Remote AVP, Academic Programs & Strategy

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

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition benefit

Remote work option

Paid time off

Healthcare benefits

Retirement plan

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University seeks an Academic Associate Vice President (AAVP) for the Online Global Campus. The role provides strategic, operational, and cultural leadership for academic programs, ensuring high-quality, learner-focused experiences, engaged faculty, and effective teams to meet institutional goals.

Reporting to the Vice President of Academic Programs, you will guide portfolio strategy, foster cross-unit collaboration, and drive continuous improvement, transformation, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive higher education leadership experience successfully leading cross-divisional initiatives with enterprise impact.
• Knowledge and experience within online education at large scale, including modalities, faculty and course design models; learner experience development, and faculty management.
• Experience with development of policies and standard operating procedures.

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 development and execution of portfolio strategy, using health, learner, operational, market, fiscal, and other relevant insights to identify priorities and actions.
• Promotes an enterprise One University mindset, building alignment across Academic Programs and institutional partners to optimize outcomes for the institution and learners.
• Provides enterprise leadership for academic integrity, quality, and governance, ensuring policies and practices support standards, regulatory and accreditation requirements.
• Advances organizational agility and talent fluidity by coordinating expertise and capacity across portfolios and teams.

Skills

Higher education leadership

Enterprise leadership

Change leadership

Strategy execution

Data literacy

Organizational design

Digital & AI fluency

Talent development

Education

Doctoral degree or equivalent terminal degree

Job description

Southern New Hampshire University seeks an Academic Associate Vice President (AAVP) for the Online Global Campus. The role provides strategic, operational, and cultural leadership for academic programs, ensuring high-quality, learner-focused experiences, engaged faculty, and effective teams to meet institutional goals.

Reporting to the Vice President of Academic Programs, you will guide portfolio strategy, foster cross-unit collaboration, and drive continuous improvement, transformation, and