POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the President, the Vice President, Business Development & Academic Affairs (VPBDAA) is responsible for all academic programs, providing leadership to faculty and academic staff to ensure consistent quality standards in curriculum and programs that meet the needs of students and directly leading academics in enrollment growth participation as a university team effort. The VPBDAA oversees the academic integrity of the University and provides leadership in long-range planning, expanding programs to growth markets, enrollment growth, budgeting, curriculum, retention, and assessment. The VPBDAA ensures compliance with various accreditation agencies as well as state accreditation and regulation. The VPBDAA should have excellent management skills providing yearly employee assessments and setting employer metrics. The VPBDAA must have an understanding of a non-profit business operations and how each division effects each other division in the success of the operations and how revenue is created and applied in an efficient and strategic manner for overall heath and growth of a non-profit university. In addition, the VPBDAA is part of the University Executive Council. This position is on campus in Laurel, MD.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Earned doctorate, JD, or appropriate terminal degree in an academic discipline.
• A record of progressively advancing leadership responsibilities, positions, and success.
• Demonstrated support for both face-to-face course delivery and asynchronous course delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to manage financial resources, complex budgets, and personnel.
• Demonstrated commitment to student success.
• Ability to work in an entrepreneurial fast-paced business environment.
• An ability to engage with all University constituents in a way that respects their roles and responsibilities, demonstrates open and timely communication, and seeks diverse perspectives collaboratively.
• Ability to use qualitative and quantitative information in decision making.
• An appreciation of a wide variety of performance measures as appropriate in different disciplines.
• A sustained record of high integrity and ethical behavior, creativity, energy, and the ability to inspire others.
• A team player for the success of the university.
• A demonstrated ability to work collegially with varied constituencies including faculty, staff and students.
• Ability to work independently.
• Must possess a professional demeanor and able to keep confidences.
• Office 365 experience preferred but must be comfortable using Microsoft Word, Excel, and find it easy to use and learn new technology.
• If not already familiar with databases, must be willing to learn and use the university’s database to access information as needed.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in and enthusiasm for teaching, service, recruiting/marketing
• Experience working in both the private sector and non-profit higher education
• Experience with undergraduate and graduate recruitment and retention efforts
• Experience with budget models that reward productivity, effectiveness, and creativity

• Provide leadership, vision, recruitment strategies for all academic related areas in a student centered environment and work with the chairs, faculty, and cross-divisional teams to facilitate appropriate policies and procedures.
• Foster, build, and empower, and manage a productive leadership team.
• Oversee systematic review of programs to ensure quality and current course content.
• Formulate, maintain and implement, and evaluate a high-quality curriculum and faculty evaluation process.
• Provide leadership in matters of academic policy and administration and regularly advise the President and Executive Council on these matters.
• Coordinate and provide leadership in the Strategic Plan implementation.
• Coordinate and provide leadership in planning to support the strategic plan and a comprehensive capitol campaign focused on improving campus learning facilities.
• Coordinate with the chairs and approve the hiring, support, development and evaluation of faculty, staff, and administrators of instructional programs, learning assessment, and services.
• Coordinate with the chairs and approve the assigning of courses and non-instructional assignments to full and part-time faculty.
• Lead the faculty to add stackable credentials and skill based learning for credit to the academic offerings.
• Work with direct reports to plan, develop, and implement the annual budget for the academic division of the University; approve expenditures.
• Coordinate accreditation efforts and the preparation of reports to various accrediting agencies.
• Coordinate with the chairs and Vice President for Student Engagement in the preparation of the class schedule each semester; approve the final class schedule.
• Collaborate on the compilation of information for the published catalog.
• Manage the personnel in the academic division on a daily basis and perform official evaluations yearly that may impact merit bonuses or raises.
• Collaborate with the Vice President for Enrollment and Marketing on activities to incorporate faculty into recruitment efforts and ensure that academic programs are accurately reflected in all marketing materials and publications.
• Prepare and present reports to appropriate subcommittees of the Board of Trustees and attend all meetings of the Board of Trustees.
• Serve on Executive Council and other committees as needed.
• Serve as ex-officio member of administratively appointed academic committees.
• Ensure communication with faculty by working closely with the Presiding Chair of the Faculty Senate to promote quality.
• Coordinate with the Instructional Design & Online Learning Department for Academic and University success.
• Understand the importance of enrollment and participate closely aligning academics with enrollment and recruiting for continued growth.
• Maintain accountability for all employees working under Academic Affairs.
• Maintain and manage the Academic Affairs budget closely and be accountable.
• Understand how a non-profit business works and work in a day-to-day operational hands-on management style for the success of the overall university.
• Work in a highly collaborative environment on a daily bases with the Vice Presidents.
• Be comfortable with technology from managing Microsoft Office tools to accessing reports from the database to setting up online meetings.
• Other duties as assigned