Associate Dean, Academic Affairs

Company Description

Chamberlain

With more than 135 years of history in healthcare education and as the largest nursing school in the country, Chamberlain University is committed to delivering a high-value education that prepares students to thrive as healthcare professionals. We call this commitment Chamberlain Care®—our dedication to providing students with the tools and resources to succeed while immersed in a community of care. By living Chamberlain Care®, we graduate healthcare professionals who transform the health of people worldwide.

Chamberlain is comprised of the College of Nursing and the College of Health Professions. The College of Nursing offers a three-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program and flexible post-licensure programs, such as the RN to BSN option, Master of Science in Nursing degree program, Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program and graduate certificates. The College of Health Professions also offers the Master in Public Health, Master of Social Work and Master of Physician Assistant Studies degree programs.

We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday–Thursday). This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment.

Chamberlain is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Learn more about Chamberlain at , and follow Chamberlain on Instagram , Facebook and LinkedIn .

Job Description

Opportunity at a Glance
The Associate Dean of Academic Affairs manages day-to-day academic operations and directly supervises assigned faculty. Partners with Dean on strategic execution of BSN program goals. Develops faculty performance and maintains teaching standards. Contributes to student success through operational coordination and data-informed decisions. Ensures compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards for assigned areas.

Responsibilities

• Implements academic strategy under Dean's direction. Manages assigned faculty schedules, workload, and performance. Ensures curriculum delivery standards for assigned courses/sections. Analyze student success data to improve curriculum delivery, lab, simulation and workshops.

• Recruit, select, onboard and retain qualified faculty to ensure program excellence.

• Lead performance management for assigned faculty (visiting and/or full-time), ensuring accountability for teaching quality and student outcomes through ongoing observation, evaluation, and feedback.

• Collaborate with faculty and leadership to plan and manage budgets.

• Ensure curriculum delivery meets institutional standards and accreditation benchmarks through rigorous evaluation and continuous improvement.

• Embed Chamberlain Care principles and Covista culture expectations into academic operations and support services.

• Manages faculty and SLS scheduling and workload models for assigned groups. Coordinates with other ADAAs working at the campus. Ensures resource allocation for assigned courses. Support clinical placement of nursing students. Collaborate on academic budget and capital requests.

• Serve as liaison to boards, communities, and internal stakeholders with professionalism and care.

• Lead program expansion and new academic initiatives with agility and vision, responding to evolving healthcare education needs.

• Actively support and own academic strategy and curriculum change from the center.

• Key behaviors tied to success in this role:
  • Anticipate and respond to student needs, empower faculty to implement solutions that remove barriers to success.
  • Connect daily work to our vision and strategy at Chamberlain for your teams.
  • Seek feedback, support faculty to innovate, improve operating model, and use data to continuously improve student outcomes.
  • Coordinate and collaborate closely with ED, other DAAs, and ADAAs to support student and business outcomes.
  • Demonstrate ethical practice, take accountability for individual and team performance, and celebrate successes.
• What success looks like in your role:
  • Students achieve strong outcomes — including matched or exceeded national BSN average NCLEX pass rate as a direct accountability for the role.
  • Students are engaged and satisfied, as reflected in NPS feedback.
  • Enrollment, retention and persistence targets are matched or exceeded.
  • High faculty and academic team engagement scores and low regrettable turnover.
  • Faculty continuously improves and meets their goals.
  • Faculty are successfully recruited, onboarded, and retained to support program excellence.
  • Budgets are effectively planned and managed, with faculty input considered.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in nursing, Doctoral degree in nursing or medical field Preferred
• 2+ years experience in nursing education at the Bachelor level or above.
• 2+ years development/participation in simulation/clinical experience.
• 2+ years previous leadership experience.
• 2+ years in acute patient care/trauma/emergency and/or medical-surgical environments.
• Development/participation in simulation/clinical experiences required.
• Three to five years in acute patient care/trauma/emergency and/or medical-surgical environments considered a plus.
• Strong interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
• Demonstrated strong leadership, organizational and time management skills.
• Outstanding communication ability and strong customer service orientation.
• Strategic thinking and policy interpretation.
• Professionalism and multitasking in fast-paced environments.
• Organization and time management skills a must.
• Budget planning, resource management and the ability to lead change.
• Demonstrated recruiting and onboarding skills.
• Unencumbered Professional nursing licensure.

Additional Information

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $80696.34 and $119656.84. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.

Covista offers a robust suite of benefits including:

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
  For more information related to our benefits please visit:
  You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Equal Opportunity – Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation