Associate Dean of Academic Affairs – Clinical Immersion & Experiential Learning -BSN Online

Job Description

Opportunity at a Glance

Chamberlain College of Nursing is committed to providing quality and accessible nursing education. Most nursing schools incorporate tools for building nurse-patient relationships into their curricula, but Chamberlain has gone a step further and made care of students a part of the educational culture. Chamberlain believes that extraordinary care of nursing students is more likely to lead to extraordinary patient and family care.

If you share in this belief and model behaviors of care, respect, and professionalism—creating a culture that fosters collaboration, cooperation, and respect—the role of Associate Dean of Academic Affairs – Clinical Immersion & Experiential Learning may be right for you.

The Associate Dean provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure curricula are current and consistently delivered in a manner that drives superior student outcomes while upholding the principles of Chamberlain Care™. This role includes direct oversight of high-impact clinical immersion experiences, leading large-scale, multi-day onsite immersions in Illinois designed to strengthen clinical competency, skills validation, and NCLEX readiness. The Associate Dean collaborates across regional academic teams and simulation leadership to support hands-on and virtual learning integration, while ensuring consistency and quality across multiple immersion waves serving large student populations. Responsibilities include oversight of weekend-based immersion delivery (one weekend per session), faculty alignment, and operational execution to ensure an exceptional, student-centered learning experience.

This position follows a structured schedule of Monday–Friday with one required weekend per academic session; candidates will be required to accommodate this schedule.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight for large-scale clinical immersion experiences, supporting nursing students through skill-based, high-impact learning sessions.
• Lead and manage on-site immersion weekends (1 weekend per session), ensuring strong execution of clinical skills validation and student engagement.
• Oversee multi-day immersion events (3-day format), including return demonstrations, teaching components, and applied clinical skill development.
• Support delivery of core clinical competencies including IV insertion, head-to-toe assessment, oxygenation, mobility, medication calculations, and NCLEX-style readiness activities.
• Collaborate with Associate Deans and regional teams across five regions, ensuring alignment of immersion execution and student outcomes.
• Manage and scale immersion operations to support high student volume (150–900+ students per session) across multiple waves, ensuring quality and consistency.
• Partner closely with academic and simulation leadership to integrate virtual simulation (VSIM) and hands-on immersion experiences, enhancing overall clinical readiness.
• Participate in the recruitment, selection and on-boarding of qualified faculty and staff and monitor and evaluate their ongoing performance.

• Ensure learning experiences align with the BSN curriculum and collaborate with national team to support implementation.

• Collaborate with national academic committees to ensure that appropriate goals and projects are implemented.

• Create plans for student success in all learning areas, including student retention, graduation rates and NCLEX pass rates.

• Focus on student satisfaction and work collaboratively with the local and national partners to achieve superior student outcomes.

• Ensure that course resources and course assessment data are evaluated each session and provide recommendations to improve campus student success plans.

• Support faculty with timely and effective implementation of changes that address evolving needs of students and ensure delivery of course and/or program outcomes.

• Ensure faculty are oriented and accountable to teaching and learning best practices through regular evaluation/feedback.

• Serve as a faculty and staff mentor in areas of academic excellence, customer service, collaboration with local and national partners, communication and professionalism.

• Create and monitor a well-defined process for campus faculty participation expectations in national course advisory councils, ensuring that the faculty are providing feedback and making curriculum delivery decisions.

• Solicit recommendations from faculty and staff for academic budget. Collaborate with campus leadership and national partners to prepare capital requests for learning areas as necessary.

• Support faculty and clinical coordination teams for clinical placement of nursing students to meet program objectives.

• Ensure regular meetings of the faculty and comprehensive academic team to facilitate communication and faculty participation in planning, implementing and evaluating the curriculum.

• Assign faculty and academic team workloads.

• Support national academic team in consistent execution of core CAS programs and developing local programing (when necessary) to support student success.

• Collaborate with national library staff for management of local holdings.

• Monitor and analyze student academic success data to identify recommendations to improve delivery of curriculum and engage student success interventions.

• Ensures compliance with all regulatory and statutory regulations; amends existing policies/procedures as needed. This may include being identified and approved by the state board of nursing as the point of contact, assistant program director, or program director on location. In the event the program director is not available, the assistant program director is expected to take on the program director responsibilities. Acts as liaison between local, state agency and national college teams specific to compliance and regulatory.

• This position is a designated Campus Security Authority.

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Complies with all policies and standards

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in nursing Required and
• Doctorate degree in nursing or credit towards doctorate degree Preferred
• 2+ years experience in nursing education at the Bachelor level or above Required and
• 2+ years Development/participation in simulation/clinical experience Required and
• 2+ years Previous academic leadership experience Required and
• 2+ years in acute patient care/trauma/emergency and/or medical-surgical environments Preferred
• Demonstrated experience in clinical education, skills instruction, and competency-based evaluation in nursing programs.
• Proven leadership experience overseeing faculty, large-scale student groups, or multi-site clinical/academic operations.
• Ability to travel locally within Illinois (Addison/Chicago/St. Charles area) and support weekend-based immersion scheduling.
• Development/participation in simulation/clinical experiences required.
• Three to five years in acute patient care/trauma/emergency and/or medical-surgical environments considered a plus.
• Above average competency in Microsoft Suite of products.
• Previous leadership experience with the ability to lead, direct and advise faculty.
• Strong interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
• Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills.
• Strong customer service orientation with the ability to interact with all levels: students, faculty and staff.
• Unencumbered Professional nursing licensure Required

Additional Information

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $70,696.34 and $110,000.00. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.

Covista offers a robust suite of benefits including:

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
  
  For more information related to our benefits please visit: https://careers.covista.com/benefits.
  
  You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Equal Opportunity – Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation