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Academic Program Director

The Academic Program Director (PD) is a key leadership position within the university; he / she / they promote and support a quality academic experience for learners by ensuring an engaging courseroom environment that facilitates achievement of program outcomes. The Program Director has oversight of curricula quality and rigor, and works to ensure curricula are professionally relevant, current, efficient, effective, and cohesive. This management position contributes to a range of activities related to excellence in curriculum design / delivery and assessment effectiveness, learner success, satisfaction, and engagement. Work closely with deans, assistant / associate deans, and faculty directors, as well as relevant university departments, to manage systems and processes related to curriculum creation and delivery. He / she / they coordinate with the relevant faculty directors to remain aware of issues related to discipline content. The Program Director acts as a liaison to other departments including Portfolio Strategy, Doctoral Affairs, Course Development, Center for Faculty Excellence, Faculty Hiring, HR, Accreditation and Institutional Effectiveness, Learner Affairs, and others as required.

Responsibilities include :

• Spearhead and oversee the development and revision of academic offerings.
• Utilize analytics and evidence-based practices to develop and execute actions that drive continuous quality improvement application in learner success, teaching, engagement, academic quality, and curricula development.
• Preside over efforts to ensure appropriate academic programmatic accreditation and / or licensure is obtained and maintained.
• Ensure assigned academic offerings align with professional trends and standards, while seeking professional validation wherever possible (in the way of credentials, licensure, alignment with existing or emerging standards / programmatic requirements, etc.)
• Oversight of curriculum development according to external standards and in alignment with university design principles; supervision of SME course development and leadership.
• Lead specialized accreditation process, self-study, etc.; ensure alignment to HLC best practices in university faculty oversight of curriculum.
• Build and nurture internal and external partnerships and relationships that drive success of the school and academic offerings.
• Orchestrate and optimize course offering / scheduling.
• Supervise Core faculty; conduct Core faculty performance reviews.
• Host faculty meetings focused on program and curricula.
• Collaborate with Faculty Director on the hiring of new faculty.
• Address learner programmatic issues (academic, professional disposition, behaviors).
• Teach or mentor once a quarter.
• All other duties as assigned.

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