Executive AVP, Academic Programs & Strategy

Southern New Hampshire University; New Mexico; Remote; USD 142,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Retirement plan

Free tuition

Parental leave

Paid time off

Wellbeing resources

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking an Academic Associate Vice President (AAVP) for the Global Campus. You will provide strategic, operational, and cultural leadership across academic programs to deliver high-quality learning experiences and strong faculty engagement.

The role requires 10+ years in higher education leadership, a doctoral degree, and experience with online education at scale. You will guide portfolio strategy, drive organizational transformation, and champion

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive higher education leadership with enterprise impact.
• Doctoral degree or equivalent terminal degree.
• Experience with online education at large scale, including modalities, faculty management.

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic and enterprise leadership for assigned academic portfolios, ensuring portfolio strategy, priorities, resources, and performance align with institutional objectives, market needs, and learner outcomes.
• Leads the development and execution of portfolio strategy, using health metrics and insights to identify priorities, risks, and actions that strengthen performance.
• Promotes an enterprise mindset, building alignment across Academic Programs and partners to optimize outcomes for the institution and learners.
• Provides enterprise leadership for academic integrity, quality, and governance to ensure standards and accreditation requirements are met.
• Advances organizational agility by mobilizing talent across portfolios and enabling flexible team structures.
• Leads strategic initiatives and organizational transformation translating priorities into actions across models, processes, and technology.
• Builds leadership capability by coaching Academic Deans and Executives and nurturing succession pipelines.
• Strengthens data-to-insight-to-action for evidence-based decisions and measurable outcomes.
• Champions process excellence by simplifying work, clarifying decision rights, and partnering across functions.
• Promotes responsible technology and AI enablement with human judgment and equity.

Skills

Systems thinking

Change leadership

Strategic execution

Data literacy

Enterprise leadership

Digital & AI fluency

Talent development

Education

Doctoral degree

Job description

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking an Academic Associate Vice President (AAVP) for the Global Campus. You will provide strategic, operational, and cultural leadership across academic programs to deliver high-quality learning experiences and strong faculty engagement.

The role requires 10+ years in higher education leadership, a doctoral degree, and experience with online education at scale. You will guide portfolio strategy, drive organizational transformation, and champion