Assistant Vice President, Academic Affairs

About the Role

As our Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs, you'll be at the helm of faculty facilitation and curriculum delivery for Nightingale College. Reporting to the Provost & Vice President of Learner Experience, you'll lead the people, processes, and programs that ensure our learners receive a consistent, high-quality academic experience — from their first course to licensure and beyond.

This isn't a seat-warming role. You'll direct faculty operations across General Education and Nursing Education, partner with NE Leadership on Experiential Learning delivery, cultivate relationships with external partners and professional organizations, and keep the College ahead of emerging trends in nursing education. You'll also own the documentation ecosystem — from SOPs and handbooks to the annual College catalog — ensuring accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement across the board.

What You'll Do

• Lead faculty operations — Direct GE and NE faculty efforts to hire, onboard, train, and manage the faculty workload & staffing matrix for consistent, quality course facilitation.
• Learner concerns - Arbitrating escalated complex learner issues as needed.
• Drive experiential learning — Partner with NE Leadership to consistently staff and deliver the Experiential Learning aspects of our curriculum.
• Develop leaders — Lead Faculty Development & Curriculum Delivery leadership activities that elevate performance across the academic enterprise.
• Own the data — Utilize predictive and descriptive data to guide faculty facilitation, development, and curriculum delivery decisions.
• Govern documentation — Provide stewardship for the accuracy and currency of SOPs, KPIs, policies, handbooks, and the annual College catalog for faculty affairs.
• Build bridges — Cultivate strategic relationships with external partners, professional organizations, and academic institutions to advance the College's mission.
• Stay ahead — Monitor and respond proactively to emerging trends, regulatory developments, and innovations in nursing education.
• Manage the budget — Manage Academic Faculty, Faculty Development personnel, and the yearly functional budget.
• Lead committees — Serve on faculty, curriculum, advisory, grievance, dispositions, and appeals committees.
• Support accreditation — Provide subject matter expertise for accreditation and regulatory activities.

Who You Are

You're an experienced nursing education leader who combines clinical credibility with operational excellence. You thrive in complex, remote environments and know how to create clarity from ambiguity.

You bring:

• Earned terminal degree in Nursing, Nursing Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Higher Education Administration, Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Industrial Psychology, or a related field.
• Active, unencumbered RN license.
• 7+ years of successful leadership in higher education.
• 3+ years managing remote or hybrid teams.
• Fluency with data — you curate it, visualize it, and use it to make decisions.
• Strong communication skills and a track record of leading through change.
• Competency with Microsoft Office, LMS platforms, and web-based work environments.
• Project management, change management, or communication certifications (a plus).

Why Nightingale?

Nightingale College exists to expand access to nursing education for communities that need it most. We are a high-impact community driven by shared purpose, and we operate through a clear set of values — growth mindset, transparency, responsibility, and building community. Here, your work doesn't just fill a role. It fills a gap in healthcare.

We offer a fully remote work environment, a collaborative leadership culture, and the opportunity to shape nursing education at scale.