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Director of Outcomes Assessment & Cont Improvement

Position Summary

Primary Function: The Director of Outcomes Assessment and Continuous Improvement is a key member of the Academic Programs unit, reporting to the Associate Dean of Academic Programs.  The Director of Outcomes Assessment and Continuous Improvement leads the planning, development, and execution of initiatives across the college related to the development, assessment, and reporting of educational-program outcomes and continuous improvement activities. Additionally, the director works closely with college stakeholders to ensure compliance with AVMA COE standards related to the curriculum, outcomes assessment and continuous improvement. The Director leads a support team consistent of curriculum specialists, project administrators, and data analysts who supports the director in their efforts. Additionally, the director collaborates closely with the academic programs team overseeing course team and student support. Initiatives developed and executed by the director must align with the College Strategic Plan, mission, and values from design through implementation, creating meaningful performance measures, milestones, and operational plans. This position will initially focus on initiatives within the DVM program with opportunity to expand its scope in the future.

The successful candidate will have the ability to effectively:

• Communicate with college leadership and internal and external curriculum stakeholders.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills.
• Lead and provide guidance and direction for their support team.
• Solve problems and resolve conflicts, including managing sensitive topics and difficult conversations.
• Communicate complex concepts to a broad range of audiences through various media (e.g., professional writing, report creation, presentations, etc.).
• Demonstrate strong analytical, organizational, and time management skills.
• Prioritize tasks to meet critical deadlines; manage multiple complex projects simultaneously in a dynamic environment, including conflict resolution, collaboration, team-building, and diplomatic leadership.
• Maintain confidentiality, apply managerial discretion, and demonstrate situational sensitivity and flexibility.
• Learn, respect, and uphold University and CVM policies and standards.

*Major Duties and Responsibilities: leadership position reporting to the Associate Dean of Academic Programs with human and technical resources available. *

Plan and support outcomes assessment and continuous improvement in college curricula.

Establish and implement goals, objectives, metrics, and processes in support of curricular outcomes assessment and continuous improvement.

Lead a support team of curriculum specialists, project administrators, and data analysts.

• Support and engage in equal opportunity employment principles, rules, and regulations, and uphold University DEI principles and hiring practices.
• Sustain an environment that fosters teamwork, diversity, and excellence.

Collaborate closely and effectively with course and student support teams.

Plan and develop evaluation systems for programmatic assessment, analysis, and reporting.

Oversee the administration of evaluation initiatives and dissemination of assessment data to key stakeholders, including:

• Designing processes for successful implementation of evaluation initiatives.
• Creating systems to collect, manage, clean, and analyze data for reports and presentations.
• Developing, compiling, and presenting clear reports for internal and external stakeholders.

Review and analyze resources (literature, other scho