Ph.D. Program Director

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

📋 Description

• Provide strategic guidance to enhance the growth and sustainability of Tiffin University’s Ph.D. program.

• Foster interest among prospective students, manage applications, and boost new student enrollment.

• Collaborate with Enrollment Management, Marketing, the School Dean, faculty, alumni, and University partners to devise recruitment and enrollment strategies.

• Identify potential recruitment opportunities and partnerships while supporting recruitment events and communications.

• Monitor enrollment trends and the competitive landscape, offering recommendations for recruitment, conversion, and retention strategies.

• Instruct, promote the program, supervise and mentor faculty, and provide advisement to students.

• Lead the development of curriculum and programs, conduct program reviews, and analyze program metrics.

• Support initiatives aimed at student recruitment.

• Develop processes and provide administrative support.

• Organize immersion weekends, residencies, and related events.

• Represent the Ph.D. Program both within Tiffin University and externally.

• Chair the Ph.D. Program Committee, overseeing funding, admissions, course offerings, dissertation committees, and dissertation oversight.

• Evaluate and implement program design, assessment, degree requirements, and course offerings.

• Foster a supportive and inclusive community for Ph.D. students.

• Oversee residency requirements.

• Coordinate recruitment and admissions activities in collaboration with Marketing, Enrollment Management, and Graduate Admissions.

• Act on and approve completed applications and transfer credits.

• Coordinate the ranking and selection of graduate assistants.

• Stay updated on scholarship matters and supervise dissertation committees, graduate scholarships, and research issues.

• Assign advisors, assist with course selection, and coordinate student orientation.

• Monitor student progress and address any academic or research-related challenges.

• Ensure that dissertation committees, research training, and necessary approvals are in place.

• Advise students on dissertation funding, travel assistance, graduation requirements, and the completion of their dissertations.

• Ensure that faculty are informed about program policies and actively monitor student progress in collaboration with faculty.

• Support faculty workshops, staffing, faculty evaluations, and curriculum development.

• Maintain course rotations and update information in the Academic Bulletin.

• Assist with the preparation of annual reports, assessments, program reviews, and accreditation documents.

• Perform additional duties as assigned by the President, Provost, or Dean.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in a Ph.D.-level academic environment with leadership in program management.

• Familiarity with current scholarship in the field.

• Proficiency in overseeing Ph.D. curriculum, program review, assessment, and student learning outcomes.

• Capability to develop and implement academic, operational, dissertation, research, and administrative policies and procedures.

• Experience in managing admissions, enrollment processes, recruitment, and graduate assistant selection.

• Understanding of academic integrity, plagiarism, intellectual property, research ethics, human subjects research, and nonhuman vertebrate research requirements.

• Ability to supervise dissertation committees and manage dissertation completion processes.

• Competence in collaborating with faculty on curriculum development, student progress, assessment, and faculty evaluation.

• Ability to compile information for annual reports, program assessments, program reviews, and accreditation documents.

• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally on occasion.

• Commitment to supporting Tiffin University’s mission and ICARE values.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity protections.

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Opportunities to participate in Faculty In-Services, Residencies, and Graduation.

• Access to dissertation funding and travel assistance for presenting results (available to students under the director's administration).