Academic Program Director, Bachelor of Social Work

Strayer Group; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Strayer Group is seeking an Academic Program Director to lead curriculum development and assessment, ensuring quality programs that meet accreditation standards. You will collaborate with deans, faculty directors, and HR to align curricula with industry trends and regulatory requirements.

You will oversee course design and delivery, supervise core faculty, and drive learner success and engagement across programs while managing scheduling and program reviews.

Qualifications

• 2 years of full time professional social work practice experience post CSWE MSW degree conferral required.
• A minimum of 1 year required, two years preferred experience as an Academic Program Director in a CSWE Accredited Program.
• A minimum of 3 years teaching in an accredited program or related field; online higher education teaching experience preferred.
• Demonstrated contribution to the discipline including publishing, committee involvement, or professional association

Responsibilities

• Spearhead and oversee the development and revision of academic offerings.
• Utilize analytics and evidence-based practices to drive continuous quality improvement in learner success, teaching, engagement, and curricula.
• Preside over accreditation and licensure activities to ensure compliance and standards.
• Ensure offerings align with professional trends and obtain validation via credentials and licensure where possible.
• Oversee curriculum development per external standards; supervise SME course development and leadership.
• Lead specialized accreditation processes and self-studies; align with HLC practices.
• Build partnerships to drive success of the school and offerings.
• Orchestrate course offering/scheduling; supervise Core faculty and reviews.
• Host faculty meetings; collaborate with Faculty Director on hiring.

Skills

Curriculum development

Andragogy

Assessment

Online teaching

Competency-based education

Direct assessment

Data analysis

Regulatory compliance

Accreditation standards

Education

CSWE MSW degree

Job description

The Academic Program Director (PD) is a key leadership position within the university; he/she/they promote and support a quality academic experience for learners by ensuring an engaging courseroom environment that facilitates achievement of program outcomes. The Program Director has oversight of curricula quality and rigor, and works to ensure curricula are professionally relevant, current, efficient, effective, and cohesive. This management position contributes to a range of activities related to excellence in curriculum design/delivery and assessment effectiveness, learner success, satisfaction and engagement. work closely with deans, assistant/associate deans, and faculty directors, as well as relevant university departments, to manage systems and processes related to curriculum creation and delivery. He/she/they coordinate with the relevant faculty directors to remain aware of issues related to discipline content. The Program Director acts as a liaison to other departments including Portfolio Strategy, Doctoral Affairs, Course Development, Center for Faculty Excellence, Faculty Hiring, HR, Accreditation and Institutional Effectiveness, Learner Affairs, and others as required.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead and oversee the development and revision of academic offerings.
• Utilize analytics and evidence-based practices to develop and execute actions that drive continuous quality improvement application in learner success, teaching, engagement, academic quality, and curricula development.
• Preside over efforts to ensure appropriate academic programmatic accreditation and/or licensure is obtained and maintained.
• Ensure assigned academic offerings align with professional trends and standards, while seeking professional validation wherever possible (in the way of credentials, licensure, alignment with existing or emerging standards/programmatic requirements, etc.).
• Oversight of curriculum development according to external standards and in alignment with university design principles; supervision of SME course development and leadership.
• Lead specialized accreditation process, self-study, etc.; ensure alignment to HLC best practices in university faculty oversight of curriculum.
• Build and nurture internal and external partnerships and relationships that drive success of the school and academic offerings.
• Orchestrate and optimize course offering/scheduling.
• Supervise Core faculty; conduct Core faculty performance reviews.
• Host faculty meetings focused on program and curricula.
• Collaborate with Faculty Director on the hiring of new faculty.
• Address learner programmatic issues (academic, professional disposition, behaviors).
• Teach or mentor once a quarter.
• All other duties as assigned.

Knowledge & Skills

• Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum development, andragogy, and assessment. Knowledge of online teaching, competency-based education, and direct assessment.
• Discipline knowledge.
• Ability to objectively analyze program/course quality data and implement recommendations relevant to improving learner outcomes.
• Ability to maintain program compliance with all regulatory rules, and national program accreditation standards.
• Familiarity with program development and evaluation.
• Ability to advise and assess learning effectiveness and quality of the education experience.
• Ability to provide significant impact on learner retention plus direct impact on cost, revenue and quality assurance within a program area.

Navigation

Integration of program, academic and regulatory considerations with business strategies and plans. Manage multiple academic and administrative projects. Resolve multi-faceted types of problems encountered involving courses, faculty, regulatory or administrative issues.

Adaptability/Flexibility

Open to change. Drive results despite ambiguity.

Innovation

Creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.

Stress Tolerance

Ability to accept constructive criticism and deal with high stress situations.

Leadership

Ability to operate independently (leading, collaborating and executing) in a highly ambiguous, matrixed environment with high interdependencies. Be a doer, focused not just on thought partnership but on getting things done and executing both independently and with others. Lead by listening, be highly collaborative, and productively contribute opinions to critical decision-making processes. Act independently to achieve results in support of business goals and strategies with a program area.

Work Experience

• 2 years of full time professional social work practice experience post CSWE MSW degree conferral required.
• A minimum of 1 year required, two years preferred experience as an Academic Program Director in a CSWE Accredited Program.
• A minimum of 3 years teaching in an accredited program or related field; online higher education teaching experience preferred.
• Demonstrated contribution to the discipline including publishing, committee involvement, or professional association