Position Summary:

1. Serve as the senior academic and administrative leader of the Department of Nursing, working collaboratively with the Dean, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost to support departmental goals and align nursing initiatives with institutional strategic priorities.
2. Support faculty professional growth, faculty workload and teaching assignments, promote faculty scholarship, faculty recruitment, and evaluation.
3. Fiscal oversight of the departmental operational budget, including budget and enrollment forecasting and management of expenditures to support the resources and daily functioning of the unit.
4. Teach didactic and clinical graduate nursing courses in pre-licensure and MSN programs, using evidence-based strategies and technology-enhanced learning platforms, such as CANVAS.
5. Follow the approved course descriptions and syllabi established and approved by the Graduate Nursing Curriculum Committee and the Nursing Department Faculty.
6. Develop, revise, and implement curriculum consistent with AACN Essentials and CCNE standards, as well as the NONPF standards as applicable.
7. Enact best practices in nursing education.
8. Model critical and reflective thinking and foster the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective development of learners.
9. Support student success through academic advising and student consultation, by appointment.
10. Provide timely, constructive, and thoughtful feedback to learners.
11. Use information from course evaluations in planning instruction and improving the process.
12. Demonstrate professional and educational values and legal/ethical precepts in interactions.
13. Exhibit a spirit of inquiry about teaching and learning, student development, evaluation methods, and other aspects of the role.
14. Use current research findings and scholarly works in nursing to improve nursing education and practice
15. Perform other leadership duties as requested by the Dean of SEHS, the Provost, or the President.
16. Maintain clinical certification and licensure.

1. Demonstrate civil and inclusive behavior when interacting with staff, faculty, students, and visitors to the College.
2. Promote a flexible, collaborative, and inclusive work and living environment and engage in educational opportunities to increase awareness and understanding of diversity and inclusion.
3. Ability to perform educational functions with a high degree of ethics, integrity, and professionalism, and adhere to FERPA laws.
4. Articulate an understanding of the societal trust placed in the nursing profession, the advanced practice nursing profession, and the student relationship-based vision of the program.
5. Ability to communicate in the English language, both orally and in writing.

• Earned doctoral degree in nursing or a closely related field (PhD, DNP, DNSc, EdD)
• Master's degree in nursing from an accredited program

• Active, unencumbered Illinois RN license
• Certified Nurse Educator, preferred

• Minimum of two years of leadership experience in higher education, within a nursing school
• A distinguished record of teaching, scholarship, and service in nursing education
• Experience and knowledge in curriculum development and accreditation processes

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