Associate Director of Clinical Practice

Position Summary

The Associate Director of Clinical Practice supports the scope of Sanford College of Education Clinical Practice operations, candidate support, and accreditation requirements. The role of Associate Director of Clinical Practice will serve all credential programs across four academic departments with the sequence and assessment practices serving candidates to earn recommendation for a credential. The role is designed to manage measures of candidate performance, district partnership relationships, professional development and support of clinical practice faculty, and compliance details with both the California Commission on Teaching Credentialing (CTC) and the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP). The Associate Director works alongside a team of faculty and staff including the Director of Assessment, Accreditation and Clinical Practice, clinical practice faculty and the Office of Credentials and Licensure. .

Essential Functions:

• Direct Field Experiences, both in face-to-face and virtual modalities.
• Direct CTC compliance with all clinical practices; for all credential programs, collaborate with the Credentialing Department to assure candidate success within CTC compliance.
• Direct Clinical Practice policies regarding candidate placements including district and part-time faculty support.
• Develop, nurture and maintain school and district partnerships statewide.
• Design system for Site-Support Provider (SSP) training, monitoring, communication and compliance requirements.
• Direct student success and culture of care initiatives in Clinical Practice including  managing the database for Progress Alerts (PA) Candidate Assistance Plan (CAP).
• Direct ongoing audits of all Clinical Practice courses, forms, surveys and standards-based rubrics.
• Supervise standard-based assessment practices, student performance data collection and analysis of data.
• Lead various Clinical Practice committees collaborating with full-time Clinical Practice faculty, Clinical Practice Managers, staff and district partners.
• Collaborate with part-time Clinical Practice faculty including Regional Clinical Practice Coordinators (RCPC), University Support Providers (USP) and with our district mentor teacher Site Support Provider (SSP) .
• Coordinate ongoing CTC and AAQEP standard revisions, annual reporting, and implementation.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:  Hires and trains 10-12 full and part-time faculty. Supervisor duties to include:

• Screens applications, interviews candidates, and recommends individuals for hiring.
• Trains and monitors work to new and continuing employees.
• Delegates tasks and provides effective direction to team members to produce substantial business results.
• Independently conducts frequent performance feedback weekly, quarterly and annually, to include annual performance evaluations.
• Makes recommendations for salary increases, merit increases and reclassifications.
• In conjunction with HR, determines corrective action as needed for direct reports.

Requirements:

Education & Experience:

• Master’s Degree in Education required, Ed.D or Ph.D preferred
• 8+ years of California Teaching credential or equivalent TK-12 experience required.
• 8+ years of leadership experience required
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining relationships/partnerships with schools/district in California.
• Strong demonstrated assessment and analysis experience required.
• Experience supervising part-time faculty preferred.
• Demonstrated experience working in an institution of Higher Education preferred.
• Experience in Higher Education Clinical Practice role preferred.

Competencies/Technical/Functional Skills:

• Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of individuals in a diverse community.
• Ability to drive towards achieving measurable and challenging goals to support organizational success. Demonstrates the ability to focus on achieving results consistent with the organization’s objectives. As a leader, develops goals based on the organization’s vision, mission, strategic goals and objectives.
• Expert organizational and time-management skills.
• Strong ability to be flexible; able to embrace and adapt to change.
• Ability to participate as an active team member of the team and organization and work toward a common goal. Contributes fully to the team effort and plays an integral part in the smooth running of teams.
• Accepts personal accountability, proactively seeks resolution for personal limitations head-on; and supports honesty and respect towards others, the company and oneself.
• Actively seeks to influence, build effective relationships and gain alignment with peers, functional partners and/or external partners to accomplish business objectives. 
• Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting-edge programs/processes. 
• Ability to generate and/or recognize imaginative or creative solutions that generate successful outcomes.
• Accomplished knowledge, principles and practices of office management/systems within a higher education environment, preferred. Demonstrates an understanding of underlying organizational issues.
• Advanced proficiency with data analysis, and ability to produce reports for faculty and other stakeholder partners with actionable data summaries informing program improvements.
• Proficiency with design and maintenance within learning management systems, gradebook applications and video capture applications.
• Proficient use of computers and Microsoft Office Suite Applications such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook.  Experience using Student Information System (SIS) such as SOAR/Peoplesoft systems.
• Works independently and foster a cooperative spirit within a large and/or small team of diverse cultures, while working in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects, deadlines and frequently changing priorities  

Location: Remote

Travel: No travel required

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Candidate receiving offers will be offered a salary/pay rate commensurate with experience that vary based on a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies.  Absent exceptional circumstances, candidates will be offered a salary within this range for this position. The minimum salary will be offered based on the minimum exemption threshold based on state of residency. Base pay is one component of National University’s total rewards package, as we are dedicated to supporting the needs of the “whole you” with our holistic approach to employee benefits by offering comprehensive well-being benefits for you and your family.  For full details about our benefit plan offerings, please visit benefits.nu.edu. For Part-time benefits, please click here.

Compensation Range:

National University is committed to maintaining a high-quality, diverse workforce representative of the populations we serve. National University employs more than 5,000 faculty and staff and serves over 41,000 students. We are united in our mission to meet the global education demands of the 21st Century and are dedicated to creating a supportive academic and work environment that allows students, faculty and staff to develop their interests and talents while experiencing a sense of community and a commitment to diversity. With programs available both online and at our many campus locations, National University is a leader in creating innovative solutions to education and meeting the needs of our diverse student population, including adult learners and working professionals.

National University offers an opportunity to work in an innovative environment that supports diversity.

National University (NU) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant per applicable federal, state and local laws. At NU, a diverse mix of highly talented, innovative and creative people come together to make the impact of a lifetime for each of our student learners. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment, education, and admission at National University. We are focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, color, ancestry, age, family care status, veteran status, marital status, creed, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and other legally protected group status.