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Southern New Hampshire University is hiring a Senior Vice President, Deputy Provost. This senior leadership role directs the planning, development, implementation, and assessment of all academic learning experiences for online, campus, international, and competency-based programs. The Deputy Provost leads academic management and faculty, ensures adherence to accreditation standards, partners with university departments to improve student success, and fosters academic excellence and innovation.

Highlights

Provides strategic leadership over academic programs, academic affairs, direct assessment programs, and global initiatives.
Leads and supervises faculty and academic management teams across multiple modalities.
Ensures compliance with accreditation standards, academic policies, and academic governance.
Collaborates with Advising, Admissions, Marketing, Academic Operations, Registrar, and leadership to improve student outcomes and business metrics.
Manages academic budgets with a focus on planning and prioritization.
Serves on the Provost’s leadership team and represents SNHU at regional and national meetings.
Requires a doctorate from a regionally accredited institution and at least 10 years of senior academic administration experience.
Demonstrated leadership managing large, complex teams and multi-modal academic systems.
Experience in financial management with multi-million-dollar budgets and knowledge of curriculum development, compliance, and competency-based education.
Expected salary range is $200,000 to $400,000 with target hiring range $300,000 - $330,000, plus exceptional benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, retirement, tuition programs, parental leave, and mental health resources.

Senior Vice President, Deputy Provost Full Description

Description

Southern New Hampshire University is a team of innovators. World changers. Individuals who believe in progress with purpose. Since 1932, our people-centered strategy has defined us — and helped us grow a team that now serves over 180,000 learners worldwide.

Our mission to transform lives is made possible by talented people who bring diverse industry experience, backgrounds and skills to the university. And today, we're ready to expand our reach. All we need is you.

This position is based in the following office location:Manchester, NH

The opportunity

Position Overview:

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is comprised of dedicated professionals from diverse backgrounds, each of whom brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the institution. Our commonality is this: We believe in the university's mission or transformation through learning, and its desire to provide affordable access to quality higher education to all.

The Deputy Provost at SNHU is a senior leadership role that works closely with a talented team to lead all academic learning experiences, delivering 200+ degree programs to more than 250,000 learners on campus, online and all over the world."

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Reporting directly to SNHU's University Provost, the Deputy Provost provides strategic leadership in planning, developing, implementing, and assessing learning experiences and student outcomes for SNHU's online, campus, international, and competency-based academic programs, ensuring cohesion across all learning experiences at the university. They will lead and supervise the academic management and faculty responsible for teaching and delivering all SNHU programs.

Academic departments include:

· Academic Programs (online academic teams, clinical faculty, adjuncts)

· Academic Affairs (campus academic teams and faculty)

· Direct Assessment programs (competency-based academic teams, reviewers)

· Global Initiatives (international programs, partnerships, Global Education Movement)

Additionally, the Deputy Provost will:

· Provide direction on key performance indicators in areas such as student success, retention/persistence, graduation, completion, academic rigor, integrity, and quality.

· Ensures adherence to accreditation standards, consistent application of academic policies and procedures, and academic governance.

· Partner with Advising, Admissions, Marketing, Academic Operations, Registrar, and other university leaders to improve key business metrics and student outcomes.

· Lead and champion objectives and strategies within the University Strategic Plan.

· Foster a culture of academic excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement across academic departments and programs.

· Oversee and manage the academic budgets with focus and discipline through a unified planning and prioritization approach.

· Build and lead a cohesive and unified team of talented, motivated, and focused individuals who can drive growth and innovate within the learning experiences.

· Stay abreast of developments in higher education, educational technology, and relevant fields and integrate best practices into the academic learning environments.

· Serve as a member of the Provost's leadership team and represents the Provost at various regional and national meetings.

Qualifications:

· Earned doctorate from a regionally accredited college or university.

· A minimum of 10 years of of senior academic administration

· Demonstrated leadership experience including leading large, complex teams that reach across diverse functional areas within a college or university.

· Experience leading complex, multi-modal systems or organizations

· Demonstrated expertise in financial and profit and loss management with multi-million-dollar budgets.

· Knowledge of academic processes including curriculum development, policy, compliance, and accreditation at the regional, national, and professional levels.

· Experience with innovative curriculum design, diverse learning styles, and competency-based education

· Success in leading and empowering individuals and teams to solve complex problems using an innovative, collaborative, and people-first approach.

· High-level of emotional intelligence, a learner's mindset, and strong collaborative skills

· Demonstrated track record in bringing discipline, focus, and clarity to teams, inspiring and holding teams accountable to the "right work."

· A commitment to student-centered learning models of delivering high-quality education and executing our mission of "Transforming live at scale."

· Demonstrable success in creating equitable experiences for diverse student populations.

· Demonstrated success in inclusive leadership practices.

· Excellent communication, interpersonal, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with the ability to build consensus, resolve conflicts, and make informed decisions

· Experience with organizational development, change, and culture.

Oversight: area and headcount

· Global Initiatives (including GEM) - 35

· Global Campus - FT & adjuncts (primarily part-time online adjuncts) - 11,000+

· University College Academic Affairs - FT, faculty, adjuncts - 780+

· CBE - 100

We expect this position to be hired in the following target hiring range $300,000 - $330,000.

We believe real innovation comes from inclusion - where different experiences, perspectives and talents are celebrated. So if you're wondering whether SNHU is right for you, take the leap and apply. You might be just the person we're looking for.

Compensation
The annual pay range for this position is $200,000.00 - $400,000.00. Actual offer will be based on skills, qualifications, experience and internal equity, in addition to relevant business considerations.

Exceptional benefits (because you're exceptional)

You're the whole package. Your benefits should be, too. As a full-time employee at SNHU, you'll get:

High-quality, low-deductible medical insurance
Low to no-cost dental and vision plans
5 weeks of paid time off (plus almost a dozen paid holidays)
Employer-funded retirement
Free tuition program
Parental leave
Mental health and wellbeing resources

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