Department Chair – Nursing
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Nursing Department Chair leading online programs and faculty at American Public University System. Advancing curriculum quality, student outcomes, and teaching excellence for military and public-service communities.
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership for a quality learning experience and ensure coherence and relevance in nursing disciplines
- Support student learning outcomes, program quality, discipline integrity, faculty growth, success, belonging, and retention
- Collaborate with academic, operational, and cross-functional departments and external stakeholders
- Oversee daily operations of one or more programs and faculty
- Articulate department goals and needs within and outside the institution
- Develop, measure, and evaluate student learning outcomes, instructional efficacy, persistence, and retention
- Participate in strategic planning and budgeting
- Manage student conduct, appeals, and grievance processes
- Hire, develop, support, and evaluate faculty
- Document faculty achievements and improvements in teaching, research, curriculum management, and service
- Recognize outstanding faculty and colleague performance
- Assign courses and credential faculty to teach
- Assign curriculum development to full-time faculty
- Communicate regularly with faculty and convene faculty meetings
- Support discipline and program continuity, currency, and relevance
- Lead curriculum innovation, academic rigor, and teaching excellence
- Demonstrate teaching excellence and share effective practices
- Coach and develop others while managing competing priorities and difficult conversations
Requirements:
- Doctoral degree in nursing or a closely related field from a regionally accredited institution
- Five or more years of nursing experience
- Five or more years of teaching experience
- Academic management and leadership experience
- Online teaching experience
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite programs
- Experience with nursing specialty accreditation strongly preferred
- Upload a CV and a copy of unofficial transcripts, master's degree and above
- Full-time faculty members and department chairs must consider APU/AMU their primary employer
- Full-time salaried faculty and department chairs may not be full-time employees of another university, school, college, or higher-education institution
Benefits:
- Full-time salaried employment
- Faculty benefits; details provided at https://www.apus.edu/about/careers/faculty
- Primary-employer arrangement for full-time faculty and department chairs
- Equal opportunity employment
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