Program Chair – Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) – College of Nursing (Virtual)

• Represents and serves as an advocate for the mission of the /college and the University to internal and external stakeholders, including the local campuses, shared services, operations, and others. Builds a strong community with regular, open communication between students, faculty, administration, and staff.
• Engages in tasks associated with the direct supervision of academic affairs staff including, but not limited to: coaching, conducting performance evaluations, approving PTO, disciplinary action, recognition, and development. Responds to student issues and concerns.
• Collaborates with faculty recruiting teams to identify and recruit qualified faculty while maintaining a sustainable curricular model. Assess program faculty composition in light of diversity, visibility, and program goals and teaching effectiveness. Develop a multi-year hiring plan and provide recommendations for new positions, promotions and hires. Collaborate with shared services teams to select faculty mentors, review mentorship evaluations and make recommendations regarding faculty selection.
• Develops and maintains the academic quality and integrity of the college programs and discipline via frequent collaboration and communication with academic and program deans. Uses data, including student learning outcome data, program performance data, student/faculty/alumni survey data, etc. to ensure program quality and use for program improvement. Monitor, review, and retain program-specific documents, including internship and practicum documentation when applicable. Work with academic affairs staff to manage the day-to-day running of the program.
• May teach in his/her program to support program instructional needs.
• In collaboration with the Clinical Chair, establishes selection criteria of local clinical agencies, identifies possible clinical sites for partnerships, creates and maintains relationships with clinical agencies, and initiates appropriate affiliation agreements.
• Ensures proper and secure document retention for all clinical and compliance documents.
• Evaluates and provides detailed feedback on faculty performance. Advises, coaches and mentors faculty on how to deliver course content/PD more effectively, with an emphasis on improving student/educator engagement, performance, and success.
• Investigates and addresses performance deficiencies and/or violations of the Faculty Handbook with appropriate remediation and coaching. Implement, communicates, monitors, and ensures adherence to University academic policies, standards and practices. Provides academic guidance and policy interpretation to faculty as needed or requested. Responds to student and faculty program concerns and ensures appropriate routing for resolution.
• Identifies and leverages institutional best practices among faculty and identifies the best method of dissemination and distribution of teaching methods that support student success and enhance program quality. Evaluate faculty metrics and other data to identify opportunities for professional development, training, mentorship, coaching, engagement, etc.
• Acts as a content area expert, providing the college with support and feedback in the development, review, and revision of curriculum. In addition, may provide content area expertise to other stakeholders such as business to business, technology, operations, accreditation, assessment, etc. Regularly assesses student learning in partnership with faculty and uses the results to inform strategic decisions about curricula, facilities, technology, hiring, etc.
• Monitors and evaluates external agencies (internships and student teaching) to determine their effectiveness. Provides recommendations for continued use of agencies. This includes initiating contacts with agencies to secure and update necessary affiliation agreements and appropriate internships. Establishes and enhances academic and professional networks for the program.
• Partners with local campus leadership and other stakeholders to identify market opportunities to build relationships and partnerships that will add credibility to the degree program, build the perceived reputation and value of our offerings, and support cohorts of programs/PD/other educational offerings. Represents the school/college as appropriate in its relationship with the community by participating in targeted events, conference, meetings and workshops and partnering with other chairs to foster the effective use of resources.
• Participates in and may lead task forces and committees to represent and address academic concerns to college management team and/or administration, as well as plan, implement, and coordinate campus and/or regional activities to maximize service quality effectiveness and efficiency.
• Maintains a professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing, professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies. This includes maintaining a general knowledge of emerging issues and trends related to the respective content areas and maintaining a record of research and scholarship.
• Performs other duties as assigned or apparent.

NOTE: The primary accountabilities above are intended to describe the general content and requirements of this position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Incumbents may perform all or most of the primary accountabilities listed above. Specific goals or responsibilities will be documented in the incumbents’ performance objectives as outlined by the incumbents’ immediate supervisor or manager.

Supervisory Responsibilities
Yes

MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Master’s degree in a college specific discipline required.
• Must hold an active unencumbered or unrestricted California Registered Nurse (RN) license, AND an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) certification from the State of California AND an active National Certification as a Nurse Practitioner or Clinical Nurse Specialist
  • NOTE: Faculty released to teach in the Online modality must hold an active unencumbered or unrestricted Arizona or Multistate RN license AND an active Arizona Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) as a Nurse Practitioner
• Must hold and maintain a current unencumbered Arizona and California RN license or from a compact state
  • Proven experience as demonstrated through five (5) years of experience in a progressively responsible capacity in an education or business environment directing processes, procedures, and activities, as well as participating in the development and implementation of goals, objectives and budgets.
  • Three (3) years of proven experience in teaching in an approved nursing education program at the BSN level or higher.
  • A minimum of 2 years of current applicable experience within the last 5 years
• Experience in Adult and Geriatric Management
• Must remain a University of Phoenix faculty member in good standing within the designated college.
• Must meet the requirements for regulatory agency approval
• SCHOLARSHIP: All faculty members must have one record of scholarship annually, within a rolling one-year timeframe, that meets UOPX’s definition of scholarship engagement. Faculty who do not initially meet this requirement may still be qualified, however, they have one year from the date the content area is approved and/or the requirement effective date, to come into compliance with this Nursing Scholarship requirement to maintain content area approval
• College of Nursing requires all faculty teaching courses within the College to maintain Annual Scholarship

ADDITIONAL/PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Doctorate degree in a college specific discipline strongly preferred.
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills to communicate with faculty, students, employees and external parties as it relates to the management of the respective campus and college programs.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of problem solving and decision-making abilities.
• Demonstrated a high level of conceptual and strategic thinking to establish budget, goals, and processes, utilize data and activities in conjunction with University standards and guidelines.
• Strong interpersonal skills, building relationships/partnerships, ability to communicate professionally, persuasively and confidently over phone, email and in face-to-face appointments to accurately convey information and increase positive awareness of the University.
• Working knowledge of personal software packages to prepare correspondence, reports, as well as create and generate spreadsheets.
• Ability to convey a professional image, as well as effectively represent the organization as appropriate in its relationship with the community.

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