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Associate Dean (Inst)

Job Group: Academic Services and Student Experience
Job Subgroup: Academic and Student Experience Services
Salary Range (Annual): 29: $112,200-229,240
Employee Category: Limited
Job Code: AE185
  • Job Summary:
    Serves as a senior academic officer at the institutional level. Plans, directs, and provides administrative, operational, and strategic leadership for one or more recognized academic programs or departments with institutional scope. Represents the academic program regarding strategic planning, curriculum development, faculty recruitment and retention; and ensures the integration and coordination of academic programs and initiatives.
  • Job Responsibilities:
    • Provides leadership for one or more academic programs by establishing strategic direction and setting priorities that align with the academic directives of the Dean, and ensures units effectively carry out duties in a way that best supports the university's initiatives, strategic direction, and academic mission; provides direct supervision of department/program leadership and monitors compliance with laws, regulations, university policies and procedures, and relevant contractual obligations
    • Advises and collaborates with the Dean, Assistant Deans, and/or Office of the Provost on critical issues, represents the functional area of supervision at appropriate meetings and events as requested; and serves on and/or leads various program and/or university committees as directed to address issues
    • Directs on-going assessment and continuous improvement of academic programs and services by guiding the establishment of annual goals, ensuring progress towards goals is met, articulating challenges, and reporting on annual outcomes and achievements for programs/services
    • Ensures initiatives are effectively using program assessment and data analysis to improve initiatives and strategies, identifies opportunities for improvement, and makes recommendations to the Dean for approval
    • Leads special initiatives and/or academic programs that require senior leadership attention with respect to program design, planning, coordination, and interaction with internal and external stakeholders
    • Builds consensus and develops collegial, collaborative working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, partners with administrative and academic departments to support initiatives, and gathers input from key stakeholders to support recommendations
    • May exercise supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 FTE or equivalent employees
    • Serves on various university review committees, working with a wide range of constituencies including the Faculty Senate, Deans and Associate Deans, General Counsel, and University Leadership
  • Education:
    Terminal Degree Preferred Minimum
  • FLSA Status:
    Exempt
  • Institution Job:
    Yes
  • Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees:
    No
  • Employee Category:
    Limited
  • Scaled Job:
    No
  • Salary Range (Annual):
    • 29: $112,200-229,240
  • Job Code:
    • AE185: Associate Dean (Inst)
    • AE198: Associate Dean (Inst) (B)
    • AE199: Associate Dean (Inst) (C)
  • Link directly to this job title: https://hr.wisc.edu/standard-job-descriptions/?q=AE185

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