Assistant Program Director for DNP Programs, Jefferson College of Nursing, Thomas Jefferson University

Responsibilities

• Academic Leadership and Curriculum Support
• Teach and lead DNP courses as assigned.
• Collaborate with faculty to ensure curricular alignment with AACN Essentials, DNP learning outcomes, and professional nursing standards.
• Participate in curriculum review, revision, and program development activities.
• Support the integration of innovative teaching-learning strategies and educational technologies.
• Contribute to initiatives that promote academic excellence and student achievement across the DNP programs.
• Student Success and Advising
• Mentor and advise DNP students as appropriate.
• Support student scholarly project development and completion.
• Participate in student recruitment, admissions review, and selection processes.
• Affiliate with addressing student concerns, academic progression issues, grievances, and appeals.
• Monitor student progression, retention, graduation, and certification outcomes and recommend strategies to support student success.
• Faculty Development and Support
• Mentor and support faculty teaching within DNP programs.
• Support faculty onboarding, professional development, mentoring, and retention initiatives.
• Affiliate with identifying, preparing, and supporting DNP Project Chairs, course leads, and other faculty roles.
• Provide input into academic planning, scheduling, and faculty workload considerations.
• Promote collaboration, engagement, and communication among DNP faculty.
• Program Evaluation and Quality Improvement
• Monitor and evaluate program outcomes, key performance indicators, and benchmark achievement.
• Affiliate with systematic program evaluation activities and continuous quality improvement initiatives.
• Affiliate with developing and implementing action plans when outcomes, standards, or benchmarks are not achieved.
• Support data collection, analysis, and reporting related to program effectiveness and student outcomes.
• Accreditation, Regulatory Compliance, and Clinical Partnerships
• Support compliance with institutional, professional, regulatory, and accreditation requirements.
• Affiliate with accreditation reporting, self-study preparation, and site visit readiness activities.
• Affiliate with overseeing and evaluating DNP clinical learning experiences, preceptors, and affiliated clinical sites.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure high-quality clinical and practice learning environments.
• Affiliate with monitoring changes in professional, regulatory, and accreditation requirements and support program responses as needed.
• Service and Community Engagement
• Foster collaborative relationships with students, alumni, faculty, clinical partners, healthcare organizations, professional organizations, accrediting agencies, and regulatory bodies.
• Participate in college, university, professional, and community service activities.
• Support initiatives that strengthen engagement between the Jefferson College of Nursing and its communities of interest.
• Represent the DNP Programs on committees, task forces, and special projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Active, unencumbered registered nurse licensure or eligibility for licensure as required.
• Graduate degree in nursing.
• Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) or other earned doctoral degree.
• Experience in graduate nursing education.
• Demonstrated teaching effectiveness.
• Strong communication, organizational, interpersonal, and leadership skills.