School of Nursing-Associate Dean for Student Success and Evaluation-Family, Community and Health Systems

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Portal•Birmingham, AL

About The Position

The Associate Dean for Student Success and Evaluation is a member of the School of Nursing Dean’s and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs’ leadership teams. The role has primary responsibility for operations in the Offices of Student Success and Evaluation and is accountable to the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for planning, implementing, and evaluating their work. This includes developing strategic goals and objectives, setting annual goals for student admission, recruitment, retention, and graduation, maintaining student records and registration, and generating reports and data to inform decisions and evaluate outcomes in support of the strategic plan. The Associate Dean oversees two School of Nursing service units and collaborates with mission leaders, including Associate and Assistant Deans, Department Chairs, and Directors, to address the needs of the School’s missions. The role leads strategic priorities and operational improvements, develops faculty and staff, evaluates staff performance, assesses office operations and workload, and collaborates with university partners on budgets and performance measures. For Student Success, the Associate Dean leads evidence-based strategies for recruitment, admission, retention, and graduation; supports enrollment projections and budget development; monitors expenditures; and ensures compliance with applicable laws, regulations, FERPA requirements, university policies, and student academic appeal and misconduct procedures. The role ensures application, admission, and graduation processes are consistently completed on established timelines. For Evaluation, the Associate Dean leads the identification of data needs, production of quarterly reports on strategic indicators, development and implementation of annual satisfaction surveys, and analysis of trends and improvement needs. The role serves as a School of Nursing liaison to UAB SACSCOC accreditation committees and works with university offices to improve reporting and evaluation capacity, access to data, and preparation of reports required by accreditors, boards of nursing, and professional organizations.

Requirements

Doctorate in nursing, higher education, administration, or a related field.
At least five years of higher education leadership and administrative experience.
Demonstrated success in an administrative or leadership position in higher education.
Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with all constituents and within leadership teams.
Demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals.

Responsibilities

Lead the planning, implementation, and evaluation of strategic priorities for the Offices of Student Success and Evaluation.
Serve as a member of the Dean’s Leadership Team and collaborate with leadership team members to advance the School of Nursing’s mission, vision, and strategic outcomes.
Lead initiatives aligned with UAB and School of Nursing missions and core values.
Determine faculty and staff development needs and plan training and development.
Evaluate and improve the operations of the Offices of Student Success and Evaluation.
Complete timely annual staff evaluations and collaborate with Human Resources and the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs on staff performance issues.
Conduct annual assessments of office operations and lead Assistant Deans in identifying quality improvements to processes and procedures.
Monitor office workload growth and identify when additional staff may be needed.
Lead evidence-based strategies for achieving annual recruitment, admission, retention, and graduation goals.
Collaborate with the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Executive Director of Administrative Operations on annual budget requests and academic-program enrollment projections.
Monitor and approve budget expenditures for the Offices of Student Success and Evaluation.
Develop collaborative relationships with campus academic offices and other university units.
Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, FERPA, university, and School of Nursing requirements affecting the student experience, admission, progression, and graduation.
Ensure compliance with student academic appeal and academic misconduct policies and processes.
Ensure application, admission, and graduation cycles are consistently implemented and completed according to established timelines.
Determine data needs for School of Nursing missions and units and generate quarterly reports on key strategic indicators.
Oversee development and implementation of annual surveys assessing satisfaction with programs and services.
Guide analysis of strategic-indicator data over time, identify trends and improvement needs, and determine whether additional data collection is needed.
Serve as the School of Nursing liaison to UAB SACSCOC accreditation committees.
Generate reports for the Dean and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs on progress toward goals for applications, admissions, enrollments, and credit-hour production, and use data to support strategic improvements.
Collaborate with UAB Institutional Effectiveness and Academic Planning to support reporting and evaluation, improve communication and data access, and develop reports required by accreditors, boards of nursing, and professional organizations.
Perform other duties as assigned.