Dean of Nursing, Academic Affairs

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Provide academic leadership for the creation, execution, assessment, and ongoing enhancement of the BSN curriculum.

• Implement the BSN academic strategy to enhance student outcomes, focusing on NCLEX pass rates, retention, graduation rates, and overall student satisfaction.

• Ensure that curriculum delivery aligns with institutional, regulatory, and accreditation standards.

• Lead the processes for faculty development, mentoring, evaluation, and performance reviews.

• Oversee the hiring, onboarding, development, scheduling, performance, and retention of faculty and associate deans.

• Participate in decisions regarding faculty appointments, promotions, tenure, retention, and other employment matters.

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

• Manage academic operations, national support teams, budgets, faculty workload models, and instructional resources.

• Serve as a liaison with campus, central administration, national academic teams, university units, clinical agencies, professional organizations, and regulatory/accrediting bodies.

• Ensure compliance with program-level regulatory, statutory, and accreditation requirements.

• Coordinate with state nursing boards and other regulatory agencies, implementing necessary compliance actions.

• Lead program growth and the introduction of new academic initiatives.

• Oversee student admissions, academic progression, and graduation processes.

• Monitor metrics such as student engagement, satisfaction, enrollment, persistence, faculty engagement, turnover, retention, and achievement of goals.

• Perform additional duties as assigned.

• Adhere to all policies and standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master’s Degree in nursing is required.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in nursing education, including at least 3 years in a leadership capacity, is required.

• Strong interpersonal, organizational, conflict resolution, and computer skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• Capacity to communicate effectively with all management levels.

• Capability to handle sensitive and confidential issues.

• Aptitude to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize workload effectively.

• Strong organizational and time management skills.

• A high level of professionalism and integrity.

• Strategic thinking and policy interpretation skills.

• Current unencumbered RN licensure and/or a multi-state privilege to practice nursing in the Commonwealth/State is required.

• Doctoral degree is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.

• 401k Retirement Program with a 6% employer match.

• Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy.

• 12 Paid Holidays.

• Annual incentive program, subject to program rules and individual and organizational performance.