Associate Program Director

Salary Estimate: $85,966.40 - $ per year. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range of candidates hired. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range.

The Associate Program Director position is a key leadership role that oversees the operational success of nursing programs in conjunction with the Program Director.

To provide oversight and direction to applicants, enrolled students, faculty, and staff.

• Program Administrator
• May be designated as nursing program administrator role for regulatory agencies, state boards of nursing, and programmatic accreditors.
• Monitors program completion, retention, and student satisfaction data.
• Collaborates with retention committee, readmission committee, faculty, and support staff to foster student success.
• Oversee the admissions process of programs through review and selection of new applicants and readmission applicants.
• Provide administrative discipline and conflict resolution between program employees and/or students, under the direction of the Program Director or Dean.
• Ensure students receive adequate faculty coaching and mentoring and assist with referrals to the school counselor.
• Participate in graduation ceremonies.
• Participates in Student Advisory Committee meetings and collaboratively develops action plans based upon student input.
• Oversee and assist with the hiring, training, and mentoring of program faculty and staff, under the direction of the Program Director or Dean.
• Review curriculum regularly in collaboration with faculty to ensure proper content is taught.
• Facilitate nationally-normed exam testing for program students.
• Construct schedule of classes, assignment of clinical sites, and assignment responsibilities for faculty, providing classroom instruction personally, as needed.
• Observe faculty and students in classroom, clinical, and laboratory settings to evaluate quality of instruction and/or classroom environment.
• Evaluate adequacy of testing with the nursing program and student performance on the NCLEX.
• Active member of committees, as assigned.
• Keep Program Director and Dean apprised of student and faculty needs, issues, and concerns in a timely manner. Participate in routine nursing leadership meetings.
• Other duties as may be assigned.

Education: Minimum qualification of a master’s degree with a major in nursing is required; doctoral degree preferred. Includes knowledge of educational objectives and experiences of student nurses, clinical practice of nursing, diverse organizational environments, and clinical sites needed to meet course content and objectives.

Unencumbered Licensure: Applicable state as a Registered Nurse.
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Qualifications:

Three (3) years of recent clinical experience, excellent organizational and problem‑solving skills, strong oral and written communication skills, ability to interpret learning experience needs of students and match them to the capabilities of clinical placement agencies, excellent interpersonal communication skills with the ability to be creative and innovative, proficient computer skills for data collection and analysis. Must be able to work independently and autonomously, recognizing a need and addressing it with minimal direction.

Physical/Mental Demands and Work Environment: Position requires mental activity, reading, planning, preparing, evaluating, and decision making. Physical demands in classroom and office are minimal and considered sedentary work with occasional lifting and/or carrying items such as records, files, and books (up to 10 pounds). Physical demands in the clinical area may include lifting, pulling, pushing, kneeling, stooping, crouching, and bending or any other related activity.

Outside Relationships: Clinical facilities, professional organizations.

Degree of Supervision: Minimal.

• Comprehensive medical coverage with many common services at low cost or copay. Includes prescription drug and behavioral health coverage,…