Dean - Allied Health and Natural Sciences

Tennessee Board of Regents•Memphis, TN

About The Position

The Dean of Health and Natural Sciences provides strategic, academic, and operational leadership for a multi-disciplinary division that includes allied health, nursing, biological sciences, physical sciences, and related STEM programs. The Dean ensures program quality, compliance with accreditation standards, faculty excellence, and student success across all departments. This role advances workforce aligned health programs, transfer pathways in natural sciences, and partnerships with clinical, industry, and community stakeholders. The Dean manages budgets, personnel, facilities, and operations while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Master’s in a health sciences or natural sciences discipline.
Minimum of three (3) years of academic leadership experience (chair, program director, associate dean, or similar).
Minimum five (5) years full-time teaching experience
Strong organizational, communication, and administrative skills.
Ability to work collaboratively with an ever-growing college population of faculty, staff, students, and external partners.

Nice To Haves

Relevant doctoral degree
Three (3) years of experience in administration, with higher education administration preferred.
Demonstrated experience with regional or specialized accreditation processes
Experience managing budgets, grants, or clinical partnerships

Responsibilities

Serve as a member of the Academic Affairs and Instruction Leadership team.
Represent the College with the Tennessee Board of Regents, external agencies, and legislative partners.
Provide vision and direction for health and natural sciences programs, aligning divisional goals with institutional mission, workforce needs, and strategic priorities.
Lead long range planning, program expansion, and innovation in instructional delivery, clinical education, and STEM learning environments.
Promote a collaborative and student centered culture across departments.
Recruit, hire, onboard, and retain qualified faculty and staff across health and natural sciences disciplines.
Provide mentoring, coaching, and professional development that supports instructional excellence, clinical competence, and scholarly engagement.
Conduct evaluations, manage workload assignments, and ensure transparent personnel practices.
Support faculty engagement in research, clinical practice, STEM initiatives, and community partnerships.
Supervises, mentors, coaches, and evaluates department chairs to strengthen their effectiveness as academic leaders.
Develops chairs’ leadership capacity and builds a sustainable succession pipeline within the division.
Ensures consistency across departments in scheduling, faculty workload, hiring, evaluation, and academic operations.
Provides guidance and accountability for departmental planning, budgeting, enrollment management, and student success initiatives.
Aligns departmental leadership with institutional priorities through clear expectations, data informed decision making, and coordinated collaboration.
Oversee curriculum development, program review, and assessment to ensure academic rigor, relevance, and alignment with accreditation and licensure standards.
Ensure high quality instruction across lecture, lab, simulation, and clinical settings.
Support the development of new programs, certificates, and pathways responsive to regional workforce demands.
Provides strategic oversight for divisional enrollment planning, growth strategies, and program viability, ensuring accountability for enrollment outcomes.
Partners with Admissions, Advising, Marketing, Workforce Development, and Enrollment Management to support coordinated recruitment, retention, and student success initiatives.
Ensures schedules are developed to optimize enrollment, student access, and alignment with Guided Pathways, and holds department chairs accountable for schedule quality and productivity.
Guides and monitors departmental recruitment, marketing, and outreach efforts while clarifying roles so day to day operations remain with the Enrollment Management unit.
Evaluates program productivity and makes evidence based recommendations for expansion, redesign, consolidation, or discontinuation to strengthen divisional performance.
Ensure compliance with regional accreditation (e.g., SACSCOC) and specialized accreditors for health programs (e.g., ACEN, CoARC, NAACLS, JRCERT).
Maintain audit ready documentation, assessment systems, and continuous improvement processes.
Oversee clinical affiliation agreements, regulatory reporting, and licensure related requirements.
Developing annual divisional performance metrics.
Using institutional dashboards to guide resource allocation.
Leading continuous quality improvement initiatives.
Monitoring key performance indicators.
Strengthen advising, retention, and completion strategies for health and STEM students.
Ensure high quality learning environments, including laboratories, simulation centers, and clinical placements.
Support student progression through selective admissions, licensure preparation, and transfer pathways.
Develop and manage divisional budgets, ensuring responsible stewardship of financial, human, and physical resources.
Oversee procurement and maintenance of specialized equipment, laboratory supplies, simulation technology, and clinical instructional resources.
Coordinate facilities planning for labs, classrooms, simulation centers, and clinical education spaces.
Pursue grants, partnerships, and external funding opportunities.
Build and sustain relationships with hospitals, clinics, laboratories, research institutions, and industry partners.
Lead advisory board engagement to ensure programs meet workforce needs and licensure expectations.
Represent the division on institutional committees and in community, workforce, and educational collaborations.
Collaborating with Workforce Development to align academic programs with regional workforce needs.
Working with employers and advisory committees to ensure the curriculum remains current and responsive to industry demands.
Supporting industry-recognized credentials, work-based learning, and transfer/workforce pathways where appropriate.
Using labor market and workforce data to inform program planning, review, and expansion.
Lead divisional meetings, maintain clear communication channels, and ensure timely dissemination of policies and decisions.
Oversee scheduling, staffing, and operational processes across departments.
Ensure compliance with institutional policies, safety protocols, and regulatory standards.