Campus Associate Director Nursing, Clinical Operations

The Campus Associate Director Nursing, Clinical Operations assists with providing leadership in managing and implementing a comprehensive post-secondary adult vocational nursing program for delivery in support of College, campus, and/or departmental goals in order to assure compliance with programmatic accreditation and/or licensure, internal consistency, and graduate outcomes that meet workplace and placement expectations.

Participates in budget preparation and fiscal administration, curriculum development and coordination, determination of teaching assignments, supervision and evaluation of faculty, and selection/coordination of program specific external clinical facilities and instruction.

Provides professional leadership and support for teaching faculty; serves as a mentor and facilitator for faculty assigned; and enables an environment which fosters creativity, responsiveness, and self-responsibility.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:


* Assists with program activities to ensure compliance with applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, accrediting bodies, and company policies and procedures in concert with other ACC campus programs.


* Assists with ensuring the program’s yearly average minimum pass rate on the NCLEX licensure examination does not fall below the state’s average pass rate and meets and/or exceeds the program’s established annual pass rate goal.


* Reviews and recommends improvements and enhancements to the consistency and quality in course offerings, course/program development, and curriculum proposals.


* Participates in student retention activities such as coordinating departmental student academic counseling and/or establishing a point of contact for internal resource/access for student issues.


* Assures students are provided support services to maintain the highest level of student achievement while safeguarding the integrity of the educational process.


* Ensures faculty are recording daily class attendance and grades as required, completes and submits homework assignments timely, and grades tests, quizzes, lab assignments promptly.


* Assures student course evaluations are administered each term, and that feedback is provided to faculty in a timely fashion.


* May teach based upon the needs and/or student enrollments in the program as needed.


* Serves as a mentor, facilitator and provides guidance and support for full-time faculty, substitute faculty and staff.


* Oversees faculty in overall and day-to-day operation and guidance of didactic, laboratory, and clinical instruction, assignments, and/or scheduling of classes.


* Evaluates assigned faculty and support staff timely and assures staff submits/completes annual employment requirements to meet program accreditation standards, policies and procedures.


* Holds regular meetings with faculty and staff to share information, guidelines and procedures, coordinates activities, and to further ...