Associate Director for Curriculum and Educational Effectiveness

🇺🇸 Buffalo, New York 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $99K - $101K 💻 Administrator 🗓️ October 19th, 2026

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University at Buffalo is hiring an Associate Director for Curriculum and Educational Effectiveness. The role leads the Curriculum and Educational Effectiveness department within the Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation (CATT), which supports instructional innovation and the assessment of teaching and learning across the university. The associate director runs the university's annual program assessment reporting, comprehensive program review, and Middle States accreditation work, and supervises the professional staff behind it.

Highlights

Provide strategic leadership for university-wide student learning outcomes and program assessment initiatives, including the annual assessment reporting process.
Lead the assessment and educational effectiveness components of Middle States accreditation and Comprehensive Program Review, ensuring compliance with university, SUNY, and accreditation standards.
Direct the Curriculum and Educational Effectiveness department by supervising professional staff, setting priorities, and managing resources and complex institutional projects.
Oversee institutional assessment technologies, reporting infrastructure, and related business processes to improve data quality and institutional reporting.
Provide data reporting to units, programs, and departments, and serve as the university's senior consultant on assessment, with professional development for faculty and assessment coordinators.
Develop policies, procedures, and technologies that strengthen assessment practices and the use of evidence to improve teaching, learning, and academic programs.
Master's degree or professional certification with one year of experience, plus higher education experience with responsibility for institutional assessment, accreditation, educational effectiveness, or academic program review.
Preferred experience includes supervising staff, MSCHE accreditation, administering assessment management systems, analytics tools, and applying artificial intelligence to assessment; a doctorate and seven years of leadership experience are also preferred.
Salary range of $98,500 to $101,000, based on the Downtown Campus.