As the Associate Dean and Program Director for Computer Science programs in WGU’s School of Technology, you will play a pivotal role in shaping student success and outcomes in this critical field. You will drive transformative education experiences that empower students to achieve their goals, leveraging your subject matter expertise and academic leadership.
Requirements
- P&L Leadership: manage a $25M+ budget, maintaining affordable tuition while maximizing students' return on investment
- Program management and program marketing experience in launching new and revised programs into the education market and operating programs using data and insights
- Drive a culture of continuous experimentation, measurement, and learning from data to rapidly improve the quality and delivery to students
- Strong people leader to directly or indirectly lead a diverse team including program managers, instructional faculty, and student coaches/mentors
- Influences Others and Communicates Effectively: Communicates to improve and promote teamwork, decision making, and problem solving
- Collaborates: Works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives
- Manages Ambiguity: Deals comfortably with the uncertainty of change
- Drives for Results: Has a strong outcomes-based orientation
- Builds Effective Teams: Forms teams with appropriate and diverse mixes of styles, perspectives, and experience
- Organizational Learning: Learns quickly when facing new situations
- Ensure Accreditation Compliance: maintain ABET accreditation and other appropriate accreditations
- Build and Leverage an Advisory Council: establish and maintain an industry advisory board to align programs with workforce needs
- Deep understanding of how students learn and combining innovative curriculum and student support strategies to drive student success and employability
- Customer and student obsession with a focus on driving successful outcomes for them
- Industry or academic leader in the discipline
- Credible voice of the department in external partnerships and presentation opportunities
- Strong people leader to directly or indirectly lead a diverse team of people
- Execution focus with the ability to dive-deep and live in the details with a fast-paced weekly execution cadence
- Ability to organize and coordinate activities and results across cross-functional teams
- Ability to coach and develop direct reports
- Ability to collaborate with and manage teams, including those in a remote environment
- Ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed organization
- Ability to build relationships and influence at all levels, both internally and externally
- Ability to be an agent of change in a rapidly changing environment
- Proven ability to analyze data to identify trends and drive innovation
- Sound judgement and decision-making skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills
Benefits
- 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
- 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
