Dean, College of Health Professions

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If so, we would love to hear from you!

Are you searching for a rewarding, fulfilling position that offers challenging work and the ability to make a big impact while working side-by-side with a team of fun, innovative people? Ideally, would you like this position to be with an organization that makes a positive contribution to the world? If so…we would love to hear from you!

About Us

University of Phoenix is a leading higher education institution founded in 1976 by Dr. John Sperling. Our mission is to improve the lives of our students, their families and future generations through higher education. Our values (which hopefully you share) are:
Brave. Honest. Focused.

Our University values and embraces all team members and their unique perspectives. We fundamentally believe in fostering an environment which deeply respects, celebrates, and actively encourages a diverse workforce. We are committed to hiring - and learning from - those who share our passion to help others achieve their educational aspirations.

We offer excellent benefits, an effective recognition program, and outstanding learning and development tools, including tuition vouchers for employees and their qualified family members.

About the Position

A Dean leads the development and implementation of a college's strategic plan and provides overall leadership and oversight of strategy, operations and academic functions for a college. An individual is responsible for all academic components of a college, including faculty approval and oversight, student and faculty satisfaction/retention, academic policy and standards, and program evaluation. In addition, a Dean develops and implements a college's budget and ensures budget and the annual operating plan (AOP) are met on an annual basis.

An individual must meet the qualifications to serve as a faculty member.

What You'll Do:

1. Oversee academic functions within a college. Develop academic program policies, procedures and standards in accordance with University academic standards, including defining, implementing and communicating program philosophy and outcomes; conduct academic policy reviews and render academic policy exception requests, as needed.

2. Oversee all efforts to evaluate, pursue, secure and maintain accreditation, including programmatic accreditation for a college. Support centralized assessment systems for curriculum / programs, including providing input for setting and measuring student learning outcomes to help monitor and ensure academic program quality and progress.

3. Lead the development and implementation of the college's strategic plan and goals, including strategy regarding programs and student/faculty retention.

4. Manage the student experience within a college, including student engagement, guidance, identification of training and tutoring needs, and serving as final escalation point for concerns or disputes.

5. Identify emerging academic issues and recommend appropriate program responses to ensure curriculum and curricular resources are current, relevant, and innovative; collaborate with stakeholders to manage industry relations and incorporate industry needs and trends into the curriculum.

6. Provide direction for faculty personnel matters within a college, including hiring, performance management and evaluation, training, promotion and termination, as well as faculty engagement, through the use of centralized faculty performance data and teams.

7. Develop and implement a college's budget, goals, and objectives in accordance with and alignment of established University standards, goals, and objectives. Ensure budget and AOP are met on an annual basis.

8. Serve as a faculty member of the University.

9. Select, mentor, coach and evaluate staff; establish and monitor appropriate employee performance objectives; prepare and present employee performance discussions, including one-on-one meetings and quarterly check-ins; implement mentoring and coaching plans, or correction action, where appropriate.

10. Perform other duties as assigned or apparent.

NOTE:

The Primary Accountabilities above are intended to describe the general content and requirements of the position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Incumbents may perform all or most of the Primary Accountabilities listed above. Specific goals or responsibilities will be documented in incumbents' performance objectives as outlined by the incumbents' immediate manager.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Direct and indirect management of college academic staff

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