Vice President, Academic Programs

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +31 more states.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic, operational, and cultural leadership for academic programs at SNHU's online Global Campus.

• Ensure the delivery of high-quality academic programs and learning experiences, with a focus on learner support, effective faculty, and well-functioning teams.

• Act as an enterprise systems leader, connecting people, strategy, and operations across academia and the broader SNHU ecosystem.

• Oversee multiple academic program teams and coordinate functions and initiatives across units that align with institutional priorities.

• Prioritize learner retention towards graduation and optimize the use of team resources.

• Manage Academic Deans and Executive Directors, providing both discipline-specific and cross-team leadership.

• Lead portfolio strategy and execution by utilizing insights from learners, operations, market trends, fiscal data, and product health.

• Ensure compliance with academic integrity, quality standards, governance, regulatory requirements, and accreditation mandates.

• Spearhead strategic initiatives, organizational transformation, and modifications to operating models, technology, processes, policies, and methodologies.

• Mentor and develop Academic Deans and Executive Directors while enhancing succession pipelines.

• Establish a culture of evidence-informed decision-making and convert data into actionable outcomes.

• Streamline and standardize processes to enhance organizational effectiveness, capacity, and speed to value.

• Identify opportunities for responsible technology and AI integration.

• Build partnerships across the enterprise and align stakeholders towards shared objectives.

• Promote accountability, learning, collaboration, experimentation, and ongoing improvement.

• Steward organizational resources and capacity effectively.

• Monitor trends in higher education, workforce, market dynamics, technology, AI advancements, academic models, and learner expectations.

• Assess and communicate organizational and portfolio performance metrics.

• Report directly to the Vice President of Academic Programs at Global Campus.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of progressive leadership experience in higher education, successfully managing cross-divisional initiatives with enterprise-wide impact.

• A doctoral degree or equivalent terminal degree.

• Experience equivalent to a degree may be considered acceptable.

• Extensive knowledge and experience in large-scale online education.

• Proficiency with various modalities, faculty and course design models, learner experience development, and faculty management.

• Experience in developing policies and standard operating procedures.

• Ability to think systemically, navigate complexity, and design outcomes-based frameworks.

• Enterprise perspective with skills in strategic prioritization and shared accountability.

• Proficient in change strategy and sequencing, stakeholder mobilization, and change adoption.

• Capable of translating strategy into action, leading portfolios/programs, and maintaining execution discipline.

• Strong data literacy, sense-making abilities, and making evidence-based decisions.

• Skills in process simplification, operating model design, and fostering continuous improvement.

• Ability to influence across departments, build relationships, and resolve conflicts constructively.

• Expertise in identifying AI opportunities, redesigning human/technology workflows, and promoting responsible adoption.

• Experience in talent and skills assessment, dynamic resource deployment, and leader development.

• Must reside and work from one of the approved states.

• A reliable internet connection and a dedicated, properly equipped workspace free from distractions are required.

🏝️ Benefits

• High-quality, low-deductible medical insurance.

• Low to no-cost dental and vision plans.

• 5 weeks of paid time off.

• Nearly a dozen paid holidays.

• Employer-funded retirement plan.

• Free tuition program.

• Parental leave.

• Resources for mental health and wellbeing.

• Option for remote work in approved states.

• A reliable internet connection and a dedicated, properly equipped workspace are required for remote employees.