Department Chair, Indianapolis Campus

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Department Chair, Indianapolis Campus

Non‑Tenure Track, 12‑month appointment

Indiana University School of Nursing (IUSON), Indianapolis Campus

Indianapolis, IN

Indiana University School of Nursing (IUSON) is seeking an exceptional candidate to serve as Department Chair for the Indianapolis campus. The Chair will be the operational leader of the department, ensuring day‑to‑day operations support the teaching, research, and service missions of the department, campus, and core school.

• Implementing programs to recruit, orient, retain, mentor, and ensure the success of faculty in alignment with strategic priorities.
• Facilitating a balance in faculty workloads commensurate with appointments.
• Ensuring faculty meet expectations, including course preparation, delivery, research productivity, and service participation.
• Ensuring faculty understand how to contribute to achieving strategic goals.
• Monitoring and evaluating faculty performance outcomes for annual evaluations and promotion and tenure.
• Providing coaching to faculty experiencing emergent teaching and professional issues.
• Coordinating departmental activities to achieve the School of Nursing’s mission and strategic priorities.
• Preparing reports related to departmental responsibilities.
• Providing input on resource needs.
• Representing the department within the School of Nursing, campus, and university, and to external constituents.
• Accountability for departmental faculty performance metrics related to course delivery, research, and service.

• Earned doctorate (preferably nursing: PhD or DNP) or master’s in nursing if doctorate is not in nursing.
• Licensed or eligible to be licensed as a registered nurse in Indiana.
• Eligible for appointment at a rank at or above that of the faculty members to be supervised.
• Demonstrated experience in an academic environment.

Preferred educational and professional experience may include additional research credentials and proven leadership in a higher‑education setting.

Salary range: $65,000.00 – $70,000.00, 60% administrative, 20% research or scholarly activities, 10% teaching, 10% service.

• Letter of application/Cover Letter – 2‑page limit.
• Curriculum Vitae.
• Statement of Research, Teaching, and Service/Personal Statement – 5‑page limit.
• Contact list with six references.

Submit all documents online to the IU Faculty Affairs portal: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Tenure/guidelines-and-standards

Richard Griffin, Department Contact, 317‑274‑2124

Dr. Janet S. Carpenter, Additional Information, carpentj, 317‑278‑6065

Posting Number: IU-

Expected

Start Date:

05/01/2026