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 Description	Originating Date: June 2012
Responsible Reviewing Agency: Executive Council	Revised: October 2015

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, the International Programs Office in the College of Nursing and Continuing Nursing Education. 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.

Organizational Relationships

The Associate Dean for Academic Programs collaborates with the Dean, the College’s other leaders, faculty, and inter-professional colleagues in accomplishing the College’s educational mission and moving the College toward its strategic and long range goals. S/he reports to the Dean and serves at the Dean’s request. S/he is the College’s liaison with the UNMC Dean of Graduate Studies, and serves on University academic affairs committees and in inter-professional academic initiatives.

The Associate Dean for Academic Programs collaborates with other members of the Executive Council, the Marketing Specialist/Recruitment Coordinator, and the Director of Diversity, and s/he works closely with the Undergraduate and Graduate faculty committees. S/he appoints, supervises, and facilitates the work of the Academic Program Directors. The Academic Program Directors, the Director of Continuing Nursing Education, and the Director of Student Services report to and are accountable for successful outcomes of their positions to the Associate Dean for Academic Programs.

Responsibilities of the Position

• Provides vision and leadership for academic excellence.
• Develops and applies measures of educational quality and quality improvement.
• Sets standards for innovative, effective, and efficient curricula and academic programming suited to tomorrow’s learner.
• Recommends budgets and other resources for meeting the teaching mission of the College.
• Assures academic program compliance with professional accreditation and regulatory bodies.
• Leads and manages systems and policies that support academic program planning, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Seeks and facilitates training grants.
• Provides oversight of programs related to the teaching mission, such as faculty orientation, faculty development, faculty awards, and student organization groups.
• Collaborates with inter-professional colleagues for the advancement of the University’s strategic plan for education.
• Provides input as appropriate to Chairs and Division Deans on faculty evaluations.
• Represents the Dean at designated meetings and, as needed, at regional, national, and international professional associations.

Appointment Requirements

• A bachelors and master’s degree in nursing and an earned doctorate in nursing or a related field.
• A distinguished record of academic scholarship.
• Experience in teaching and curriculum development, preferably at all three levels of nursing education.
• Evidence of effective inter-professional educational collaboration.
• Demonstrated leadership qualities, including a participatory leadership style that fosters respect and collegiality; strong managerial skills; ability to be creative, to take appropriate risks, and make timely decisions; openness to the ideas of others and to constructive feedback.
• Qualifications commensurate with appointment as Associate or Full Professor.