Southern New Hampshire University is a team of innovators. World changers. Individuals who believe in progress with purpose. Since 1932 our peoplecentered strategy has defined us and helped us grow a team that now serves over 180000 learners worldwide.
Our mission to transform lives is made possible by talented people who bring diverse industry experience backgrounds and skills to the university. And today were ready to expand our reach. All we need is you.
This position is based in the following office location:
Manchester NH
The opportunity
The Associate Dean of the School of Arts Sciences and Education (SASE) is responsible for the daytoday academic operations of the school including the coordination and of academic terms with key oversight of course scheduling management of student complaints adjunct faculty recruitment retention and management coordination with advising and other offices and other duties as assigned. The associate dean uses independent judgment integrity and a love of teamwork to advance the mission of the school support faculty and meet institutional goals. The associate dean is a critical thought partner to the dean and leads the school in their absence.
What youll do:
- Oversee adjunct faculty recruitment retention and teaching effectiveness
- Manage curricular proposals and new programs in collaboration with the dean and department chairs
- Coordinate with Campus Academic Operations and department chairs in making adjunct faculty teaching assignments setting schedules making classroom assignments and ensuring compliance with contractual obligations
- Approve and monitor coursesbyarrangement (CBA) and other teaching assignments
- Oversee management of student matters including progress tracking petitionstoamend degrees registration and degree requirement issues including collaborating with Academic Advising
- Handle student complaints about faculty involving interaction with faculty members students student advisors and department chairs ensuring processes are implemented fairly
- Manage student academic dishonesty concerns guiding faculty in detection and reporting advising students of their rights and responsibilities recording the events and collaborating with the Office of Community Standards to ensure processes are followed
- Oversee school processes for academic integrity and other community standard violations and serve on relevant committees
- Work with the dean and deans office team to ensure policies and protocols within SASE are followed
- Partner with the dean on strategy including identifying potential investments and budget priorities with primary responsibility for tactical level decisionmaking and implementation
- Collaborate with Student Success team Campus Academic Operations The Commons Office of the University Registrar and other offices that partner with the deans office on operational and studentfocused issues
- Establish processes and policy for recurrent academic operations
- Attend meetings of the Campus Academic Leadership Team SASE deans office SASE department chairs SASE faculty and other meetings with external offices as assigned
- Be the acting dean when the dean is unavailable including substituting in providing support to the school and deans office leading faculty and chairs meetings and representing SASE to the VPAA other deans and external partners
- Directly manage employees including the assistant dean dozens of adjunct faculty and others as assigned
- Perform other tasks as assigned by the dean
What were looking for:
- Doctorate (or relevant terminal degree) in a field represented by SASE
- Demonstrated leadership experience in higher education
- Five or more years of experience teaching at the college level
- Evidence of active scholarly agenda
- Experience working with higher education technology (ex: Colleague/Banner Brightspace or other LMS and Power BI)
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Compensation
The annual pay range for this position is $83071.00 $132940.00. Actual offer will be based on skills qualifications experience and internal equity in addition to relevant business considerations. We expect this position to be hired in the following target hiring range $91794.00 $124192.00.
Exceptional benefits (because youre exceptional)
Youre the whole package. Your benefits should be too. As a fulltime employee at SNHU youll get:
Highquality lowdeductible medical insurance
Low to nocost dental and vision plans
5 weeks of paid time off (plus almost a dozen paid holidays)
Employerfunded retirement
Free tuition program
Parental leave
Mental health and wellbeing resources
Required Experience:
IC