Director of Learning Enhancement

Job Title : Director - Learning Enhancement

The Director - Learning Enhancement provides leadership for student success by building collaborative partnerships between academic affairs, student affairs, and clinical education while providing leadership for learning enhancement. Responsible for providing leadership and supervision to the Learning Specialist team for all KCU degree programs. The Director of Learning Enhancement reports to the Vice Provost for Student Engagement and collaborates with a variety of faculty, student affairs, and academic departments to help improve student support, mentoring, and academic success.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Lead and manage the Learning Specialist team members
• Develop a living KCU Learning Enhancement Strategic Plan, Vision and Mission
• Create and utilize a network of relationships with faculty and staff in all degree programs to effectively deliver learning enhancement and support services
• Provide leadership for the planning, implementing, and evaluating co-curricular programs that promote academic achievement, career exploration, and a sense of belonging for all students
• Facilitate the development of a culture that recognizes, affirms, and helps students draw upon cultural, communal, and identity-based ways of knowing, being, and doing to achieve educational outcomes
• Acknowledge and be responsive to the specific and particular realities of all student communities on campus in order to promote a greater sense of belonging and foster student success
• Collaborate with each academic degree program to help develop, implement, and assess a comprehensive student success and retention plan to include strategies and interventions informed by theory, inclusive and equitable practices, and data-informed practices that enhance student retention and graduation rates
• Contribute to assessment, accreditation, and other continuous improvement processes of all academic programs
• Lead the University's main academic support services including all learning enhancement, to include peer tutoring services
• Collaborate with academic affairs, curriculum, and faculty to ensure that learning enhancement is providing services, which are beneficial to student success
• Consult with individual program curricular affairs to ensure that the services utilized are directly tied to the learning outcomes approved by our curriculum committee for each course
• Provide oversight of the learning enhancement staff including day-to-day supervision, evaluation, and insuring that staff is invested in and exhibiting strategic goals
• Develop and implement annual assessment processes for learning enhancement and utilize feedback to improve overall performance of our learning enhancement services
• Contribute key data and evidence to assessment, accreditation, and other continuous improvement processes at the University
• Proposes annual budget requests for department

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