Associate Dean of Academic Affairs – Clinical Immersion & Experiential Learning -BSN Online

Job Description

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs – Clinical Immersion & Experiential Learning.

Provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure curricula are current and consistently delivered in a manner that drives superior student outcomes while upholding the principles of Chamberlain Care™. This role includes direct oversight of high‑impact clinical immersion experiences, leading large‑scale, multi‑day onsite immersions in Illinois designed to strengthen clinical competency, skills validation, and NCLEX readiness.

• Provide leadership and oversight for large‑scale clinical immersion experiences, supporting nursing students through skill‑based, high‑impact learning sessions.
• Lead and manage on‑site immersion weekends (one weekend per session), ensuring strong execution of clinical skills validation and student engagement.
• Oversee multi‑day immersion events (3‑day format), including return demonstrations, teaching components, and applied clinical skill development.
• Support delivery of core clinical competencies including IV insertion, head‑to‑toe assessment, oxygenation, mobility, medication calculations, and NCLEX‑style readiness activities.
• Collaborate with Associate Deans and regional teams across five regions, ensuring alignment of immersion execution and student outcomes.
• Manage and scale immersion operations to support high student volume (150–900+ students per session) across multiple waves, ensuring quality and consistency.
• Partner closely with academic and simulation leadership to integrate virtual simulation (VSIM) and hands‑on immersion experiences, enhancing overall clinical readiness.
• Participate in the recruitment, selection and onboarding of qualified faculty and staff and monitor and evaluate their ongoing performance.
• Ensure learning experiences align with the BSN curriculum and collaborate with national team to support implementation.
• Collaborate with national academic committees to ensure that appropriate goals and projects are implemented.
• Create plans for student success in all learning areas, including student retention, graduation rates, and NCLEX pass rates.
• Focus on student satisfaction and work collaboratively with the local and national partners to achieve superior student outcomes.
• Ensure that course resources and course assessment data are evaluated each session and provide recommendations to improve campus student success plans.
• Support faculty with timely and effective implementation of changes that address evolving needs of students and ensure delivery of course and/or program outcomes.
• Ensure faculty are oriented and accountable to teaching and learning best practices through regular evaluation/feedback.
• Serve as a faculty and staff mentor in areas of academic excellence, customer service, collaboration with local and national partners, communication, and professionalism.
• Create and monitor a well‑defined process for campus faculty participation expectations in national course advisory councils, ensuring that the faculty are providing feedback and making curriculum delivery decisions.
• Solicit recommendations from faculty and staff for academic budget. Collaborate with campus leadership and national partners to prepare capital requests for learning areas as necessary.
• Support faculty and clinical coordination teams for clinical placement of nursing students to meet program objectives.
• Ensure regular meetings of the faculty and comprehensive academic team to facilitate communication and faculty participation in planning, implementing and evaluating the curriculum.
• Assign faculty and academic team workloads.
• Support national academic team in consistent execution of core CAS programs and developing local programming (when necessary) to support student success.
• Collaborate with national library staff for management of local holdings.
• Monitor and analyze student academic success data to identify recommendations to improve delivery of curriculum and engage student success interventions.
• Ensures compliance with all regulatory and statutory regulations; amends existing policies/procedures as needed. May be identified and approved by the state board of nursing as the…