Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Director of Academic Affairs
Job Summary and Qualifications
The DAA is a corporate support leader for the team of DOEs, operating with shared supervision over the campus based academic teams, reporting to the SVP of Academics. Incumbent is responsible for the overall guidance and analysis of reported outcomes, on a regular basis. This position is responsible for assisting to sustain an environment of academic excellence for each campus and a collaborative working environment with leadership team members. This individual is responsible for managing various processes related to academic success and outcomes. This position also is responsible for managing projects for the corporate academic team to ensure delivery of quality products
CHCP Core Values
This position also requires adherence to CHCP’s core values, which are the basic elements of how we go about our work. They are the practices we use (or should be using) every day in everything we do. Our core values are a small set of timeless guiding principles which we live by and include:
- Innovation: We embrace organizational goals and drive positive change.
- Compassion: We care about our students, their future employers, and the communities that they serve.
- Accountability: We are committed to responsibly upholding and reinforcing our values.
- Respect: We are accepting and considerate of others, regardless of background, abilities, or beliefs.
- Excellence: We execute our goals with passion and purpose and strive for the highest quality in our results
Essential Duties and Responsibilities • Leadership
- Develop and maintain a vision for educational growth of the institution, for all campuses, based on system verified data driven results in the areas of retention, certification, and graduation rates.
- Work with CPs, SVP of Academics and others to build and continuously train a cohesive academic director team of DOEs
- Provide leadership and support in the management of the Education departments to help attain key drivers
- Evaluate relevancy and viability of curriculum in collaboration with faculty and appropriate offices.
- Provide leadership in assessing student academic achievement with individual DOE, at each campus
- Provide leadership to improve academic achievement, persistence, and attainment of academic goals at each campus
State and Accreditation Compliance
- In partnership with the DOE team, coordinate general compliance of the institute’s academic practices with national, state, regional and programmatic relationships in an oversight and review role
- Assist campuses to comply with CHCP system policies as they apply to education.
- Work with the CHCP education team to create and enforce the systems, policies, and procedures in order to ensure academic consistency.
Process and Project Management
- Drive the certification process for all programs at all campuses
- Ensure all academic processes are being met at the campus level and accurately documented in appropriate system •
- Meet regularly with DOEs to review all metrics, assist with analysis and trending of all metrics and outcomes
- Partner with the AVP of Admissions to set and maintain Admission standards and the process for admitting new students
- Responsible for gathering reporting as determined by the leadership team.
- Manage projects, as assigned, by the COO and SVP of Academics to ensure timely and effective delivery of desired outcomes
Student Outcomes
- Provide leadership to the DOE team on persistence issues, noting trends and helping to create, implement and support initiatives to provide appropriate academic support to gaps noted in challenging trends
Faculty/Staff Hiring and Development
- Guide the academic management staff in hiring and developing appropriately qualified and credentialed faculty and staff members.
- Continually improve the faculty and academic staff orientation, training and development activities to promote a culture of learning.
- Coordinate faculty hiring process well in advance of class starts. Consult with human resources in posting, screening, interviewing, and recommended qualified, properly credentialed candidates.
- Community Involvement
- Assist growth of academic programs by executing strategic initiatives that leverage current industry trends, improve the quality of the student experience, and expand program reach.
- Other responsibilities as required
Experience
- Three to Five years related experience in field; related experience a must.
- Experience with student management information systems, running reports and developing future forecasts
- At least five years of increasingly responsible experience in academics, DOE experience preferred
Education
- Must be ABHES and TWC approved instructor for at least one program within the school where employment is physically located.
- Degree required
- Master’s degree preferred
Computer Skills
- Read only Must be proficient in Microsoft Office (i.e. Excel, Outlook, and Word) and data entry.
Benefits
Work from Home, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
Learn more about Employee Benefits
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
At The College of Health Care Professions (CHCP), we prepare students for meaningful careers in healthcare. Founded by physicians in 1988, CHCP has been dedicated to providing career-focused education and hands-on training that helps students build the skills and confidence to succeed in today’s healthcare industry.
That same commitment to student success extends to our teams. At CHCP, you’ll find a supportive, collaborative culture united by a shared purpose: changing lives through education and preparing the next generation of healthcare professionals. Now part of HCA Healthcare, CHCP combines a student-focused environment with the strength of one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Director of Academic Affairs opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
