Nursing Dean, Academic Affairs Leadership

Chamberlain University; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Paid Holidays

Annual Incentive Program

Job summary

Chamberlain University seeks a Dean, Academic Affairs (Nursing) to provide strategic leadership for the BSN program and ensure high-quality curricula and student outcomes.

You will build a high-performing faculty and academic support team, ensuring curricula remain current and compliant with accreditation standards while guiding data-informed strategies to improve NCLEX performance, persistence, and graduation rates.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in nursing is required; doctoral degree preferred.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, conflict resolution and computer skills are essential.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate with all management levels.

Responsibilities

• Provides academic leadership for BSN curriculum development, evaluation, and continuous improvement to align with regulatory and accreditation requirements.
• Execute BSN academic strategy to drive NCLEX pass rates, persistence, graduation, and student satisfaction.
• Ensure curriculum delivery meets institutional standards and accreditation benchmarks through rigorous evaluation and improvement.
• Lead faculty development, mentoring, evaluation, and performance reviews per university policies and standards.
• Oversee hiring, onboarding, development, scheduling, performance, and retention of faculty and associate deans; ensure teaching excellence.
• Participate in faculty appointments, promotion, tenure, retention decisions per policies and criteria.
• Embed Chamberlain Care and Covista culture into operations, promoting collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Manage academic operations with national support teams, budgets, workload models, and instructional resources.
• Serve as liaison between campus BSN program, central administration, national teams, and other units to implement priorities and resolve issues.
• Develop relationships with central administration, clinical agencies, and regulatory bodies to maintain compliance and represent Chamberlain positively.
• Lead program expansion and new initiatives in response to evolving healthcare education needs.
• Have authority to oversee admission, progression, and graduation of students.

Skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Conflict resolution

Computer skills

Time management

Education

Master's degree in nursing

Doctoral degree

Job description

Chamberlain University seeks a Dean, Academic Affairs (Nursing) to provide strategic leadership for the BSN program and ensure high-quality curricula and student outcomes.

You will build a high-performing faculty and academic support team, ensuring curricula remain current and compliant with accreditation standards while guiding data-informed strategies to improve NCLEX performance, persistence, and graduation rates.