SU
Academic Associate VP, Academic Programs
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Lead / principal · 10+ years
Job description
The Academic Associate Vice President provides strategic, operational and cultural leadership for academic programs at SNHU's online Global Campus, leading Academic Deans and Executive Directors toward learner persistence and graduation. The role acts as an enterprise integrator aligning academic quality, portfolio health, talent capability and organizational effectiveness.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote
- Pay
- USD 141,974 – 227,199 / year
What you'll do
- Provides strategic and enterprise leadership for assigned academic portfolios, ensuring portfolio strategy, priorities, resources, and performance align with institutional objectives, market needs, and learner outcomes
- Leads the development and execution of portfolio strategy using product health, learner, operational, market, fiscal, and other relevant insights
- Promotes an enterprise and One University mindset, building alignment across Academic Programs and institutional partners
- Provides enterprise leadership for academic integrity, quality, and governance, ensuring policies, procedures, and practices support consistent academic standards, regulatory, and accreditation requirements
- Advances organizational agility and talent fluidity by identifying and mobilizing expertise and capacity across portfolios, disciplines, and teams
- Leads strategic initiatives and organizational transformation, guiding teams through changes in operating models, technology, processes, policies, and ways of working
- Builds leadership and organizational capability by coaching and developing Academic Deans and Executive Directors, identifying and cultivating talent, strengthening succession pipelines
- Strengthens the flow from data to insight to action, establishing expectations for evidence-informed decision-making
- Champions operational and process excellence by challenging unnecessary complexity, simplifying and standardizing work, and clarifying decision rights and accountabilities
- Promotes responsible technology and AI enablement, identifying opportunities to augment or automate work
- Builds trusted enterprise partnerships and influences across the organization, aligning stakeholders around common outcomes
- Creates a culture of accountability, learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Stewards organizational resources and capacity strategically, balancing near-term operational requirements with longer-term priorities
- Anticipates emerging opportunities and challenges affecting Academic Programs, maintaining awareness of changes in higher education, workforce and market needs, technology and AI, academic models, and learner expectations
- Measures and communicates organizational and portfolio performance, establishing meaningful indicators of progress and surfacing risks and opportunities
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of progressive higher education leadership experience successfully leading cross-divisional initiatives with enterprise impact
- Doctoral degree or equivalent terminal degree; equivalent of experience in lieu of degree acceptable
- Knowledge and experience within online education at large scale, including a variety of modalities, faculty and course design models; learner experience development, and faculty management
- Experience with development of policies and standard operating procedures
- Systems Intelligence: systems thinking, complexity navigation, outcomes-based design
- Enterprise Leadership: enterprise perspective, strategic prioritization, shared accountability
- Change Leadership: change strategy & sequencing, stakeholder mobilization, change adoption
- Strategic Execution: strategy-to-action translation, portfolio/program leadership, execution discipline
- Data-to-Insight-to-Action: data literacy, sensemaking, evidence-based decisions
- Organizational & Process Design: process simplification, operating model-design, continuous improvement
- Enterprise Partnership: influence across departments, build relationships, constructive conflict resolution
- Digital & AI Fluency: AI opportunity identification, human/technology work redesign, responsible adoption
- Talent Fluidity & Capability Building: talent/skills assessment, dynamic resource deployment, leader development
Your team
Academic Programs, Global Campus
The AAVP reports to the Vice President of Academic Programs at Global Campus and manages a team of Academic Deans and Executive Directors.
Benefits
- High-quality, low-deductible medical insurance
- Low to no-cost dental and vision plans
- 5 weeks of paid time off (plus almost a dozen paid holidays)
- Employer-funded retirement
- Free tuition program
- Parental leave
- Mental health and wellbeing resources
Apply
About Southern New Hampshire University
A team of innovators. World changers. Individuals who believe in progress with purpose.
Southern New Hampshire University is a team of innovators and world changers who believe in progress with purpose. Since 1932, its people-centered strategy has defined it and helped it grow a team that now serves over 180,000 learners worldwide.
Mission
To transform lives.
Key facts
- 1932
- Higher education
- Serves over 180,000 learners worldwide
- People-centered strategy since 1932
- Remote employees must reside in and work from one of the approved states
What they value
- Inclusion
- Progress with purpose