate, graduate, credential, and non-degree offerings that prioritize learner outcomes, skills attainment and workforce relevance in alignment with UMGC’s strategic plan and Innovation Forward goals
* Lead the Schools as academic product portfolios, ensuring each portfolio has clear academic intent, outcomes, differentiation, and sustainability
* Partner with other senior level colleagues to drive key institutional metrics including student success, satisfaction, persistence, retention and graduation
* Lead the evolution toward coherent, stackable learning pathways that support lifelong learning
* Align academic offerings with labor-market data, employer needs, and industry-validated skills
* Establish decision frameworks for program approval, evolution, prioritization, investment, and sun setting, grounded in academic quality, learner outcomes, workforce relevance, and mission alignment
* Hold accountability for academic product health at the portfolio level, partnering with the Center Institutional Effectiveness, Marketing, Learner Lifecycle Success, Global Military Operations, Global Workforce Partnerships, Experience Strategy & Design, Product Management, and Analytics teams to monitor quality, outcomes, relevance, and long-term viability
* Establish a curriculum performance framework using analytics and assessment to drive improvement Leadership of Schools
* Lead and develop Portfolio VPs/Deans as academic portfolio leaders, accountable for the performance, relevance, and integrity of their respective product portfolios
* Ensure clarity of roles, decision rights, and accountability across the academic organization within a matrixed operating model
* Enable cross-portfolio alignment while preserving appropriate disciplinary depth, innovation, and differentiation
* Foster a culture of evidence-based decision-making, continuous improvement, and shared ownership of learner outcomes
* Serve as UMGC’s chief steward of academic quality, rigor, and integrity across all learning models and modalities
* Define and govern the University’s academic quality framework, including learning outcomes, assessment expectations, curricular standards, and academic policies
* Serve as executive lead for institutional and specialized accreditation, compliance, academic reporting, and regulatory alignment with regional, professional, and governmental bodies
* Maintain rigorous compliance with accreditation standards and regulatory requirements, upholding transparency, integrity, and public trust while also appropriately continuing to advocate in the best interest of our learners
* Provide executive oversight to ensure positioning of the Registrar as a strategic enabler of learner mobility and progression, ensuring that academic policies, credit practices, and supporting systems minimize friction and accelerate learner advancement
* Leads registrar operations that effectively support transfer pathways, prior learning assessments (PLA), stackable credentials, and lifelong learning, while aligning with modern academic models
* Establish the vision, expectations, and governance structures that support faculty excellence in a centrally designed, technology-enabled academic environment
* Advance faculty development, evaluation, and engagement models aligned to evidence-based teaching, learner success, and modern instructional practices embracing the role of human-centered AI
* Champion faculty as essential academic partners responsible for teaching quality, disciplinary expertise, assessment integrity, and learner engagement
* Lead a team of subject matter experts including portfolio VPs, portfolio directors and collegiate faculty in defining, teaching and evaluating the knowledge, skills, abilities, and dispositions needed to transform learners' lives
* Interpret workforce trends, employer expectations, and labor market insights to inform academic priorities, learning outcomes, and credential intent, in partnership with the CLESO and Global Workforce Solutions
* Define skills, competencies, and credentials to ensure UMGC offerings remain relevant,…