Job description
Albany, NY
The Department Chair for Clinical Academics is a member of the Excelsior University faculty. The position is responsible for supporting the academic side of the School of Nursing clinical courses. As a member of the faculty, this role has teaching responsibilities commensurate with the scale and scope of the size of the department. This position will report to the Associate Dean of the School of Nursing.
This position is based out of the university’s home office in Albany, NY with the option of considering remote candidates. Remote employees will have mandatory occasional travel for meetings, conferences, and professional development opportunities. Remote employees are expected to be available during work hours 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Eastern time. The University will supply necessary equipment to perform the essential functions of this job (e.g., Laptop, docking station). Employees are responsible for having a workspace where they can participate in virtual meetings without multiple interruptions and noise.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The following duties and responsibilities, but not limited to, are expected:
- Interview and hire clinical faculty
- Provide orientation to clinical faculty regarding their roles, responsibilities, and processes
- Conduct orientation for students on clinical requirements
- Evaluate clinical faculty performance at clinical sites
- Monitor student surveys to assess clinical instructor effectiveness and address any related concerns
- Track and monitor clinical instructors’ use of Exxat to ensure timely student evaluations and skill development
- Serve as a School of Nursing (SON) representative on-call for academic concerns, student behavior issues, and attendance matters
- Serve as a School of Nursing (SON) representative for clinical faculty concerns
- Support curriculum mapping to meet accreditation requirements, specifically aligning direct measures to EPOs and SLOs on the ACEN Self-Study Program Evaluation (SPE)
- Collaborate with the Clinical Operations team and Department Chairs
- Participate in annual clinical site tours with the Clinical Operations team
- Maintain clinical teaching responsibilities with a reduced course load
- Manage course registrations and instructor assignments in accordance with university-set benchmarks and quality metrics
- Utilize and translate data benchmarks and generate reports on goal specific metrics to drive results
- Lead specialized accreditation requirements in conjunction with course and program outcomes
- Leads the development and implementation of new and redesigned academic programs at the direction of the Executive Dean or Dean of Nursing
- Foster a culture of excellence, innovation, and engagement in curriculum development and course design in coordination with the university instructional design unit 2
- Review and assess academic programs offered by the department according to established university guidelines, metrics, and specialized accreditation requirements where applicable
- Collaborates on curriculum development, alignment, and revisions for the department in conjunction with university priorities and guidelines
- Has teaching responsibilities with workload model
- Maintain a scholarly agenda in alignment with university and college and strategic priorities
- Engage department faculty in university and community service activities as appropriate
- Other duties as deemed necessary
- Travel required
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Required unencumbered RN degree. Compact license preferred.
- An earned doctorate or related field, or an earned doctorate/terminal degree with at least 18 credit hours at the graduate level in related field.
- Minimum of seven years of teaching experience.
- Five to seven years of progressive administrative experience, with consistent evidence of exemplary performance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong track record of promoting student success using evidence-based decision-making to support the quality improvement of academic programs, curriculum, and faculty.
- Demonstrated experience with the recruitment, selection, evaluation, development, and mentoring of faculty.
- Experience with program and student learning outcomes assessment, as well as program and institutional accreditation processes and procedures.
- Experience with supporting the coordination, preparation, and maintenance of a budget in an academic environment preferred.
- Strong track record or working collaboratively and collegially with faculty across disciplines to support high-quality standards.
- Excellent communication skills, comfort with timelines, dates and deliverables are necessary.
The hiring salary range for this position is $97,500.00 – 105,000.00. The hiring salary range above represents the University’s good faith estimate at the time of posting.
