Offer: Associate Vice Provost Accreditation and Quality Improvement

Associate Vice Provost Accreditation and Quality Improvement

As the Associate Vice Provost for Accreditation and Quality Improvement you will lead the university’s strategic plan to implement a new assessment framework. You and your team will be responsible for assessment of learning results, management of regional accreditation and state approvals to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and reporting to external entities. This vital position will also provide leadership abilities in the preparation of all required federal and state reports and requests to accrediting agencies, and for the integration of assessments to meet learning goals while ensuring the University’s achievement of its mission and strategic goals.

tasks and Responsibilities:

»Strategically manage all regulatory requirements and ensure accreditation and state compliance. Coordinate institutional assessment and evaluation.

»Provide leadership abilities and support for all accreditation and compliance operations, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and related reporting/requests for university and program accreditation purposes and compliance?

» supervise the management of accurate databases, archives and document collections required for accreditation, compliance, University performance measurements, and reporting?

» supervise program review, ensuring continuous, systematic and collaborative creation and evaluation of new or significantly improved programs, services, processes and relationships that provide increased value for the students and other stakeholders?

»Maintain current expertise about accreditation requirements as well as assessment programs, activities, and tools. Research issues of importance and provide thoughts on how trends/issues may influence the University.

»Report and act on any important developments in accreditation and assessment standards within the University or all over higher education in general?

»Ensure that accreditation requirements are incorporated in institutional goals and objectives, and into the planning and evaluation process of the University?

»Serve as the liaison to the Middle States Commission on Higher Ed, managing all communications, site visits, and reporting;

» supervise the assessment plans and practices, and evaluation of learning goals and results across the University

Minimum Qualifications required

»Master’s degree required (Doctoral degree preferred)

»Minimum 5 years of related higher education faculty and administrative practice in quality assurance/practices and practice in one or more of the following areas? academic assessment, institutional research, design and analysis

»Proven expertise and practice with Higher Education Accreditation and Compliance

»Effective management and change leadership abilities skills

»Can-do attitude

»Demonstrated skills in working with various internal and external constituencies

»Strong competence with program and institutional accreditation data-gathering, analysis and reporting
*Some travel to Albany NY will be required