Nova Southeastern University Assistant Dean Positions

Assistant Dean, Academic Success and Professionalism Program 

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Administers and assesses the existing professional development, academic support, and bar preparation programs, and executes strategies designed to strengthen academic success, focusing on initiatives to increase graduation and bar passage rates.

Essential job functions include:

1. The first priority of all members of the College of Law is to serve the College of Law's clients, the applicants, students, alumni, and donors. Therefore, team members will not be limited by this job description in an effort to assist our clients, but will perform whatever tasks are assigned by the Dean.
2. Supervises a department responsible for all aspects of professionalism skills instruction, individual academic support services, and bar examination preparation for students and graduates; and serves as instructor in the relevant courses.
3. Develops curriculum and co-curricular programs that provide academic assistance for all students to improve foundational skills including logic, critical reading comprehension, essay writing, legal issue identification, and legal analysis skills.
4. Plans and organizes curriculum and co-curricular programs designed to assist students as they develop and improve legal study and test-taking skills, bar application and admission process, and preparation to enter law practice.
5. Designs and implements assessment tools to identify "at-risk" students at each phase of their program participation to provide relevant remediation for each student to help improve retention and bar passage.
6. Designs and implements innovative academic and bar readiness programs.
7. Develops learning outcomes, exercises, and assessment tools designed to help students develop into self-regulated learners consistent with College of Law strategic goals, ABA accreditation, and SACS accreditation requirements.
8. Counsels and works with students in individual and small group sessions, and providing intensive support for graduates during the bar review period as they prepare for the bar exam.
9. Collaborates with commercial bar review programs, works with the alumni department on the alumni mentoring program, tracks at-risk students, develops assessment tools, and prepares bar exam statistics and reports.
10. Implements a program to track and report bar passage information and programming assessments with outcomes focused on improving existing programs.
11. Represents the College of Law at and participates in outside conferences and other events organized for and/or by bar preparation or academic support professionals.
12. Performs other duties as directed by the Dean. 

Required Education and Experience:

*Juris Doctorate *

1. Minimum of three (3) years education and law teaching experience, academic counseling, tutoring or experience in an academic success and bar preparation programs.
2. Demonstrated administrative and supervisory experience, and engaging presentation skills.
3. Experience with curriculum design, including an understanding of educational learning theory, best practices in teaching pedagogy, and individual learning styles.
4. Understanding of disability and multicultural issues, and ability to build rapport with students having academic challenges.