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Western Governors University (WGU) is hiring a Program Development Owner for the Leavitt School of Health. The role involves leading curriculum design, development, and ongoing improvement for assigned program portfolios, ensuring alignment with accreditation standards and student success metrics, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance educational quality and delivery.

Highlights

Lead curriculum and assessment management for assigned health programs ensuring quality and validity.
Apply best practices in curriculum design, development, delivery, and maintenance.
Collaborate with stakeholders to meet accreditation and regulatory requirements.
Provide insights and innovations based on data analysis and learning science.
Develop and monitor success metrics related to time, budget, and quality.
Strong skills in online learning design, project management, and data analytics required.
Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree, four years of relevant experience, and familiarity with online education or standardized testing.
Preferred qualifications include a degree in Nursing or related field and experience in product or program management.
Salary range is approximately $86,000 to $129,000, with comprehensive benefits including bonuses, insurance, retirement planning, and paid time off.
Responsibilities include facilitating group meetings, producing critical documentation, and working with senior leadership under varied conditions.

Program Development Owner Full Description

Program Development Owner- Leavitt School of Health

Salt Lake City Office

Full time

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Faculty 508Pay Range: $86,000.00 - $129,000.00

Job Description

Job Profile Summary:

Reporting to the respective college’s director of assessment and curriculum, the program owner proactively leads the curriculum design, development, and support of an assigned program portfolio at Western Governors University (WGU). The individual oversees the

design, curation, development, and continuous improvement of effective curriculum, assessments, instructional models and content, and diagnostics. This individual participates in evaluating programs and learning experience quality and assesses program, course, assessment, and learning resource performance against student achievement. The program owner works with colleagues in academics, operations, evaluation, and others to provide input about potential changes to the curriculum, assessment, instructional models, academic support services, and field/clinical experiences. Program owners are responsible for implementing the requirements defined by the program charter regarding curriculum and assessment design, on time and budget.

Location: This position requires you to work at our headquarters, 4001 South 700 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84107. You would work a hybrid schedule in the office 4 days a week with one day remote.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Owns curriculum and assessment within assigned programs, including relevance, quality, technical accuracy, functionality, and assessment validity. Ensure timely delivery of quality programs.
Implements and ensures adherence to best practices in the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of assigned product portfolio.
Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure programs meet all accreditation and regulatory requirements. Ensures alignment between curriculum and assessment.
Provides thought leadership and recommend innovations in learning products, learning design, and delivery based on data analysis and learning science.
Evaluates and analyzes program and course performance as required for operation and quality improvement.
Develops and maintains success metrics and time, budget, and quality measures.
Contribute to critical documentation in support of the full product lifecycle.
Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

Excellent organizational and project management skills, including the ability to effectively handle multiple tasks and pay attention to detail
Understand product-level curriculum and assessment design and development
Strong online learning design and development skills
Clear understanding of user-experience best practices, including accessibility requirements
Ability to facilitate groups and meetings in person and remotely
Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently
Excellent written, oral, presentation, and interpersonal skills
Ability to build relationships and influence at all levels, both internally and externally
Data analytics skills, including interpretation, synthesis, and formal presentation to key stakeholders
Proven ability to use data to make informed decisions (analyze root causes, design experiments and interventions with clear success measures, conduct retrospective analysis, etc.).
Detail-oriented, with proven ability to handle multiple tasks
Requires composure under pressure, dealing with ambiguity and comfort working closely with senior leadership

Job Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or discipline.
All applicable licenses or certifications.
4 years of relevant professional experience.
Experience in online education, standardized testing, or educational publishing
Experience interacting effectively with cross-organizational teams

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Nursing or a related field or discipline.
Experience in product or program management.

Physical Requirements:

Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

Position & Application Details
Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.

Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.

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