Senior Academic Programs Executive — Remote

Southern New Hampshire University; Yuma (AZ); Remote; USD 142,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental & vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Tuition assistance

Parental leave

Wellbeing resources

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking an Academic Associate Vice President (AAVP) for its Global Campus to provide strategic and operational leadership across academic programs. The role focuses on ensuring high-quality learning experiences, learner support, and effective faculty collaboration to meet institutional priorities.

The AAVP connects people, strategy, and operations, driving transformation, talent development, and continuous improvement to enhance learner outcomes at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive higher education leadership
• Experience with online education at large scale
• Experience developing policies and SOPs
• Systems thinking and outcomes-based design
• Strong change leadership and execution discipline
• Ability to build leadership and succession pipelines

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 insights to identify priorities, opportunities, risks, and actions that strengthen performance and sustainability.
• Promotes an enterprise One University mindset, aligning Academic Programs with institutional partners to optimize outcomes for learners.
• Provides enterprise leadership for academic integrity, quality, governance, and accreditation requirements.
• Advances organizational agility by mobilizing talent across portfolios and teams, enabling flexible structures and product-focused teams.
• Leads strategic initiatives and organizational transformation, translating priorities into coordinated actions and guiding changes in operating models and processes.
• Coaches and develops Academic Deans and Executive Directors, building leadership capability and succession pipelines.
• Strengthens data-to-insight-to-action, promoting evidence-informed decision making and measurable outcomes.
• Champions operational excellence by simplifying complexity, clarifying decision rights, and improving capacity and speed to value.
• Promotes responsible technology and AI enablement with human oversight and ethical considerations.
• Builds enterprise partnerships and aligns stakeholders around common outcomes beyond positional authority.
• Fosters a culture of accountability, learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Manages resources strategically, balancing immediate needs with long-term priorities.
• Anticipates opportunities and challenges in higher education, translating developments into strategic actions.
• Measures and communicates portfolio performance with clear indicators and actionable insights.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Portfolio management

Data-driven decision making

Change management

Collaboration across functions

Talent development

Education

Doctoral or terminal degree

Job description

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking an Academic Associate Vice President (AAVP) for its Global Campus to provide strategic and operational leadership across academic programs. The role focuses on ensuring high-quality learning experiences, learner support, and effective faculty collaboration to meet institutional priorities.

The AAVP connects people, strategy, and operations, driving transformation, talent development, and continuous improvement to enhance learner outcomes at scale.