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Position Summary

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Defining the school’s scope, mission, and objectives.
  • Providing leadership on the school’s capacity to carry out its mission and accomplish its objectives.
  • Supporting strategic growth in instructional, research/scholarly, and public service areas.
  • Assuring and, whenever possible, improving the school’s capacity to carry out its mission and accomplish its objectives with distinction.
  • Serving as a member of the college senior leadership team.
  • Advocating for the academic programs in the school.
  • Serving as the spokesperson for all official communications and transactions with employees, other units of the university, alumni, and external constituents.
  • Representing the school at university events.
  • Demonstrating and promoting sensitivity to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

   

• Developing and administering effective operating policies and practices for the school.
  • Directing day-to-day operational responsibilities of the school.
  • Overseeing scheduling of courses.
  • Assigning workload and schedules of employees.
  • Coordinating program review, accreditation, and other reporting activities as applicable
  • Facilitating curricular recommendations.
  • Making recommendations regarding promotion and/or tenure.

• Managing resources assigned to the school.
  • Planning, obtaining, budgeting, allocating and managing resources.
  • Making budget, curricular, and personnel recommendations.
  • Overseeing student recruitment, retention, advisement, and enrollment management strategies, plans, and activities.
  • Encouraging proposals for external and internal funding.
  • Engaging in advancement activities in coordination with the Dean and college advancement professional.
  • Coordinating the selection and hiring of all classification of employees.
  • Supervising employees assigned to the school.
  • Exercising independent judgment in conducting evaluations of employees and in taking personnel actions such as progressive discipline and/or remediation, including recommendation for discharge or termination.

• Assuming an academic and scholarly role within the school.
  • Maintaining professional/disciplinary currency.
  • Teaching courses and advising students.
  • Fostering excellence in teaching and scholarship.
  • Demonstrating and promoting sensitivity to student issues.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Earned doctorate in nursing or related health field and a master’s in nursing if the earned doctorate is in a non-nursing health-related field.
• Current active and unencumbered, unrestricted Illinois RN License or eligible for licensure in Illinois.
• A record of accomplishment consistent with tenure and rank of associate or full professor in a school of nursing
• Engagement in the nursing profession demonstrating awareness of discipline-related issues
• Advancing roles of mentorship and leadership experience,
• Significant accomplishments in teaching, research/scholarly activities, and service.
• Experience in budget planning and decision-making,
• Experience in personnel supervision and management,
• Experience in curriculum and program development, and
• Experience in nursing program accreditation and program outcomes evaluation.

Additional Requirements

• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Strong leadership acumen.
• Ability to problem solve.
• Detail oriented.
• Strong work ethic.
• Ability to think critically and strategically.
• Facility in promoting a positive culture and climate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Qualifications consistent with appointment at full professor status.
• Experience in fundraising including donor relations.
• Demonstrated skill in team building and strategic planning.
• Prior roles engaging directly with university-level administration.