CON Associate Dean for Transformational Practice and Partnerships

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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER COLLEGE OF NURSING
Associate Dean for Transformational Practice and Partnerships Position Description	Subsection: 3.2.3
Section 3.0 - Position Descriptions	Originating Date: June 2012
Responsible Reviewing Agency: Executive Council	Revised: October 2015 Revised: April 2024 (changes)

General Position Description

The Associate Dean for Transformational Practice and Partnerships is the Senior Practice and Partnerships Officer for the College of Nursing and has responsibility for visionary leadership of the College’s full portfolio of practice, engagement, and academic/practice partnership programs at local, state, national, and global levels. These programs encompass the Morehead Center for Nursing Practice and the Global Health Program Office in the College of Nursing. This individual facilitates the planning, administration, evaluation, and continuous improvement of transformational faculty practice, community partnership, and international programs in the College by working collaboratively with the directors of each program. S/he serves as a liaison with community engagement and collaborative programs as they develop. S/he seeks, develops, implements, and evaluates internal and external partnerships related to practice, including funding sponsors, directed toward the College’s achievement of its faculty practice, community engagement, and global strategic plans. The individual is accountable for planning innovative, future-oriented practice and community engagement programs; oversight in meeting clinical accreditation and credentialing standards; effective grantsmanship for clinical and health services scholarship and demonstration grant support; and effective collaboration with faculty and staff in the practice, community engagement, and global missions.

The Associate Dean for Transformational Practice and Partnerships is appointed by the Dean and serves at the Dean’s request. S/he also collaborates with the Dean, the College’s other leaders, faculty, and inter-professional colleagues in accomplishing the College’s practice, engagement, and global missions and moving the College toward its strategic and long-range goals. S/he is the College’s liaison with Nebraska Medicine and other practice partners to advance and synergize practice priorities and to establish partnerships with clinical practice colleagues across disciplines. He/she also serves on the UNMC clinical affairs committees and in inter-professional practice and partnership initiatives.

The Associate Dean for Transformational Practice and Partnerships collaborates with other members of the Executive Council, and s/he works closely with appropriate college committees, the Morehead Center for Nursing Practice, and the Global Health Programs office. S/he works closely with the Associate Dean for Academic Programs and the Associate Dean for Research to creatively design, implement, and evaluate transformational practice, partnerships, and global programs that integrate and support the College’s academic and research missions in the practice environment. S/he appoints with dean approval, supervises, and facilitates the work of the Directors of the offices for practice and global programs. The Director of the Morehead Center for Nursing Practice and the Director of Global Health Programs report to and are accountable for successful outcomes of their positions to the Associate Dean for Transformational Practice and Partnerships.

FTE Allocations for the Associate Dean Role

Administration .50 FTE

• Ability to negotiate based on the needs of the college and the expectations of the Associate Dean.

Teaching

• Ability to negotiate based on the needs of the college and expectations for the Associate Dean.

Research/Scholarship

• Ability to negotiate based on the needs of the college and the expectations for the Associate Dean.

Service

• Ability to negotiate based on the needs of the college and the expectations for the Associate Dean.

Transformational Practice

• Ability to negotiate based on the needs of the college.

Administration

• Provide leadership in creating an environment where faculty, staff and students can thrive in achieving their practice and partnership goals.
• Maintain consistent, responsive, and frequent communication regarding practice and partnerships within the College, UNMC, and other clinical entities.
• Work in concert with the Dean, CNOs, and practice partners to create a culture of trust, collaboration, accountability, and excellence.
• Provide oversight of the College Strategic Plan regarding practice and partnership goals and coordinate, execute, and evaluate those goals developed by the College.
• Promote interprofessional, innovative, and creative ideas in practice and partnerships.
• Maintain currency in practice through professional development.

Curriculum

• Provide input for clinical and simulation courses taught in all programs in the college to assure alignment with clinical practice.
• Coordinate with assistant deans, academic prgram directors and associate deans for academic programs to communicate concerns from CNOs and clinical partners.

Faculty

• Coordinate the orientation of new practice faculty across different clinical partners.
• Work with assistant deans to assign mentors for new practice faculty and provide campus-specific orientation.
• Ensure clinical practice adherence to all UNMC and CON clinical practice policies.
• Support and facilitate practice faculty career development and scholarly activity.
• Mentor faculty in practice, and related scholarly activities.
• Counsel practice faculty toward promotion and/or tenure in collaboration with assistant deans (Refer to Appendix A3)
• Provide oversight to faculty in identifying appropriate clinical sites to meet educational standards and objectives and make the most judicious use of these sites.
• Lead the Morehead Center for Nursing Practice and facilitate contractual agreements for faculty practice, ensuring that practice arrangements are aligned with the mission and needs of the College and are budget positive.
• Recruit practice faculty in collaboration with Dean and assistant deans to the college and make recommendations for appointing new faculty to the Dean.
• Support retention and promotion through written documentation and write letters of recommendation for awards and nominations for practice faculty.
• Provides input as appropriate to division deans on faculty evaluations with practice workload allocations holding practice faculty accountable for their responsibilities per the tripartite mission metrics. Provide a plan of action for metrics not met.